“Are you limited to a certain amount of energy in Europe or is heating cost prohibitive?”
When he first went there, he rented a place and had to put money in some machine to get the heat on. Yes, it is expensive.
As he went up the professional/social ladder, he bought a house and didn’t have to put money in to keep it going, but those radiators aren’t turned on very often. It’s a miserable place to live in winter. You will wear a heavy sweater inside and the thickest socks you have.
Hot water isn’t there UNLESS you turn on the machine to heat the water. There is a machine in each bathroom and you turn it on and it heats the water for a bath/shower. When you are finished, you turn the machine off.
Hot water isn’t there UNLESS you turn on the machine to heat the water. There is a machine in each bathroom and you turn it on and it heats the water for a bath/shower. When you are finished, you turn the machine off
That pretty accurately describes the house I grew up in, in the England of the 1950s. Though such houses undoubtedly still exist, they are now rare - mostly occupied by elderly people with low incomes who have lived in the same house for many years. For decades now, most houses in Britain have been centrally heated, and all new housing since the 1970s has had fitted central heating as a matter of course. Most young people in Britain these days don't even possess wool or other warm clothing, since their lives are lived mainly in centrally heated buildings and heated cars.
You can't, however, generalise about the nature, quality or cost of domestic heating throughout Europe. There are wide differences between different European countries and wide differences even between the colder Northern European countries.