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This is exactly why I want to live in a rural area again, in a city of less than 50k people. Once you hit 75k people or beyond, heat accumulate OVER DAYS AND N
by jokoon 3y ago
This is exactly why I want to live in a rural area again, in a city of less than 50k people.
Once you hit 75k people or beyond, heat accumulate OVER DAYS AND NIGHTS, so you end up with "tropical nights" where temperatures do not below 20C, so your sleep quality worsen.
I live in france, so I'm lucky that it's possible to pay rent on welfare, so I just have to move to a small city that cheap and cold.
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoI feel like 50k is quite large for a “rural” area. The places I’ve lived in or visited with that population felt very (sub)urban.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoThe cutoff for "rural" in America is ~25,000 I believe, but there's more too it than that. A town of 50,000 that is the center of its own micropolitan area is far more rural than a town of 25,000 an hour outside of a metropolis.
- bombcar 3y agoRural/city is more of a feeling than a numbers game. I put the dividing line somewhere around “where do the people who live there work” and if the answer is “the nearby big city” it is a suburb or exurb. Still can be quite nice, of course.
- throwaway290 3y agoSmall towns and countryside means things are far apart. Let me tell you about tropical nights. I live where temperatures don't drop below 30 at night in summer with 80% humidity. Thank god it's a big city. During the day buildings shade me from sun and because everything is packed it's rarely more than 5 min walking from AC to AC. I would probably die if I had to walk far distances through spreadout town or god forbid countryside without working public transport. Such weather is OK for bicycling however only if landscape very flat. I can compare because I also lived in small towns with similar weather. No thanks.