Electricity use isn’t the only ongoing factor, though: consider that freezers are somewhat bulky appliances—you can imagine e.g. in an environment where rent is high, there’s an additional ongoing cost of physically having a refrigerator taking up floorspace. If your refrigerator has a floor footprint of about square metre, cost can go up to $60 or more just to have it in your space—an order of magnitude more than electricity cost. So there’s a much larger ongoing cost that will dominate that effect.
As I wrote above, in the US most houses have a large unfinished area where space is not a premium and there’s plenty of space to put a chest freezer. For example, my house has a ~1000 sqft basement, which can’t be legally finished (and is somewhat damp). We have the washer, dryer, freezer, water tank, electrical panel, gas meters, and furnace down there, but there’s still tons of extra space which is empty / storage.
Places without basements typically have garages, which are similarly cheap.
Electricity use isn’t the only ongoing factor, though: consider that freezers are somewhat bulky appliances—you can imagine e.g. in an environment where rent is high, there’s an additional ongoing cost of physically having a refrigerator taking up floorspace. If your refrigerator has a floor footprint of about square metre, cost can go up to $60 or more just to have it in your space—an order of magnitude more than electricity cost. So there’s a much larger ongoing cost that will dominate that effect.
As I wrote above, in the US most houses have a large unfinished area where space is not a premium and there’s plenty of space to put a chest freezer. For example, my house has a ~1000 sqft basement, which can’t be legally finished (and is somewhat damp). We have the washer, dryer, freezer, water tank, electrical panel, gas meters, and furnace down there, but there’s still tons of extra space which is empty / storage.
Places without basements typically have garages, which are similarly cheap.