My sister and her husband moved to Portland, OR after living in Maryland and Nebraska. When they interviewed a realtor, they told them to show only houses with central air. The realtor thought they were nuts but when it got warm, their house was a favorite place for friends to hang out.
We rented an AirBnB when my nephew got married out there and changed it when we found out they didn’t have A/C.
Dated a girl that was from buffalo New York back in the 80s.
At one point her parents built a brand new house up there without central air.
Having lived in the deep South all my life I thought that was crazy and questioned it.
I was told it never gets hot enough in that area to justify A/C.
Sure enough, first year in the home western new York experienced a severe heat wave.
Maybe us Southerners ain’t so dumb after all.