How do you do it?

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How can you Canadians take so many months of bitter winter? I was in Calgary and Banff last February and it was brutally cold. You guys barely have a summer and then back to the cold snap. I loved the country and the people but too cold for me.

Back to warm Miami!!!

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you wear lots of warm clothes, drink hot beverages, and complain alot... then you get off your butt and go outside and try to enjoy yourself.
really, these days it has been about -20 to -30 C and it is COLD or at least it feels that way! I remember walking to school a few years ago and they said it was close to -50C with the wind felt like -70C and didnt even notice..... you get use to it, your eye lashes freeze as soon and you walk out the door and you buy really good winter jackets....
i wouldnt give it up for anything in world if it meant having to leave my country. Source(s): i am canadian

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I am actually in Idaho, but so far north we exchange money. The only answer is: you get acclimated. If I were to spend a few years in Miami, I would not be able to handle the winters here. But I love the cold.
Canada lies farther north than any other country in the world and the settlement Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Alert, located on Ellesmere Island and only 834 km south of the North Pole, is the northernmost settlement in the world. Canada鈥檚 highest peak is Mount Logan, which stands at 5,959 m. Since it is located so far north, Canada has extremely cold temperatures and harsh winters. The southern region of the country is temperate while the northern regions range from subarctic to arctic. Blizzards, ice storms, and temperatures below -50掳C are common. Canada has four distinct seasons and, in contrast to its bitter winter weather, has mild summers with temperatures ranging from 20掳C to 35-40掳C. Because of its northern location, much of Canada cannot be settled, and has an extremely low population density of only 3.5 people per square kilometer. Canada is made up mostly of vast plains regions; a mountain range lies in the west and the lowlands in the southeast. Even with its large area, only 4.96% of Canada is arable land. Lakes take up much of Canada鈥檚 area; there are 31,191, all of which are larger than three square kilometers
http://www.articleworld.org/index.php/ca...
I've been living in Canada my entire life, and I guess your body adapts to the cold after a while.
3 days of snow? Yeah it was tough I got a snow day from work. I live in BC and that is half of our average for the year. It's raining now, and should probably keep it up until Christmas.

If you want to know the answer to that question, I suggest you ask Americans. sure about 25 million Canadians live in such weather. But 150 million Americans live in such weather.