> My bedroom in Tampa, FL reaches 90F at night without air conditioning. There is no way I could live without AC here. You obviously could live there... it wou

> My bedroom in Tampa, FL reaches 90F at night without air conditioning. There is no way I could live without AC here. You obviously could live there... it would just be unpleasant. I lived a year in Singapore where temperatures were in the 80-90 range. I stayed on-campus at NUS and was lucky to have a room with A/C, but it wasn't common. The majority of students make do with big fans and windows. I remember working next to a campus Starbucks outside, marveling at how well designed it was to make students moderately comfortable without A/C. There was an enormous fan, and the area was covered and designed to facilitate air flow. After my time there I came back to the U.S. and can much more readily handle persistently hot temperatures. It's fairly unusual to expect it to be cool all the time. I also just got back from a trip to Oman where it was routinely above 90 or 100 all day long, and people there make do without A/C as well.