Comments on: Living in London American Expat RANT https://sunnyinlondon.com/living-in-london-american-expat-rant/ A behind the scenes guide to London's food, life and culture Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:16:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 By: Stacey @ One Trip at a Time https://sunnyinlondon.com/living-in-london-american-expat-rant/#comment-312631 Sun, 29 Jan 2017 18:23:52 +0000 https://sunnyinlondon.com/?p=12279#comment-312631 Growing up in Canada I should be pretty good with the dates and metric system when I get to the UK, although for the first little while living in the US I had the same struggles as you do but it was when people talked miles and Fahrenheit with me. I’ve eventually worked it all out, well unless it gets below freezing because in Texas that just doesn’t happen often so I didn’t get any practice with it.

My tip I always give to people are three benchmark temperature to help with conversions (at least to get you in the right ballpark) – 16°C is 61°F and 28°C is 82°F and 40°C is 104° F so it’s easy to remember them since they are just the inverse of each other (I just pretend the inverse of 104 is 40.1 and it’s close enough. And that is an important one to remember in TX! 🙂 ) Once my dad pointed those out to me it’s been much easier.

The dryers though…I am SO not looking forward to that. I’ll definitely be getting a clothesline for my backyard but I know it’s going to be a never ending hassle with clothes around the house constantly in some state of drying.

I am bummed to hear about the hard water. I have hard water where I live and was really hoping that was going to improve. Darn it all!

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