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Having grown up around the same latitude as Stockholm, one thing I never realized until last year when visiting tropics is how my subconscious associates warmth with long evenings. Being used to summers where you could basically read a book outside at 11PM, it felt really weird to be outside in tropic heat, but complete darkness by 6PM.

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Catches me every time too. And it's so quick. You can go in to a shop to pick up a packet of crisps thinking it's daytime, but actually is quarter past 6, so you come back out and it's full dark!

I'm in the southern UK, and I'd take our late-May/early-August "it's light while I'm awake and dark while I (should be) asleep" all year round if I could get it.

You could become peripatetic and seek out the spot of opposite latitude during the dark season. So you could have 15 hours of daylight, 12 hours of daylight, then 15 hours of daylight again. I've thought that with idle rich amounts of money I'd get a very large yacht and sail the pacific rim in time with the seasons, perpetual spring, summer, spring, summer.

It does not seem that you need to be rich to accomplish this. Wintering in chile seems with decent planning

We have different definitions of rich. It's not just the cost of living. It's also the time and to deal with the governments to allow this, it's having the money to spend the time, it's the job that allows this, it's the time away from family not being catastrophic for someone's wellbeing. Frankly, this is vastly infeasible for 99% of people. I'd easily consider the remaining 1% "rich" in some way

It is a life goal, for sure! Not necessarily one I'll be able to reach, but we have to have stretch goals :D

The first time I visited the tropics, I never realised how much I associated the dark with it being cold!

We went for dinner in the afternoon, sun was up, it was blazing hot, everything normal so far. We had dinner while the sun set in a nice air-conditioned restaurant, so it was dark when it was time to leave, and I walked out into the tropical night and was so confused why it was still warm and moist outside!

> Being used to summers where you could basically read a book outside at 11PM

On the other hand, reading a book outside in normal daylight will hurt your eyes. The paper reflects too much light.

Kindles solve this problem by being gray; I've never understood why Amazon went on to develop a "Paperwhite" model. Paper is too white!

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