if your experience of living doesn't change with the seasons, what's the point of having seasons?
My experience of living does change with the seasons, but I don't want that experience to include discomfort. Extreme heat is profoundly uncomfortable for me. As a child growing up in an un-airconditioned house, I used to throw up from the heat. I probably still would if I had to endure it for any length of time. At the other extreme, I don't want my limbs constantly numb from the cold, which they are if the heat is only enough to keep the pipes from freezing.
I think I would move out of any dwelling if I didn't have control of the temperature. I did exactly that when I first moved to Boston, when I was living in a rented room in Dorchester where the heat was only kept at about 45F. I would go sit all day in the Boston Public Library just for the warmth, and I had to pay the landlady and extra $75 a month just so I could run my electric space heater at night. The landlady thought quite a lot of herself for being able to live with temperature extremes. When I moved to my own place in Davis, it was like heaven to be able to feel my feet again.
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Date: 2007-08-26 04:05 pm (UTC)My experience of living does change with the seasons, but I don't want that experience to include discomfort. Extreme heat is profoundly uncomfortable for me. As a child growing up in an un-airconditioned house, I used to throw up from the heat. I probably still would if I had to endure it for any length of time. At the other extreme, I don't want my limbs constantly numb from the cold, which they are if the heat is only enough to keep the pipes from freezing.
I think I would move out of any dwelling if I didn't have control of the temperature. I did exactly that when I first moved to Boston, when I was living in a rented room in Dorchester where the heat was only kept at about 45F. I would go sit all day in the Boston Public Library just for the warmth, and I had to pay the landlady and extra $75 a month just so I could run my electric space heater at night. The landlady thought quite a lot of herself for being able to live with temperature extremes. When I moved to my own place in Davis, it was like heaven to be able to feel my feet again.