Right on, beautiful you, Black Agnes!
A/C is essential here in the deep South.
I lived in central MS in my 20’s for 2 years in a row with no a/c in my apartment, car, or workplace. I survived. But I had grown up w/o a/c in my school, my parents car or my grandparents house and mother who was super duper frugal with a/c at our house (thermostat set on 80 in the summer). But there are no ‘sea breezes’ in central Mississippi either...