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I might avoid this over in the UK to some degree, but I've got some colleagues who work over in Arizona. They all pretty much do this, or working in split shift

I might avoid this over in the UK to some degree, but I've got some colleagues who work over in Arizona. They all pretty much do this, or working in split shifts so they can avoid the Summer heat. If even the Europeans are going to be doing this soon (they sort of already do on the Iberian peninsula with their siestas), I'm pretty sure Arizona is going to become unlivable in a short amount of time.

luminen 3y ago
We moved my retirement-age parents out of Arizona about 4 years ago, and I'm very glad we did. The neighborhood they used to live in recently ran out of water. The county does not have anything to supply the residential areas with, so if you want drinking water, you need to ship it in yourself. They would not have been physically capable of doing so, and if they were still living there, we would have needed to literally evacuate them. I still remember visiting them, driving through mile after mile of pre-construction housing lots with nothing but dry, flat, arid land as far as the eye can see. It doesn't seem like a sustainable place on Earth for the standard American suburban sprawl.
- QuarterReptile 3y ago
  >It doesn't seem like a sustainable place on Earth for the standard American suburban sprawl. No such place.
OfSanguineFire 3y ago
> they sort of already do on the Iberian peninsula with their siestas They don’t really do this any more. In spite of the stereotype, only a tiny proportion of Spanish workers still takes a siesta, while otherwise the tradition has died out and schedules are just like in any other European country. It would be interesting to see if climate change eventually restores the tradition to life.
- fy20 3y ago
  I was living in the south west of Spain a couple of years ago, in a city with ~100k population, and they had a split day. Shops were open until 1pm, then they closed and everyone went to eat, by 3pm everything was closed and the streets were silent. In the evening everything would reopen. We had a pizzeria we liked, and it opened at 8pm and usually we were the only ones there at that time, as everyone else ate later :D Another interesting thing is during the summer it would reach 40C / 100F there, but AC in homes was very rare.

luminen 3y ago

We moved my retirement-age parents out of Arizona about 4 years ago, and I'm very glad we did. The neighborhood they used to live in recently ran out of water. The county does not have anything to supply the residential areas with, so if you want drinking water, you need to ship it in yourself. They would not have been physically capable of doing so, and if they were still living there, we would have needed to literally evacuate them. I still remember visiting them, driving through mile after mile of pre-construction housing lots with nothing but dry, flat, arid land as far as the eye can see. It doesn't seem like a sustainable place on Earth for the standard American suburban sprawl.

QuarterReptile 3y ago
>It doesn't seem like a sustainable place on Earth for the standard American suburban sprawl. No such place.

OfSanguineFire 3y ago

> they sort of already do on the Iberian peninsula with their siestas They don’t really do this any more. In spite of the stereotype, only a tiny proportion of Spanish workers still takes a siesta, while otherwise the tradition has died out and schedules are just like in any other European country. It would be interesting to see if climate change eventually restores the tradition to life.

fy20 3y ago
I was living in the south west of Spain a couple of years ago, in a city with ~100k population, and they had a split day. Shops were open until 1pm, then they closed and everyone went to eat, by 3pm everything was closed and the streets were silent. In the evening everything would reopen. We had a pizzeria we liked, and it opened at 8pm and usually we were the only ones there at that time, as everyone else ate later :D Another interesting thing is during the summer it would reach 40C / 100F there, but AC in homes was very rare.