I currently live in a medium (sized) city (or town;) called Jönköping in Sweden. The weather here is...well, I don't like (to like) or dislike anything, so can I say it is interesting? (so I would say it is... interesting? is probably better for your desired effect. If you ask "can I say" it sounds like a language question, but I think you mean it in a different way)
How interesting is it? Um...before I came here I had been(was is better. Past perfect continuous is usually used to show that something started and ended in the past, so had been here gives the feeling that you lived there, then moved somewhere else, and then moved to Sweden) living in Xi'an, a city in the center of China, for 20 years. In comparison, I think the weather in J-town is interesting, because you don't know when it turns from sunny to rainy or when it turns to sunny from rainy.
You know, I always brought an umbrella with me during the time after I just came here(during my first time here - to come is an ended action, so unless you are talking about something on your journey, it would be strange to use come here) in autumn 2010, but sooner or later I found (but I soon found. Here you don't want to use the expression "sooner or later" because that is about something uncertain, "it will happen sooner or later" but here you mean that you soon found out something) that people rarely use umbrellas even if it is rainy. One reason of(for) that is, maybe, it often rains in the middle of the day but people didn't(don't - stick to one tense) have the(an - here we are not talking about a specific umbrella) umbrella in the morning when leaving home. (And=delete) as time (has) passed by I've perceived that they(people) seem to be enjoyable(comfortable enjoyable is when you enjoy something - the theater performance was enjoyable. You mean to say that people are enjoying themselves, not that you are enjoying looking at them) in the rain without the(an) umbrella, but no one say(s) "I like rainy days".
(While=delete) the weather in Xi'an doesn't change a lot during a period of 1-2 weeks, and it is easy to forecast. When it is going to rain, there must be(are) some recognized(recognizable) factors indicating (the=delete) rainy weather, but still it (is) sometimes unpredictable, especially (now,) under the circumstance(conditions might be better) of global warming.
Hahaha, it is funny you mention the umbrellas - that is one thing which I was very surprised about when I first got to China - EVERYONE has umbrellas, and they put them up even when there is the slightest bit of rain.. I don't mind walking in the rain if it is not too heavy, but no one seemed to do that in China. I remember one time in Shanghai when it started to drizzle, I didn't even consider it rain, but all people started running into the cinema and other buildings ;-)
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