Yet people lived in both places 100 years ago without AC….people adapted .
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That isn’t the way life is.
Living in Houston when houses and porches and life were designed for no air conditiong and you could sleep and live with all your windows open and a screen door only and ice men delivering ice and ice cold watermelon stands everywhere serving watermelon by the slice and all the other ways of coping with the heat and humidity, are not the situation today.
Living in an apartment with almost zero air movement and today’s morality when it comes to the population that would make you not want to leave the windows and front door open at night and the concrete heat sinks that today’s cities are make for a huge difference, apartments don’t even have screen doors in that mosquito infested city.