Brexit and the waning days of the United Kingdom

[Valmy]

A patio overlooking the beach is the height of civilization.

Not one of your windy and freezing Pacific Northwest beaches though 

Anyway all you Brits who bitch about British Weather are welcome to come spend a summer in Texas or a winter in Minnesota. You'll be singing a different tune.

[Tamas]

Saying our climate a great positive for Britain is the most depraved thing I've ever seen on Languish.

I am sorry but in the South it is. Usually it moves between like 3 degrees of difference during a season, it rains more than ideal but it's not that bad.


I understand it gets progressively shittier as you move north but that's why I don't live there. :p

[Gups]

I honestly couldn't cope with the summer temperatures in the med these days. Maybe if you are on holiday and want to lounge on the beach it's fine but day to day life  in 35 degrees plus is no fun.

[Valmy]

I honestly couldn't cope with the summer temperatures in the med these days. Maybe if you are on holiday and want to lounge on the beach it's fine but day to day life  in 35 degrees plus is no fun.

It is 33 degrees right now. In October.

Fuck this.

[Sheilbh]

Not one of your windy and freezing Pacific Northwest beaches though 

Anyway all you Brits who bitch about British Weather are welcome to come spend a summer in Texas or a winter in Minnesota. You'll be singing a different tune.

I have no idea - but my impression is the only bit of North America I'd be interested in from a climate perspective are some parts of California.

And on geographic blessings this is where I do think the Victorian encyclopedia has a point. It's a very benign, safe natural world in Britain - we're not on a fault-line, don't get hurricanes or tornadoes, (until now) rarely cold or hot enough to be dangerous, not really many poisonous things or animals that can kill humans at least as long as we ignore the Guardian:

[Grey Fox]

Saying our climate a great positive for Britain is the most depraved thing I've ever seen on Languish.

Well, it's not a bad climate. UK farmers can plant seed when Canada is still covered by feets of snow.

[Josquius]

Climate wise I think it's quite recognised France has the best going, with its large temperate north but also with a sizable Mediterranean area and then in between grape friendly terrain.
It can grow basically anything in decent quantities.

I suppose on a grand scope of history too that France is top in Europe for spurning it's advantages what with much of European history up until napoleon being about trying to stop French world conquest.

Britain is up there too though, I mean yeah we have to trade for fruit and wine but... That's why god gave us ships and the Portuguese.
And purely looking at the past century or so we've done a lot more to throw away a strong position.

[Sheilbh]

Climate wise I think it's quite recognised France has the best going, with its large temperate north but also with a sizable Mediterranean area and then in between grape friendly terrain.
It can grow basically anything in decent quantities.

Yeah. I think France is the ideal for me. Beer and butter and cream in the North, olives and wine and anchovies in the South, mountains and beaches.