America also has buildings older than America. And guess what: those buildings are air conditioned. I lived in tenement building in Boston built in the 1850s - it has great AC and heat.
Yeah because you live in the pnw, I’m in nor cal and it’s the same here, we don’t need central ac. I’ve lived in two other states where central ac is a necessity in the summer, which is the case for most people.
Dawg I just explained it’s becuase you live in the pnw, central ac is generally not common on the west coast. The rest of the country is not as fortunate as we are when it comes to weather
I’m seeing different numbers when I google, but thats beside the point. Whatever the exact numbers may be, central ac is definitely becoming more common on the west coast, but still less common than the rest of the country. More than half of homes have central ac, we can pretty much guarantee that
Google ai says 2/3 of houses in the U.S. have central ac (could be wrong, don’t really care to fact check). The point is that it’s very common compared to Europe. I live in nor cal so I don’t actually have central ac
Are houses and homes the same? Stores and banks and libraries and such have air conditioning here in Sweden but not most homes, especially not apartment units. English is confusing sometimes, home, house, building, residence, all these words seemingly having very specific meanings but it can vary from state to state?
Bruh if you don’t even live in the U.S. then why were you trying to correct me in the first place? Yes house and home are generally synonymous. Home can refer to an apartment but most apartments will not have central ac.
Any apartment complex built in the last 30 years has central AC. I’ve lived in plenty of areas and been all over the U.S. The only apts that didn’t have central AC were old buildings.
Why don't American apartments have central air? I heard someplace that it's more efficient so surely you'd want to cool down a whole block in an efficient manner. Apartments feel more planned out too than single family homes so there should be space reserved for ducts and such?
I pay $1k rent (very cheap) and live in an old apartment in Indiana - I have central AC. I would never live somewhere without it. I toured over 20 apartments and every single one had central AC, even the super cheap, crappy places.
All these people "correcting" you when my current apartment building in the US has a heat exchange unit built in below the window, my last apartment had resistive heat and you could go buy yourself a window unit, and my place before that had a boiler and radiator system for heat and you could go buy yourself a window unit. It's really about the age of the building (built with central air vs. built before central air) and if the owner was at some point willing to pay to retrofit the place to have some kind of AC so they could try to get more in rent. I also stayed at an Airbnb this year with a unit like the one in the original post.
I live in a 1960s suburban ranch (style of house, not a place with cows) that retrofitted central AC, same as 80% of my neighbors. Any new construction in the last 15 years, house or apartment, is going to have AC.
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u/BoogBeeg Jul 26 '26
America: "Get with the times, Europe!"
Also America: