An expat blogger writes [1] about how she spent winter in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan.
I spent most of the coldest times huddled next to the space heater (pechka), cup of tea in hand. Some mornings everything in the kitchen froze. I once tried to pour hot water into a cold cup and it cracked in half…
On several nights the electricity went out, sometimes for hours…
The story helps understand why Dushanbe was recently ranked [2] the worst city in Asia for expatriates to live in.