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I live in southwest Florida. It's set at 76/77 during the day and we turn it down to a chilly 72 at night because my husband likes it cool (I use an extra blanket). We also use ceiling fans in each room.
Maybe my thermostat/thermometer is off, but I set the temp in summer in SoFL when it's around 90°F to 80° during the day, 78° when guests are coming over and no one complains.
In 'winter' I lower it to ~77° otherwise it feels hot. I find it's the temperature differential that causes me discomfort, not the actual temperature. Off course there ARE common sense limits to this rule, but I hate to be cold and I wear very little when home alone, so there's that.
Lately my wife and I have been getting into it over the AC. We both love hot weather, but I don't like it any hotter than 80 inside my house when trying to sleep. My wife hates AC, and is perfectly OK with sleeping upstairs in 90 degree heat.
She thinks that the reason I can't handle it is because I'm unhealthy despite the fact that I'm lean and in tremendous shape for a guy my age. I've had company come over in the summer that will literally leave after a few minutes because they can't even handle being in the house, much less sleeping in it.
Is my wife the strange one here? Trying to sleep in 90 degree heat in my bedroom just seem awful to me, and like I said, I love hot weather.
Central GA here, set on 78 but real inside temps are in the 80's (82 currently) and I just suck it up/am miserable May~Oct with that temp. Overnight I get to turn it down to 74, which is about as warm as I can sleep (that's a sheet and a fan on high blowing on me). Occasionally I'll dip it a degree or two during the day when my wife is out of the house and I just can't stand it anymore....
But I was born/raised in Wyoming. I like cold temps... used to sleep with my window open a crack all winter long so I could get that cool/crisp air on my head. Not allowed to do that anymore, nor would I want to with the humidity....
Lately my wife and I have been getting into it over the AC. We both love hot weather, but I don't like it any hotter than 80 inside my house when trying to sleep. My wife hates AC, and is perfectly OK with sleeping upstairs in 90 degree heat.
She thinks that the reason I can't handle it is because I'm unhealthy despite the fact that I'm lean and in tremendous shape for a guy my age. I've had company come over in the summer that will literally leave after a few minutes because they can't even handle being in the house, much less sleeping in it.
Is my wife the strange one here? Trying to sleep in 90 degree heat in my bedroom just seem awful to me, and like I said, I love hot weather.
I could write about this for an hour. Shorter story, my wife is thin, 100 pounds with purse on scale and cold below 80. We live in basically the desert. She almost always has a jacket on. OTOH, I'm over 200, like to sleep with blankets and a temperature in the 60s.
But we make it work.
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