It's funny, but whenever I talk to people who live further south, they seem perplexed as to how it's possible to live when it's under -30 for a week. Then you explain that houses in Canada have pretty good heating(as if they don't in the US and Europe or something), that we have cars, that most of your life takes places indoors anyway and that the cold doesn't really affect that. Your car is heated, your house is heated, your work is heated, the mall is heated, restaurants, schools, etc. It's all heated. But it's so cold outside, they'll say. You can't go out. As if -30 happens in July. It happens in January. I don't know what Boston or London or NY or Tokyo are like in January, but I know they're not freaking Provence in the summer. You don't sit on patios of cafés or go rollerskating. I don't imagine January is spent on outdoor pursuits in those places either. Since you're mostly indoors during that part of the winter, what the hell does it matter if it's -10 or -30 outside?
