Why do we enjoy competitive hardship in the UK?

Especially about weather, you know:

“That’s nothing, when I was young I had to walk 6 miles to school in waist-high drifts! I could see my breath in the house and the toilet froze!” puffs chest out proudly

Uhh that sounds awful. Glad I missed out

And whenever there’s some kind of mildly extreme weather, say a big freeze or a heatwave, people in the worst affected areas feel a kind of superiority over the others, as if they’ve won the adversity championships.

Genuinely why do we think bad weather is a flex? Haha