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It could be that Americans just prefer colder homes. However last winter, my heating bill in my current American home was something like $400 USD/month for mai
by throwaway13337 6y ago
It could be that Americans just prefer colder homes.
However last winter, my heating bill in my current American home was something like $400 USD/month for maintaining a colder house than I'm used to in Europe. As someone who lived in both places, you can bet cost does play a role.
- kasey_junk 6y agoWow. How big is your place, what heating tech do you use and in what region? That’s wild. For reference my place (in Chicago) costs lest than $60 a month to heat in the dead of winter.
- TuringNYC 6y agoIt depends on a lot of things. I was just $40/mo for me in NYC. However, I lived in an apartment building with only one wall exposed and the other 5 surrounded by apartments/hallway. Further, the apartment was insulated so excessively, we'd open the balcony door and windows in the winter to get rid of stale air. Flip to a house, also in NYC, and the heating bill was 4x for 2x more space...I think mostly because it was a detached home with all sides open.
- rootusrootus 6y agoThat is a serious amount of money just for heating. I keep our house fairly warm and still only spend a quarter of that (I use natural gas). It's not a huge house, but at 3000sf it isn't tiny, either. At $400/mo I'd be looking for a disconnected duct in the crawl space or something. Or maybe it's an old oil furnace or resistive heat? Even then, that's nuts...