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minus-squaremultifariace@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoAs a native Floridian, it blew my mind that AC was not the default everywhere. I did know that the only legal requirement for a home was heat and water, but when does your heat source not also cool the home?
minus-squaretitanicx@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoThere are homes in Florida that don’t have ac. We get stories all the time of old folks dying there in heat waves.
minus-squarelenocolomo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 days agoYou floridians have AC’s as a standard? So you can wrestle alligators and tame lions (before jumping from a plane ofc) in the cold? Nice.
As a native Floridian, it blew my mind that AC was not the default everywhere. I did know that the only legal requirement for a home was heat and water, but when does your heat source not also cool the home?
There are homes in Florida that don’t have ac. We get stories all the time of old folks dying there in heat waves.
You floridians have AC’s as a standard? So you can wrestle alligators and tame lions (before jumping from a plane ofc) in the cold? Nice.