I won't discuss about the obvious matter, i.e.: weather as everybody almost know the differences of tropical and European weather. But it's worth to mention that with the cold weather in the UK, we need to have a heater in which we never need one in Malaysia. Heater could be powered up by electric or majority by gas, yeah the latter one is not so familiar in Malaysia - apart from fuel, and cooking gas. The things is the gas is not cheap, and based on my experienced the total cost of gas always greater than electric (we used the combined energy supplier). To put things into perception - let look at this: apart from heater and kitchen stove, everything else are using the electricity. Sometimes we just avoided using the stove for reheating purposes (go for microwave alternative) so that we could reduce the usage of gas.
Oh, I forgot to mention -WATER. The gas is needed to heat the water, and you dont want to shower if your water is not heated in the UK :-). That's probably put gas as the major - kitchen, water and continuous heater. For sure the hating is big stuff in the winter, but for people like us the early spring and from fall-to-winter it's still really cold for not to use a heater. So, except for summer we put the heater on for quite a few hours in a day (longer in winter, probably half-a-day).
So for us, the average cost for both electricity and gas is ~80-100pounds (~60 summer, 100+ winter) which is about RM500. Yeah very expensive, in Malaysia you must use a lot of things to get your electric bills reach RM100 - especially if you have movies channel on your ASTRO subscription. But that's life, there are always pros and cons in any place you have to go.
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