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Re:How air-conditioning created the modern city by coldtea on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @05:10PM (#17761927)
>There are too many mosquitoes to spend too long outside or have open windows without screens - besides, even then they'll still find a way to get through.

To put this into some perspective, some 2 billion live in Asia, Africa, and Latin American regions with the same or worse conditions re: heat and mosquitoes.

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Re:How air-conditioning created the modern city by rconti on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @05:35PM (#17762131)
Sure, but do they have freedom of movement to other regions within their country that have vastly better conditions? It's not that it's not possible to live, just that there are alternatives to move to in the US -- or simply don't move to inhospitable climates to begin with. That's not a luxury folks in (say) landlocked African nations have.
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