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.
Grew up in a four story house in the Midwest. Back in the 80s my dad had a 220 outlet ran to the living room and installed a heavy duty window unit. When they moved, he put in two furnaces and A/Cs to sell the house. We didn’t have one but a lot of houses had a patio or flat area outside the 2nd floor and a lot of my friends slept outside under the stars during the summer.