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I'd rather be hot than cold. I lived in a flat with poor insulation for a year and I can tell you that the winter months (so about 6 months from October - March) were the most awful months of my life in terms of my living situation; I had to sleep between a duvet, a blanket and a hot water bottle at my feet, sometimes with a jumper on too and I would STILL shiver throughout the night. I could see my breath and the curtains swayed in the wind.

At the moment I'm at home in a very tiny room that's a total suntrap and I get to sleep by having a fan on all night. It's much easier to cool down than it is to warm up, trust me.

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Originally Posted by Zee

It's much easier to cool down than it is to warm up, trust me.

I would have to disagree with that. When it is really warm there is no escape. Put a fan on, it blows warm air at you. Open a window - no breeze. Go outside - you get baked in the sun.

When its cold, you can wrap yourself in warm clothes and in something like a slanket, drink warm drinks and you're fine.

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Originally Posted by CynicalHermit

I would have to disagree with that. When it is really warm there is no escape. Put a fan on, it blows warm air at you. Open a window - no breeze. Go outside - you get baked in the sun.

When its cold, you can wrap yourself in warm clothes and in something like a slanket, drink warm drinks and you're fine.

Sit in the shade. Drink cold drinks. Put your head in the fridge. Run your hands under a cold tap. Take a shower. It's not pleasant being too hot; but I think a lot of people's definition of cold maybe extends to being outside and being able to come indoors. I've lived in a flat where indoors was just as cold as outdoors, so I'd always choose hot over cold.

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Originally Posted by Zee

Sit in the shade. Drink cold drinks. Put your head in the fridge. Run your hands under a cold tap. Take a shower. It's not pleasant being too hot; but I think a lot of people's definition of cold maybe extends to being outside and being able to come indoors. I've lived in a flat where indoors was just as cold as outdoors, so I'd always choose hot over cold.

I've lived in a flat for ten years. During last winter I would have my fire on full blast, sitting no more than a few feet from it, be fully dressed in trousers and a jumper, have a duvet wrapped around me and would still be cold. I would take that every single day over being as warm and uncomfortable as I was during the recent warm period.

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Originally Posted by CynicalHermit

I've lived in a flat for ten years. During last winter I would have my fire on full blast, sitting no more than a few feet from it, be fully dressed in trousers and a jumper, have a duvet wrapped around me and would still be cold. I would take that every single day over being as warm and uncomfortable as I was during the recent warm period.

Each to their own!