There is certainly a lot to learn when it comes to moving to a new town.
Throw in a whole new region and culture and you really have a learning curve on your hands.
This is what happens when you send a southern boy north. While I was super excited by how nice everyone was, there was still a bunch to learn. That was never more true in the case of heating a house. Where I came from, we were on the opposite end of the HVAC spectrum. Our focus was solely on how to deal with the heat without sacrificing the household budget to HVAC cooling costs. That was yet another aspect of life that got flipped on its head when I moved to the far north. It’s all about winter in this area. And for the next 5 years, I knew that I had to focus and just figure out the best way to deal with the brutal cold. It has not been easy. But with the help of a lot of kind people up here, I’m managing better each year. This was easily the best winter so far when it came to heating my home. Much of this was the result of pursuing the source of a draft which was robbing our home of heating efficiency. My neighbor loaned me a temperature gun to find the source. Hunting around the exterior and interior of my home with the temp gun was the answer. I found a couple of windows that weren’t properly insulated and that took care of that.