Single digit. It's easier to warm up than cool down, and I can't stand hot weather. I'm also fairly used to freezing temps.
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Single digits. I love being bundled up. The less people look upon my decaying meat husk the better.
Also I like scarves a lot!! I want to wear them now, but it's insanely hot to me!
This is a very different question outside of America and that one African country.
Which is why I made the jab at “freedom degrees” in the text. Also “single or triple digits” is easier and less random than “-13 or 38?” 😅
I literally moved from a 38 degrees+ country to a negative temps country. So yeah. Negative temps. 100%.
U can wear warm clothes. There exist no "cold" clothes.
Just get naked!
Triple. No hesitation.
First off, coats are heavy and stupid. Breezy linens all day every day.
What food you going to grow in below freezing temps? Millet, sorghum, rice, grapes, tomatoes, onions, garlic -- all already grow in triple digit temps. I'm eating well.
Natural evaporative cooling is easier to achieve than burning slow-growing resources for heat daily. Millennia-old technology exists to handle high temps.
More people live in the Sahara than the Arctic. I'm not a penguin, no matter what the other kids said in school.
Ya you’ll just run out of water eventually. You can also grow food in heated greenhouses in Iceland they used to grow bananas. Both suck
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Coats are TOTALLY heavy and stupid.
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First choice: 292 K
Second choice: 9 C
If we're talking only outdoor temperature, third choice is 100 F, because air conditioning exists, and my peppers would thrive.
If it's ambient indoor temperature too, then I pick 9 F, which is unpleasant, but survivable. At 100 F indoors, you will be constantly sweating for the rest of your life.
Depends how high into the triple digits, whether there's shade and water available, how humid it is, whether air conditioning is an option, etc.
I would probably choose triple digits. I do love cold winters, but a dry 104F with a cool place to swim and big, shady trees is splendid. Beyond about 110F gets miserable, though.
These are my thoughts exactly.
If Fahrenheit single Digits, if Celsius, same answer. You can always put on more cloths or cover up with a warm blanket. You can only take so much off.
I just remove my upper layer of skin whenever it gets too hot.
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Single digit temperatures. One can always wear more clothing to keep warm, but can only get so naked in triple digit heat before dying from exhaustion or dehydration.
Friendo, for those of us that have lived in deserts, no one gets naked. During the day at least ;)
Light clothes are amazing. I lived for 3 years on the edge of the Sahara with no power and pulling water from a well. When it was 110+F, sitting under a tree and soaking your shirt in water was perfectly fine, and more than enough to be comfortable. Turbans are amazing technology.
And I've spent time above the Arctic circle. I can compare the two.
While you like to think "you can put in more clothes," that's nice and all... Both if you have the right clothes, and have imported heat and calories. OP is talking about perpetual Arctic circle winter. Nothing grows, you will run out if wood to burn to stay warm. You will import everything, from boots to gloves to pants to coats. Look at an Inuit diet. Now look at a Mediterranean diet. Civilization flourished in areas that get hot. Humans spent 50,000 years in the equatorial zone. We are built for it.
You do you, but, uh...enjoy your narwhal blubber and seal jerkey I guess?
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we are measuring in Kelvins right?
What would be a nickname for Kelvin, egg-head scientist degrees?
[edit] Said with love by an egg-head. [/edit]
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