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Eh. Sapporo goes down to -10C (14F). That’s nothing for anyone who’s ever lived in Canada or the northern US (apart from Seattle). Source: personal experience.
by wenc 2y ago
Eh. Sapporo goes down to -10C (14F). That’s nothing for anyone who’s ever lived in Canada or the northern US (apart from Seattle).
Source: personal experience.
Taiwanese people will move to where the opportunities are. You’ll find many of them in the northern US states, which are, if not snowier, are definitely colder than Sapporo.
- ghaff 2y agoThere's probably something of a California (or at least West Coast) bias on this board. But much of the US is less moderate in overall climate, towards both cold/snow and heat at various times of the year. A large portion of the US has real winters. (And some of those areas get pretty hot and humid in the summer--like, umm, Tokyo.)
- wenc 2y agoYes. Most northern US cities are snowy and cold in the winter and hot and humid in the summer. Even NYC, the largest city in the US has real winters (though moderated by being on the coast, it can dip down to 14F easily). And humid summers of course.
- ghaff 2y agoI spent a summer in NYC once as an intern. And, not having a Hamptons option, I was definitely reaching out to Princeton and Greenwich friends on August weekends to visit. And Northeast cities, even into mid-Atlantic, are nothing especially delightful in the winter if snow isn't your thing. That's what I've lived with most of my life and I've been mostly fine with it. But if you're with some version of a Bay Area climate or bust, you may not consider it acceptable. (And even a "Mediterranean climate" gets pretty hot in a lot of places in the summer many places.) There's a reason that people who can afford to and want to put the energy into migrate locales from summer to winter.