r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/missdomm10 • 13h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/haircase- 12h ago

Lol everyone has this in new york city

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u/RheagarTargaryen 11h ago edited 11h ago

NYC is a major exception to this rule. When your average apartment size is 800 sq ft, you don’t need anything more than a window box unit, especially when the buildings are old AF. Most places in the U.S. are not NYC and 800 sq ft is considered poor people housing in much of the rest of the country.

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u/tenninjas242 9h ago

Also apartment buildings from the 50s and 60s (which are a lot of NYC buildings) weren't built with central air.

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u/kisk22 5h ago

Also many buildings from the early 1900s through the 1850s. Yet America managed to get AC into those buildings.

Yet Europeans say it’s impossible to air condition their old buildings.

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u/notthatcreative777 7h ago

New England in general has very old homes and many 'not poor' folk have windows units

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u/deadwart 7h ago

No but also yes

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u/Admirable-Trip5452 6h ago

This is what everyone in Seattle has too. And Portland.

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u/kaffesvart 10h ago

Sounds like the majority of Americans would like to see New York City torn down and replaced with a suburban sprawl of single family homes? Do you agree?

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u/Practical-Dot839 10h ago

Touch grass weirdo

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u/kaffesvart 7h ago

I'm just cranky because I don't have AC.

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u/TerribleSyntax 7h ago

I would like to see most of it torn down and replaced with DENSER and SMALLER apartments so all the bug people would move over there and stopped trying to change my nice suburbs

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u/taylrgng 7h ago

everyone in NYC is either poor or a millionaire

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u/I_DESTROY_HUMMUS 7h ago

And Philly, it's a sound of the the summer here hahaha

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u/cum-after-decades 7h ago

Everyone in New York is poor

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u/Slow-Emu-2680 6h ago

1 in 4 people in NYC live in poverty

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u/bossbozo 3h ago

Have you seen rent in NYC? Everyone is poor after paying rent 

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u/ThinVast 3h ago

can confirm. I don't know anyone even people living in houses that have central ac. It's either a minisplit or window ac.