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Re:Australia has the most expensive energy bills by nimchimpsky on Sunday June 18, 2017 @09:09PM (#14583948)
Food is better, people are friendlier, sunnier, better quality of life, better stuff for kids. Less tax.
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Re:Australia has the most expensive energy bills by chrisper on Sunday June 18, 2017 @09:39PM (#14584082)
Is it really sunnier than Southern California?
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Re:Australia has the most expensive energy bills by nl on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:57AM (#14586539)
It's a pretty big country ;)

LA gets 284 sunny days a year (which is a lot!). By comparison, Sydney gets 236,but Perth gets 265.

Here is a site listing Australian cities: https://www.currentresults.com/Weather/Australia/Cities/suns...

Plenty of places hotter than LA if it is the heat you are interested in. Adelaide had a heatwave a few years ago where it didn't drop below 35C for 10 nights straight, and had days over 46C.

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Re:Australia has the most expensive energy bills by hutzlibu on Monday June 19, 2017 @12:00PM (#14587920)
"Adelaide had a heatwave a few years ago where it didn't drop below 35C for 10 nights straight, and had days over 46C."

Why would somebody ever want that? (I was suffering from 31C at lunch today)

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Re:Australia has the most expensive energy bills by nl on Monday June 19, 2017 @01:34PM (#14588721)
It wasn't great...
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Re:Australia has the most expensive energy bills by Benjamin_Dobell on Sunday June 18, 2017 @09:50PM (#14584126)
Depends where you live in Australia.

Queensland? Sure.

Victoria? Only in Summer where temperatures occasionally exceed 100 Fahrenheit, winters are cold.

Tasmania? No, never.

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Re:Australia has the most expensive energy bills by ariwilson on Monday June 19, 2017 @01:53AM (#14584835)
If you're talking about Los Angeles compared to even Brisbane, Queensland, this is wrong.
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Re:Australia has the most expensive energy bills by Benjamin_Dobell on Monday June 19, 2017 @02:41AM (#14584969)
> If you're talking about Los Angeles compared to even Brisbane, Queensland, this is wrong

I wasn't, I meant what I wrote, and nothing more specific than that.

Nonetheless, even comparing those two cities, I'm not sure "wrong" is an appropriate conclusion. It really depends on what metrics you're using.

http://www.holiday-weather.com/brisbane/averages/ http://www.holiday-weather.com/los_angeles/averages/

LA certainly has more hours of sunlight, but it's not nearly as warm. However, hours of sunlight probably isn't what people mean when they say "sunnier", or else the Arctic would be a popular tourist destinations for "sun seekers" during its Summer.

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Re:Australia has the most expensive energy bills by daemin on Monday June 19, 2017 @05:34AM (#14585632)
LA and Sydney are natural comparisons, both are large cities with similar climates. Although I would argue that LA is drier (despite it raining both times I have visited).
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