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Originally Posted by CorporateWhore
2. Do you honestly think the weather in Scandinavia, who you say should be higher, is any better?
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Looking out my window now onto the Scandinavian outdoors, it's about 13 degrees C and it's almost always grey and it starts raining every hour and from September until May I won't see the sun, and it's dark. So even though the winter temps seems relatively tropical compared to Calgary, without a doubt I would trade Calgary weather for Danish weather.
Also, Oslo is boring even if you are rich, which you have to be just to buy groceries, in Copenhagen you'll have a bathroom in which you have to squat over the toilet in order to take a shower because the whole thing is the size of a utility closet, in Stockholm people are on waitlists for apartments for ~10 years in the centre, or have them passed on by family member. Did I mention how dark it is and how much the weather sucks, and beer costs ~$12-20 a pint and I'll have to fly to North America to east regional Chinese food? People (especially Canadians) who fetishize living in Scandinavia have obviously never tried it. I mean, it's great in most ways, but like anywhere a lot of things fucking suck. Also, at least in Denmark, if your last name isn't Jensen, Nielsen, Jacobsen etc, prepare to never be treated as an equal. The Danish word for immigrant is the same as the word for invader. Scandinavia could be closer to the perfection the internet thinks it has if it was open like Canada, but these countries are little tribes.