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Five and a half million Germans could not heat their homes sufficiently in 2022 due to lack of money (www.destatis.de)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's almost as if different people who are used to potentially drastically different climates may have a different amount of tolerance for the cold.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Yes, but in the absence of other factors, "cold tolerance" is something that can change by habituation.