Do You Live With Air Conditioning?

All houses and buildings here have central A/C.

I don't know how anyone lived in Florida before air conditioning. A few years ago, the a/c was out for a couple of days, and I thought that I was going to DIE!

For those who have never been in Florida in the summer, think of the Amazon rain forest exhibit in the Bronx Botanical Gardens, and you will get an idea of what it is like here.

I too grew up without AC and don;t now know how. Yesterday it got up to 103 here. I don't know if I could have survived it.

I live in Mass... so weather is always changing... but I don't ever remember a time when we didn't have A/C.... but we don't have many brutally hot hot days here (unless you count this summer, its gotten pretty hot and humid)....but I could live withour one as long as I had a million fans on me!! :-)

I lived in Providence for a time. Don't recall seeing any A/C there, but I didn't really think about it.

I have central air up here in Ontario, Canada. Last summer it was on once. This summer, it is on constantly. Cold, cold winter and now a hot, hot, hot summer.

What exactly is this Air conditioner thing you're talking about? Is it like those hair conditioners I've heard so much raving about?









Okay, back to the more serious matters. Air conditioning is great for nights since it takes the moisture from the air and that way I am not sleeping in a water bed. Beyond that, I can survive without it for hours at a time. Note the key word here was survive. I am not talking about living comfortably or sanely, just survival.

Like Crazielady I grew up and still live in Mass, however, when I was growing up we did not have air conditioning. I remember some nights sweating in bed and I had the coolest room in the house. Now I have central air and I don't know if I could buy another house without it. Sometimes it is so incredibly humid here that I cannot imagine not having a/c. Most newer homes in the area have central air, however there are many older house in New England and they really have central air.

Once when I was visiting in Seattle, we stayed at a relative's house. It was newly built. We were there during the summer and it was so hot! I was shocked to find that they did not have a/c. It didn't help that I was pregnant at the time. It seems that Seattle has such few really hot uncomfortable days, that it is rare for a home to have a/c.

I'd die without my air.

yup, need the ac...it was 100 here yesterday with a 119 heat index...hubby who works outdoors sure was happy to come home to an AC house...

Him and me both. I'm a meter reader and the heat we're having here lately is doing me in.

What always gets me are those people who say how glorious the hot weather is, and they work indoors in a nice air-conditioned office.

I'd like to stake them out in the Sahara desert and see how they like this "wonderful" weather.

I didn't get an air conditioner until a few years ago (laziness) and I often spent the night sleeping in the bath-tub because I was in and out so often taking cold showers to cool down. Boston gets horribly humid in the summer. I've been to other places where the temperatures are higher and have felt far more comfortable. It's the sticky, wet humidity that just saps my energy and if the electricity goes off on me and I can't use my A/C I am likely to hurt somebody.

I don't have air conditioning.

I do have a couple of window units but I haven't turned them on this year. It gets a bit steamy late afternoon but the nights are down in the 60s so I hate to turn them on/off/on/off/on/off.

We lounge.
We siesta.
We swim.
We sip cold beverages.

Ahhhhh summertime!

Brandon


Brandon, I recently suggested to my son that he buy a dehumidifier to reduce the moisture inside their large home in Brandon, Florida. He reported yesterday that it has made a huge improvement and they are much more comfortable.

BBB

we have 3 room A/C's (bedroom, living room, computer room), and all 3 have been getting a serious workout this summer...

this is our 10th year in the house, and i'd say that 4 or 5 of the summers were cool enough that all we needed were a few strategically placed fans...

its an old house that's slow to cool down or warm up when the weather shifts, which it does on a regular basis, so it might be 50 degrees outside, but it still feels like its 90 outside in the house

pretty much all of my adult life I have lived in the desert southwest, (southern colorado/arizona and new mexico) dry and hot are the norms. I never had any air conditioning in colorado (cool nights) in ariz I had a heat pump and now back in new mexico I have a swmp cooler) I have never had actual air conditioning. I find that hot and humid may be a problem elsewhere that requires regular air conditioning.

I never had ac when I was growing up. If it became unbearably hot we would go to a movie to cool down.

Now I have one window unit for my bedroom (it is hot in there for obvious reasons :wink:) and one window unit for my office.

Hell yes. Best $150 I spent, for an a/c for my bedroom.

growing up in nyc, we never had A/C.
my dad's excuse over the years had to do with the power limitations of the apartment building we lived in.

the folks still live in that same apartment, and guess what?
yep, they have an A/C...