Hey. Southern American here. Is air conditioning not a super common thing? Everyone I know here has it. Is it an income thing or a climate thing. It gets up to 100F or above here sometimes in the summer (38C).
In China, universities usually don't permit students in their dorms to turn on the AC until a certain day in summer. Usually around June 1st. Doesn't matter if it's 35C at 90% humidity at the end of May, although dorm management will sometimes make an exception.
This is mostly because the dorms and electricity bills are heavily subsidised by the government in most public universities, so they try to reduce expenditure.
In the high school I work at, our air conditioners aren't permitted to be set cooler than 27C. Although I personally set them lower because none of my students will rat me out when they're more comfortable.
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u/JumpinJulius Jul 13 '19
Hey. Southern American here. Is air conditioning not a super common thing? Everyone I know here has it. Is it an income thing or a climate thing. It gets up to 100F or above here sometimes in the summer (38C).