"Yowie" wrote:

Students that come for work experience from places like Canada and Northern
America always complain they're very cold in winter - thats because our
houses don't usually come with built-in heating or insulation, and usually
cheap rental accomodation has no heat (besides the stove top) at all. In
cheap rental accomodation, if its 10C outside, it will probably be close to
10C on the inside, too.

I can relate to the students' situation. I was raised here in Maine --
well north in the US and considered by most folks a cold place to be in
winter. But the coldest I've ever been for any length of time was when
I was a student in Monterey, California -- an area that doesn't have any
real winter (and unfortunately also doesn't have any real summer). Not
having any winter to worry about, student accommodation was not heated
very well; and the typical daytime temperature for eleven months out of
the year is 55 degrees F (13C). So daytime indoor temperature generally
ranged from 50F in the morning to 60F in the afternoon -- and we here in
the cold north consider that downright frigid.
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Wayne M.