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View Poll Results: To Central Air or Not
Did you grow up W/O central air or window units? 6 46.15%
IF YOU HAD NO A/C growing up--can you live W/O it better than someone who did? 2 15.38%
Do you live/work in A/C environment now? 9 69.23%
Do you think businesses/gathering places today keep A/C temps TOO LOW (and likely use too much energy in process)? 5 38.46%
Choose this: Are you more worried about what you pay for gasoline? 6 46.15%
Or this: Are you more worried about your electric bill? 3 23.08%
Would you consider going W/O A/C to lower your bill? 2 15.38%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 13. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-19-2008, 07:11 AM
 
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I grew up in central TX east of San Antonio without central air or heat--space heaters from a butane tank--no A/C until I had gone to college and my parents got a window unit for their small frame house---
we used fans during the summer and prayed for a breeze--had some shade trees on the front of the house which faced the west...

So take the poll if you don't mind--variety of people frequent this board and I expect I am not the only person who did grow up w/o central air...but it will be interesting to see the answers...

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Old 05-19-2008, 08:42 AM
 
Location: TX
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I did (after age 5)but my husband didn't. My in-laws still don't have AC, we FINALLY got them to put in Ceiling fans!! They live in NY in the hudson Valley...VERY HUMID in the summer. August is miserable. (my kids hate going there in hte summer!!)

My parents in CO don't have AC. They have "SWAMP coolers" on the roof, that pull the outside air in through the open windows. But they are in a very arid area even though the temps get up to 105 in hte summer the house cools down VERY cool! and the temps drop at night.

We didn't AC in our first house in CA, no humidity so it wasn't that bad. just closed up all the curtins during hte day and then opened up the windows at night.
In PA we had AC but it was 30 years old and didn't work to well, but did get rid iof the humidity. WE did have a "whole house fan" that was up in the ceiling and worked great, unless it was a humid week.

We get funny looks here from our neighobrs because we open up all the windows in the house on nice days...like yesterday evening.


It's the humidity that makes no AC so unpleasant...i hate being all sticky etc... But we don't keep our house very cold...In fact I just re-set all the themostats toady since it's going to be a hot week...and I put them at 78 during the day and 76 at night.
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Old 05-20-2008, 11:55 AM
 
Location: TX
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Weird poll.

I grew up in NJ and my parents' house did not have central A/C. They just got window units. A couple years ago, they hired someone to install central A/C and they love it now.

I can't imagine homes in TX not having at least window A/C units. That'd be hell!
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Old 05-23-2008, 07:01 PM
 
Location: Somewhere in Texas
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I lived without it but I was raised in California. In Texas, I'd slit my wrists without it.
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