Are you hot-natured or cold-natured?

[Bossy Monkey]

Has there ever in history been a relationship between two people who are either both cold-natured or both hot-natured? Just wondering.

I'm on the far end of the cold-natured end of the spectrum. Alice is way on the opposite end, as have most of the other women I've been with. It's not a problem, at least not for me. There are always sweaters and blankets for us chilly folks. Life's harder for the hot-natured, especially here in SC. Ubiquitous a/c (which would be a good band name, by the way) pretty much makes life bearable for her though.

How 'bout you?

[Lady Effingbroke]

1. definitely cold-natured.

I tolerate hot weather much more easily (I live in TX).

I guess I am just more acclimated to hot weather.

[Orsino]

2. I was cold-natured...

...but three German winters beat it out of me.

Ten years later, I notice that I'm becoming a bit of a cold-wuss again.

[Bossy Monkey]

3. I think that would be hot-natured, but it's always possible I don't know

what I'm talking about.

The way I understand the term (or anyway the way I meant it in my original post) is that if you tend to be cold all the time (or at least when others are not), you're cold-natured, while if you tend to be hot all the time (or at least when others are not), you're hot-natured. Liking wintertime but losing that tendency after 3 hard ones would more likely indicate being hot-natured, but maybe I'm misreading you completely.

[Orsino]

4. Never swung all the way to hot-natured.

Just lost much of my sensitivity to cold.

Ten years in Georgia has probably changed me back.

[purr]

5. I'm one of those..

I'm ALWAYS cold.. ALWAYS. I sleep with covers on regardless if its 90 or 0 out. If it drops below 70 in the summer at night I have a long sleeved shirt or a light coat.

My husband asked me the other night how I could sleep with covers on and it was 80 and humid. I cant sleep without them. Hes ALWAYS warm.

Unless its REALLY humid, I'd rather deal with the heat - which I LOOOVE rather than AC.

[Bossy Monkey]

6. Wow, you've got even me beat!

Though it's true I once affected wearing sweaters in August, but I was just being flaky. Mostly I find that I'm happy if it's between about 60 and about 90 degrees, but I go nuts without a/c if it doesn't get below 70 at night. Then again, we have a slight humidity problem around here, too.:)

[Jamison]

7. Neither

Give me 72 degrees year round!

[Bossy Monkey]

11. Yeah, I want to live on an island in the worst way

Just trying to find one that's hurricane-, typhoon- and tsunami-free. I'm open to suggestions.

[misanthrope]

8. Very hot-natured...

...which sucks when you grow up in the Heart of Dixie and live on the Alabama Gulf Coast.

You can always put on enough clothes to get warm, but you can never take off enough to get cool.

[enigmatic]

9. Both

I can live pretty much everywhere; I lived in Phoenix for most of the 90's before coming up here to Edmonton; what a chang that was.

[warrens]

10. I guess hot natured

Even when it is in the 90s here, I deal. I hate cold with a passion. I grew up in New England and nearly froze to death hitchhiking one time. Almost lost some toes. Heat makes you sweat, cold can kill you. If I get too hot, I just take a warm shower and my body cools down. If it gets REALLY bad, I just soak a sheet in cold water, wring it out and voila, easy sleep.

[MissMillie]

12. Well... these days, I'm both

I imagine that has something to do with my age.

[johnnie]

13. Cold

I hate the heat, the sun and humidity. I can deal with the cold. You can always put more clothes on, but once you start trying to take your skin off, it gets to be a little too much for me.
I would like it about 72 degrees all year round.

[Bzzzz]

14. Both...

menopause sucks!

[VelmaD]

15. My feet are ALWAYS cold...

there might be 2 days in the middle of August when it's 108 degrees outside when they aren't blocks of ice. :)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

16. Militant radical extremist hot-natured.

Given that I live in Rio, my life becomes very unpleasant from November through April.

[supernova]

17. Definitely Cold natured here

I love spring, summer, and early fall. I feel like a human again. I sometimes think that I must have been a reptile in a previous life, because I sure do like sunning myself on a rock! :D

Yesterday, it was 90 outside and the office a/c was going full blast. I was so cold, I turned on my little space heater here in the office!

I detest winter because no matter how many layers I put on, some days I can never get warm. Not just my hands and feet are cold, the core of my torso is cold too. :scared: :scared: Though, sitting in front of a fireplace helps.

[Bossy Monkey]

19. I generally claim to be a reptile in this life

or legally dead :)

[supernova]

21. So you know the feeling!

:thumbsup: :-)

[trotsky]

18. I hate being hot. Double whammy when it's humid.

Unless I'm in a pool, I get uncomfortable outside once the temperature gets above 75 or so. And if there's strong sun, the air temp had better be below 70!

Went with my wife back to her home in NC the summer after we got married. The most miserable I've ever been, environment-wise. July in North Carolina?!? What was I thinking?

[mark414]

20. born and raised in wisconsin

i like the cold

[luvLLB]

22. I'm hot..I'm cold..I'm hot..I'm cold...I'm 47...you know the drill.

[kittenpants]

23. I'm hot.... very hot

and I live in FL (I know, I know) so that means I'm usually on the warm side.

[hyphenate]

24. I hate the heat

It affects me badly. Cold does too, but only extreme cold. I could live quite comfortably in a place where the temperatures never go below 30 or above 85. That would be the perfect place for me. I prefer the 50s to 70s, though. Very easy to be comfortable in that range. But there is no place that I know where there isn't an extreme of either higher temps or lower ones.

I left L.A. for a multitude of reasons, but one of them was that it got so damned hot. I don't miss that heat at all, even if Mass. is starting to get into the higher ranges right now.

[Bossy Monkey]

26. Well, there's Bermuda

but apparently they have a bit of a humidity problem: http://www.bermuda-online.org/climateweather.htm
Oceanic islands are always going to be your best bet for moderate temperatures, but where we'll all find the money to move to one is another question.

[hyphenate]

27. Wow

Yeah, those temperature charts were interesting. I noticed that California had surprising low temperatures in that extreme, even lower than Massachusetts, but I assume they were mostly in the higher elevations, the mountains and other such places, since L.A.'s valleys never really got that cold. In January 2003, just when I was getting ready to leave, there were several days that were in the 80s, and it was then that I was convinced to get the hell out. Of course, the first weekend back in Mass., there was a blizzard, so I figured out that was Mass.'s way of welcoming me home.

[El Fuego]

25. I'm always hot.