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There's also the consideration that since over here houses tend to be properly insulated, powerful AC isn't as essential in places where the nights are cool enough.

People in the American housing industry have told me that the way burgers usually build houses it takes just 2 hours for the air to change with all windows and doors close, as opposed to Nordic houses where it takes 20+ hours. This was a decade ago so there is a chance that things have improved since then but somehow I doubt that the housing companies are willing to put the extra money into it if people don't care.

The family I lived with in Colorado for a while told me that the house fan AC of their suburban home amounts to hundreds of dollars per month in electricity. To me that's insane.

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almost impossible in rented commieblocks which is where most people live and you only really need it for a week or two in a year (at least that used to be the case), so doesn't make much sense. And using it as heating in the winter doesn't make sense either as the heat pump would have a hard time outside of cities and agglomeration. And cities now mostly have some sort of centralized heating, or commieblock centralized heating at least.

Also AC is literally killing the planet, fascist. (This is a serious argument being used in EU. EU commission shut down AC for peasants in the heat in their building and kept it on for the higher class individuals.)

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ilja

outside of the "it's not always worth for the few days" i already see people mention, i also think they tend to get a somewhat bad name bc they are often put too cold for many people. i see ac's more and more, so more people seem to be ok with them. but in summer i do notice at the office how the ac temperature can be a source of friction/conflict. i, too, prefer having a window open in the summer over having to sit in a freezer. i know ac doesn't have to be that way, but it often does comes down to this.
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