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I'm curious as to how many people actually enjoy it.
My suspicion is common thermostat settings are overkill when combined with the draft,
But most people don't care if it's very chilly, even if they are not hot.
Myself, I appreciate the bracing-chill of typical restaurants and stores maybe 1-in-100 visits.so that's probably 1-3 times a year I'm hot enough for air conditioning to still feel good after 5 minutes.
So basically, stores using air conditioning to attract customers and encourage them to shop longer have the opposite effect for me. I'm always so happy
appy to leave.
Furthermore, in an office setting air conditioning is counter-productive for me... Unless I bring a sweater, drink hot drinks, find a way to block myself off from the drafts. I was a bit miserable at work in Townsville because of this as I sometimes had to spend hours I
nside, office thermostat at 23 c / 73-74 F and drafty.
The only time I was actually comfortable is when the air conditioning wasn't working. then some Queenslanders would panic a bit, the air conditioning "fixed" and a blast of chilly air would come in twice as powerful as the normal fan speed.
During this past summer I worked for a small company in a rented office that was in the attic of a small, local hardware store. Very old building the hardware store was. It didn't have A/C, so we had 2 window air conditioners. Sometimes on the hottest mornings of the summer, it would feel insufferable going up there in the morning. But by about 11AM after running both A/Cs the whole time at 60 degrees, their lowest setting, it was actually quite chilly. It was always such a temperature swing to say the least to walk out of the 60 degree office space into the hallway where the bathroom was and it was 100 degrees outside or close to it (and we had quite a few of those days in the summer), so the hallway was about the same. Let me tell you that office space would have simply been impossilbe to spend too much time in let alone concentrate on work without those A/Cs.
I was confused, I assumed the poster who wrote "chilly air conditioned offices" was referring to discomfort, while the masses must have been free of uncomfortable chilliness. Interesting flipping through my oldest posts, forum seemed rather different 2 and a half years ago.
I love that my current workplace is air conditioned to about 20°C. Last one wasn't and the ultra-hot summers of 2010 and 2011 were spent drenched in sweat. In 27+°C heat, I'll gladly work overtime just to stay cool.
I prefer around 70-72 degrees. In the UK I found the inside of businesses to be too stifling, especially since most did not have windows that opened.
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