• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    2 days ago

    That’s all very well for Spain who are fairly close to the equator, but us northerners would like to see some daylight in winter.

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      1 day ago

      In the morning or afternoon? I find living in Montreal is getting more difficult as I get older, the short summers, the brutally long and dark winter is getting to me. It’s not so much the dark but that winter is a wet soggy season now.

      I would like for it to be lighter in the afternoons. It’s brutal getting home in the pitch dark.

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        I think the biggest problem with Montreal is that it’s so fucking dirty in the winter, makes maintenance of vehicles a chore. If the city just embraced snow and let it get packed and rough, everyone would have an easier time with their winter and studded tires. Instead of having to wade through salt and the crushed rock that they put everywhere. And in the spring we wouldn’t be breathing dust.

        That said, I think summer is fairly long here. Mid May all the way to end of September. It’s the spring that’s missing here, since you can get snowstorms in April still. In contrast in most of continental Europe, there’s a peak of cold around end of January / February, and then that’s it. March is already the wet but bearable, with lots of blooming “snow flowers”.