• pkulak@beehaw.org
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      Oh yeah, Vancouver really gives northern Siberia a run for its money during the winter. Human beings just aren’t built to survive one or two days of snow every couple years. Best you stay far away and live somewhere pleasant, like rural Texas.

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        You want to bet he also lives in a city, too?

        In my experience, time these “cities bad I’d never live in them!” types, the ones who brag about living in the countryside, usually live a 15 minute + traffic highway commute from a small city that they entirely rely on to function day to day. They just live in suburbs or “exurbs” that would not function without the nearby town’s urban residents.

        It’s frustrating how many people cannot comprehend that there is a whole spectrum of urban life from the major skyrise metropolises of the world to a small town’s main street, all of which are cities and all of which benefit from policies that create mixed-use, walkable, human-centric neighborhoods.

        I always find it painfully eye-roll-inducing when anyone claims they live the rural life while surrounded by metropolitan infrastructure like municipal water/sewer, highways, fire protection, parks/rec/landscaping service, and all that kind of stuff.

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          Tru dat. Met a lot of people in my life who claimed to live in a “rural area” but in reality they lived in a suburb that was surrounded by real rural areas. A 20 minute drive just to do groceries doesn’t make some place inherently rural, it just means that there’s bad city planning.

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          Increasingly they live on what they can buy at a dollar store next to the freeway. That’s not any better though.

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        Lol

        However, 45 days in a row of rain can do a number on your state of mind, though. (I used to live in Vancouver.)

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      I wouldn’t live in any of them. 1. They’re cities

      Maybe a list of most livable cities isn’t for you then.

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      Winter is really mild in Vancouver and for the past 15 years it hasn’t been that bad in Toronto either.

      Good luck affording housing here though.

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      I live about 30 mins from vancouver in the US, and winter in this region really isn’t that bad. I could see it for the other cities, but in this region we have years where it doesn’t even snow at all. The last “bad winter” we had was about 2 years ago, and before that maybe 5 years ago?

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          Okay but they just said “winter is a bitch” which is more of a subjective unquantifiable statement. My personal best assumption for that is about snow, but I don’t think any form of climate is a better measure for what is and is not “a bitch”

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        Damn, I just remembered I literally have not been north of Tennessee. And I’ve seen snow only a handful of times.

        It’s always funny to see other urbanists focus so heavily on how winters make cycling hard when winter is basically the only time I’m not drowning in the hot, humid air of the US south.