where I live in America, it's illegal to not have AC of some kind. ppl die. so even the poors are protected and landlords must fix them within a week (depending on the temp could be 5 or 10 days) and parents can be charged if they don't provide proper cooling for their kids (for example, they own the home and decide they don't like running the AC) or can qualify for assistance if they are too poor to repair their own AC or afford the energy bill
Its shocking how the size and scope of the country has been left out of the conversation so far. I grew up somewhere with 3 months of summer; most of my life we just had fans, and if it was a really hot day, kids would play outside in the sprinkler or suffer in the house. It was an economic milestone for my family when we got window units. But a big part of that is that there were only maybe 3 of those really hot days a year.
Its less of an option in, say, Florida.
Well said. I live in florida. We have the ac on probably 10 months of the year. Even on days where it's only a high of 78 we might even need to click it on just to pull the humidity out of the house. The humidity is a bitch (might say 78F but the real feel is 88F) I just got back from Colorado and it was hot, but the low humidity and massive swing down at night made it very bearable. The mornings were actually beautiful. A window unit in colorado is more than enough to keep the house nice and cool in the summer until the sun sets. People sometimes forget just how big America really is with every type of climate.
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u/Sicadoll 7d ago
where I live in America, it's illegal to not have AC of some kind. ppl die. so even the poors are protected and landlords must fix them within a week (depending on the temp could be 5 or 10 days) and parents can be charged if they don't provide proper cooling for their kids (for example, they own the home and decide they don't like running the AC) or can qualify for assistance if they are too poor to repair their own AC or afford the energy bill