[bogdanstanciu]

There's also not that firm belief that cold and dark is bad. You go out on your skidoo, you go cross country skiing, etc etc, and then you return to your cozy home. or go to a sauna.

You drink your fish elixir. You try to prioritize time around the little sunlight there is. Brutal winters are not quite as brutal when you just call em "winter".

Plus dry colds tend to not feel as cold. Ottawa at -10 feels worse than Yellowknife at -25 (imo).

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I live in Wisconsin, USA and I always laugh when people talk about how hard the winters are here. 3-4 well-planned layers on your torso and legs, a good pair of wool socks and boots, and a cross-country skiing hobby and you end up anxious that winter won't last long enough. It's the people who stay indoors and don't dress properly for the cold who have a hard time.

Regarding Scandinavia, I suspect the lack of sunlight does add an interesting dimension of toughness to winter that we don't have to deal with here, though.

[rascul]

> It's the people who stay indoors and don't dress properly for the cold who have a hard time.

It's also the people who just don't like the cold. I dress properly, I don't stay indoors, and I hate the cold. It makes just about everything worse for me.