KCRag Forum

Joemoney wrote: This is the highest peak of all of Britain:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Nevis

That's a sissy boy's mountain.  A one legged man with a blindfold on could climb that.

FIRST of all.  Your definition of "much warmer" is skewed.  SUB ZERO temperatures is cold, 100+ is hot.  If you don't have that, you don't have shit.

According to Wikipedia..."Generally, summer temperatures rarely go above 30 °C."  30C = 86F.  Rarely go above 86?  86 is a COOL DOWN in the midwest summer.  Good time to mow the lawn before it gets hot again.

That's because they're poor.

The US is more geographically diverse than ALL of Europe combined, times 10.  From Death Valley to Prudhoe Bay.  From islands of Hawaii to endless Midwest farmland.  We have everything.  Europe is moderate and redundant.

Even Europe's beaches in the south (Spain, France, Greece, etc) are crap.  The sand is rocky (unless they import good sand in) and it's not very tropical (not many palm trees, save for the ones they transplanted).  And it's not very hot and the water is cold and the waves are small (bad surf and bodyboarding).

Highlander wrote: As far as I am concerned, this conversation ended when I last posted.  Stick to financial stuff, you actually know something about that.

Joemoney wrote: Say what you want, but I know I'm right.

Highlander wrote: I said moving for the sake of climate is unique to the US and you bring in the US - Europe comparisons.

Joemoney wrote: That's because we have very diverse climate, unlike Europe.  The change in climate is so moderate, it's not worth moving.  And language barriers.  And people hate each other in Europe.

49r wrote: so...

Atlanta...

pretty dry, hey?

BVC wrote: No shit...

Highlander wrote: You are wrong about Europe's climate.  True it may not be as diverse as the US climate but there is a fairly significant difference between the semi-arid interior of Spain or Mediteranean coast of France, Italy or Greece and Scandinavia, northern Germany or much of Britain.  There's a tremendous difference even between Oslo and Bergen Norway....Oslo is like Minnesota and Bergen is like Seattle.  You would not call Minneapolis and Seattle the same....would you?   

The climate here is rather varied and people do move here for the climate, just not to the same degree in the US.  There are a lot of reasons why that is but the lack of a difference in climate and people hating each other are not among them.  Contrary to what you may have heard, Europeans do not generally hate each other.  I find it rather funny that someone would even say that.  I know several Brits who have homes in Spain and France and they have zero problems with the local population.  Try to learn something here instead of just reacting to everything based on some fuzzy idea of the rest of world.

Highlander wrote: I thought I just saw that a pretty substantial system just passed through the area a few days ago bringing some fairly severe weather along with it?