I'm Swedish and I can't survive winter in Brazil!

This video is about how I find winters in Brazil really challenging. I live in the south of Brazil and here winters get a bit cold (they can fall to 5C / 41F). It is not the temperature outside that is the problem but the fact that Brazilian houses in general do not have heating. Also the big fluctuations in temperature during winter (one day it can be 5C and the next day 30C) causes a lot of problems.

About me: I am Swedish and I moved to Brazil over 5 years ago and on my channel I share my experiences of living in the South of Brazil.

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[MAnnnooo]

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.

[yuhabahh]

the gaucho doesnt feel cold. It's the cold that feels the gaucho.

[sergeyanatoliyevich]

I am originally from Rússia and live in the South of Brazil as well. Don't blame you mate .. tamos juntos 😂

[prsancho]

We Southern Brazilians are naturally pasteurized. 😅

[zultmarkulin]

I never felt such cold in Europe as I felt in Curitiba

[MemeseMicos]

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.

[felixnotthecat]

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.

[Jnsstn]

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.

[brunosouza]

I'm from Rio Grande do Sul, and can confirm insulation is pretty much an urban legend here.

[agoradacerto]

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.

[RafaelScapella]

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...

[Edino_Chattino]

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

[gsteyer]

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 😂

[hl]

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.

[AnBarbarossa]

Sou brasileiro e vivo na Alemanha.
Há anos, eu digo exatamente a mesma coisa que você disse nesse vídeo. É exatamente isso.

[Clipper_EBS]

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.

[rodrigodias]

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.

[erics]

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.

[veronikawoldmar]

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.

[marcosmenescal]

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.