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My experience is that with ridiculously much exercise, I can do with less sleep and still feel excellent.

However, that usually means trading one hour of sleep for one hour of additional exercise. And I'm lazy, so sleep it is! :-)

The thing I'm jealous at you US people for most of all (except those from Maine and Alaska) is the ability to wake up with the sun each morning. Here in Northern Europe, the seasonal differences are simply too large.

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I live in Maine now and lived in Alaska before. Actually, with Maine the sunrise is earlier than everywhere else because of how far east the state is, especially if you live on the coast like I do. Of course we pay for it at sunset. In AK the days are short, but for the most part people aren't exercising outside during those months anyhow. Keeping sidewalks plowed seemed to be at the bottom of the list in Anchorage.

Most of the US isn't like that. I live in Seattle now, and the winter days are quite short. Even when I lived in Mississippi, I didn't wake up to sunlight in the winter unless I got up late. It'd be light when I left the house, but not when the alarm went off.

now that i have tablets and smartphones, i accompany them to exercise, sunlight or tech readings. sleep is my only time without a gadget in my hand.

Maine isn't all that far north, actually, especially if you consider that the inhabited part is mostly in the south, along the coast.

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