'Are you freezing? You're from Russia! ': Why is it cold for our immigrants in American homes

The Russian woman moved to the United States and can not accept the fact that in homes and offices there is an uncomfortable temperature. On my blog on Yandex. Zen she told why ours are so cold, and the Americans themselves can walk around in a T-shirt and shorts when it’s below zero.

“Why are you freezing, you’re from Russia?” - this phrase is in my top hateful statements by Americans addressed to me.

“Why is it okay for you to have such an idiot at home?” I want to ask in response.

Everything is very simple: from childhood, Americans get used to the fact that it’s cool at home, and in general, learn to feel comfortable in the cold. Recently, I was in Seattle and, with all my organs fading, I watched a little girl about five years old pace around the deck of a ship rushing at full speed without a hat and jacket. At this time, for you to understand, I was sitting in a glazed cabin in a winter down jacket, wrapped in a scarf and drenched in tea. And I didn’t feel like going out there.

Why aren't they freezing?

Americans do not have central heating. Although they own this great invention of mankind, they did not use it. Everyone heats the house as he can. In a private house, Americans prefer to use electrical appliances: window air conditioners or gas-powered systems. Using special air ducts, air heated by electricity or gas is distributed throughout the room. The trouble is that you can wait a long time, while sitting in a jacket and boots in the hallway, until the room is completely warmed up.

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In apartment buildings, Americans install so-called fan coil units - air recirculation units. The price for using these delights of life is very high, so everyone saves on heat. An American would rather sleep in a hat than overpay.

It would seem that in the summer the Americans should be glad that they will finally warm up, but this is not our story. In the summer, in every room, the air conditioner works so that our compatriots carry woolen sweaters and downy shawls with them to work.

Imagine that you have been accustomed to this situation since childhood, so for you it is not cold, but normal! It's like when you go to visit someone and their house is three or four times warmer than you're used to. They probably would have sweated profusely and hastened to go home. For Americans, our comfortable home temperature, when we walk around the house in shorts in winter, is the embodiment of Hades' tricks.

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Here the picture is very typical, when at minus 10 people go in shorts and a T-shirt on the street. At the same time, the wind whistles in all directions, and the huge humidity enhances this effect a hundred times. Not one eye twitches. My classmates often come with bare calves, in shorts, in summer sneakers, although we have no California in Oregon.

Attention question: why?

Why shouldn't the government take care of its citizens and make them, God forgive me, all-inclusive heating? What, sorry or what?

No, I'm not sorry. It's just not rational for the government. And everything that is irrational is not about capitalism. Heating many thousands of homes is expensive. Plus, it's risky. What if there is a breakthrough in the heating main? Then many people will be left without heat for a while, and time is money.

And for Americans, choice is freedom. If I'm not cold, I don't want to spend extra money on utilities. Or even if I went to visit relatives for two months, why should I pay for something I didn’t use? Besides, you are your own boss. You don’t have to wait for everyone to turn the heating on or off; you regulate the beginning and end of the heating season. Well, and its middle too.

Do not forget that a really harsh climate is not about America. Alaska certainly stands out from this theory. Therefore, in general, everyone is fine, and we, visitors, can only bring an Orenburg down scarf, buy mini-heaters for our room and wait until we finally get used to it.

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