>>50519115In middle europe we didn't bother with installed ACs because there hadn't been a pressing need in the past, the climate was temperate enough, plus most of our buildings are old and have thick brick walls so they naturally kept a little cooler than the thinner constructed walls of average american buildings for example.
Of course, the mindset is slowly changing, and especially in newly constructed buildings AC installations are getting more common now, for various reasons (summers are getting hotter, tighter energy regulations force more insulated buildings which needs a ventilation system, commonality with heat pumps, plus people's comfort standard demands have generally risen).
Kiara doesn't have an AC because she probably lives in an older building, which like most doesn't have an AC installed. She's renting, so she probably can't install a fixed split AC herself, nevermind it's costly. And because we don't have the american "sliding window" but most of our windows are opened to the side, she can't get one of those window AC blocks that are common in the US. The only realistic AC option she has is one of those mobile indoor monoblocks where you hang a hose out the window, but those things are basically the worst, being very inefficient and very loud which is a no-go for streaming. This plus her general poorfag mentality about things like this means she doesn't bother and just sucks it up, complains for the few weeks where it's hot and then forgets it for the rest of the year, and this will continue at least until if she ever moves out again to a new place that has better climate control.
