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Nope. I have my heater on 24/7 during the winter and only paid 1/10 of what I paid during the summer when the A/C is running. Exactly. Many people can chose to dress in layers inside their homes and that would drastically reduce the need for heating. Or they can chose to use the most natural source of heat, fire , light up a fireplace, so easy..schh...
Where do you actually live? Presumably somewhere with winters completely unlike Yakutsk?
Those people are smart, I say, since they don't want to spend 1/3 of their monthly income on paying the energy bills. I can't imagine what it's like to have the A/C running 24/7, 365 days a year, that's just horrible don't you think?
Why are you so obsessed with energy bills?
FYI, I didn't notice any increase in my energy bills between France and Singapore. This is probably due to the fact that, as I told you several times already, a lot of people in Singapore use air con only in the hottest couple of hours in the afternoon. The rest of the time, your room is perfectly pleasant especially if you open a couple of windows to have a breeze going.
Plus, even if you are indeed deeply allergic to warmth : if you are employed, you won't be home 24/7, 365 days a year will you? Most likely, you will leave home at around 8am and be back somewhere after 5 or 6pm, so most likely you will seldom experience temps over 30°C when you're home.
I am very surprised at the strong dislike towards Singapore's climate as well. Especially that I find it absolutely great myself. This forum will have taught me one thing that I ignored completely, which is that a lot of people actually enjoy cold or dislike hot weather. I thought everyone was like myself, endlessly craving for 30°C weather how wrong I was.
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Why are you so obsessed with energy bills?
FYI, I didn't notice any increase in my energy bills between France and Singapore. This is probably due to the fact that, as I told you several times already, a lot of people in Singapore use air con only in the hottest couple of hours in the afternoon. The rest of the time, your room is perfectly pleasant especially if you open a couple of windows to have a breeze going.
Plus, even if you are indeed deeply allergic to warmth : if you are employed, you won't be home 24/7, 365 days a year will you? Most likely, you will leave home at around 8am and be back somewhere after 5 or 6pm, so most likely you will seldom experience temps over 30°C when you're home.
I am very surprised at the strong dislike towards Singapore's climate as well. Especially that I find it absolutely great myself. This forum will have taught me one thing that I ignored completely, which is that a lot of people actually enjoy cold or dislike hot weather. I thought everyone was like myself, endlessly craving for 30°C weather how wrong I was.
If we lived in a world without electricity, I'm sure many of these 'cold lovers' will be flocking to climes like Singapore.
If we lived in a world without electricity, I'm sure many of these 'cold lovers' will be flocking to climes like Singapore.
Wow..speechless by this post. You don't use electricity for heating, you use gas. Maybe you don't know this since you live in a place where it doesn't get cold enough for heating. It would actually be the opposite if we have no electricity, everyone would flock to the polar north. In the USA, if there's no electricity, nobody can live in the South.
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Wow..speechless by this post. You don't use electricity for heating, you use gas. Maybe you don't know this since you live in a place where it doesn't get cold enough for heating. It would actually be the opposite if we have no electricity, everyone would flock to the polar north. In the USA, if there's no electricity, nobody can live in the South.
Actually, here in Kraków, which is not exactly a warm climate, I use electricity for heating. And it's ridiculously inefficient and expensive in the climate, I calculated once I could have an indoor hydroponic growing operation going on with 24 plants producing 1200 grammes of high quality skunk every 14-16 weeks, and this would likely use less electricity and produce more warmth than my 5 KWh heater in my living room. As an additional bonus my heating bills would pay themselves back and I would still have a nice additional income...
Biggest con in this set-up is that this is Poland and not Czech Republic or the Netherlands...
Right. Exactly what you would say to save yourself from embarrassment. Look at all the posts you've made, they've full of childish crap that my 5-year old can probably pull better.
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how wrong I was.
