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by konschubert 730 days ago
Living in northernmost Germany, I can confirm.

It’s not the cold or the endless weeks of rain.

It’s the days that barely feel like daylight.

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Living in Alaska I struggle more with the endless daylight than the short dark days. It messes with my sleep too much.
There's ways to black out windows and darken rooms to counter all of that daylight, but when it's dark it's really hard to counter that when going outside.

Without actually personally experiencing it, I think I would have the opposite struggle. If it were dark for that long without clouds so I could have all of that extra time to view the sky I think it would be a much different situation though.

Have locals adapted to this or they’re generally more depressive over the winter months?