Sick of wasting my life because of the rain

[GoodnightAdeline]

I don’t care how many people say ‘it was always like this..’ yes it rained a lot when I was a kid but now it does nothing BUT rain.

I swear to God out of the last 30 days we have had 1 or maybe 2 where it wasn’t fucking raining. And they’re always midweek.

I feel like all we do is sit inside going stir crazy waiting for the rain to stop. I have 2 small children and while they’re desperate to go to the park/beach, even they’re not keen in a torrential downpour with everything covered in mud.

I’m sick of all my plans being cancelled, staring out of the window at depressing grey skies and trying to figure out how to pass the weekend without spending a ton of cash on expensive (and brief) indoor activities.

It’s driving me fucking crazy and not an exaggeration to say it’s sending me into some kind of low level depression. 🍷

Where I live in Ireland, we’ve had about 10 full days of no rain + sunshine/ overcast days since last July, as in July 2023.
I live a glen surrounded by hills and the rain is so bad by now a healthy tree was knocked by a storm.
Our farmers were a month behind May 2023, we’d a reasonable okay June 2023. Then it has rained, with and without storms since.

Even in East Anglia it has been endless rain this winter. The last few winters were lovely and sunny though. It's just been an exceptionally wet winter after an exceptionally cold summer so it's felt endless.
Fingers crossed for some nice weather soon.

Or embrace their hygge culture. Look on the bright side of life

Yet millions of Americans live in that climate and won't move to warmer states. Why is that?

It is not just going out in the rain. Places are muddy because it has been raining so much for months.

@MaloneMeadow

it’s not mild though

The exact same reasons that people here in the UK complain about the weather yet won’t move away. Family ties, work etc

And here we go, a hearty helping of pathos.

We can still moan about the shitting, relentless rain! The

Ok, stay home, stay dry have a massive moan about the rain, reinforce a bleak disposition and low threshold for rain to your family. Never again have the ignominy of having to manage wet clothes and a grumpy child. Go get photos of sunnier dry places stick them on the walls, stare morosely at the weather you’ll never have. Blame the weather. Use your tumble dryer then wonder why the utilities bills are high.

And MONEY. Or lack thereof.

Brits don't have the time or money to embrace 'hygge' like the Danes do.

They have easier, gentler working lives, work 35 hour weeks, and have no long commutes.

@MaloneMeadow

candles and blankets and cosy are overrated

no thanks

Scientifically speaking It is mild and we have the jet stream to thank. Have a look at our latitude - we would have bitterly cold, snowy Canadian style winters without it.

Why are you so angry about the fact that some people are a bit bit fed up with the unusually rainy weather?

Very odd.

Is this a serious question?? Why millions of people can’t just move somewhere else?? Maybe why Brits aren’t moving somewhere else as a nation??

(And those who can afford it, often retire to warmer places btw)

Not for everyone but something has to please the rain dodgers of this thread

I know. How dare the dying woman speak up!!!!! Silence her!

What suggestions do you have to cheaply dry endlessly wet clothes in the other ongoing problem that people seemingly choose not to acknowledge in this thread?

@Zone2NorthLondon

how else should she dry her clothes in this weather?

In most of the warmer US states, it is much cheaper to live in and buy a home than it is in the northern cold states.

Perhaps the Americans don't mind the cold, rain and snow like the Brits do?

Are you ok @Zone2NorthLondon

@MaloneMeadow

it deffo doesn’t please me

I wanna be out and about in the sun wearing little dresses and sunglasses

Fuck cosy

Me too.

I wasn’t speaking of people in other countries tbh, it was in response to the amount of posters telling the OP to just emigrate, as if it the simplest thing in the world.