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My house is heated to 55-65 at night and 68 in the day. This is how I grew up in Europe: if it is cold out, the house is colder (within reason) and you adapt yo
by cheerlessbog 7y ago
My house is heated to 55-65 at night and 68 in the day. This is how I grew up in Europe: if it is cold out, the house is colder (within reason) and you adapt your clothing. In the US I still find it strange that people set the heat so they can wear a light t-shirt inside no matter the weather outside. It seems wasteful and also somehow disconnected from nature.
- thaumasiotes 7y agoSomething that's bothered me in Shanghai is that indoor spaces, like malls, are kept at a comfortable temperature regardless of what it's like outdoors. So to go _to_ the mall in winter, you need to dress for the 3°C outdoors you have to cross, and then you get into the mall and overheat badly. I don't see an easy solution to this -- I don't think "we need the indoors to be just as frigid as the outdoors" is going to catch on -- but it certainly is annoying.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoGo further south where there is no indoor heating at all. I was in a train station in Hunan in winter, and the girls in the train station selling candy and food and such, I felt so bad for them, they had to wear gloves otherwise their hands would freeze up. My coldest winter was 5-10C in southern China. The lack of indoor heating beats you down really quickly.
- rootusrootus 7y agoThat seems about right in my experience. 68F is about where I choose to keep the heat during the day, I'd go colder but my wife and daughter get uncomfortable. It may be different in other parts of the United States, it is a pretty big country with a lot of different climates. I live in the Pacific Northwest, which has a climate similar to northwestern Europe.