Could you easily live in a large house without any roof of any sort in the climate of Iquique, Chile? (hot, warm)
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If you lived in the climate of Iquique, could you live in a house with NO roof of any sort? (Assuming crime was not an issue). You'd just have walls to confirm your living space with large rooms and a lot of space. You would be able to put a plastic cover over the house on the once a decade event that it rains (usually is sprinkles with even moderate showers being a once in a lifetime occurrence). Iquique - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Given a choice, if you lived in Iquique, would you choose A) A large home with a lot of large rooms with no roof or B) a small house with a roof ?
Tiny house with a roof. Having no roof would be annoying after a while - I want some privacy for a start, but having the sun glaring into your house all day with no protection would be awful.
With those temps, I would definitely have no roof. I don't know about the sunshine hours, but they can't be too high. I would still rather have a roof because the sun would get very annoying. If I took a nap in one of those houses, I would get a sunburn. I accidentally voted for the large house.
1 Bird feces.
2 Insects.
3 Sunlight.
4 Moonlight.
5 Inability to control interior temperature.
Just get a tent
Add dust, pollution, noise, humidity, wind...
There's other purposes for a roof than only protection from rain. This wasn't really thought trough...
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