One Third of Latvians Admit Their Bodies Don't Obey Them - In Liepāja They Call This a Normal Winter Day
Statistics reveal that 35.9% of residents experience health limitations in daily life, but numbers are lower in Liepāja - locals are already used to constant pain.
The Central Statistical Bureau proudly announced that more than a third of Latvia's residents experienced health limitations in daily life last year. 35.9% admitted their bodies don't obey them, while 10.1% complain of severe limitations. In Riga, they would have formed a special commission for this and allocated a million euros for research.
In Liepāja, the situation is a bit different. Local pensioner Zenta Kļaviņa comments: "What limitations? We go to the beach every day with this wind that blows like from a refrigerator even in July. If you can stay on your feet on the Baltic Sea coast in winter, then you can do anything!" Indeed, when you fight daily with wind that wants to knock you down, all other health problems seem trivial.
Particularly interesting is that even 1.5% of young people aged 16 to 24 complain of severe limitations. Ieva, a worker at Liepāja's youth center, observes skeptically: "Our young people run on Liepāja beach against the wind every day - they don't have time to think about limitations. Either you survive here, or you don't come to Liepāja."
The only thing Liepāja residents acknowledge as a real limitation is that they can't go to Riga, because there's no sea there, no real wind, and no normal people. But that's more of a blessing than a limitation.
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