Am I the only person not to mind the rain?

[WellyBooties]

I've read so many threads recently about people wanting to move abroad to live a more outdoorsy lifestyle. Folk who envisage moving to America or Oz and suddenly becoming the sort of person who spends their day's hiking, surfing and doing yoga on the beach...

AIBU to think, if you spend most of your time indoors in the UK, you are unlikely to suddenly become an outdoor-loving sports fanatic because you've moved halfway around the World.

Also, why, if you want to live a more outdoor lifestyle, don't you just do it? Rain doesn't hurt and you only need a warm coat to survive almost everything the UK weather has to throw at us.

I don't love the rain, but I'm mid 50s. Any day that I'm alive and not annoyed by more irritating things than weather is a good day.

I love the rain and winter too! I'm ready for a bit of spring/summer purely because I want to do some work on the house and it's easier when warmer. Love the rain though. The world feels at peace.

I mind it. As a farmer with 100 cows calving and 600 ewes imminent to lamb, the rain has been nothing but a nightmare. The mud and standing water is up to my knees in some places.

I don’t mind a bit of rain but what we’ve had is excessive and when you’re out and about in it all day it’s just a miserable, bleak existence.

Praying it takes up soon....

I don't mind the rain so long as i stay reasonably warm.

So the right shoes, a long coat, an umbrella etc.

It smells absolutely delicious and a walk in a spring shower wrapped up warm is really quite relaxing.

When it's coming down in sheets of icy water with driving wind 'raining sideways' and no amount of wrapping up will keep you warm and dry because the rain gets blown everywhere and is heavy and freezing, at half 8 in the morning on a dark miserable January school run is erm... Less relaxing, shall we say.

So spring and summer rain are very pleasant, even autumn rain can be nice. But driving rain and howling wind in winter is utterly miserable.

Choosing to go out in the rain because you enjoy it is massively different to having to go out in it in order to take your kids to school or get to the shops.

Wide-brimmed hats make no difference up here where it's so windy most of the time the wind just blows the rain under the hat and in your face!

I don't think enjoying the rain makes you any better a person than those who don't enjoy it, though.

I don’t mind the rain. We have livestock, rain or no rain we operate the same.

I agree with Elfin though..... I mind it right now because my land is sodden and flooded. It’s under drained, I got the digger out to dredge the drains on the perimeter, we’ve laid more perforated pipe and stone over the summer than you can imagine, and this year, there’s still a fucking lake that the ducks have decided is Duck Paradise.

Rain is something I loathe. Wet gloves stinking, filthy surfaces, reduced traction and visibility etc. Mind you, splashing through puddles is fun when you use a 44tonne vehicle.

Hotcrossbun - you've got that the wrong way round, its about choosing to enjoy it because you have to go out in it, surely? Be it the School run, shopping - what ever. I am very keen to teach my kids to embrace the British weather!

I think some weather is not meant to be enjoyed @Lethaldrizzle!

There's dressing appropriately and not letting it stop you, but even head to toe in waterproofs, I still can't stand being out in the wind and driving rain!

I don’t mind the rain is a bit of a pain as a glasses wearer but I quite like a walk in the rain.
I actually prefer the cold to warm weather as well. I find it easier to wrap up against the cold than I do to cool myself down in hot weather.

I don’t like too much of any kind of weather and feel that British winters are too long. (As I stare out the window at the vertical blowing snow)

I have always loved the rain, since quite a small child. Like Origamoo says, it's the low, grey, unchanging miserable weather that is unpleasant.

My favourites are rainy walks on the coast with the wind whipping in your hair and the rain mixing with salt spray on your lips or that sort of light, spring rain in a woods or English garden that makes everything feels full of magic and promise.

Understand it's not for everyone though. "Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet"

"it's the low, grey, unchanging miserable weather that is unpleasant."

Which is what we have had all winter, interspersed with some snow.

How much rain do these weird rain lovers get? I bet it isn't as much as we do. We have more wet days than dry days where we live and there is no novelty or anything to like about rain. Give me warm, sunny weather any time over any other kind of weather. Although I do love a dramatic thunderstorm.

I don't mind being out in the rain as long as I have good outerwear on so I don't get wet. Nothing worse than wet clothes or feet.

Can I also just say thank you, OP, for not splitting the infinitive?!

I hate it.

I'm sick of mud and getting soaked all the time.

DD has a horse and carting barrows of shit in pissing rain is really starting to get old now. The fields are a mud bath, there's no grass and even horse is so sick of it she jumped out of the field and took herself home the other day - I only put her out for a couple of hours to stretch her legs as she's been stuck indoors for ages

Dog gets filthy and wet every time he goes out for a piss and I miss being able to walk him and not having to bath him when we get home

I think the rain should fuck off now for a bit.

I enjoy running and playing tennis in the rain.

Elly - not your horse, not your job!

I don’t like it, although it’s better than snow!

I’d hate to live somewhere hot and sticky too though so I don’t know where the best place for me to live would be!