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Yes. If I hadn’t learned to drive manual while getting a license, I wouldn’t have been able to drive them legally, which I figured would have been unnecessarily restrictive.
That being said, I prefer driving automatic, since you don’t really gain anything from driving manual anyway these days. Also I don’t own a car and drive maybe 4 times a year, so it’s really whatever.
Having an apartment with district heating, we don’t have a thermostat per se - we can control the inflow of hot water to our radiators, on a scale of 0-7. However, I try to keep the indoor temperature at at least 18-19 C during the colder period, and I try to reduce the indoor by opening the windows and ventilating any time the indoor temperature goes past 22 C during the hotter parts of the year. Any higher than that and my sleep starts to get compromised.
Maybe push for a local rule against short-term rentals? That would treat the actual problem you mention having - lack of access to property being taken up by short term rental owners. If successful, you might even see a lot of people selling off their former short term rentals, increasing the supply and helping your issue further.
I’ve already voluntarily started going to the office. My company does not require it, nor does it gain me any particular favors with the company for doing so - either in-office, full remote or anything in-between is allowed.
I’ve decided to do so because, frankly, our office is out of the world. The amount of free shit I get there on a daily basis straight up rules. The office staff puts on frequent events which I enjoy attending, I get to meet and interact with other people in person as opposed to sitting around in my apartment all day, I’m in the city near all the good food options. There’s a whole lot of perks to going in to the office for me, and not a whole lot of negatives.
Some negatives and my reasoning around them:
- I have to wake up a bit earlier in order to get ready for work. This does indeed suck a bit.
- I spend more on food buying lunch from restaurants in the city as opposed to eating leftovers. I see this a bit as a plus, as I get to experience great food made by professionals every day.
- I have to spend some money on transporting myself to the office. It’s not a whole lot - public transportation is excellent where I live - but I’ve mitigated this further by commuting by bicycle, which affords me some quality exercise on the commute, and some great podcast listening time.
- My less flexible schedule affords me less good opportunities for strength exercise. I’m still working on fixing this problem, but right now the bicycle gives me what I consider to be more than enough exercise, all in all.
All in all, I’m happy with my choice. I spent a lot of time working remote during the pandemic, and weighed the upsides and downsides, and going to the office came out on top in the end. I understand that this is not for everyone, and I think everyone that wants to work remotely should get to keep doing so. Hopefully others afford me the same respect in my choice!
Relevant Technology Connections-video on the subject: https://youtu.be/_yMMTVVJI4c
iirc, the power thing made a slight difference but probably doesn’t explain the issue entirely.
It’s important to remember that humidity plays a huge role when it comes to managing thermal comfort, and the desert is a very dry place. Advice that is applicable to the desert might not apply in other places with high temperature/high humidity.
I don’t know whether drinking hot tea actually helps to beat the heat, but speculating a bit on it, we might guess that hot tea would promote sweating, which is highly effective for reducing body temperature in dry contexts, but less so in humid ones. The tea is also warmer than your body temperature if it is to be considered warm, and as such you will get hotter without getting any relief from the sweating, making drinking hot tea in a hot/humid scenario counterproductive if these assumptions are correct.
Just something to keep in mind.