the crazy thing is, you are goddam right. Usually when i go to the gym, i always use the same clothing no matter the temperature. So i am that guy using sport shorts and jersey (which are made to help you cooling off) casually going to the gym during winter.
The South of Brazil is living under the medieval era regarding heating system. They're still using wood-burning stove, fireplace, manual heaters... how a powerful country like this so behind, even Uruguay and Argentina have heating system.
engraçado que da pra trocar pra nordestino e calor tb kkkkk, quando falo q aqui ta 36 graus num dia normal meus amigos de SP e do Sul ficam loucos kkkkkkkkk ficam tb quando falo que 22 graus ta frio aqui kk
there is fine, acutally, i take a 4 a.m. party with shorts and a t-shirt, winter time, not the coldest day, but i guess some people will become ice already. Where i live, joinville is know for the hot insane days, but if you take the right conditions, like 0-10 degrees also high wind velocity and high humidity, dude, no one can stand, is fucking insane, i take -2 in São Bento Do Sul, 2 jackets, 2 legs, i not know how my feet not get the frost bite because it start hurting because of cold and i not had anything to proeprly heat them there, i mean, i was using 3 dense blanket, but still almost nothing compared to the rest of my body under some layers of legs and jackets and tshirts... This is from a dude that just start putting jackets under 15 degrees celsius and legs under 10, most of the time, because even high humidity and low temperature here in joinville i can handle it, i like the cold actually, but some are too hard to keep enjoying and start hurting LOL
I’m from São Paulo and sometimes during winter it gets so cold, we do exactly the same 😅 I remember my primary school used to be freezing during winter 🥶
Electric shower heads \o/ They're the best part of winter. Open the water too much, and it won't get hot. Don't open it enough, and the coil will eventually break. Amazing.
That's one of the few things I miss in Brazil coming from the US. In the US, the more you open the shower, the hotter it gets (unless you have one that allows you to control the temperature and pressure separately). I miss hot showers with lots of pressure. For a country that likes showering so much, I am surprised they are sticking with the electric, where sometimes you have to let it drip to be warm
@@alastairhewitt380 there are eletric showers for R$120,00 that comes with precise temperature control, just search it. Its like the radio button on the car, the one that turn in circles, but for temperature
SIm, eu ja estive umas 3 vezes em Paris, e numa das vezes era verão. O verão lá é muito pior que Londres. Em Roma então, eu não conseguia nem respirar, 45C na sombra, não sei onde no Brasil faz um calor igual aquele, talve no Nordeste (que eu não conheço).
I feel way colder in the winter up in the Serra Gaúcha than I ever did in the Italian Alps or even here in the UK. The cold down in southern Brazil hits harder, not just because the houses don’t have heating, but because it’s damp, and you feel it way more than the dry cold here.
Isso me soou familiar com quando expliquei para um amigo nordestino, que nesse verão tava mais quente aqui no RJ por causa da umidade e que fez 58°C de sensação térmica, a gente parecia estar num forno!
It's the same in Portugal. Houses have no insulation. I had more comfortable winters in Russia, Canada and Poland than in Portugal... as you said, SOME houses in Gramado have insulation, but it's rare. One hotel in Gramado once wanted to charge us 40 BRL a day to turn on the central heating in winter...
I think Gramado and Canela houses or apartments may be more affordable to either install a heating system or buying a house that already has it... but the price, uh, the price is a real problem even for the simplest home there. I've been checking out just for curiosity.
@@sapinho-sapeca Since both Gramado and Canela are touristic cities, the tourism ending up making the installation of a heating system much more affordable there than in most places in Brazil, especially that small cities that looks like village in the middle of Rio Grande do Sul state. Gramado and Canela are by far the cities that are most used to have a heating system. There are even specific stores for that purpose, it's not something complicated or rare to find, get it? I have relatives living there and have enough information. About the houses, they are pricey with or without heating system, but the installation is more affordable.
@RafaelScapella I have insulation at my home in Porto Alegre because it's close to the Guaiba lake and has lots of moist. 2 years ago I did use almost everyday in winter and my gas bill was almost 3,000 BRL. It is insane you need to install a intelligent thermostat to make rational use of it.
Brazilian from RS living in Netherlands speaking here. I really think the main reason why we do not use heating inside of houses in Brazil is cultural. We are “used” to feel cold and that is it. Many houses do have AC with heating option, but we just don’t use it. I was one of these when I was there. And don’t tell me it is for saving cost because in summer it is on all day long 😂
Heating is only for the bathroom, these mornings can be a real handful sometimes. However, it's sad that winters here aren't as cold as they used to be.
A única coisa que acho burrice é que as casas não são preparadas é pra chuva. Pro frio até aceito, porque o calor também é de matar, mas as casas não são preparadas pra umidade e pra quantidade de chuva que tem todo ano no sul.
Exactly! I felt colder in a city in the state of São Paulo than I did here in Germany. People think Brazil is only tropical, but from the middle of the country downwards it gets quite cold.
95% of the state is subtropical/temperate like the south. Only the extreme northwest of the state is tropical with a dry and wet season and an average annual temperature of 22°. This doesn't mean it's as hot as the northeast all year round, as Brasília has a warmer climate and reaches freezing temperatures in winter!
I'm used to winters with below 10C temps without any sort of heating in my house here in Brazil. Funny enough, when I visited friends in Japan during the winter, the first thing I did was turn off the heater in my room lol
I'm from Curitiba, I KNOW THE STRUGGLE. When I moved to Argentina I was amazed by the gas heating system in most homes. That was a life changing for me.
Exactly😅 I was telling that to my wife few weeks ago. I lived in northern USD some 25 years ago and I say I suffer a lot mpre with cold here in Brazil. Houses are not prepared fow low temperatures.
@@pedroalcantara8032 que é um péssimo hábito: detona a qualidade do ar e esquenta extremamente mal. Observando do padrão europeu (o autor do vídeo é Sueco), as casas daqui estão muuuuito longe de estarem minimamente preparadas para o frio.
@@pedroalcantara8032 irmao eu moro no estado de SP e aqui por mais que sua casa seja "legal" vc nao tem insulation (isolante) termico com parede tipo sanduiche como é comum em paises frios. Tambem nao temos sistema de aquecimento decente. Aqui no inverno vc sai do banho tremendo de frio e pra dormir em noites bem frias precisa de muito cobertor e até um aquecedor. Nos EUA eu andava de shorts e sem camisa dentro de casa com neve caindo lá fora. Entao que raio de preparo que temos aqui??? O proprio video fala isso. Todavia nao podemls esquecer que vivemos num lugarnonde faz poucos dias de frio no ano comparado com dias de calor e economicamente nao faz muito sentido investir em conforto térmico. Já la fora nao é tanto questao de conforto mas de sobrevivencia.
@@birdyflying4240A manta pode até não ser tão cara, mas aí vc tem de acrescentar parede dupla e mão de obra, fora perda de espaço. Concordo q no final das contas o inversor é mais em conta.
It's the same in Buenos Aires capital. Houses are made with traditional materials: brick and cement, so they get super cold. Also, most windows are not insulted at all, so all the cold air gets inside. Some public transportation has heating like trains, but most buses and stations don't. The cold is also very humid so the effects on health are similar, a lot of people coughing and with the flu everywhere. I used to be very healthy in my home country in the caribbean, but now I'm constantly sick. These countries are not prepared for the winter, and Buenos Aires has a really long winter, this year it started in May until the end of September, but it really gets hot in November. I lived in Boston 3 years and never felt as cold as I've felt here 😢
Well I’m a Swede in the state of Rio, have a house in the mountains and in winter it can at night go down to 4 degrees, once a year. But normal to go down to 8, 10 Degrees and it’s freezing outside and inside. Have lived here for 50+ years and am still freezing in the winter. I use my fireplace a lot, not cheap and an electric sheet to at least have a warm bed to go. Agree a hundred % with you. Not easy. Never felt this cold in Sweden, Denmark or Poland where I lived as child.
I'm from Porto Alegre, Brazil, and currently living in Gdańsk, Poland. Before that, I lived in Vilamoura, in the Algarve, and in Como, Italy. In all these places, I had the same problem: like in Brazil, houses in southern Europe aren’t built for the cold. Here in Poland, though, most homes are well-insulated, and I don't have any trouble staying warm in the winter.
I'm a Brazilian from the north where is always hot, I've lived in Scotland for one year never suffered with the cold beacuse pf the heating system, I even used to have cold showers. But the cold traumatized me when I spent 5 days in Sao Paulo countryside.
Fellow Swede here that used to live in the interior of São Paulo and I can’t agree more, even though it’s generally not as cold as the south of Brazil we experienced quite a few winter days with temperatures as low as 5 degrees Celsius, luckily it doesn’t rain much in that region during winter so not much humidity but we still suffered in a cold house
I'm from the North of Brazil and have worked for a small period in the South of Brazil, specifically in Curitiba and oh man, it was hard to handle the coldness. The apartment I was had no heating system at all. Going to the bathroom was terrible, the toilet was like an ice, the floor was the same and the apartment got electric shower that wasn't enough to keep the water temperature warm. Even with all these problems, I'm in love with that city and I have plans to go back and bring all my family. The only issue is that I don't want to suffer during winter like majority suffer and think it's just okay... I've been searching for either a house or apartment that has heating system, insulation, especially radiators but I've just stumbled upon luxury apartments and houses and I don't have millions of reais to buy such thing. The very "few" that were cheap and had heating system was just too small for a family to live in so it doesn't worth buying. Interestingly, Curitiba is in the zone 1 that is the zone of the coldest cities are located in Brazil and even being in that zone people seem to not care about that. I find that so strange to be honest.
@@elonmushen It's becoming fairly common newer apartments in Curitiba to have heated water (for the kitchen and bathroom) and for the shower, mostly using gas heating, however heating system for the environment (air) isn't not that usual yet. As some have said down the comments, it's either perceived as luxury or useless, but it depends on the person's needs which is something very personal.
I remember on one specific winter i woke up (already heavily dressed to school of corse) then I opened the fredge and fell a worm air coming out of it. Yes the temperature inside of the fridge was wormer then outside.
COOL I've always wanted to hear about that from an European!!! As someone from Rio Grande do Sul, I always felt frustrated when someone from Canada or England complained about the cold Inside their heated houses with hot water
I thought that the climate changes substantially once you reach the latitude of Minas Gerais. Do you live at a higher elevation? Does your residence not receive receive much sunglight? The R value of windows is very low. Would it benefit you to have thicker rugs to lay down during the cooler parts of the year? Thick curtains?
I'm from Curitiba and currently living in Gramado. Our house has heating system so no one suffers during winter. The house is also prepared for the hot weather. No one suffers here. Unfortunately for most Brazilians such thing is considered as luxury or useless. For me isn't luxury nor useless, it's necessary for basic thermal comfort. The same way people in the North is so crazy about having an A/C the same should've been applied to the South regarding a heating system. It's a myth saying "it's so expensive". Basic insulation isn't expensive, people just don't want to look into it nor investigate, they think it's normal to be cold inside just because it's cold outside, same applies for hot.
I've lived in Manaus for a few years. Even in poorer neighborhoods, most people own *at least* one AC unit. Middle class apartments usually have at least one for each bedroom and one for the living room. And energy bills are EXPENSIVE there, but enduring that humid heat is almost unbearable.
I’m from the northeast of Brazil, where it’s never cold, and then I moved to São Paulo for a few years. It doesn’t get as cold as in the south, but the apartments there have the same issue: zero insulation. It’s astonishing how people live like this and don’t see it as a problem. Once, it was around 7 degrees Celsius outside, and it felt pretty much the same inside. I now live in Germany, and it’s so much easier to live in sub-zero temperatures. Although now I gotta admit that I’m experiencing the opposite. We’ve had some days in summer reaching 40 degrees celsius, and no one has air conditioning, so....
No one's talking about so i must. What really makes winter in Brazil almost unbearable even if its not that cold its the fact that you have to DEAL WITH IT. Are you cold? great, get under the blankets for at least half an hour to warm up, out the blankets? Immediately freezing again. Take a shower to heat up, again, out of it? Immediately freezing.
Hey man! thankss for all the videos, they really help educating foreigners about Brazil, showing our country and just sharing Brazilian trivia. Thank you!
Completly agree, every mundane activity become a pain on the ass here in the winter, it is too cold to wash dishes, do laudry. Nothing is built thinking about the winter, even the electrical wiring of my apartment cannot handle air conditioning units, and my electrical heaters oftenly melt the power outlets, that have to be replaced. In my city the standard voltage in the houses are 127V , instead of 220V in which the current is lower, nonsense.
I feel you! I'm brazilian from Curitiba/Southern Brazil - the coldest of all brazilian capital cities. I live in Germany. Germans don't believe me when I tell them that I suffer more with the cold in Brazil than here :D It's a different kind of cold. The South is very humid kinda opposite of the european dry winter.
I am Brazilian, living in the South and winter was too harsh in my childhood, because we didn't had electricity and we gathered water from a creek. The bath was the worst part 😂
yeah here in Curitiba the temperature fluctuation is INSANE, like REALLY INSANE one day, dry and completely cold another day, 32° and humid in the winter you live coughing and with health problems, until winter stops
Hello Nordic Investor! I’m from Caxias do Sul and live in Canela. For 10 years I’ve been abroad and 5 of them were in Finland. Your video is what I needed in order to feel that I’m not crazy. I’ve been shocked, complaining and arguing with people here about how ridiculous is having to wear winter jackets at home. Thank you for posting this! Where are you living?
This is an important video! When I tell people that we suffer much more from cold in the south of Brazil than in Europe, they think I'm lying, trying to boast or something... We spend the whole day trying to keep warm, we feel cold at home, on the street, on the bus, at school, at work, when we go to bed... Not to mention the little electric showers that can barely heat the freezing water... it's torture! The best option is still the traditional wood-burning stoves you find in country houses... it usually heats 2-3 rooms, much better than fireplace.
When I lived in South of Brazil I just bought those heaters you plug on the energy outlet. Oil and ceramic models cost more and take longer to heat, but they are more energy efficient and don't dry up the air like dual function ACs and resistance heaters (these are also a hazard to pets and small children).
I'm from Southern Brazil and I've been living in Norway (Trøndelag) for 12 years. And while the weather here does suck a lot, I've always felt way more comfortable during winter in Norway than in Brazil. I come from one of the coldest cities in Brazil (Caxias do Sul), where the cold can quite extreme and it snows like twice a decade if I'm not mistaken, and while most houses are made of multiple layers of wood and are usually more or less well insulated, it's still really uncomfortable during winter. I've been to Brazil last year during winter with my fiancée (her first time in Brazil actually) and to be honest I was definitely not prepared for it, I really understimated how bad winters are without proper heating, I think the lowest temperatures we got were around -5°C, but it felt way colder than that. My hands were constantly freezing and most of the time I had to wear gloves and heavy clothing inside (which sounds insane to me hahahah).
THIS! This is so true ! People build houses in the South of Brazil, just like they would be built in the Northeast where is summer all year round. I find this so annoying, windows without insulation, that allow a cold draft the whole time, this is so bad!
but in the meantime any brazilian worker can afford having a house... there's not many rich countries where you can say something like that, so we're fine
@@Nando_ its not that easy but i get your point, compared to other countries like United States... yes. Still a considerable amout of money for just a single asset. A decent house in Brazil costs between R$150,000 and R$300,000. Brazilians indeed can afford it, but they sometimes have to work for almost 20+ years for that, and after that, there comes the Tax
@@noisyguy4013 I work at the major bank financing houses in Brazil (and yeah, we work our asses off to provide this and so many other services to our comunity)... all you need is a regular job and a good payment record and you can have your own house for the same amount you would pay rent montly... in fact less cause your parcels will go down at the same time that rent would go up in New Zeland you'll need R$ 6.000.000,00 to buy a house so even though they are paid more people are resign to rent... that's the reason so many people are living on their cars or building tiny houses (as expensive as brazilians 70m² houses + land) so they only rent a parking spot in that regard (and adding access to free educational and health systems) is better to be poor in Brazil than to be poor on a 1st world country
During recess in my school, in sunny winter days, it's funny to see masses of people staying in the streaks of sun and completely avoiding shadows, kind of like those time-lapses of cats sleeping in the sunny spots that pass through the window.
Hello man, your video just poped up in my home feed! I live in the extreme south of Rio Grande do Sul (Pelotas) and I often find myself complaining about how many houses and places here aren't properly prepared for winter and humidity. In my house, the only place I can comfortable use a T-shirt is on my music studio hahah Baita vídeo tche!
Bãh, but why LittleBalls?! Harbor cold is so much colder, so much better in Harbor. (Hehehe. Brincadeira de um paranaense erradicado em Garopaba, onde os gaúchos moram, mas dizem que Porto ainda é melhor😂)
Very well resume of the situation here. I’m always with some type of flu and suffering with rhinitis because of the humid winter and drastic changes of temperature.
In Brazil, the socioeconomic factor and the lack of infrastructure are significant issues. Clothing, for example, is more affordable than heating systems or thermal insulation for homes. Even though many people can afford these costs, in many regions the necessary infrastructure simply does not exist, whether due to the lack of an adequate electrical grid, gas supply, or specialized maintenance services. In rural areas, outside the major metropolitan regions, the shortage of skilled labor is evident; even finding a good mechanic can be a major challenge.
We dont heat our homes because most of the year it's very hot. Our houses are prepared for summer, and warm weather during spring and autum. During winter, when it gets cold, you just wear some heavy clothes eat something warm and abuse of your blanket.
@@LucianoSilvaOficial > Our houses are prepared for summer, and warm weather Incorreto, casas no Brasil não são preparadas pro calor, zero isolamento térmico, o calor vem tudo pra dentro, nem parades nem telhados são preparados pro calor na maioria das vezes. Galera coloca ar condicionado superdimencionado (quem pode pagar) e dão por encerrado.
@@LucianoSilvaOficial that's BS becaue insulation works both against cold AND heat... here (not this summer 2024, but previous years yes) was regularly 35 during many and many days in the summer BUT was fine without AC, because during the day the house fairly good insulation keep the heat outside and during the night we open several windows so the chill night's air (since is away from the sea and into the mountains, during the night the temperature drops AT least 10-12 degrees compared to the day) was refreshing the house
Here in Rio Grande do Sul we try not to use heating because of the costs. Our electricity bill is too expensive 😢. Nice to hear someone talking about this! Very nice video!!
I’m Brazilian and lived in Dublin for many years, and went to visit my cousins in the south. I couldn’t believe how the houses are made just to look like winter houses, but there is no isolation, not even good windows to keep the cold out. Instantly regretted to have left my winter jackets back at home 😂
You are being generous in saying 5°C, even in the state of São Paulo, which is not so far south, every winter is 5°C or less, I have seen -1°C some years, and south is much worse so very common to be 0 or negative. But maybe you are saying about day and night, not dawn (generally close to 0 here is while I'm sleeping, so).
I'm from southern Brazil and my manager is from USA, first time she saw me wearing a jacket at home she couldn't understand lol Then I explained that here this it is normal 😅 I have air conditioner and that one from oil as well, but I prefer to put the jacket lol
So, these temperature fluctuations only really started around 10 to 15 years ago, they were much less pronounced before. When I was a kid, winter was mostly cold, with maybe one or two weeks of heat when northern wind was blowing warn air into the south. Also our lack of heating comes from our Iberian heritage in building techniques, the houses are built to allow air flow and heat dissipation, not heat retention, and this was never changed even when the colder south was settled. Anyway, it would be cool if you visit my home region, northwest region of RS, there's some cool new closed neighbourhoods and houses being built in cities such as Ijuí, Santo Ângelo and Santa Rosa, among others. Not really a tourist destination but could be a good investment anyway.
No sul a herança ibérica na arquitetura é bem menor, a meu ver o problema mesmo é econômico, aquecimento central é caro aqui, e quase não há know-how a respeito.
@heitorsiller continua tendo forte influencia. Isso de cimento e tijolo é bem coisa de Portugal, Espanha, sul da França e parte da Itália. O pessoal usava madeira na construção no sul pela oferta mas é raríssimo encontrar uma casa de parede dupla de madeira com aquecimento indo pelos dutos internos, isso é coisa de EUA (casa de woodframe). Eu tenho calefacão na casa mas é item raro. Você tem um circuito de canos resistentes a temperatura indo em todos cômodo da casa com um boiler a gás alimentando isso. A água quente pela termodinâmica ela gira o circuito, que é fechado. Não vai água fora. Sim o preço do gás assusta pois o aquecimento é quase contínuo. É como se fosse ligasse um aquecedor de passagem desses de chuveiro continuamente - a água não desperdiça mas gasta muito gás. Pra não queimar dinheiro tem que automatizar com um sistema que liga-desliga o sistema em determinados dias sob determinadas condições climáticas. Tenho vizinhos que não usam mais mas o mesmo ocorre na Espanha e Portugal, pelo preço foram todos usando coisas alternativas, tipo aquecedor a óleo, de placa cerâmica, e aqueles termoventiladores de resistência ou de lâmpada, ou seja a gambiarra corre solta no sul da Europa também.
I live in south and prefer houses with air flow and heat dissipation much more than heat retention. Winter we can just put some clothing to warm, but summer, the humidity makes you sweat even using no clothes and being inside your house, it's crazy. And due to global warming, summers are getting worse, the temperatures are hitting almost 40ºC.
Yeah, it's similar for people who go between brazil and canada. I live in Canada and I can say for sure winters in São Paulo (a state that's not even as far south as Rio Grande do Sul) are MUCH worse than winters in Ontario. Sure, you'll have a few -30C or -35C days in ontario which are harsh, but if you stay indoors it's fine, you'll be warm and cozy. In São Paulo you can go days and weeks feeling constant 7C degrees indoors, and that can be really uncomfortable.
I'm a foreigner living in southern Brazil. We lived on our farm in Parana first for a few years. The winter winds were pretty bad. 0 to -1 degrees at times. The pastures would be covered with frost. We now live in Santa Catarina where it's still cold at this time of the year. We put away our winter clothes last week but had to take it out of storage this morning as it has got cold once again after the incessant rains.
Finally! That's what I always talk about! I'm brazillian (I live in Santa Catarina) and I suffer a lot in the winter. I've been to North America a few times (two in the winter) and it's a completely different experience! Of course is much colder there, but during the day you don't "feel" the cold since everything has heating systems. On the other side, in the brazilian winter we feel cold the whole time. It's tough! hahah
Isso é apenas no sul, nas outras regiões do Brasil é raro, sem falar que somos um país tropical, para mim não faz nenhum sentido gastar com aquecimento aonde o país só falta soltar fogo o ano todo. 😂 Eu tenho apenas um ar condicionado é queria ter mais dois nós outros ambientes.
@@GolDoMALMO Em São Paulo também faz frio de 10° ou menos vários dias, principalmente nas regiões altas, como o Vale do Paraíba (principalmente Campos do Jordão).
I live in a city called Ivoti, Rio Grande do Sul. I hardly ever turn on the AC to heat during the winter, even with temperatures around 10 or less. We just use clothes. The major problem is the temperature vary from zero to 40 Celsius!
I'm from central-west, and the same thing happens here as well. Even in winter I used to woke up at 5AM, then I take a bath and go to Uni, while the temperature is around 4°C. There's no place where it's warm. But even with all of that, I really do like the winter. It's way more worst when the temperature goes to 40°C.
the only thing worth correcting is about the clothing inside the house. most southern brazillians have cozy warm clothes to wear inside the house. Instead of winter boots we use very warm slippers or maybe layer pajamas with a bath robe, or something similar. Also we sleep in normal pajamas (or just old clothes), but with 2 or 3 layers of thick blankets.
You are in the state of Brazil that has the worst climate, Rio Grande do Sul. It rains a lot here and is also windy, especially in winter. And you are right about the insulation of the houses, they are built for dry or arid Mediterranean climates like in Portugal. Even in warmer parts this type of construction is bad because it transmits the heat inside the house.
Our winter is wet and we follow mostly cement + brick construction typical from Mediterranean countries. Thus houses give you a cold sensation even at 15-20 C. Remain somewhat dressed in house during winter common, but not as heavy dressed in the video (although if you are really poor, have no auxiliary heat and really bad walls close to a wind stream or humidity source that may happen). My house has central heating with radiators. It is huge exception from everywhere else in the country. Plus that I have cold/warm ACs units and heated bathroom floors.
@rafaelsouza4575 it's during built time because you need to put a separate pipe system thru all walls on the house. You can find this on the southern states on upper middle class houses on medium to large cities.
@@nuncasaberas5926 it is a gas boiler that feeds warm water into a pipe system that goes to every room in your house to fill a radiator attached to the wall. The radiator makes the entire room warmer and dry. Warm water has the behavior of moving onwards this pipe systems until it does a full cycle, no water is thrown out, except when you do an yearly maintenance. Yes, it is a southern thing but seen on other cold places. Look for "central de calefação doméstica" on google.
HAHAH. I feel you. I've lived in Massachusetts/USA for most of my life (from ages 3 to 28), and then I moved back to Brazil, the country where I was born, currently living in Santa Catarina and I HATE the winters over here.
The portable oil radiators shown in the video are a good solution, I used to live in a flat thar didn't receive any direct sunlight and I had to keep one radiator unit running full time in every room during cold winter days. They use a lote of energy but do keep the environment properly warm if the room is not too large
As a Brazilian from Porto Alegre, in Southern Brazil, I guess I’m just used to the cold, we learn from a very young age to put on coats and more coats of clothing to keep us warm in the winter. I remember, as a kid, going to school with my pajamas on beneath my school uniform, plus a sweater and a thick jacket on top of it, and also sleeping with a sweater on top of my pajamas, then layers and more layers of blankets. Since my ancestors are indigenous from that region, and lived in very thin houses, I believe I’m also genetically prepared for that kind of weather lol
You're so not genetically prepared if you have to wear all that clothing while young. I'm almost thirty and since I was a child I wear light clothing in winter.
Haha I'm from Wisconsin and I can relate. I can survive, but I was in Chile for a while and wow it was so cold inside. There's great heating pretty much everywhere indoors in Wisconsin. In Brazil I've only experienced heating at some restaurants in São Paulo and in hotels in Campos do Jordão which is kind of like Gramado
Finally someone speaking about it. It would complete the video if you `d have mentioned that Brazil is not all jungle like many MANY of you Europeans think. I m hoping to be able to change Germany to Brazil soon!
Gaucho here, from Serra where is colder. We use thick clothes all the time, specially on the inside, that's the way to go. Eventually I do use a coat to sleep and add as many layers of blankets as possible. Also wood burning oven or a fireplace is how we heat our houses. People nowadays don't know it, but wooden houses are much better than brick ones for insulation. I love our winter, my favorite season.
Thanks. For sharing! That is another checklist item. We. Moved from Virginia to Florida to get a happy medium. And where we live in Florida it gets almost as cold as it does there. And I am ready to move where it’s hot all year long. My wife is from Manaus and doesn’t want to move back to the complete heat so…. Where your living sounds more appealing! Thanks for the true story. Makes me think about how we need to make considerations.
I prefer the south of Brazil because it has a season and is not hot the whole year. You just need to have a house with proper insulation and heating to deal with the winter
@@nordicinvestor I understand and that’s why we moved to this part of Florida because 4 months out of the year it is sweater, and hoodie weather. We have central air that doubles as our heat but no furnace. There is a hot water heater and no gas … only electric. And our seasonal plants get. Threatened by two days of freeze a year. We have 4 different species of passion fruit , 2 different varieties of raspberries, capi santo, jabuticaba, grapes, tomatoes etc.. so i understand completely.
I'm from Rio de Janeiro, i live in Finland, I preffer winter here in Helsinki than winter in Rio. Here when I arrive home after work, first thing I do is taking a shower and go about my home works wearing only underwear. Both things would be impossible in Rio's winter. Sometimes brazilian friends want roast me that i do not take a shower for 6 months in here, they do not understand (I couldn't also, before moving here), is that here we only feel cold outside, and even outside we dont feel that cold cause we wear double layers of proper clothing. Taking a shower here in the winter is as easy as in the summer. About the mould. I work with renovations in here, it was a surprise that people in here would demolish an entire building if mould is found...
For those who are moving to the Serra Gaucha, it's a good idea to rent an airbnb, buy a land and build the house instead of buying it ready-made. Winter can be very difficult in old houses.
Nice vid! Our family has been watching your videos. We just came back from Brazil yesterday (I'm from Rio, and we live in Florida). We visited Santa Catarina during our trip (Floripa, Blumenau, Camburiu, and Brusque) and I have a video idea/request if you ever decide to make it: about the "physical" process it took you to move to Brazil. Meaning.... what did you decide to take to Brazil with you and what you left in your country? How was the process of moving there? (Like... did you send your furniture or left most stuff behind?) And what did you decide to do with your property in your country? Why did you decide to rent it out instead of selling it and using the money to move? I think these are some of the questions ppl have when they move countries and if you make a video like this, it would be a hit :) I know our family will watch it! Thanks for considering this request!
Nice to see a Swedish man around here. Also props to you for investing in Bitcoin. Brazil has been quite challenging due to politics. I have the banner of Sweden tattooed, unfortunately the only phrase I can fully speak in Swedish is jag älskar choklad. Cheers
I remember when I went to Scotland, people wouldn't heat their homes either (and there was black mold everywhere too) and would wear 4 layers of clothes indoors, but they have a lot of money over there and also properly cold winters. In Wales, people would just heat their homes a little bit so that you wouldn't get sick from the extremely humid cold (It snows pretty much every year there too) and would wear cardigans and things for supplemental heat (usually only 2 or 3 layers). In England, people would heat their homes up to room temperature or a little less and wear usually only one or two layers. I think this is more of a Mediterranean people group vs Germanic people group thing (Celtic people originally migrated from the Mediterranean a couple thousand years ago). Also, insulating your roof is higher priority than insulating walls, just so you know.
Hello from Finland where we have proper winter. I wear just a big t-shirt at home in summer and in winter. My condo NEVER under 20celsius. Usually couple degrees more than that. I can not comprehend HOW you can live in humid cold moldy homes? That is huge health hazard and mold will destroy your health. 🥶🤕😷
@@teresalehtonen8499 I would wager most Brazilians do not properly understand the health hazard that is mold, and even if they did, most of our population has really low income and simply cannot afford to move or pay to tackle the root cause of the issue.
@@teresalehtonen8499We are stronger than you, simple. We are more adapted to live with hostile nature and in the event of any global collapse, to survive. You lost that strength capacity a few decades ago.
You couldn't be more right. Thanks for the detailed explanantion. Most brazilians get used living like this and they never realize there are better ways of living.
The houses are not prepared for winter, because we are! lol Seriously now... I am from the South. There are many unexplainbale things. Few houses have fireplaces, even newly built houses. A brick made fireplace is much better to exhaust the smoke from firewood, yet people just forget to build them! (Houses are usually built in the summer, I guess that's part of it too). When you are building, thermal treatment is not nearly as expensive as adding it to a house later, but it's just not in the local culture. When my sister was about to build her house, I looked at the building plans, and asked her: why don't you put a fireplace in the living room? It's cheap, just a few more bricks. She looked at me like I discovered America, and did it - all winter she and her husband would spend in front of the fireplace. There is also the "macho" culture of the South... not sure if you've witnessed that, but when someone has too much clothing on, you may be called "friorento" (someone who suffers too much from the cold). Mold doesn't seem to be caused by an inherent defect in the buildings, it's part of having damp air. In houses where people are careful and hygienic, it's normal to clean the walls with water and chlorine before and after winter, to avoid diseases and the uglyness of mold. It just come down to how much of a conscientious person you are. I myself would have reserve about heating the house too much and then become unnacustomed to the winter. Comfort is good but can also be a trap. On the other hand, I do believe that measures could be taken to make the homes less of a fridge. Thermal insulation and double walls and glasses. Little is said about the costs of getting sick, or being too uncomfortable inside your own home (which can be and environmental stressor).
Some houses here in the west of Paraná do have fire places, especially in the countryside, but generally houses, apartments etc are built exactly as you describe.
And if you travel to Buenos Aires region or even Uruguay you see that they are much better prepared to face the cold even though the temperature is similar with hot summer. Not only their buildings have heating, every hotel and commerce, but also many homes, specially in argentina. They also seem to have better thermal isolation in their buildings. It seems like southern Brazil just imports the standards from Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, without considering the extreme humidity and cold of the winter... That's why most homes are mold infested, specially if you have custom furniture. And in Argentina they have a much better selection of winter attire available. 20 years ago you could still find natural fabric sweaters and coats in Brazil for a fair price, not anymore. If you need clothing that can actually heat you have to buy chinese. In Argentina you can at least find good winter suited chinese pants and jackets in stores.
Well, Montevideo and Buenos Aires are considerably further south than Rio Grande do Sul; although it gets a similar amount of summer heat, autumn and spring seem to be much cooler, and winter tends to be a bit more stable
These countries are far more developed regarding heating systems. Brazil is far behind them and will stay for a long time because of cultural ignorance.
I'm born in RS, lived here the whole life with brief periods outside and I tell you. I'll never "get used to it". Have to endure cold inside your home it's just a horrible thing to feel. When I was a kid, living with my parents, they only had a stove to heat part of the house (reality for many poor families in Brazil until today). I used to wear multiple layers of cloth everyday. At the time, the winter was longer, the seasons were more defined with less subtle changes in the temperature. Things started to get crazy with the climate from 30 to 20 years ago. Regardless, today I spent a good money on heat and good clothes because I can't stand the cold. I use the heat pump (ac "hot" mode) whenever it gets below 20 Celsius. It's not cheap, but it's the best heating system economically speaking, specially comparing with electric heaters, even those oil-based. That talk about ac on heat more being too expensive is from ages ago when the technology was bad. My ac units are 15 years old (because I bought the house with it) and they are still cheaper to maintain than electric heaters. I'm looking for replacing them for newer inverter ones but the prices are too crazy now. And your know what? Just cross the border to Uruguay or Argentina and you'll see that, although they have basically the same climate, the culture towards dealing with the cold chances a lot. Most houses have some kind of cold control measure more similar to Europe. I really don't understand why people in the south of Brazil just accepted their fate, lol. As for how people in the northern Brazilian states deal with cold? They start to pray and say goodbye to their existence of they ever see 12 Celsius in their thermometers, lol.
More traditional southern houses are wooden and use old firewood stoves, which work great. That old house layout is also more efficient for capturing and storing sun heat. Modern houses are usually not thought for heating, most architects are completely out of touch. They are bad at storing sun heat (brick walls and also flat ceilings). They don't offer decent insulating materials (like the european windows), also oil healing ("calefação") is very expensive for the brazilian budget and rare to find. Heating through A/C units is not that efficient and lots of people now resort for cheap and also inneficient electrical heaters.
I've moved from Porto Alegre to Göteborg and that's the thing I always say to my friends and colleagues here, how nice and comfortable it is inside the swedish houses here. I feel so much worse in the Brazilian winter than in the Swedish one, and my health as well, I used to have a lot of infections mostly in April or June in Brazil, and here in Sweden I barely have it. Maybe it has to do with the mold, humidity, and temperature fluctuations like you said. My only issue with Swedish winters is those 40 days between December and January where it's really dark, other than that I pretty much enjoy the cozy inside winters here in Göteborg.
I used to live in Alexandria, Egypt, winters are short but they can get cold, same problem, houses not prepared for cold weather, no heating. And what it struck me the most was that people firmly believed that if switch on some kind of heating u were going to get sick when you go out...
Here in southern Brazil, on sunny days during the winter, we put on our coats to enter our house and take them off to leave the house.
😂 bem observado
Verdade
the crazy thing is, you are goddam right. Usually when i go to the gym, i always use the same clothing no matter the temperature. So i am that guy using sport shorts and jersey (which are made to help you cooling off) casually going to the gym during winter.
@@MAnnnooo1 🎯😂
So perfect.
The South of Brazil is living under the medieval era regarding heating system. They're still using wood-burning stove, fireplace, manual heaters... how a powerful country like this so behind, even Uruguay and Argentina have heating system.
the gaucho doesnt feel cold. It's the cold that feels the gaucho.
Esse é o comentario q eu tava buscando xD
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😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Rindo em gaúchês 😂🧉
engraçado que da pra trocar pra nordestino e calor tb kkkkk, quando falo q aqui ta 36 graus num dia normal meus amigos de SP e do Sul ficam loucos kkkkkkkkk ficam tb quando falo que 22 graus ta frio aqui kk
I am originally from Rússia and live in the South of Brazil as well. Don't blame you mate .. tamos juntos 😂
Tamo junto
hahaha "tamos juntos" nice!!!
tamo junto mano
I absolutely Loved the ´´Tamos juntos´´! kakakakak
Wait... What?
No way that the winter here is worse than in Russia 😳
It rarely reaches under 5 Celsius...
I never felt such cold in Europe as I felt in Curitiba
there is fine, acutally, i take a 4 a.m. party with shorts and a t-shirt, winter time, not the coldest day, but i guess some people will become ice already. Where i live, joinville is know for the hot insane days, but if you take the right conditions, like 0-10 degrees also high wind velocity and high humidity, dude, no one can stand, is fucking insane, i take -2 in São Bento Do Sul, 2 jackets, 2 legs, i not know how my feet not get the frost bite because it start hurting because of cold and i not had anything to proeprly heat them there, i mean, i was using 3 dense blanket, but still almost nothing compared to the rest of my body under some layers of legs and jackets and tshirts... This is from a dude that just start putting jackets under 15 degrees celsius and legs under 10, most of the time, because even high humidity and low temperature here in joinville i can handle it, i like the cold actually, but some are too hard to keep enjoying and start hurting LOL
Of course, Curitiba invented cold
Because it is located in Mars, i have been there.
classic curitibano, has to say that curitiba is cold
Curitibanos after reading this comment: "Oh my God, I've waited my whole life for this!"
We Southern Brazilians are naturally pasteurized. 😅
The best part like us that live here is wake up 6 AM and go to have a shower, by electric shower. Delicousss!
I’m from São Paulo and sometimes during winter it gets so cold, we do exactly the same 😅 I remember my primary school used to be freezing during winter 🥶
pq vcs tão falando em inglês???
@@wavizo boa pergunta
@@wavizo 😂
Electric shower heads \o/
They're the best part of winter.
Open the water too much, and it won't get hot. Don't open it enough, and the coil will eventually break. Amazing.
That's why I prefer to take cold or lukewarm showers even in winter, the shock of temperatures is horrible
That's one of the few things I miss in Brazil coming from the US. In the US, the more you open the shower, the hotter it gets (unless you have one that allows you to control the temperature and pressure separately). I miss hot showers with lots of pressure.
For a country that likes showering so much, I am surprised they are sticking with the electric, where sometimes you have to let it drip to be warm
@@alastairhewitt380 well, there are gas showers which are like the ones you mentioned, but they are way more expensive and less common.
@@alastairhewitt380 there are eletric showers for R$120,00 that comes with precise temperature control, just search it.
Its like the radio button on the car, the one that turn in circles, but for temperature
In Curitiba when searching for an apartment, people said the most important criteria is whether the house has a gas water heater.
I lived in London for 10+ years and I suffered greatly from the heat. As they are not used to long hot summers, houses are unprepared for the summer.
Mesma coisa em Paris. Pelo menos no frio a gente pode se proteger. No calor não dá nem prá dormir
SIm, eu ja estive umas 3 vezes em Paris, e numa das vezes era verão. O verão lá é muito pior que Londres. Em Roma então, eu não conseguia nem respirar, 45C na sombra, não sei onde no Brasil faz um calor igual aquele, talve no Nordeste (que eu não conheço).
@@MemeseMicos 45° é um verdadeiro absurdo até mesmo aqui em Fortaleza CE
Only 1 british house in 500 have Air condicioner
@@MemeseMicos Cuiabá
I feel way colder in the winter up in the Serra Gaúcha than I ever did in the Italian Alps or even here in the UK. The cold down in southern Brazil hits harder, not just because the houses don’t have heating, but because it’s damp, and you feel it way more than the dry cold here.
Good point, the humidity makes it feel even colder
@@nordicinvestor a sensação térmica é o preponderante, e não a temperatura.
@@nordicinvestor there is a russian youtuber who says Brazil feels colder than Russia because of the humidity.
Isso me soou familiar com quando expliquei para um amigo nordestino, que nesse verão tava mais quente aqui no RJ por causa da umidade e que fez 58°C de sensação térmica, a gente parecia estar num forno!
@@ilucasz he in goiania temperature can reach 39C but I feel less hot that I felt in Belen for example with 33C, because here is very dry.
I'm from Rio Grande do Sul, and can confirm insulation is pretty much an urban legend here.
Agreed! The most insulation you can have are wooden houses
@@gabrielv.4358my wooden house is way more subject to temperature than my brick house.
😂😂
Pois é, porque ninguêm considera esta opção na hora de construir.
Brazilian working for some months near Stockholm. I am amazed how people use to walk around in the rain here. In Brazil it is somewhat rare.
That's a good point. I also perceived this difference between brazilians and swedes
in Canada Too but the rain is very "soft", in Brazil is a storm..
If you're from Belém do Pará in Brazil, people just don't care if it's raining or not. They leave home even without umbrella
What about the smell? Clothes stink when wet for too long@@DanielGrecco-mh1ks
@@agoradacerto não, você está enganado
It's the same in Portugal. Houses have no insulation. I had more comfortable winters in Russia, Canada and Poland than in Portugal... as you said, SOME houses in Gramado have insulation, but it's rare. One hotel in Gramado once wanted to charge us 40 BRL a day to turn on the central heating in winter...
I think Gramado and Canela houses or apartments may be more affordable to either install a heating system or buying a house that already has it... but the price, uh, the price is a real problem even for the simplest home there. I've been checking out just for curiosity.
@@elonmushen If it's so expensive, how could it be affordable?
@@sapinho-sapeca Since both Gramado and Canela are touristic cities, the tourism ending up making the installation of a heating system much more affordable there than in most places in Brazil, especially that small cities that looks like village in the middle of Rio Grande do Sul state. Gramado and Canela are by far the cities that are most used to have a heating system. There are even specific stores for that purpose, it's not something complicated or rare to find, get it? I have relatives living there and have enough information. About the houses, they are pricey with or without heating system, but the installation is more affordable.
Eu não esperava ver o seu comentário aqui. Acompanho o seu canal desde quando você saiu da Austrália!
@RafaelScapella I have insulation at my home in Porto Alegre because it's close to the Guaiba lake and has lots of moist. 2 years ago I did use almost everyday in winter and my gas bill was almost 3,000 BRL. It is insane you need to install a intelligent thermostat to make rational use of it.
Brazilian from RS living in Netherlands speaking here. I really think the main reason why we do not use heating inside of houses in Brazil is cultural. We are “used” to feel cold and that is it. Many houses do have AC with heating option, but we just don’t use it. I was one of these when I was there. And don’t tell me it is for saving cost because in summer it is on all day long 😂
I actually like feeling cold. The air feels great to breathe, I feel way more energized. Born and raised in RS too.
Heating is only for the bathroom, these mornings can be a real handful sometimes.
However, it's sad that winters here aren't as cold as they used to be.
Verdade! O aquecimento pelo ar condicionado é pouco usado. Eu não uso mesmo morrendo de frio, eu gosto do frio.
@@andreilacerda5634exatamente a mesma sensação. Tb sou do RS ❤
A única coisa que acho burrice é que as casas não são preparadas é pra chuva. Pro frio até aceito, porque o calor também é de matar, mas as casas não são preparadas pra umidade e pra quantidade de chuva que tem todo ano no sul.
Exactly! I felt colder in a city in the state of São Paulo than I did here in Germany. People think Brazil is only tropical, but from the middle of the country downwards it gets quite cold.
Spot on!
eu tive uma experiência parecida
Sao Paulo is still tropical/subtropical
95% of the state is subtropical/temperate like the south.
Only the extreme northwest of the state is tropical with a dry and wet season and an average annual temperature of 22°. This doesn't mean it's as hot as the northeast all year round, as Brasília has a warmer climate and reaches freezing temperatures in winter!
Rio de janeiro is very tropical.
Sou brasileiro e vivo na Alemanha.
Há anos, eu digo exatamente a mesma coisa que você disse nesse vídeo. É exatamente isso.
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I'm used to winters with below 10C temps without any sort of heating in my house here in Brazil. Funny enough, when I visited friends in Japan during the winter, the first thing I did was turn off the heater in my room lol
wow, you deal with the cold a lot better than me!
Me too, I just wear a t-shirt and a hoodie and I'm ready.
Yes, I hate the strong central heating in winter, why not until a 10 C? Do we need to be cooked until 25C?
I'd say cold is great for sleeping, I personally prefer to sleep with extra blankets in a realy cold room.
@@rainbs2nd so true
I'm from Curitiba, I KNOW THE STRUGGLE. When I moved to Argentina I was amazed by the gas heating system in most homes. That was a life changing for me.
Parece que nossos hermanos ganharam mais uma...
nem faz sol na argentina, país fica praticamente no lado do polo sul, é claro que vai ter aquecimento nas casas
Como n faz sol ? Tá maluca@@absolutezl
Ixi brasileiro que sente frio e ainda é de curitiba ? Falso br então hein
@@erics7004 I live in Curitiba. Nowadays It IS Not as bad as It used to be.. the Winter IS a joke - even too hot ..
Exactly😅 I was telling that to my wife few weeks ago. I lived in northern USD some 25 years ago and I say I suffer a lot mpre with cold here in Brazil. Houses are not prepared fow low temperatures.
Como as casas daqui não são preparadas para o inverno se temos o habito de usar fogão a lenha, amigo?? Isso já é um preparo. 🤨
@@pedroalcantara8032 que é um péssimo hábito: detona a qualidade do ar e esquenta extremamente mal. Observando do padrão europeu (o autor do vídeo é Sueco), as casas daqui estão muuuuito longe de estarem minimamente preparadas para o frio.
@@pedroalcantara8032 irmao eu moro no estado de SP e aqui por mais que sua casa seja "legal" vc nao tem insulation (isolante) termico com parede tipo sanduiche como é comum em paises frios. Tambem nao temos sistema de aquecimento decente. Aqui no inverno vc sai do banho tremendo de frio e pra dormir em noites bem frias precisa de muito cobertor e até um aquecedor. Nos EUA eu andava de shorts e sem camisa dentro de casa com neve caindo lá fora. Entao que raio de preparo que temos aqui??? O proprio video fala isso. Todavia nao podemls esquecer que vivemos num lugarnonde faz poucos dias de frio no ano comparado com dias de calor e economicamente nao faz muito sentido investir em conforto térmico. Já la fora nao é tanto questao de conforto mas de sobrevivencia.
@@birdyflying4240A manta pode até não ser tão cara, mas aí vc tem de acrescentar parede dupla e mão de obra, fora perda de espaço.
Concordo q no final das contas o inversor é mais em conta.
It's the same in Buenos Aires capital. Houses are made with traditional materials: brick and cement, so they get super cold. Also, most windows are not insulted at all, so all the cold air gets inside. Some public transportation has heating like trains, but most buses and stations don't. The cold is also very humid so the effects on health are similar, a lot of people coughing and with the flu everywhere. I used to be very healthy in my home country in the caribbean, but now I'm constantly sick. These countries are not prepared for the winter, and Buenos Aires has a really long winter, this year it started in May until the end of September, but it really gets hot in November. I lived in Boston 3 years and never felt as cold as I've felt here 😢
Well I’m a Swede in the state of Rio, have a house in the mountains and in winter it can at night go down to 4 degrees, once a year. But normal to go down to 8, 10
Degrees and it’s freezing outside and inside. Have lived here for 50+ years and am still freezing in the winter. I use my fireplace a lot, not cheap and an electric sheet to at least have a warm bed to go. Agree a hundred % with you. Not easy. Never felt this cold in Sweden, Denmark or Poland where I lived as child.
We Swedes suffer here in Brazil! 😂
I'm from Porto Alegre, Brazil, and currently living in Gdańsk, Poland. Before that, I lived in Vilamoura, in the Algarve, and in Como, Italy. In all these places, I had the same problem: like in Brazil, houses in southern Europe aren’t built for the cold. Here in Poland, though, most homes are well-insulated, and I don't have any trouble staying warm in the winter.
Meu conterrâneo
Moro em poa, mas já morei em Bagé e ninguém acredita quando falo que passo mais frio aqui no sul do que quando fui pra Zurique no inverno. 😂
@@anayalacampos eu sei exatamente como é, aqui quando falo que no Brasil faz frio, ninguém acredita. 😄
I'm a Brazilian from the north where is always hot, I've lived in Scotland for one year never suffered with the cold beacuse pf the heating system, I even used to have cold showers. But the cold traumatized me when I spent 5 days in Sao Paulo countryside.
Fellow Swede here that used to live in the interior of São Paulo and I can’t agree more, even though it’s generally not as cold as the south of Brazil we experienced quite a few winter days with temperatures as low as 5 degrees Celsius, luckily it doesn’t rain much in that region during winter so not much humidity but we still suffered in a cold house
My house is literally colder inside than outside, since it's made for air to pass through and rooms don't get direct sunlight.
@@victorvelasco1693 I know exactly what you mean
Haha same in Argentina. I lived in England for a while, but winters here feel colder for this very reason, plus humidity.
I have not been to Argentina but I guessed it would be same there
I'm from the North of Brazil and have worked for a small period in the South of Brazil, specifically in Curitiba and oh man, it was hard to handle the coldness. The apartment I was had no heating system at all. Going to the bathroom was terrible, the toilet was like an ice, the floor was the same and the apartment got electric shower that wasn't enough to keep the water temperature warm.
Even with all these problems, I'm in love with that city and I have plans to go back and bring all my family. The only issue is that I don't want to suffer during winter like majority suffer and think it's just okay...
I've been searching for either a house or apartment that has heating system, insulation, especially radiators but I've just stumbled upon luxury apartments and houses and I don't have millions of reais to buy such thing. The very "few" that were cheap and had heating system was just too small for a family to live in so it doesn't worth buying.
Interestingly, Curitiba is in the zone 1 that is the zone of the coldest cities are located in Brazil and even being in that zone people seem to not care about that. I find that so strange to be honest.
@@elonmushen It's becoming fairly common newer apartments in Curitiba to have heated water (for the kitchen and bathroom) and for the shower, mostly using gas heating, however heating system for the environment (air) isn't not that usual yet. As some have said down the comments, it's either perceived as luxury or useless, but it depends on the person's needs which is something very personal.
I remember on one specific winter i woke up (already heavily dressed to school of corse) then I opened the fredge and fell a worm air coming out of it. Yes the temperature inside of the fridge was wormer then outside.
Warm
Worm = minhoca
Made for a funny read though
@@hoshireed77 vc deveria ser mais minhocado
COOL I've always wanted to hear about that from an European!!!
As someone from Rio Grande do Sul, I always felt frustrated when someone from Canada or England complained about the cold Inside their heated houses with hot water
Same thing, I feel way more the cold in Brazil(minas gerais) during winter than I ever did living in the swiss/italian alps
I thought that the climate changes substantially once you reach the latitude of Minas Gerais. Do you live at a higher elevation? Does your residence not receive receive much sunglight? The R value of windows is very low. Would it benefit you to have thicker rugs to lay down during the cooler parts of the year? Thick curtains?
I'm from Curitiba and currently living in Gramado.
Our house has heating system so no one suffers during winter.
The house is also prepared for the hot weather. No one suffers here.
Unfortunately for most Brazilians such thing is considered as luxury or useless. For me isn't luxury nor useless, it's necessary for basic thermal comfort.
The same way people in the North is so crazy about having an A/C the same should've been applied to the South regarding a heating system.
It's a myth saying "it's so expensive". Basic insulation isn't expensive, people just don't want to look into it nor investigate, they think it's normal to be cold inside just because it's cold outside, same applies for hot.
como está a cidade depois das enchentes?
Its not expensive. Its expensive for most people who just have the basics, and as they pay for clothing, they get used to that
I've lived in Manaus for a few years. Even in poorer neighborhoods, most people own *at least* one AC unit. Middle class apartments usually have at least one for each bedroom and one for the living room.
And energy bills are EXPENSIVE there, but enduring that humid heat is almost unbearable.
Que cara fresco
How much does insulation add to the final price of a house in Brazil?
I’m from the northeast of Brazil, where it’s never cold, and then I moved to São Paulo for a few years. It doesn’t get as cold as in the south, but the apartments there have the same issue: zero insulation. It’s astonishing how people live like this and don’t see it as a problem. Once, it was around 7 degrees Celsius outside, and it felt pretty much the same inside. I now live in Germany, and it’s so much easier to live in sub-zero temperatures. Although now I gotta admit that I’m experiencing the opposite. We’ve had some days in summer reaching 40 degrees celsius, and no one has air conditioning, so....
Finally someone spitting out reality about this... It was about time.
No one's talking about so i must. What really makes winter in Brazil almost unbearable even if its not that cold its the fact that you have to DEAL WITH IT. Are you cold? great, get under the blankets for at least half an hour to warm up, out the blankets? Immediately freezing again. Take a shower to heat up, again, out of it? Immediately freezing.
Hey man! thankss for all the videos, they really help educating foreigners about Brazil, showing our country and just sharing Brazilian trivia. Thank you!
Completly agree, every mundane activity become a pain on the ass here in the winter, it is too cold to wash dishes, do laudry. Nothing is built thinking about the winter, even the electrical wiring of my apartment cannot handle air conditioning units, and my electrical heaters oftenly melt the power outlets, that have to be replaced. In my city the standard voltage in the houses are 127V , instead of 220V in which the current is lower, nonsense.
4:17 Nah, our beds have those huge edredons to compensate for the fact you're removing your coat.
I feel you! I'm brazilian from Curitiba/Southern Brazil - the coldest of all brazilian capital cities. I live in Germany.
Germans don't believe me when I tell them that I suffer more with the cold in Brazil than here :D
It's a different kind of cold. The South is very humid kinda opposite of the european dry winter.
Mentira vsf
@@birdyflying4240Caramba, um holandês em Itanhaém? Eu moro do lado de Itanhaém
loss of heat by convection. The extreme high humidity absorbs heat and makes everything feel freezing
@@danielsonlisik534Prova que ele ta mentindo.
I thought RGS was the coldest because its lower in the globe
I am Brazilian, living in the South and winter was too harsh in my childhood, because we didn't had electricity and we gathered water from a creek. The bath was the worst part 😂
yeah
here in Curitiba the temperature fluctuation is INSANE, like REALLY INSANE
one day, dry and completely cold
another day, 32° and humid
in the winter you live coughing and with health problems, until winter stops
Hello Nordic Investor! I’m from Caxias do Sul and live in Canela. For 10 years I’ve been abroad and 5 of them were in Finland. Your video is what I needed in order to feel that I’m not crazy. I’ve been shocked, complaining and arguing with people here about how ridiculous is having to wear winter jackets at home. Thank you for posting this! Where are you living?
This is an important video! When I tell people that we suffer much more from cold in the south of Brazil than in Europe, they think I'm lying, trying to boast or something... We spend the whole day trying to keep warm, we feel cold at home, on the street, on the bus, at school, at work, when we go to bed... Not to mention the little electric showers that can barely heat the freezing water... it's torture! The best option is still the traditional wood-burning stoves you find in country houses... it usually heats 2-3 rooms, much better than fireplace.
When I lived in South of Brazil I just bought those heaters you plug on the energy outlet. Oil and ceramic models cost more and take longer to heat, but they are more energy efficient and don't dry up the air like dual function ACs and resistance heaters (these are also a hazard to pets and small children).
love the Caramel Dog you have there and the love you seem to be giving him :)
you are very much integrated into our local culture :)
I'm from Southern Brazil and I've been living in Norway (Trøndelag) for 12 years. And while the weather here does suck a lot, I've always felt way more comfortable during winter in Norway than in Brazil. I come from one of the coldest cities in Brazil (Caxias do Sul), where the cold can quite extreme and it snows like twice a decade if I'm not mistaken, and while most houses are made of multiple layers of wood and are usually more or less well insulated, it's still really uncomfortable during winter. I've been to Brazil last year during winter with my fiancée (her first time in Brazil actually) and to be honest I was definitely not prepared for it, I really understimated how bad winters are without proper heating, I think the lowest temperatures we got were around -5°C, but it felt way colder than that. My hands were constantly freezing and most of the time I had to wear gloves and heavy clothing inside (which sounds insane to me hahahah).
My wife’s apartment in Bento Gonçalves stays colder than outside sometimes. 😮
Brrrrrrr....I had no idea how cold it gets there. TY for sharing.
Lucky for you, winter was over 1 week after you posted. Hopefully you're still alive.
THIS! This is so true ! People build houses in the South of Brazil, just like they would be built in the Northeast where is summer all year round. I find this so annoying, windows without insulation, that allow a cold draft the whole time, this is so bad!
but in the meantime any brazilian worker can afford having a house... there's not many rich countries where you can say something like that, so we're fine
@@Nando_ its not that easy but i get your point, compared to other countries like United States... yes.
Still a considerable amout of money for just a single asset. A decent house in Brazil costs between R$150,000 and R$300,000.
Brazilians indeed can afford it, but they sometimes have to work for almost 20+ years for that, and after that, there comes the Tax
its too expensive maybe :/
@@noisyguy4013 I work at the major bank financing houses in Brazil (and yeah, we work our asses off to provide this and so many other services to our comunity)... all you need is a regular job and a good payment record and you can have your own house for the same amount you would pay rent montly... in fact less cause your parcels will go down at the same time that rent would go up
in New Zeland you'll need R$ 6.000.000,00 to buy a house so even though they are paid more people are resign to rent... that's the reason so many people are living on their cars or building tiny houses (as expensive as brazilians 70m² houses + land) so they only rent a parking spot
in that regard (and adding access to free educational and health systems) is better to be poor in Brazil than to be poor on a 1st world country
Great video! I live in Curitiba, Brazil and I HATE WINTER because of that 😩😩😩
Quando está frio do lado de fora, em casa está mais frio ainda. Quando está calor do lado de fora, em casa está menos calor.
I live in a tall building, in an elevated neighborhood, in one of the highest cities - São Paulo. Winters here hit me hard
During recess in my school, in sunny winter days, it's funny to see masses of people staying in the streaks of sun and completely avoiding shadows, kind of like those time-lapses of cats sleeping in the sunny spots that pass through the window.
Your videos are so informative! Thank you so much ! Noted : install air con that can blow both hot and cool air 😁
Edit: those little radiators are great but you’re right, they are so expensive! Solar panels will be a great solution 🙌
Glad you liked it👍
Hello man, your video just poped up in my home feed! I live in the extreme south of Rio Grande do Sul (Pelotas) and I often find myself complaining about how many houses and places here aren't properly prepared for winter and humidity. In my house, the only place I can comfortable use a T-shirt is on my music studio hahah Baita vídeo tche!
Bãh, but why LittleBalls?! Harbor cold is so much colder, so much better in Harbor.
(Hehehe. Brincadeira de um paranaense erradicado em Garopaba, onde os gaúchos moram, mas dizem que Porto ainda é melhor😂)
Glad you liked it!
Very well resume of the situation here. I’m always with some type of flu and suffering with rhinitis because of the humid winter and drastic changes of temperature.
In Brazil, the socioeconomic factor and the lack of infrastructure are significant issues. Clothing, for example, is more affordable than heating systems or thermal insulation for homes. Even though many people can afford these costs, in many regions the necessary infrastructure simply does not exist, whether due to the lack of an adequate electrical grid, gas supply, or specialized maintenance services. In rural areas, outside the major metropolitan regions, the shortage of skilled labor is evident; even finding a good mechanic can be a major challenge.
We dont heat our homes because most of the year it's very hot. Our houses are prepared for summer, and warm weather during spring and autum. During winter, when it gets cold, you just wear some heavy clothes eat something warm and abuse of your blanket.
@@LucianoSilvaOficial > Our houses are prepared for summer, and warm weather
Incorreto, casas no Brasil não são preparadas pro calor, zero isolamento térmico, o calor vem tudo pra dentro, nem parades nem telhados são preparados pro calor na maioria das vezes. Galera coloca ar condicionado superdimencionado (quem pode pagar) e dão por encerrado.
@@LucianoSilvaOficial that's BS becaue insulation works both against cold AND heat... here (not this summer 2024, but previous years yes) was regularly 35 during many and many days in the summer BUT was fine without AC, because during the day the house fairly good insulation keep the heat outside and during the night we open several windows so the chill night's air (since is away from the sea and into the mountains, during the night the temperature drops AT least 10-12 degrees compared to the day) was refreshing the house
Here in Rio Grande do Sul we try not to use heating because of the costs. Our electricity bill is too expensive 😢. Nice to hear someone talking about this! Very nice video!!
I’m Brazilian and lived in Dublin for many years, and went to visit my cousins in the south. I couldn’t believe how the houses are made just to look like winter houses, but there is no isolation, not even good windows to keep the cold out.
Instantly regretted to have left my winter jackets back at home 😂
You are being generous in saying 5°C, even in the state of São Paulo, which is not so far south, every winter is 5°C or less, I have seen -1°C some years, and south is much worse so very common to be 0 or negative. But maybe you are saying about day and night, not dawn (generally close to 0 here is while I'm sleeping, so).
I'm from southern Brazil and my manager is from USA, first time she saw me wearing a jacket at home she couldn't understand lol
Then I explained that here this it is normal 😅 I have air conditioner and that one from oil as well, but I prefer to put the jacket lol
So, these temperature fluctuations only really started around 10 to 15 years ago, they were much less pronounced before. When I was a kid, winter was mostly cold, with maybe one or two weeks of heat when northern wind was blowing warn air into the south. Also our lack of heating comes from our Iberian heritage in building techniques, the houses are built to allow air flow and heat dissipation, not heat retention, and this was never changed even when the colder south was settled. Anyway, it would be cool if you visit my home region, northwest region of RS, there's some cool new closed neighbourhoods and houses being built in cities such as Ijuí, Santo Ângelo and Santa Rosa, among others. Not really a tourist destination but could be a good investment anyway.
Thanks for the info and tips about the cities in the northwest. Will try to do some videos about these places
Thanks for the info and the tips about the cities in the north . I will try to do some videos about these places
No sul a herança ibérica na arquitetura é bem menor, a meu ver o problema mesmo é econômico, aquecimento central é caro aqui, e quase não há know-how a respeito.
@heitorsiller continua tendo forte influencia. Isso de cimento e tijolo é bem coisa de Portugal, Espanha, sul da França e parte da Itália. O pessoal usava madeira na construção no sul pela oferta mas é raríssimo encontrar uma casa de parede dupla de madeira com aquecimento indo pelos dutos internos, isso é coisa de EUA (casa de woodframe).
Eu tenho calefacão na casa mas é item raro. Você tem um circuito de canos resistentes a temperatura indo em todos cômodo da casa com um boiler a gás alimentando isso. A água quente pela termodinâmica ela gira o circuito, que é fechado. Não vai água fora.
Sim o preço do gás assusta pois o aquecimento é quase contínuo. É como se fosse ligasse um aquecedor de passagem desses de chuveiro continuamente - a água não desperdiça mas gasta muito gás. Pra não queimar dinheiro tem que automatizar com um sistema que liga-desliga o sistema em determinados dias sob determinadas condições climáticas.
Tenho vizinhos que não usam mais mas o mesmo ocorre na Espanha e Portugal, pelo preço foram todos usando coisas alternativas, tipo aquecedor a óleo, de placa cerâmica, e aqueles termoventiladores de resistência ou de lâmpada, ou seja a gambiarra corre solta no sul da Europa também.
I live in south and prefer houses with air flow and heat dissipation much more than heat retention. Winter we can just put some clothing to warm, but summer, the humidity makes you sweat even using no clothes and being inside your house, it's crazy. And due to global warming, summers are getting worse, the temperatures are hitting almost 40ºC.
Yeah, it's similar for people who go between brazil and canada. I live in Canada and I can say for sure winters in São Paulo (a state that's not even as far south as Rio Grande do Sul) are MUCH worse than winters in Ontario.
Sure, you'll have a few -30C or -35C days in ontario which are harsh, but if you stay indoors it's fine, you'll be warm and cozy.
In São Paulo you can go days and weeks feeling constant 7C degrees indoors, and that can be really uncomfortable.
I'm a foreigner living in southern Brazil. We lived on our farm in Parana first for a few years. The winter winds were pretty bad. 0 to -1 degrees at times. The pastures would be covered with frost. We now live in Santa Catarina where it's still cold at this time of the year. We put away our winter clothes last week but had to take it out of storage this morning as it has got cold once again after the incessant rains.
True, winter suddenly returned this week, I also thought it had ended
Finally! That's what I always talk about! I'm brazillian (I live in Santa Catarina) and I suffer a lot in the winter. I've been to North America a few times (two in the winter) and it's a completely different experience! Of course is much colder there, but during the day you don't "feel" the cold since everything has heating systems. On the other side, in the brazilian winter we feel cold the whole time. It's tough! hahah
Isso é apenas no sul, nas outras regiões do Brasil é raro, sem falar que somos um país tropical, para mim não faz nenhum sentido gastar com aquecimento aonde o país só falta soltar fogo o ano todo. 😂 Eu tenho apenas um ar condicionado é queria ter mais dois nós outros ambientes.
@@GolDoMALMO Em São Paulo também faz frio de 10° ou menos vários dias, principalmente nas regiões altas, como o Vale do Paraíba (principalmente Campos do Jordão).
i'm from southern brazil and i love how the winter is freezing and the summer feels like you're in an oven
I live in a city called Ivoti, Rio Grande do Sul. I hardly ever turn on the AC to heat during the winter, even with temperatures around 10 or less. We just use clothes. The major problem is the temperature vary from zero to 40 Celsius!
Well that is why I love Buchmann schnaps from time to time , you dont even feel the climate change 😏
I'm from Nova Petrópolis and I feel you man! Did the floods give you many problems? We got screwed over with the Caí bridge situation...
nao to tankando todo mundo falando em ingles
Great information
Glad it was helpful!
The mold problem you can solve easy with a dehumidifier
I'm from central-west, and the same thing happens here as well. Even in winter I used to woke up at 5AM, then I take a bath and go to Uni, while the temperature is around 4°C. There's no place where it's warm.
But even with all of that, I really do like the winter. It's way more worst when the temperature goes to 40°C.
the only thing worth correcting is about the clothing inside the house. most southern brazillians have cozy warm clothes to wear inside the house. Instead of winter boots we use very warm slippers or maybe layer pajamas with a bath robe, or something similar. Also we sleep in normal pajamas (or just old clothes), but with 2 or 3 layers of thick blankets.
Or 2 or 3 pairs of clothing up and down
I just wear winter boots when it's too cold, or raining. aside from that, it's a pair of warm slippers and that's it 😅
And 2 layers of clothing on top, one below, more than that is too uncomfortable for indoors.
You are in the state of Brazil that has the worst climate, Rio Grande do Sul. It rains a lot here and is also windy, especially in winter. And you are right about the insulation of the houses, they are built for dry or arid Mediterranean climates like in Portugal. Even in warmer parts this type of construction is bad because it transmits the heat inside the house.
Our winter is wet and we follow mostly cement + brick construction typical from Mediterranean countries. Thus houses give you a cold sensation even at 15-20 C. Remain somewhat dressed in house during winter common, but not as heavy dressed in the video (although if you are really poor, have no auxiliary heat and really bad walls close to a wind stream or humidity source that may happen).
My house has central heating with radiators. It is huge exception from everywhere else in the country. Plus that I have cold/warm ACs units and heated bathroom floors.
Was the house built like this? Or did you implemented the central heat later?
@rafaelsouza4575 it's during built time because you need to put a separate pipe system thru all walls on the house. You can find this on the southern states on upper middle class houses on medium to large cities.
Wtf even is central heating, never heard of that, is that a southern thing?
@@nuncasaberas5926 it is a gas boiler that feeds warm water into a pipe system that goes to every room in your house to fill a radiator attached to the wall. The radiator makes the entire room warmer and dry.
Warm water has the behavior of moving onwards this pipe systems until it does a full cycle, no water is thrown out, except when you do an yearly maintenance. Yes, it is a southern thing but seen on other cold places.
Look for "central de calefação doméstica" on google.
@@nuncasaberas5926 It is known as sistema de aquecimento or calefação
HAHAH. I feel you. I've lived in Massachusetts/USA for most of my life (from ages 3 to 28), and then I moved back to Brazil, the country where I was born, currently living in Santa Catarina and I HATE the winters over here.
The portable oil radiators shown in the video are a good solution, I used to live in a flat thar didn't receive any direct sunlight and I had to keep one radiator unit running full time in every room during cold winter days. They use a lote of energy but do keep the environment properly warm if the room is not too large
I like them too
I've got a russian friend who came to Curitiba and said the same thing, I didn't know even the houses are built different, interesting video
As a Brazilian from Porto Alegre, in Southern Brazil, I guess I’m just used to the cold, we learn from a very young age to put on coats and more coats of clothing to keep us warm in the winter. I remember, as a kid, going to school with my pajamas on beneath my school uniform, plus a sweater and a thick jacket on top of it, and also sleeping with a sweater on top of my pajamas, then layers and more layers of blankets. Since my ancestors are indigenous from that region, and lived in very thin houses, I believe I’m also genetically prepared for that kind of weather lol
That is the reality haha
You're so not genetically prepared if you have to wear all that clothing while young. I'm almost thirty and since I was a child I wear light clothing in winter.
Haha I'm from Wisconsin and I can relate. I can survive, but I was in Chile for a while and wow it was so cold inside. There's great heating pretty much everywhere indoors in Wisconsin. In Brazil I've only experienced heating at some restaurants in São Paulo and in hotels in Campos do Jordão which is kind of like Gramado
Finally someone speaking about it. It would complete the video if you `d have mentioned that Brazil is not all jungle like many MANY of you Europeans think. I m hoping to be able to change Germany to Brazil soon!
Gaucho here, from Serra where is colder. We use thick clothes all the time, specially on the inside, that's the way to go. Eventually I do use a coat to sleep and add as many layers of blankets as possible. Also wood burning oven or a fireplace is how we heat our houses. People nowadays don't know it, but wooden houses are much better than brick ones for insulation. I love our winter, my favorite season.
Thanks. For sharing! That is another checklist item. We. Moved from Virginia to Florida to get a happy medium. And where we live in Florida it gets almost as cold as it does there. And I am ready to move where it’s hot all year long. My wife is from Manaus and doesn’t want to move back to the complete heat so…. Where your living sounds more appealing! Thanks for the true story. Makes me think about how we need to make considerations.
We live in Florida (I'm from Rio) and have been considering moving back to Brazil due to the cost of living here.
I prefer the south of Brazil because it has a season and is not hot the whole year. You just need to have a house with proper insulation and heating to deal with the winter
@@nordicinvestor I understand and that’s why we moved to this part of Florida because 4 months out of the year it is sweater, and hoodie weather. We have central air that doubles as our heat but no furnace. There is a hot water heater and no gas … only electric. And our seasonal plants get. Threatened by two days of freeze a year. We have 4 different species of passion fruit , 2 different varieties of raspberries, capi santo, jabuticaba, grapes, tomatoes etc.. so i understand completely.
I'm from Rio de Janeiro, i live in Finland, I preffer winter here in Helsinki than winter in Rio. Here when I arrive home after work, first thing I do is taking a shower and go about my home works wearing only underwear. Both things would be impossible in Rio's winter. Sometimes brazilian friends want roast me that i do not take a shower for 6 months in here, they do not understand (I couldn't also, before moving here), is that here we only feel cold outside, and even outside we dont feel that cold cause we wear double layers of proper clothing. Taking a shower here in the winter is as easy as in the summer. About the mould. I work with renovations in here, it was a surprise that people in here would demolish an entire building if mould is found...
You can definitely not walk around in underwear in winter time in Brazilian houses 😂
É verdade ficamos todo agasalhado no inverno por falta de aquecimento ,mas o nosso inverno aqui em São Paulo é de poucos dias
For those who are moving to the Serra Gaucha, it's a good idea to rent an airbnb, buy a land and build the house instead of buying it ready-made. Winter can be very difficult in old houses.
I bet its cheaper in the long run also
this big fluctuations in heat and cold during winter is actually not common, it's more of a recent(last few years) phenomenon caused by climate change
Your accent is spot on! Native level
Nice vid! Our family has been watching your videos. We just came back from Brazil yesterday (I'm from Rio, and we live in Florida). We visited Santa Catarina during our trip (Floripa, Blumenau, Camburiu, and Brusque) and I have a video idea/request if you ever decide to make it: about the "physical" process it took you to move to Brazil. Meaning.... what did you decide to take to Brazil with you and what you left in your country? How was the process of moving there? (Like... did you send your furniture or left most stuff behind?) And what did you decide to do with your property in your country? Why did you decide to rent it out instead of selling it and using the money to move?
I think these are some of the questions ppl have when they move countries and if you make a video like this, it would be a hit :)
I know our family will watch it!
Thanks for considering this request!
Nice to see a Swedish man around here. Also props to you for investing in Bitcoin. Brazil has been quite challenging due to politics. I have the banner of Sweden tattooed, unfortunately the only phrase I can fully speak in Swedish is jag älskar choklad. Cheers
es verdad, En uruguay nos cagamos de frio tambien
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I was colder in my childhood home in Sydney Australia in winter, than i ever am in the deep of winter in the south of Germany!
I remember when I went to Scotland, people wouldn't heat their homes either (and there was black mold everywhere too) and would wear 4 layers of clothes indoors, but they have a lot of money over there and also properly cold winters.
In Wales, people would just heat their homes a little bit so that you wouldn't get sick from the extremely humid cold (It snows pretty much every year there too) and would wear cardigans and things for supplemental heat (usually only 2 or 3 layers).
In England, people would heat their homes up to room temperature or a little less and wear usually only one or two layers.
I think this is more of a Mediterranean people group vs Germanic people group thing (Celtic people originally migrated from the Mediterranean a couple thousand years ago).
Also, insulating your roof is higher priority than insulating walls, just so you know.
Hello from Finland where we have proper winter. I wear just a big t-shirt at home in summer and in winter. My condo NEVER under 20celsius. Usually couple degrees more than that. I can not comprehend HOW you can live in humid cold moldy homes? That is huge health hazard and mold will destroy your health. 🥶🤕😷
@@teresalehtonen8499 I would wager most Brazilians do not properly understand the health hazard that is mold, and even if they did, most of our population has really low income and simply cannot afford to move or pay to tackle the root cause of the issue.
@@teresalehtonen8499We are stronger than you, simple. We are more adapted to live with hostile nature and in the event of any global collapse, to survive. You lost that strength capacity a few decades ago.
a big hug from são paulo and as some of us say
" Brazil is not for amateurs."
You couldn't be more right. Thanks for the detailed explanantion. Most brazilians get used living like this and they never realize there are better ways of living.
The houses are not prepared for winter, because we are! lol
Seriously now... I am from the South. There are many unexplainbale things. Few houses have fireplaces, even newly built houses. A brick made fireplace is much better to exhaust the smoke from firewood, yet people just forget to build them! (Houses are usually built in the summer, I guess that's part of it too). When you are building, thermal treatment is not nearly as expensive as adding it to a house later, but it's just not in the local culture. When my sister was about to build her house, I looked at the building plans, and asked her: why don't you put a fireplace in the living room? It's cheap, just a few more bricks. She looked at me like I discovered America, and did it - all winter she and her husband would spend in front of the fireplace.
There is also the "macho" culture of the South... not sure if you've witnessed that, but when someone has too much clothing on, you may be called "friorento" (someone who suffers too much from the cold).
Mold doesn't seem to be caused by an inherent defect in the buildings, it's part of having damp air. In houses where people are careful and hygienic, it's normal to clean the walls with water and chlorine before and after winter, to avoid diseases and the uglyness of mold. It just come down to how much of a conscientious person you are.
I myself would have reserve about heating the house too much and then become unnacustomed to the winter. Comfort is good but can also be a trap. On the other hand, I do believe that measures could be taken to make the homes less of a fridge. Thermal insulation and double walls and glasses. Little is said about the costs of getting sick, or being too uncomfortable inside your own home (which can be and environmental stressor).
Some houses here in the west of Paraná do have fire places, especially in the countryside, but generally houses, apartments etc are built exactly as you describe.
I've always said that. I had a harder time dealing with coldness in southern Brazil than when I lived in the Netherlands.
And if you travel to Buenos Aires region or even Uruguay you see that they are much better prepared to face the cold even though the temperature is similar with hot summer.
Not only their buildings have heating, every hotel and commerce, but also many homes, specially in argentina. They also seem to have better thermal isolation in their buildings.
It seems like southern Brazil just imports the standards from Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, without considering the extreme humidity and cold of the winter... That's why most homes are mold infested, specially if you have custom furniture.
And in Argentina they have a much better selection of winter attire available. 20 years ago you could still find natural fabric sweaters and coats in Brazil for a fair price, not anymore. If you need clothing that can actually heat you have to buy chinese. In Argentina you can at least find good winter suited chinese pants and jackets in stores.
Well, Montevideo and Buenos Aires are considerably further south than Rio Grande do Sul; although it gets a similar amount of summer heat, autumn and spring seem to be much cooler, and winter tends to be a bit more stable
These countries are far more developed regarding heating systems. Brazil is far behind them and will stay for a long time because of cultural ignorance.
This is because your countries werent ruined with bad governments and knew how to prepair for the summer. we just accptedour faith
I'm born in RS, lived here the whole life with brief periods outside and I tell you. I'll never "get used to it". Have to endure cold inside your home it's just a horrible thing to feel.
When I was a kid, living with my parents, they only had a stove to heat part of the house (reality for many poor families in Brazil until today). I used to wear multiple layers of cloth everyday. At the time, the winter was longer, the seasons were more defined with less subtle changes in the temperature. Things started to get crazy with the climate from 30 to 20 years ago.
Regardless, today I spent a good money on heat and good clothes because I can't stand the cold.
I use the heat pump (ac "hot" mode) whenever it gets below 20 Celsius. It's not cheap, but it's the best heating system economically speaking, specially comparing with electric heaters, even those oil-based.
That talk about ac on heat more being too expensive is from ages ago when the technology was bad. My ac units are 15 years old (because I bought the house with it) and they are still cheaper to maintain than electric heaters.
I'm looking for replacing them for newer inverter ones but the prices are too crazy now.
And your know what? Just cross the border to Uruguay or Argentina and you'll see that, although they have basically the same climate, the culture towards dealing with the cold chances a lot. Most houses have some kind of cold control measure more similar to Europe.
I really don't understand why people in the south of Brazil just accepted their fate, lol.
As for how people in the northern Brazilian states deal with cold? They start to pray and say goodbye to their existence of they ever see 12 Celsius in their thermometers, lol.
Tack för intressant och givande video om vädret i södra Brasilien. En vän i Blumenau delade videon med mig. Hälsningar från Helsingborg
More traditional southern houses are wooden and use old firewood stoves, which work great. That old house layout is also more efficient for capturing and storing sun heat.
Modern houses are usually not thought for heating, most architects are completely out of touch. They are bad at storing sun heat (brick walls and also flat ceilings). They don't offer decent insulating materials (like the european windows), also oil healing ("calefação") is very expensive for the brazilian budget and rare to find. Heating through A/C units is not that efficient and lots of people now resort for cheap and also inneficient electrical heaters.
I've moved from Porto Alegre to Göteborg and that's the thing I always say to my friends and colleagues here, how nice and comfortable it is inside the swedish houses here. I feel so much worse in the Brazilian winter than in the Swedish one, and my health as well, I used to have a lot of infections mostly in April or June in Brazil, and here in Sweden I barely have it. Maybe it has to do with the mold, humidity, and temperature fluctuations like you said.
My only issue with Swedish winters is those 40 days between December and January where it's really dark, other than that I pretty much enjoy the cozy inside winters here in Göteborg.
Be carfull whit the wood it likes to rot because of the humidity probably not in the next year but it will in 30 years or so
True, a wooden house requires a lot of maintenance to keep it in good shape
I used to live in Alexandria, Egypt, winters are short but they can get cold, same problem, houses not prepared for cold weather, no heating. And what it struck me the most was that people firmly believed that if switch on some kind of heating u were going to get sick when you go out...
That's a very strange way of thinking, I agree with you
If you survive rio grande do sul, you can live anywhere in the world.
Very true 😂