I know that I didn’t grow up with multiple privileges compared to my partner, but sometimes I’m still thrown off by how well-off his entire family is, then having been raised in poverty, it’s difficult for me to relate to the costly lifestyles they enjoy.
When I go to visit his parents, for instance, there is no end to the novelties I find around their lovely, high-tech house.
On our last visit I was even introduced to a new sort of heating unit unlike anything I’ve ever experienced before; I am accustomed to conventional forced air boilers like most middle class families have. I’ve only recently learned that there is such a thing as radiant radiant heated floors, which sound like the lap of luxury to me. I can’t imagine how costly it must feel to get out of the shower & feel warmth beneath your wet toes on cold afternoons; it sounds really amazing to me. It was last month that I first heard of radiant heated walls, which my in-laws have recently installed in their pool room, and now they can control the indoor air temperature with heat that radiates from all four walls of the space, this results in incredibly accurate temperature control, & large energy savings overall. They said that the installation & materials were really quite affordable, & that the heated walls will pay for themselves within a few years; they only had to invest a few tens of thousands of dollars. I can’t even imagine what it must be like to have free currency like that!