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Won't discuss publicly, but I'd say : worth doing, but leave your stuff in storage for two years -- the appliances won't work here anyhow.

Seek out communities (meetup, etc), and if you're doing it for a startup, you're doing it for the wrong reasons.

Pm for story time, but basically, it's an adventure, and one that will be of (mostly) your own making

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> but leave your stuff in storage for two years -- the appliances won't work here anyhow.

I wonder if anyone in the US has converted their house to European appliances. The voltage is close enough, converting an entire house over to using 240V on all circuits is a trivial change, the hard part would be swapping all the plugs for European ones. And the frequency is probably the biggest part, but I'm unsure how big a difference 50Hz vs 60Hz makes with modern appliances.

I just find the thought kind of amusing. In a country this size I'm betting at least one person has done it. People are nuts.

Not exactly what you're talking about, but I wanted an InstantPot badly here in Kyiv and the models available in Europe on 220V did not include the model I wanted, and cost alot more. So I imported into Ukraine a US InstantPot, and a transformer to convert to 120V (although it doesn't convert the frequency from 50 to 60Hz). Works fine; I've been using it daily for at least a year. I thought the timer might run slow if it's using the mains power frequency as a clock, but that doesn't seem to be the case so it must have an internal oscillator.

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