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northway
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 Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 7:01 am Post subject: |
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
| I lived in Montreal for a few years (grad school) and they have BRUTAL WINTERS. It gets dark around 4pm until February and it gets mighty cold my man. |
Thanks for the weather report, but I lived there myself (undergrad). |
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PatrickGHBusan
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Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 12:04 pm Post subject: |
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| northway wrote: |
| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
| I lived in Montreal for a few years (grad school) and they have BRUTAL WINTERS. It gets dark around 4pm until February and it gets mighty cold my man. |
Thanks for the weather report, but I lived there myself (undergrad). |
Well then you know and I assume you love winter to an extent I do not!
Seriously, I far prefer Busan's mild winter but to each his own. |
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northway
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| Posted: Mon Jan 16, 2012 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
| northway wrote: |
| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
| I lived in Montreal for a few years (grad school) and they have BRUTAL WINTERS. It gets dark around 4pm until February and it gets mighty cold my man. |
Thanks for the weather report, but I lived there myself (undergrad). |
Well then you know and I assume you love winter to an extent I do not!
Seriously, I far prefer Busan's mild winter but to each his own. |
I hate the cold, but I dislike the oppressive heat and endless rain of a Korean summer even more. The weather is milder here than where I grew up in New England, but there's a bigger chunk of the year there where one can be outside and enjoy it. Ditto for Montreal. |
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motiontodismiss
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:32 am Post subject: |
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
I will take Busan's mild winter, nice fall and spring over Montreal's Deep freeze winter thanks  |
Busan doesn't have mild winters. It only has slightly less brutal winters than Seoul. It's like comparing Chicago winters vs. New York winters. Both suck, but the latter sucks just slightly less.
For "mild" winters, I recommend Southern California. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:31 am Post subject: |
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| motiontodismiss wrote: |
| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
I will take Busan's mild winter, nice fall and spring over Montreal's Deep freeze winter thanks |
Busan doesn't have mild winters. It only has slightly less brutal winters than Seoul. It's like comparing Chicago winters vs. New York winters. Both suck, but the latter sucks just slightly less.
For "mild" winters, I recommend Southern California. |
For someone who grew up in Ontario and lived in Montreal I am vert sorry but Busan definitively has mild winters. Not slighlty less brutal either. We were in Montreal last weekend to visit some friends and it was -25 with the windchill. By simple comparison it was around 8 in Busan.
The summers in Busan are not the best however. I agree with Northway on that part. July is the rain season and its damn humid and August is an oven/sauna! However, I found the spring and fall to be great in Busan in terms of mild temperatures.
Still, to each his own. |
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northway
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:58 am Post subject: |
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| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
For someone who grew up in Ontario and lived in Montreal I am vert sorry but Busan definitively has mild winters. Not slighlty less brutal either. We were in Montreal last weekend to visit some friends and it was -25 with the windchill. By simple comparison it was around 8 in Busan.
The summers in Busan are not the best however. I agree with Northway on that part. July is the rain season and its damn humid and August is an oven/sauna! However, I found the spring and fall to be great in Busan in terms of mild temperatures.
Still, to each his own. |
Can't disagree on any of that, and Busan gets a bit more spring and summer than Seoul. The problem is that the last two summers the rainy season has lasted two months rather than one, which does a pretty good job of killing the summer for me. I understand that this isn't exactly the expectation, and I've been here in August in two previous years and had mostly sunshine. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:39 am Post subject: |
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| northway wrote: |
| PatrickGHBusan wrote: |
For someone who grew up in Ontario and lived in Montreal I am vert sorry but Busan definitively has mild winters. Not slighlty less brutal either. We were in Montreal last weekend to visit some friends and it was -25 with the windchill. By simple comparison it was around 8 in Busan.
The summers in Busan are not the best however. I agree with Northway on that part. July is the rain season and its damn humid and August is an oven/sauna! However, I found the spring and fall to be great in Busan in terms of mild temperatures.
Still, to each his own. |
Can't disagree on any of that, and Busan gets a bit more spring and summer than Seoul. The problem is that the last two summers the rainy season has lasted two months rather than one, which does a pretty good job of killing the summer for me. I understand that this isn't exactly the expectation, and I've been here in August in two previous years and had mostly sunshine. |
2 months of rain will ruin a season!
As an aside, we had a horrible spring here last year with 3x the amount of rain we typically get....weather is changing thats for sure. |
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Charlie Bourque
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:17 am Post subject: |
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To be fair, some of us actually like winter. I grew up in the Montreal area too, and I live for snowboarding and pond hockey. The -40C days are few and far between, and I'd say the average is around a mild -10C -- perfect to get outside and play some hockey with the rest of the neighbourhood.
Compare that to the endless rain in Korea. What kind of sport can you do when it's raining? Not much... |
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motiontodismiss
Joined: 18 Dec 2011
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:57 pm Post subject: |
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I lived in the NYC area and I do like my four seasons  although I have to admit, snow in Manhattan is some of the ugliest, brown, slushy crap I've seen in my life.
Weather shouldn't be a factor in any decision as to where to locate in Korea. This country's about the size of the state of Indiana; the weather's basically the same. We're not comparing New York to LA, we're comparing New York to Boston. |
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northway
Joined: 05 Jul 2010
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| Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2012 7:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Charlie Bourque wrote: |
To be fair, some of us actually like winter. I grew up in the Montreal area too, and I live for snowboarding and pond hockey. The -40C days are few and far between, and I'd say the average is around a mild -10C -- perfect to get outside and play some hockey with the rest of the neighbourhood.
Compare that to the endless rain in Korea. What kind of sport can you do when it's raining? Not much... |
What kind of anything can you do when it's raining? |
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minos
Joined: 01 Dec 2010
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 7:02 am Post subject: Re: Possibilities for Travel |
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I posted a thread about this in the travel forum a while back, but no one seemed to notice...
Anyway, my girlfriend and I are considering teaching in Korea. Of course, the possibility for travel is one of the main reasons. For those of you who have worked in hagwons with limited vacation, how much were you able to travel in and outside of Korea?
Thanks! |
Screw that, if you want travel, get a PS job. I miss my paid month long backpacker vacays with free plane ticket each year.
PS is about 2-3 weeks, but liberal schools will let you have 5-6+ weeks off. Some private public schools even more. |
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PatrickGHBusan
Joined: 24 Jun 2008
Location: Busan (1997-2008) Canada 2008 -
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| Posted: Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:31 am Post subject: |
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| Charlie Bourque wrote: |
To be fair, some of us actually like winter. I grew up in the Montreal area too, and I live for snowboarding and pond hockey. The -40C days are few and far between, and I'd say the average is around a mild -10C -- perfect to get outside and play some hockey with the rest of the neighbourhood.
Compare that to the endless rain in Korea. What kind of sport can you do when it's raining? Not much... |
I ski as well (cross-country) and I can tell you that -40 days are not that rare (when accounting for windchill). In my time in Busan, the rain was bad in July and early august, except for this, I was did not find rain to be a big issue in the fall for example. Anyway, silly to debate about which weather is better. My entire point was that Busan's winter are far milder than the winters I experienced and now experience in Canada (Ontario and Montreal). |
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