I don't have air-conditioning, only a fan. Could you manage w/o A.C.?

[no_hypocrisy]

[Khephra]

1. Yeah

We have AC, but it doesn't work so well upstairs, so I'm 90% fan/10%AC.

[Padraig18]

2. No, I couldn't.

I can't handle high temps/high humidity without a/c, and Illinois has both from June-September.

3. I have for a long time now

both in Kansas and NYC heat (one relatively dry, one not so dry) for most of my life, so I think I can still.

Also without a car for 15 years and counting.

Which becomes more and more of a political statement every day. Both the airconditioning and the car.

Sometimes, being a Luddite in some things is right.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

4. Doing it right now...........

I've lived so long without A/C that I don't really miss it. A/C also really messes with my sinuses. I'm more prone to a sinus infection when I spend a lot of time in a A/C environment.

[boxster]

5. No way.

It's in the 90s and very humid here most of the summer, and our house has a ton of windows on the east/west sides. I work at home, and I work on a computer for 12+ hours a day.

So, no A/C would mean that either I'd keel over or the computer would; neither option is really on my agenda. :)

[HornBuckler]

6. No One In Vegas Is Doing It

Ofcourse I Live In Portland Now - And Restaaurants And Bars Don't Even Have It (It Does Get Friggin Hot In The Summer)

[Susang]

7. Yup

Though some days my allergies get me down. Luckily, so far here in Chicago, we haven't really needed the AC.

[Endangered Specie]

8. No...

I like it around 60 degrees in my room, and I live in NC.

[Xithras]

9. It was 100 here yesterday

Sorry, but in most of California AC isn't even optional. It's standard equipment on all cars, and there hasn't been a house built in 30 years here that doesn't have AC. Only the poorest of the poor (or coastal residents) don't have at least a swamp cooler hanging from their window.

[Miss Marmelstein]

10. Good lord, no.....

I'ts 110 today and 38% humidity. Just blinking my eyes works up a sweat. My hubbies lounging in bikini briefs in front of A/C and still bitching.

[Fenris]

11. Not in Texas, I couldn't.

California - that's another story. We rarely used it when we lived in Moorpark.

[LDS Jock]

16. No way in Austin Texas

I know people did it in Salt Lake City, but here in Austin its miserable even at nights. I guess it could be done but you won't find me doing it.

[devilgrrl]

12. Yes...

AC messes with my sinuses. :hurts:

[Reciprocity]

13. No way in hell.

I live in the balmy woods of East Texas. We had friends from Australia come visit. They almost melted in the 107° heat and humidity .They were so skeptical about central air. But after a week of intense heat they were singing the praises of Trane.

[NightTrain]

14. I'd rather not, but I'm about to.

The condo I'm moving into on the 26th has no A/C in the bedroom I'll be renting. Having had A/C for the past 11 years, I don't look forward to going back to living without it--particularly given the weather in Connecticut these past two days! :nopity:

[mede8er]

15. No Freakin Way.....

It's uncivilized.....

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

17. In Rio? No way in hell (and I do mean HELL)

And most of the population don't have money enough to buy AC. I shudder to think what they go through from November to April. :nuke:

[LWolf]

18. No.

I hate the heat. I thrive in the cold. And I live in the Mojave Desert.

[Piltdown13]

19. It would be really really unpleasant

We have two window units and lots of fans, but that still only cools about half of the house (the two biggest rooms have 10-foot ceilings and the insulation is practically nonexistent, so this is not surprising).

I'd be miserable without some cooling; I don't know if it's mold or what, but I've been having really bad symptoms that the docs say are allergy-related, and I start feeling really icky when it gets too hot. And it is the heat that does it, too; the lab that I work in most of the time is either on the lowest cooling priority on campus or its AC is broken or both, and it's in the basement in the middle of the building, so fans don't help much either. It's been about 83-85 degrees and humid in there for weeks, with very little air circulation...yuck! And the computers and film archives just *love* it too.

[KamaAina]

20. I have AC and have not used it yet

in about six weeks in the new place. The ceiling fan is on whenever I'm there, though.

Yes, Honolulu does indeed lie in the tropics, BUT being on an island helps keep temps in the mid-80s pretty much year-round. (90 would be a scorching heat wave, approached maybe once or twice a year.) Throw in the trade winds, 10-20 mph most of the year, and you see why we failed even to make the Top 5 in the "Sweatiest City Contest". (El Paso, TX stunned perennial contender Phoenix to take the title.)

[SOteric]

21. Sure, - but I live in Seattle. We don't have that much in the way of

sweltering heat around here usually. Typically, we have maybe a week in the summer where the temperatures get into the upper 80's and 90's and we break out the shorts and switch to iced lattes for a couple of days.

It's happened for a couple of summers now that the weather has good long stretches of beautiful weather in the 70's and 80's. I don't feel the need for an air conditioner for that.

It’s a little vigil I’m holding folks, nothing to see here. Move along.

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[marigold20]

22. No AC but several fans

We really don't need it around here. We have maybe two weeks a year when it would be nice.