Heat may feel the same but Coluber42 is correct when it comes to keepers in the UK. The members from there continually have a hard time finding the gear they need to setup an ideal enclosure. Things are just not readily available to them as it is here to us.
When you think about things like thermostats. Even here in the US we really don't have that many great options. The market is not flooded with great tstats like Herpstats and when you look at the market in the UK it is much smaller.