If you came to my house right now and I turned off the AC you'd vamoose in 5 minutes flat.
I know the difference... LOL my mom is in Oregon and it hits 90 there and you don’t want to be there... there is no a/c just sucking the cooler air from under the house to help a little. This time of year is monsoon season for us... it is NOT a dry heat this time of year. Current temp is 102 with 26% humidity...
The swamp cooler stopped working efficiently about 6 weeks ago and inside the house it has been 80-90degrees and 72-79% humidity since. 7 weeks ago we were still hitting mid teens over 100 degrees and you had to turn the cooler off at night or wake up freezing with it 62 in the house.
It is a trade off, I would much rather be warm than cold and I can go most of the winter without needing much added heat... we put up with 8 weeks of sticky weather every year and if possible, I like to be somewhere else.
Problem with A/C for me is the drastic changes in and out of the a/c will trigger a migraine and I wish I was dead then... A/C in a car blasting me in the face will do the same thing.