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I've been outside bundled up in 0°. It was unpleasant.
I've been outside in as little as I could legally get away with in 110°.
No contest: I'll take the cold.
I also prefer the cold myself, but you know it gets much colder than 0°F in lots of places right?
There isn't a place on Earth that gets cold enough that you can't put on enough clothing to make it surviveable for a few hours.
The human body is endothermic. It regulates it's own temperature by burning energy to create heat, but it doesn't have a mechanism to cool itself in a humid environment.
At high humidity, 95 degrees can be lethal to a hydrated, healthy adult.
Last summer we 45 consecutive days over 100 degrees in a very humid climate.
Yeah I'd go even further. I've been in -25° in full goose down and warmers, it was pretty rough but with protection doable. I've been in 113° drinking water with cold rag on my neck and I could feel my internal organs straining to keep me alive.
The first I was able to withstand for a few hours, the second was max only 15 minutes. I'd take the -20°, it's not even close.
I'd imagine arctic temps is where the scales start to switch, like -60° where your skin starts to flay and your blood can't pump after a few minutes of exposure. But those temps only exist in a handful of desolate places, 110°+ is starting to show where humans live.