Could you live without an air conditioner?

by Mopeder ~ Proud American Posted 2012/06/17 17:35:36

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	Yes	93 votes	44%
	No	95 votes	45%
	Undecided / Don't know	11 votes	5%
	Don't have one	14 votes	7%

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Christy 2012/06/18 03:36:05

No

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I live in NC.

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Red Pixy 2012/06/17 19:13:08

Undecided / Don't know

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yes.i won't die without it

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Miko Mikomiko 2012/06/17 19:11:13

Yes

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but I can't live without an electric fan

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littlebuffalo55TBA 2012/06/17 19:10:16

Yes

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I have not had one for years. Noon and it's 72 degrees now. Nice!

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Silent Bob 2012/06/17 19:09:32

No

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Ryoka∞Boy 2012/06/17 19:06:37

Yes

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I would probably melt but yes.

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wtw 2012/06/17 19:04:30

Yes

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But I would not like it!

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Fran-Halen 2012/06/17 19:03:28

Yes

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Lake Superior keeps it cool.....for the most part. 70 today.

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Blonde Rebellion 2012/06/17 18:53:40

Don't have one

+2
Apparently,I can!
(I hate it though..)

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Gordon 2012/06/17 18:53:22

Yes

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People survived without air conditioning for thousands of years. It is nice to have, but not an absolute need.

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sjalan 2012/06/17 18:51:12

No

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It would be almost impossible where I live. HOWEVER, since I do have a good root cellar it would be easy to keep a small home cool by circulating the air etc.

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Waiting in the Wings 2012/06/17 18:49:37

No

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I live in southern Florida. It's hella hot. I didn't always have it, but now that I have it I can't go back.

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Diana 2012/06/17 18:43:24

Yes

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I do live without an air conditioner.I don't like them.I have all ceiling fans.

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CAROLYN NTARWNJBS 2012/06/17 18:40:20

Yes

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I wouldn't want to though.

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Curmudgeon 2012/06/17 18:37:23

Don't have one

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Where i live we need air conditioners only a few days out of the year, so it would be a waste of money for me. Besides, I live an hour away from the mountains.

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**StarzAbove** 2012/06/17 18:37:02

Yes

+4
Growing up we had no A/C and we survived. I'd hate to give it up now!

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Georgia50 to **Starz... 2012/06/17 21:44:02

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One of my late uncles would drive around with us kids in the car, middle of Summer in Ohio, with his windows up. His car had no AC. My big brother asked why we couldn't roll down the windows.

"Because I want people to think my car is air conditioned."

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**Starz... to Georgia50 2012/06/17 21:53:28

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lol That's so funny, thanks for sharing.

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JohnT 2012/06/17 18:35:59

No

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As it was 105F the answer would be a definitive no, although we only get some hot temps a few weeks out of the year so we don't have central air. Just a 28k BTU 240Vt unit that works great.

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kent 2012/06/17 18:33:13

Don't have one

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I like having it in the truck but the house only gets really hot a few times a year.

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john 2012/06/17 18:32:44

Yes

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yes and we do....

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Lycaste skinneri 2012/06/17 18:32:10

Yes

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I've lived my whole life without air conditioner.

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wtxwoman 2012/06/17 18:31:23

Yes

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I lived without one for the first 32 years of my life.

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JohnT to wtxwoman 2012/06/17 18:42:17

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My goodness you are tough. Having been to Texas many times usually during the summer I have felt that super dry heat and it can be intense.

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Blueskys to JohnT 2012/06/17 20:16:29

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I lived in Texas with no a/c in the 70's. Then the winters were cold with frost, lots of HEAVY rain but the summers only in the 90's.

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JohnT to Blueskys 2012/06/17 20:35:00

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My brother lives in Abilene and it gets both heat and cold there.. Where I am at in Northern California is usually nice yesterday 105F, not fun but by tomorrow in the low 80's so can't complain.

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Blueskys to JohnT 2012/06/17 22:39:25

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Every place has a season. I grew up in the southwest high desert . I traveled north along central California coast when I was young and never forgot. Its about the closet to paradise I know, climate and otherwise, and I decided this is where I wanted to live. It took twenty years to arrange.

Texas sounds like its gradually turning into a fairly hellish place.

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JohnT to Blueskys 2012/06/17 22:45:04

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Well you got yourself in a nice place, I lived in Redding Ca prior to moving to the SF bay area, but now close to the bay I won't leave. I love the automatic cooler when the fog rolls in.

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Blueskys to JohnT 2012/06/17 23:30:57

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Sounds like you have your own piece of this paradise!
Its newer here but we are getting the same weather effect. As summer heats up the marine layer increases, blocking excessive sunlight and we also get fogs in the height of summer, which cools things, and increases moisture from all the dew, keeping things green.

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wtxwoman to Blueskys 2012/06/18 02:38:33

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You must have been in ETX. It's a lot dryer and hotter out here in WTX.

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Blueskys to wtxwoman 2012/06/18 02:54:15

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San Angelo, San Antonio, and New Brunswick mostly, but I visited Corpus Christi, Del Rio, Big Bend, and El Paso, many times.
I was mostly thinking of the area around San Antonio and New Brunswick.

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wtxwoman to Blueskys 2012/06/18 02:57:04

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Yeah, they get lots more rain than we do. I live west of Midland, east of El Paso. We had more wet and cold weather for about three years after Mt. St. Helena blew up, but it's back to hot and dry, with no winters for the last several years.

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wtxwoman to JohnT 2012/06/18 02:37:01

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We played in the water a lot when I was a kid and didn't wear very many clothes. I spent a lot of time in the tree tops, too. I'd go up there with a coke, an apple and a book. When I used to work outside in the heat, I'd wet a gauze diaper and drap it over my head and put my hat on. The wind blowing throught the cloth was very cooling.

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JohnT to wtxwoman 2012/06/18 02:49:11

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Amazing when we were young we could take it all day, but I can tell you now I avoid the heat as much as possible. Seems to wear me out.

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wtxwoman to JohnT 2012/06/18 02:58:29

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I've had heat exaustion five times since I've been an adult. My thermostate doesn't work properly anymore. I avoid the heat and the sun like the plague. You can tell that by my picture.

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JohnT to wtxwoman 2012/06/18 03:22:46

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Well try to keep cool and let's hope it isn't as bad as last year.

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wtxwoman to JohnT 2012/06/18 03:50:13

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I'm doing that.

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Badgerbumface 2012/06/17 18:27:30

Don't have one

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North England, it is always miserable and wet. As for central heating, I couldn't live without that! :P

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Blueskys to Badgerb... 2012/06/17 22:48:55

After reading "Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson I can never think of Britain without shivering.

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Badgerb... to Blueskys 2012/06/18 08:37:37

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:O ...... haha XD

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Fighting4U 2012/06/17 18:27:16

No

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I have to have my air.

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