I was in a college dorm during summer school, with no air conditioning.
I lived in an old apartment building in Chicago for a number of years, a building without air conditioning.
Air conditioning is very nice but there was a time when people didn’t have air conditioning, and they somehow survived summer.
I actually did not have central air in my current house until about six years ago, after the furnace died. Since I had to eat the cost of a new furnace adding the AC unit was not that much more.
I don’t actually run it a whole lot though. I once worked in an office where the boss kept the thermostat at 64 all Summer. Ever since then heavy AC tends to give me a lot of respiratory problems.
“Air conditioning is very nice but there was a time when people didn’t have air conditioning, and they somehow survived summer.”
Survived is the correct term. When I was young I hated to come inside due to the heat.