"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> "Stu" > wrote in message >>
>>>Again, you get used to it. I can do the calculations in my head. I had to
>>>use them so I learned. I know that 14C is a bit chilly and 16 to 17is
>>>rather comfy, and 0 is freezing.
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>> Actually 20C is comfy
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> Depends on what you are doing. With the slightest activity I'm
> comfortable at 16, but just sitting and watching TV, I'd have to put a
> sweater one. Sleeping, we like the bedroom down around 14.
>
> In Europe, the price of fuel keeps most homes down in the lower ranges of
> temperature. I remember way back it was common for people to heat their
> homes to 72F or more, but then the 1970's oil shortage changed that idea
> to 70 or less.
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>
However, one's metabolism adjusts. When I lived in Australia, I'd put on a
sweater when the temperature dropped below 28C!! It took several years to
adapt to Canadian winters.