Would my pale skin still burn if I moved to a tropical location, or would it adjust?

They would still burn but their skin would become tougher so it wouldn’t hurt as much.

I burn like a mofo. Once upon a time I worked a job that allowed 15 minute breaks in the a.m. and p.m. and 30 minutes for lunch. During that summer, I actually developed a light tan. Never before and never since.

Their skin would burn and peel. They’d be at great risk for skin cancer.

You are stuck with pale skin, sorry, until a skin transplant comes along (which seems very unlikely). So wear a hat, long sleeves and sun block. Your skin will not become tougher, just more damaged. And you will pay for that later in life, at the dermatologist’s.

I have the same kind of skin and now have little nasties on chest, hands, and face. Three times a year I have them removed with either nitrous oxide spray or local novocaine anda scalpel.

Well, my brother and I both have the same coloring. Very fair with a lot of freckles. I’ve always been careful about avoiding sunburn and use sunscreen often. My brother, not so much.

Once when he was a teenager, he once spent an entire day out on the lake fishing, with no shirt on and no sunscreen. He got such a bad sunburn that most of his body was covered in blisters. He had to see the doctor, was on medication and took special baths to soothe and heal his skin. He was bedridden for at least a couple of days, with seeping blisters all over. Any movement hurt like hell. Since then, he has been able to tan nicely, but I’m not sure it was worth all that pain. He’s also at a greater risk for skin cancer now.

I think you would eventually be able to get a tan, but you’d have to be very careful. Each time you burn enough to peel or blister you greatly increase the odds of skin cancer. I’ve never had a sunburn as bad as my brother’s, but I do tend to get very lightly tan in places that I have burned before. Either that, or the freckles just get darker and make it appear that I have tanned.

I have pale skin and have lived in the tropics (South Florida, Venezuela, and the Keys, 16 years), the desert (Arizona, 3 years), and the subtropical coast (South Texas, 24 years). I still can burn, but I have learned to wear sunscreen, sun-blocking clothing, and use a “sunbrella” with an SPF of 50 so that I don’t.

Mostly, I just turn red and then end up with more and more freckles. However, now the freckles are mixed in with spots of no pigment at all so I only look tan from a distance or if you aren’t wearing your glasses.

As @gailcalled said, your skin won’t “toughen up” and tan. Instead, it will get leathery, speckled, and wrinkled, and you will become good friends with your dermatologist.

unfortunately, without proper use of sunscreen they will continue to burn.
sad for the white people!