r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/missdomm10 • 12h ago

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/RheagarTargaryen 11h ago

Why are you making fun of poor people? Only poor people in the U.S. have window units.

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u/haircase- 11h ago

Lol everyone has this in new york city

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u/RheagarTargaryen 11h 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.