The only salvation is the cost of living here. It’s so cheap because it’s so fucking hot. I’m big mad.
I take that back part of what I sad. The humidity is not the worst part. The worst part is that my wife's grandmother, who was raised in the Great Depression and still freezes milk and never buys ketchup because she gets it for free in little packets at drive thrus, still insists on turning her AC to like 80 and running the fans. So the worst part is once you climb up the 3 stories of stairs from the dock to the house and are sweating so much you can smell the salt, you go inside to cool off and it's still a fucking hell hole. You'd think with us providing free labor for her she'd at least turn down the AC a few degrees. "If you're too hot you can always go for a swim!! he he he" bitch you live on a lake and can't even swim!!
My parents keep the AC on 80 also. Used to be cheapness, now I think it is age related. They keep it just enough to get a little moisture out of the air so the fucking paint doesn't peel off the walls and the cabinets don't warp. When we all get together the inside isn't even a break from the heat outside. All the grandkids are red faced and the adults are sweaty. The adult kids take turns covertly slinking off to the hall thermostat to knock it down a couple degrees. Then my mom acts like she's cold once the temp drops and turns it back up like she's doing everyone a favor.
Gotta be age related. When I recently visited my grandparents, she was rubbing her arms and complaining that it was too cold. It was 83* in the house.
My parents house in Pennsylvania never had AC. Can't say I remember it bothering me too much as a kid, but yesterday I bought a portable unit to put in the bedroom while I'm there settling the estate.
We never had AC when I was a kid, and I had an attic room that got incredibly hot in the summer. I’d get by with moving the bed in front of the single window and blasting the fan. 40 years later and I still don’t have central air. I’ve got several window units I have to carry up and down stairs and wrestle into place every year, then reverse the process in the fall. It’s a combination of cheapness (my wife) and short term memory loss - in January I barely remember what a pain in the ass moving those cooling boxes around is. Next year, however we get central air. I’m not getting any younger.
Yeah, I say that every year too. Still lugging window units around. I don't mind the heat so much, but when it's so humid you sweat just from breathing, I turn into a cave dweller. AC set on 67-68, and I don't give a shit what it costs. I hate sitting in my chair watching TV and sweating. Meanwhile the wife and our two sons bitch about being cold. I tell them they can go work outside for a while like I usually have been, come back and see how much they bitch then.
Well how nice it is to be able to say you need ac. Mother fuckers, i had to turn on my furnace a couple of weeks ago for the day because it was so cold.
I set mine to 72, but that's perfect "upstairs" temp, while my downstairs office, etc, is a comfortable 68°F or so. The neighbours make jokes about how often the AC runs in the summer... while they're sitting on their back deck having a drink in the sweltering heat, sweating... all nice and retired... and I just smile and say, "yep, no point in having it if you don't use it". Meanwhile if you go into their house, their whole finished basement reeks of mold/mildew and that damp concrete smell. I will gladly pay for the cost of my AC every year. And on that front, if you rely on your AC, you may want to go get yourself a replacement capacitor for your AC unit before it blows up. You WILL have to replace it at some point, and it's an easy DIY thing and the capacitor only costs $25 or so. Cheap insurance to have sitting on the shelf instead of having to wait 3 days for a $250 on-site repair call.
That was how it was here about a month ago. Now it hasn't rained since I don't know when and it's hotter than the devil's asshole. Gotta love Upstate NY
Friend of mine in Vancouver took his family and a few of the kids' friends, 7 in total, camping in his new trailer... he said "well, it stopped snowing when we got home". One of the worst camping trips he can ever remember... snow, rain, single digit (C) temps...
Yea it has not been a nice summer. Way more snow up in the mountains then normal, it is going to be scary if all the sudden it gets hot.
That’s something I most definitely can’t relate with. A real “Risk v. Reward” life. Personally I’d rather live anywhere than this fucking area of the country. Here it’s been probably the hottest summer since I can remember. It’s been straight scorching heat for two weeks, we’re the only house on our half of the street that still has green grass. My daughter’s face was burned because her glasses heated up so much they scorched her skin.
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I absolutely love living in the mountains in BC. I'll take the deep snow winters, crazy heat droughts, forest fires... all of it. Off grish-ish living, working from home... kind of like homesteading but there's a Costco a 45 min drive away. I can't help but think I'll make it back there at some point in my life. I really miss the good camping, fishing, hunting, lakes, etc. As much as some of that stuff exists in SW Ontario here, you have to drive way too far away and fight with way too many other people to enjoy it. The only thing that does worry me as I get older is access to good medical care as I get older... heart attack or stroke type stuff.
We keep it like a walk-in cooler in our house. It's set on 67 and the unit is appropriately sized and will keep it there unless it gets over a hundred OAT. I used to hate it when we'd go to the lake and have to wait on the people that live there to want to actually go on the lake. We'd want to be out there all day but the boat's owner would think it too hot and want to nap instead. Now we're those people. I either want to go right after breakfast and be back before lunch or after 6pm and skip the hottest part of the day. I know it drives my friends and family crazy when they visit. I do my best to accommodate their desire to have fun, but my kid prefers our normal schedule, too. You ask if he wants to go on the boat at 2pm and he'll tell you no. At least our parents understand and are down with our schedule. I always tell them to take the boater's safety course and they can go without us, they never do.