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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

My understanding is that it is more common in offices, though, than in residences.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah its pretty standard to have in offices and shops, but not in apartments or houses. I've seen couple of ceiling fans in Spain, but here in France some people don't even use regular floor fans for some reason lol

To be honest, we only get 2 hot months in a year (usually, though its starting to change and now its more like 3 hot months where 2 are extra hot)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I used to specifically not want A/C in my cars back in the 90s living in Denver. It was never hot enough to need it. In the past years I've spent quite a few days sitting in stopped traffic in my open Jeep with the thermometer reading 104-107F. Once was behind an uncovered manure truck. Good times, good times.

Where I live now (further north from CO) there's a massive junk yard with thousands of snowmobiles. Apparently my current area used to be a mecca for snowmobiling in the 70s and 80s, with 1500 miles of snowmobile trails. It snows maybe 3 times a year now, average of 10 inches total per season. Neighbors all around me have every kind of motor toy imaginable, but I have not seen a single snowmobile. My snowblower hasn't been seen use in over 4 years, and the city routinely forgets how to plow or sand streets.

Weather definitely got hotter year round over 3-4 decades. I'll fight fellow Gen-X and boomers over this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It really shouldn't even be a fight... we've had accurate thermometers for a long time now, and weather stations all over the world at airports at the very least. Taking an average of the temperatures around the world isn't really some crazy advanced science.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here in Germany not even offices have them. Well, most of them. AC is a luxury that no one needed like 5 years ago. 5 years in the future this will have changed, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you installing A/C? Or, at least a portable unit? I hope you guys can stay cool. It took me quite a while to become acclimated to no ac after I moved there for a number of years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I bought a portable unit last year and used it for the hottest days, as I was working from home in a small room which heats up quickly.

I also bought it for safety reasons, we are for people in our household and in case a long lasting heat wave comes we at least have the means to cool down one room for the night where we all can sleep.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I've thought about it in recent years but so far, at least where I live, it is still manageable without. Days where it doesn't cool down enough during the night to survive the next day (opening/shutting windows and blinds) are still rare and don't last more than a few days at a time and it takes a bit for the house to really heat up.

If/when that changes and heat waves with still hot/humid nights get more common or longer, I'll have to get a solution for at least a room or two.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Are you installing A/C? Or, at least a portable unit? I hope you guys can stay cool. It took me quite a while to become acclimated to no ac after I moved there for a number of years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Offices are ideal because it is hotter in the daytime than at night.