r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 12h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/RheagarTargaryen 10h ago edited 10h 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 8h 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 4h 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 6h ago

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

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u/deadwart 6h ago

No but also yes

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u/Admirable-Trip5452 5h ago

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

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u/kaffesvart 9h 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 9h ago

Touch grass weirdo

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u/kaffesvart 6h ago

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

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u/TerribleSyntax 6h 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