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Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by esrauch on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @10:02PM (#27455909)
Not op but have lived in Florida and NYC. I suspect the gap partially relates to the "constructed"/human/social aspects, and not the raw weather itself.

A NYC subway car without AC when it's 87 degrees outside is worse than 100° in Florida; Florida is a lot more effective AC, pools/lanais, open spaces.

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Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by cratermoon on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @10:08PM (#27455953)
Architecture definitely matters. Ever been to the Honolulu airport? Lots of open air. The Lihue Airport on Kauaʻi is open air. Check-in is in the open.
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Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by 0x0nyandesu on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @10:50PM (#27456156)
Same on Maui
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Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by cratermoon on Friday June 11, 2021 @12:15PM (#27475197)
Some day I should visit Maui. I hear it's the least built up of the islands served by scheduled commercial passenger service.
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Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by throwaway2037 on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @10:09PM (#27455960)
You wrote: "A NYC subway car without AC"

Does that really exist in 2021? (Or even 2001?) I doubt the driver's union would allow it. It would be unsafe.

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Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by esrauch on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @11:27PM (#27456353)
It's more often one section with broken ac and not the complete train; I assume the drivers have AC even when passengers dont. You can try to move to an adjacent car (which are then correspondingly that much more packed). I've experienced it in both NYC and Boston in the last few years.
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