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Thanks for your comment. Malta is one of the warmest destinations in southern Europe but it still has cold days, particularly when it's windy. I haven't been to Malta so I can't speak from my own experience, though. All I know is that I've been to other, some of the warmest areas of southern Europe, and I often needed a fleece even during the day (and so did most locals). Maybe I'm just not well adapted to cold weather but I've seen many, many locals who wear proper winter clothes in the winter in southern Europe - definitely not just t-shirts. That's typically only tourists from cold countries who wear very light clothes. For example, no Spaniard (or very few) would wear just a t-shirt in the winter, while most tourists for example from the UK would.

Thank you for your comment. I haven't been to Malta yet so thank you for that perspective. If you have double glazed windows then that helps immensely. Single glazed ones mean that any accumulated heat is going to dissipate rapidly. As for water scarcity, unfortunately that's the case with many islands. One of the most notable exceptions is Madeira but of course, with more water usually comes worse weather (more clouds and rain).

Thank you for your comment. I think that a lot has to do with what you're accustomed to. I've always lived in an apartment that was so warm in the winter that I could wear a t-shirt and shorts. Any place where I have to put extra layers is cold for me. If I have to wear a thick sweater indoors and still feel cold, then that's very cold. Then there's also humidity: I'm accustomed to low humidity so a cold AND damp place feels even worse. Maybe I was unlucky but I've spent time in at least 10-20 different places in southern Europe and almost all of them were cold. The ones that weren't were usually built and/or owned by someone from a cold country (for example, from Germany). Interesting point about the availability of heating but people choosing not to use it - if you're one of the residents who would like to use it but others don't, there's nothing you can do even if technically you have access to it.

Thank you for the comment. My previous videos were indeed made with a human-like (but still unfortunately obvious) AI voice and edited by me. I debated deleting them but people still find them useful so I decided to keep them. This video is my new style and my editor didn't use AI except for maybe some illustrations. The narration is human and so is the script and everything else.

Thank you for your comment and for your perspective comparing Portugal to Poland. Would you say that new houses and apartments in Portugal are much better insulated? I only spent a few days in the fall in Portugal so it was still rather warm but as far as I remember the insulation was rather non-existent. I've heard that many places in the United Kingdom suffer from poor insulation, too. As for coming as a tourist to Portugal (or any other warm country) in the winter, I highly recommend checking out reviews of people who stayed there in the winter. It's common to pick an Airbnb with nice reviews and then be surprised how cold it is because very few people visit these warm countries in the winter and nobody has actually experienced what it's like there in a given Airbnb when it's cold.

In greece it's the same, it was so warm during christmas

Thanks for your comment. You're lucky then to live in such a well-insulated building. Is it a new building? Is it an apartment building or a house? What city? I've been to southern Spain many times in the winter and I've never seen 25 degrees inside and probably not even 20 degrees. This was in various areas of southern Spain. Granted, I usually spend time in the countryside and not in the city but the one time I was in an apartment in the city (Alicante) it was freezing cold inside as well.

​@@Ejjejejejdmdjjd thanks for the comment. I keep in touch with some friends in southern Greece and I heard you had some really nice winter days there. But there were also rainy days with 10 degrees during the day and close to 0 at night and I imagine that must have been super cold indoors. One of my friends has a badly-insulated apartment and suffers a lot there if he's there in the winter (which is why he's not there now). Another friend recently bought a new apartment in a recently-built building and his experience is different. He doesn't feel cold at home (but his apartment is also directly in the sun). But yet another friend rented an apartment in an older building and she was cold there as well already in November. So it really depends on the place but if you don't have a lot of money, you're definitely way more likely to encounter a cold apartment.

Thank you for your comment and I'm glad to have sparked that reaction in you to post a comment even though you never do that :) We definitely have very different experiences, both in cold and hot countries. I live in Poland. My apartment can easily reach 26 degrees Celsius in the winter and I actually have to reduce heating so that it's not too hot. Same goes for the apartments or houses of my family and friends - but they usually keep the temperature at 22-23 degrees because they don't like it too hot. If I travel in the winter in Poland (I frequently go to Warsaw) I'm also never cold. I've been recently to Sofia, countryside in northern Italy, and Vienna - in all cases it was super warm inside even though it was cold outside. I spent some time in Berlin in the winter, too - the apartment was also super warm inside. This may depend on a person's cold tolerance. For me, 3 months of freezing indoors is a torture so I prefer either cold weather outside (but very comfortable inside) or hot weather outside (even if it's too hot inside). As for swimming, it sounds like you may have very good cold tolerance. I was actually in Split in May and while I did swim, it was about 20 degrees Celsius and I wouldn't call it super pleasant swimming. I can't imagine doing that in March. And while there were people on the beach, I saw only 1 or 2 other people swimming. For me, properly comfortable swimming starts around 25 degrees Celsius.

Thank you for the comment but I'm not sure what you mean :)

Thank you for your opinion. Administratively, the cities in the video are considered separate cities. But you are right that maybe I should have put them as one area instead of listing them separately. You can refer to the article in the description for cities outside the metropolitan area: www.betterwhere.com/warmest-cities-in-canada/ There, you can check the full list.

To keep the video shorter, I didn't include the definition of Eastern Europe and how it differs depending on the organization. In the referred article I explain this in more detail. It's confusing as there's no clear, definite list of "Eastern European" countries.

@@betterwhere no i get it, you even said it on every country they were "technically" Central European... my autistic mind wouldn't let it go... its a awesome video though, great job😎

@@chopo4160 Thank you, I appreciate it.

Thank you for the comment and for watching!

Thank you!

That would be much more subjective :)

The video was based on data from a personality test website. I'm an introvert myself and am not a hermit, either :) I do prefer quieter places, though.

Thank you for your comment!