three thousand it depends what the local conditions are like where you fly.
For example where I taught PPL's the winds were reasonable most of the time ie 15-20knts weren't unusual. Thus they didn't know any different. In fact it was the still air days when you had to watch because the students just weren't used to the high ground speeds on touch down and the yaw when they took the power off.
Sending students off solo with 10knt xwind components was normal as was 20knt down the strip.
So there will be PPL's out there who regularly fly in xwinds and it being not so nice. I should imagine any PPL flying at leeds is pretty well practised at dealing with wind sheer and xwinds especially now that they shut the cross runway.
And I much prefer high winds to low viz which is just a pain in the arse but for different reasons. Highwinds to be honest is quite good fun, have to stop myself smiling when the pax can see when we are off loading.