I'm a simple emigrant and I don't economize electricity

Recently I've been asked about electricity prices, and whether I freeze in Germany dozens of times. I'll answer right away – I've been freezing since I moved here. Before, I didn’t wear warm clothes at home. Summer in Tyumen apartments was hot, and by the winter season central heating is turned on as early as mid-September and they heat it so much that with wallpaper and a tape with the sounds of the tide you could believe you were lying in Turkey. I also lived in Mexico; there's nothing to say about that, you just think about how else to undress so it’s not as hot. In Germany, in the first 24 sq m apartments the heating was included in the total cost, and the room warmed up in a second. But now the apartment is larger, there’s almost no furniture, it takes quite a while to warm up, and I have to wear sweaters and hoodies at home. But I don’t economize on electricity. Yes, indeed, tariffs in Germany have risen by two times, and for some by three times. Let’s put it in numbers: in 2018 on average 1 kWh cost 30 euro cents; in online calculators for two people annual consumption is listed as 2500 kWh, i.e. about €750 per year. Now for 1 kWh they offer a price of ~50 euro cents, or €1,250 per year. On a monthly basis this means an overpayment of about €40, not small, but certainly not so much as to make “a woman go to work in prostitution to cover the bills.” With water, by the way, the situation is even better, and that means that children in kindergartens do not go to the toilet in bags to save money. Now the good news. First, if you objectively cannot cope with such price increases, the local government will help you financially or with exemptions. When it all started, every working person was simply given €300, though taxes from those funds were not forgotten… Second, already now adopted a decision to cap electricity prices at 40 euro cents per kWh from the first quarter of 2023; for industry, concessions will also be introduced. And finally, you can always go outside to warm yourself up completely for free, which is what I’m doing now in Portugal, but that’s another story. Have you noticed the rise in utility rates this year? #useful