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Moving To A Cold Climate: An Essential Guide

Thursday, 31 August 2017 | 0 comments

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Moving to a cold climate is not to be taken lightly.

There are thousands of popular countries and cities across the globe that exist in a cold climate. You might be attracted there by work opportunities or just because you fancy a change. Whatever the reason, moving from a normal temperate environment into a location with almost year-round cold is going to take some adjusting to.

To try and ease the freeze, there’s a few tips and tricks you need to know about. By following these, you can be sure your move to a cold climate isn’t going to be as much of a shock to the system as it otherwise might have been.

1) Your Home Maintenance Just Got A Whole Lot More Complicated

If you’ve always lived in a reasonably warm climate, then it’s going to come as a shock just how much your home maintenance needs are going to change to adapt to your new circumstances. You might never have thought about the necessity of heat cable for pipes or the need for alternative methods of heating your home in case ice and snow cut you off – but you’re going to need to know about them now.

When you’re constantly battling low temperatures, ice, snow, and everything in between, your house is going to take a battering. Maintenance of how you keep heat in your home, insulation, how you protect pipes – it’s all going to be introduced to your “to do” list. Don’t worry; the list might seem never-ending when you begin, but you’ll soon get used to it.

2) Travel Becomes More Difficult

Living in a cold environment means that travel could be cut off at any time, as you have to deal with the risks of driving on ice or even being completely snowed in. You’re going to have to learn to keep your cupboards stocked, as there’s no guarantee you’ll just be able to run to the store to pick something up for dinner.

This is all the more important if you’re going to be living somewhere remote. You need to develop backup plans for what happens if all your supply routes in and out are cut off. You’re going to need to become a prepper of sorts, with lots of alternative options should the worst happen.

3) You’ll Never Get Used To The Cold

You would think that if you’re in a cold environment all the time, you’ll soon become accustomed to it. That’s just not going to happen – sorry! It’s always going to feel miserable when you step outside and are hit by freezing temperatures. You’re going to become like a cat, constantly seeking out heat wherever you can find it, cherishing it when you do get it.

Of course, there are ways and means of coping with this. You’ll need to invest in cold-weather clothing the likes of which you have never known before. You’ll also need to learn how to protect your extremities when doing outdoor tasks; you probably never imagined a world where just pulling up a few weeds requires you to don three pairs of gloves!

There are benefits to living in a cold environment, too – and by following the above, you can be sure you experience as much of the good as you do the bad.

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