Could You Live WithOut - Central Air?

I live in the desert where it gets incredibly warm during the summer months. I do not have an air conditioner but I do have a swamp cooler that I can turn on if the house gets too hot If I didn't have the swamp cooler I'd be pretty miserable some days but I'm sure I could survive. I'd just wear a lot less clothing

I've owned my house for 7 years and haven't had central air. However, I do use the window A/C on hot days b/c I get a little cranky if I'm too hot. It works and it's better than nothing. Good luck! :)

I've lived in my apartment a really long time and there is no such thing as central air....to get heat in the winter it automatically comes up via radiators (and no way to regulate it so sometimes too warm)--as for summer...all I have is a fan which really doesn't do much except circulate hot air.......yuk----no wonder I hate summer. It would be just too expensive for me to have AC

I could definitely live without it, but I can't make do without a fan at home, LOL.. I used to think that air-con tends to make your skin dry and it does. Like in the office for long hours on stretch, that could happen.

i think i can, i even only turn on the fan when at home. cause it's cool in the rooms. i even need to put some quilt on when in the evening. thanks for the good ventilation. but if no ac in the office, maybe will feel not so good, but still can live without it.lol...only not so comfortable, if with the fan.

although I live in a tropical country, and I sweat a lot like a sprinkler, I can live without it. I think the central air cost too much for me, and hey, sweating is healthy, it feels like a sauna, LoL. . so I try to suppress the use of central air, and maximally the use of my paper fan. .

Before I became ill, I lived in plenty of dry and hot places with no A/C of any kind for many years. Now with the disorder that I've come down with, it's VERY important that my core body temperature remain stable and not rise up for a very long period of time, as well as keeping my skin dry of sweat. So I could live without it until 2.5 years ago. Without it... Im restricted to really being stuck in a room with two fans and am rather immobile.

I don´t live in the United States. In my city, it´s very hot and dry in summer. But I don´t have air conditioner nor a window unit. I open windows to create currents of air and wear shorts at home. I don´t have central heating either. My winters are not as cold as in many parts of the US. We have freezing temperatures at dawn for maybe a couple of weeks. I use a gas heater where I have the computer, another one in the living room that I put on only if I have visitors. If I want to see TV, I see it from my bed that has an electric blanket. I use warm clothes in winter.

I live in a tropical so I can say that I can live without air-conditioning unit.

Everyone know that we can still live without the Air Conditioner even the weather become more hot in decades, our human kind just chasing the cool, comfortable environment, and becoming more and more lazy, incompatible with tough environment now. Personally I'd like to turn AC off at home if possible, and I'd like to go to take a cold water shower if I cann't bear the hot. or go to swimming.

I had made another post on this discussion. I wanted to give my two cents worth again. I'm proud that you can substain the heat. I'm too big of a baby to do that. I guess if I had to due to health reason guess I could deal with it. Are you on some kind of a blood thinner that keeps your body cool? I really don't think that I could do without my air. I couldn't un-dress enough. LOL

I live in a small 1 bedroom cottage and I keep it cool w/3 window units and 3 ceiling fans. How I adore central air conditioning. I wish my place had it. My place has a swamp cooler and I won't use it. Even duringthe non humid months I won't use it. So, I can live w/o central air, but I can't live with a swamp cooler. FaceFinder

yes I could live without it, though I'm planning right now of having one. During the hot days it's very dependable, since i get very irritated when it's very hot. So i guess i will have one soon.

Well i'm the person who is afraid of hot days very much . i have to admit that i could live without air conditioners . I went to Germany for a trip a few years ago and stayed in the hotel . i was too surprised to find that there is no air conditioner at all . i love a place which doesn't need air conditioner . That means it's not hot during the summer's day !