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Depends on the person. I like southern summers more than some, but I swim in the summer. I don't think summer lows in the low seventies are hot without A/C, but that is probably because I grew up with that experience.
On the news we once had a steak of weather in the summer that was about ten degrees below average, and the newscasters described it as "beautiful". They probably thought it was beautiful because it meant they didn't need AC, or perhaps because they are secretly cold lovers .
You could say also that people overrated northern climates because of heating
I don't get the hate for air conditioning on this forum. People often glorify sitting in front of a fireplace when it's too cold outside, how is that any different?
I don't get the hate for air conditioning on this forum. People often glorify sitting in front of a fireplace when it's too cold outside, how is that any different?
When I went up north one summer, many areas were under a heat advisory for temps around 95 F. There were warnings blazed everywhere. I wanted to laugh, because here in south Georgia, that would only be a slightly above average summer day.
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I don't get the hate for air conditioning on this forum. People often glorify sitting in front of a fireplace when it's too cold outside, how is that any different?
They probably see it as more "natural" and less artificial. Fire has been around since the dawn of man, A/C hasn't.
I doubt that is true, New Orleans for example was at one point the top 5 biggest cities in the USA in the 1800s. The reason Northern cities flourished was due to industrialization which allowed Southern cities like New Orleans, Charleston, and Savannah to stagnate. Now with the economy more "white collar" than ever before Southern cities are again surging but this time because of weather considerations and cheap QOL.
I've heard that New Orleans' population was mostly slaves during the 1800s, and I've heard some say that blacks are more adapted to humid heat than whites/Caucasians are, at least that's the argument I've heard.
Savannah's population is mostly black, even today.
I prefer a warm climate over a cold one personally although I prefer the mild climate the most. AC has recently made the hot and humid climates more palatable whereas, people have been heating homes for millenia to stay warm. I guess the reason I prefer a hot over cold is you can swim in the hot climate and you don't have to deal with shoveling snow and driving in truly treacherous road conditions.
I don't get the hate for air conditioning on this forum. People often glorify sitting in front of a fireplace when it's too cold outside, how is that any different?
more people live with heating than with AC and it's been around forever, whereas AC is a recent invention.
I could not live without heating in the winter, because I'm used to it. I don't have any AC so I guess I tend to rate climates not thinking about it and thus I'm not really keen on subtropical climates with 75F average lows in july.
I don't get the hate for air conditioning on this forum. People often glorify sitting in front of a fireplace when it's too cold outside, how is that any different?
They must like to feel warmed. A fireplace does not warm someone as much as AC at 60 degrees chills someone anyway.
I prefer a warm climate over a cold one personally although I prefer the mild climate the most. AC has recently made the hot and humid climates more palatable whereas, people have been heating homes for millenia to stay warm. I guess the reason I prefer a hot over cold is you can swim in the hot climate and you don't have to deal with shoveling snow and driving in truly treacherous road conditions.
Most certainly is my rationale.
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