In the DC area there are much fewer places without A/C, since it’s pretty critical to human functioning here. I always found it weird how many rental places didn’t offer A/C in the South Bay, given that it was clearly necessary some of the year. People in California are too used to temperate weather or something.
Yeah, more generally I don’t understand places without AC either when it does get uncomfortably hot for a month or two a year. When I was in Culver City outside of LA I didn’t have AC and needed to get a portable unit in the summer. Iirc my apartment was something like 75 degrees at night, which makes it difficult for me to sleep. And probably for many others too. I recall research showing that something in the mid to high 60s is optimal sleeping temperature. And during the day it can be hot, so I’d have to go to the mall or something to get access to AC, which is inconvenient when you just want to relax at home. A window unit is only a couple hundred bucks, so the price seems more than low enough to justify it.
I was thinking of apartments, specifically the cheapest apartments in expensive areas where you sacrifice lots of minor things to reduce market price e.g. no garbage chute, small size, and also A/C (in my case, they would turn the building from A/C to heating early in the fall and wait until june to turn it back on in order to save money, which is easily solved with a cheap window unit)
It was presumptive of me to assume that was the only category of housing that OP was researching.
In the DC area there are much fewer places without A/C, since it’s pretty critical to human functioning here. I always found it weird how many rental places didn’t offer A/C in the South Bay, given that it was clearly necessary some of the year. People in California are too used to temperate weather or something.
Yeah, more generally I don’t understand places without AC either when it does get uncomfortably hot for a month or two a year. When I was in Culver City outside of LA I didn’t have AC and needed to get a portable unit in the summer. Iirc my apartment was something like 75 degrees at night, which makes it difficult for me to sleep. And probably for many others too. I recall research showing that something in the mid to high 60s is optimal sleeping temperature. And during the day it can be hot, so I’d have to go to the mall or something to get access to AC, which is inconvenient when you just want to relax at home. A window unit is only a couple hundred bucks, so the price seems more than low enough to justify it.
I was thinking of apartments, specifically the cheapest apartments in expensive areas where you sacrifice lots of minor things to reduce market price e.g. no garbage chute, small size, and also A/C (in my case, they would turn the building from A/C to heating early in the fall and wait until june to turn it back on in order to save money, which is easily solved with a cheap window unit)
It was presumptive of me to assume that was the only category of housing that OP was researching.