Economy or habit? Why Germans don't like to heat their apartments

Germany. A country with the best cars, around the famous German quality, favorable climate, top-level healthcare and... coldness in apartments. Nonsense, you tell me, so I thought when I moved to live in this country. The first winter turned out to be really warm for us, the batteries were turned on at full power. And that, the child is small, they are used to walking around the house in T-shirts, and how can you fall asleep when the room is less than 20 degrees, in the bedroom, by the way, it is recommended to keep +17. But it was not there, after half a year, that very "happy" letter came. Invoice for 600 euros. And this is only for December. Then I had no idea that the burnout would cost us so much.

The local population is accustomed to indoor temperatures ranging from 16 to a maximum of 20 degrees. This is a comfortable living environment, but as for me, there are many of these Celsius. I am writing from my own experience. Throughout the winter, almost every window in our multi-storey building is open. And this is not even airing, but probably just that very comfortable temperature regime. I can imagine what a surprise the services were when they had to write us a fine ...

In general, there are many types of heating in this country, there is no central heating, and they do not strive for it here. The most common is gas, about 50% of the population uses it. The Germans are completely unfamiliar with the heating problems that we are used to experiencing, for example, in Russia. As we know, it is seasonal. All batteries here have a thermostat, and you can set the temperature yourself, regardless of the season. On the device there are numbers from 1 to 5. The latter was my favorite until some time. 1-the temperature in the room will adhere to 12 degrees, 3-20, 5 about 23-24.

Payment for heating and housing and communal services in Germany is very high, and here, due to elementary ignorance, you can fly into a pretty penny. The Germans are very economical people, and therefore it has become quite common for them to live in cool conditions for us. Well, we will have to stock up on warm clothes, blankets and adapt to the general rules, so that after a hot winter we suddenly do not fall under an icy shower of fines in the form of burn-out receipts.