Well Na you would NOT like it here in Wisconsin. We only average 17 days a year warmer than 90 F, but about 150 days below 32 F. And we dip well into the below zero degrees Fahrenheit every winter too! If our grandchildren weren't all located here I'm sure my wife would insist we migrate south!

Well Na you would NOT like it here in Wisconsin. We only average 17 days a year warmer than 90 F, but about 150 days below 32 F. And we dip well into the below zero degrees Fahrenheit every winter too! If our grandchildren weren't all located here I'm sure my wife would insist we migrate south!

I think the main reason I wouldn't like it there is that everything is in Fahrenheit   (So confusing to translate one to the other)  But besides that, yes it sounds too hot for my liking. I don't mind freezing temperatures, it's just hot ones.

Although to be honest, our summers are getting worse and worse here, with a few months at the end of the year spent in the 30-40 degree (C of course) heat. I think this winter has even had a few 'coldest days recorded' for my city. 

Okay, 32 F is 0°C- that is okay, but 150 days is quite a lot. Below 0 F would be around -20°C (we did get that once or twice in cold winters)- you're right, I'd freeze. But I do agree with Na, too, Fahrenheit looks very strange to me. But I did find a calculater (in German) so 30-40°C (That is too hot for me!) would be 86-104 F, for all you Americans...

At the moment it is 8 degrees C (46 F). It's funny, but because I'm used to my city's weather (usually 10 C - 30 C, winter to summer respectively) I think of snowy weather as strange. It never snows here - the city and suburbs - although we've had pretty bad hail storms. Likewise, it's not as hot as other places in Aus gets. So really I should be grateful for the local weather, considering it's fairly mild compared to other places.

You are so right Na about the internet changing things. If you have your local time set right in your profile, then right now it is almost 101pm in the night where you are yet I am having my first cup of coffee here in the midwest and it is around 7am! A world apart yet so close. It really is one of the things I love about our site and the internet.

It's about 10pm here. I have a world clock on my browser toolbar, so no matter where in the world it is, I can convert a time zone. (It's a visual map, so all I do is point my mouse at a country and it tells me the local time. And my time is permanently set at the bottom, so I can judge the time difference. It's very handy!)

I can usually tell what times are work vs what times are play, by when and how frequent people reply here or to emails, etc. I know this time of night is usually when the Americans are up and about; but 11am (my time) is when the Aussies are up and about.

Basically we just need to scrap time zones

Cities are strange, too. Once I went from Berlin to Sidney by car- in Canada... I noticed that Hamburg is quite popular in the US, too.

That confused me for a second... and then I realised you meant a different city than the one in Australia!

Something very confusing about names here is that most of them are for UK people/places (Melbourne, where I live, was the name of the Prime Minister of England in the time of Queen Victoria. Victoria is the name of the state where the city of Melbourne is. Queensland is another state. Perth is in the UK and Western Australia.... Etc etc)

I wonder if migrants from the UK ever get confused when they come here...

Of course, personally I find America's system of naming streets very confusing. Everything is numbered. I'm sure it makes sense to some people, but I barely remember names of roads, let alone be able to count them! (Not to mention when I went to Atlanta, Georgia, there were several different roads and streets and avenues with the word 'peach' in them. Many of which run parallel or cross each other, just to make things more confusing)

Well "Peach" street in Atlanta confuses even us Americans!   Never could figure out why they had to go and do that. The local residents don't seem to be fazed by it at all though.  I guess it all comes down to what you grow up with or get used to over time.

Oh good, I'm glad it's not just me

This is why I'm extremely thankful for Google Maps. I was smart enough to create a personalised map (location of the festival, tourist spots I wanted to see, my accommodation, etc) and printed it out. I also marked on it the locations of relevant public transport stops and the numbers of the route/line that I needed to take. Basically it never left my hands during the trip, and saved me a lot of confusion - especially around all those Peaches.

Much better than buying a local map when you arrive. Even taking a taxi from the airport when I arrived, I knew where I was going and when the driver got lost (granted, the B&B I was staying at wasn't easily viewable from street level and it was at night).

Certainly made things easy for me in DC too, because then I was trying to work out the numbering system for the streets and the blocks were much, much larger than I expected them to be.