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Lmao. We do need ac though, the problem is Europe has a ton of older houses which were build when it was much more beneficial to try and keep warmth in rather than out. And it's a pain in the ass to retrofit all these houses with ac. I live in a flat which was build about 15 years ago and the difference compared to my previous apartments is enormous. Still no ac, but it's not needed here because of proper isolation and smaller windows.
Silly the rest of the world, my windows are superiour, I don't need AC. dies
Jokes aside, our windows are superiour
Your windows are superior in how they open, however the average American would need better education in order to operate them.
I was just there in June and my apartment had 3 options for the window to open depending on latch position. One would open the top for venting, one would open wider with just the glass part of the window leaving the bug screen in place and another would open the whole unit so you could hang out the window and fall 10m to the ground.
Best we have what are called double hung windows, top and bottom open (up/down or left/right side slide). Almost every house i’ve ever lived in has screens.
Don’t they have these cheapy portable ACs with a radiator you can drag outside? It shouldn’t cost too much, you just need a hole in the wall to stick the radiator through. Then, once you stick the radiator and it’s pipe through, you can slather the hole with cement or whatever so the heat doesn’t get in. Shouldn’t cost more than 500 USD and take more than an hour to set up.
Edit: Photo showing what I mean (found on google):
That assumes you have bought you own house which you can alter. Where I live it's 60% owns and 40% rents, but the cities, where it's much warmer and which heat up faster and thus need ac the most, have more renters than buyers. So you're dependent on whoever you're renting from to do anything like that.
Those things are not good. They are basically advanced fans. The entire "hot side" is still 8naode your house, and whole it has the hose to pump hot air out, essentially more air (normally from outside, which will be hot) has to come in to replace it. Ultimately thosw machines will make your house hotter, even if they are able to blow cold air on a specific area.
Strangely the old American style ones they hang out of a window are some.of the most effective, though we don't really have any windows like that in Europe anymore to hang those AC units out.
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There are dual hose variations. I think Hisense and Whynter sells them here in the US. If you can find them you should always go for those.
The problem is (at least here in the Netherlands) is that all our windows are fucking enormous because it used to be cold and overcast 90% of the time here, and you'd take all the warmth and sunlight you can get. With the insulation already normally there, it heats up a ton in summers these days because the sun is just shining through you window covering the entire wall half of the day. The heat then can't go anywhere. It's completely build to get as much heat and light in and trap it there. The only thing you can really do against that is sun blocking on the outside of the house, but that isn't always possible, and if you happen to have an apartment on the top floor or side of a building or an apartment with/on an attic, you're just shit out of luck.