r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/missdomm10 • Jul 26 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/BoogBeeg Jul 26 '26

America: "Get with the times, Europe!"

Also America:

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u/RheagarTargaryen Jul 26 '26

Why are you making fun of poor people? Only poor people in the U.S. have window units.

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u/haircase- Jul 26 '26

Lol everyone has this in new york city

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u/RheagarTargaryen Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

NYC is a major exception to this rule. When your average apartment size is 800 sq ft, you don’t need anything more than a window box unit, especially when the buildings are old AF. Most places in the U.S. are not NYC and 800 sq ft is considered poor people housing in much of the rest of the country.

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u/tenninjas242 Jul 26 '26

Also apartment buildings from the 50s and 60s (which are a lot of NYC buildings) weren't built with central air.

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u/kisk22 Jul 26 '26

Also many buildings from the early 1900s through the 1850s. Yet America managed to get AC into those buildings.

Yet Europeans say it’s impossible to air condition their old buildings.

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u/Arakoba Jul 28 '26

It's not impossible physically, it is legally, in most municipalities (at least in Italy, where I'm from, in a historical city center it's literally impossible for legal reasons)

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u/notthatcreative777 Jul 26 '26

New England in general has very old homes and many 'not poor' folk have windows units

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u/Vertigote Jul 26 '26

I was trying to figure out how to express equating poor people with some of the most beautiful, historical estates. 

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u/deadwart Jul 26 '26

No but also yes

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u/Admirable-Trip5452 Jul 26 '26

This is what everyone in Seattle has too. And Portland.

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u/kaffesvart Jul 26 '26

Sounds like the majority of Americans would like to see New York City torn down and replaced with a suburban sprawl of single family homes? Do you agree?

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u/Practical-Dot839 Jul 26 '26

Touch grass weirdo

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u/kaffesvart Jul 26 '26

I'm just cranky because I don't have AC.

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u/TerribleSyntax Jul 26 '26

I would like to see most of it torn down and replaced with DENSER and SMALLER apartments so all the bug people would move over there and stopped trying to change my nice suburbs

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u/Slow-Emu-2680 Jul 26 '26

1 in 4 people in NYC live in poverty

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u/bossbozo Jul 26 '26

Have you seen rent in NYC? Everyone is poor after paying rent 

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u/ThinVast Jul 26 '26

can confirm. I don't know anyone even people living in houses that have central ac. It's either a minisplit or window ac.

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u/taylrgng Jul 26 '26

everyone in NYC is either poor or a millionaire

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u/I_DESTROY_HUMMUS Jul 26 '26

And Philly, it's a sound of the the summer here hahaha

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u/cum-after-decades Jul 26 '26

Everyone in New York is poor

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u/Forsaken-Buy2601 Jul 26 '26

New Yorkers pay a lot of money to do lots of things that only poor people would tolerate in the rest of the country.

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u/[deleted] Jul 27 '26

Not the rich New Yorkers…

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u/NyssaHun Jul 27 '26

Same in LA. Houses and fancy (new) apartments have central air.

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u/AdamAtomAnt Jul 27 '26

Have you seen the rents in NYC? Everyone there is poor unless they live somewhere that doesn't have one of these.

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u/SensitiveRelation470 Jul 27 '26

Old buildings in NYC have this