<story><title>What Life Looks Like When Night Lasts for Days</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/reader-center/arctic-winter-night.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rypskar</author><text>At least in my opinion the best part about living north of the Arctic circle is the months where it don&amp;#x27;t get dark</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lb1lf</author><text>Funny how people are different; my experience is the exact opposite - summers are tolerable once you&amp;#x27;ve got yourself a decent set of blinds. Just.&lt;p&gt;Winters? Love it.&lt;p&gt;The polar night is eerily beautiful; much of it isn&amp;#x27;t pitch black, but rather blue-ish, thanks to refraction in the atmosphere - we get lots and lots of twilight hours!&lt;p&gt;Also, there is something soothing (to this guy, anyway) about the relative quiet outside - snow mutes much noise, birds don&amp;#x27;t chirp as much, most people spend more time indoors...&lt;p&gt;Summer? Well, at times it is convenient to have, say, a barbecue at two AM while working on your tan - but mostly I&amp;#x27;ve found the midnight sun to be an annoyance more than a bonus.&lt;p&gt;(Full disclosure - I am not born and raised in the Arctic, I just sort of stumbled into a couple of summers and winter seasons in various places up north (from 68 to 79 degrees latitude); the locals are overwhelmingly in favour of summer!)</text></comment>
<story><title>What Life Looks Like When Night Lasts for Days</title><url>https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/26/reader-center/arctic-winter-night.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rypskar</author><text>At least in my opinion the best part about living north of the Arctic circle is the months where it don&amp;#x27;t get dark</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>maaaats</author><text>As a student I would often walk home in the middle if the night, bright as day.&lt;p&gt;Pretty weird when taking summer holidays in southern Europe, and it gets dark like 8 or so in the evening.</text></comment>