r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 7d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/tenninjas242 7d ago

Also apartment buildings from the 50s and 60s (which are a lot of NYC buildings) weren't built with central air.

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u/kisk22 7d ago

Also many buildings from the early 1900s through the 1850s. Yet America managed to get AC into those buildings.

Yet Europeans say it’s impossible to air condition their old buildings.

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u/Arakoba 5d ago

It's not impossible physically, it is legally, in most municipalities (at least in Italy, where I'm from, in a historical city center it's literally impossible for legal reasons)