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Oh boy... cue up all the "Grrrrr America bad!" comments.
Lets see if we can play Lemmy Anti-America Bingo....
They'll be comments that American homes are supposedly worse quality than European ones by people that don't understand construction or economics.
Americans are wasteful.
Someone will mention European windows.
Post from people who misunderstanding thermal mass.
Lots of people forgetting what humidity is.
Have you ever been in a typical, modern European house?
Sadly (for the US), on average every single point on your list is true.
Just look at the places in the US hit by catastrophes. Basically, nothing but maybe foundations remain. If there is a fire, they usually add their mass to the fire instead of resisting. If a fire actually reaches a European town the damage is quite lower than what can be regularly seen of in the US.
And yes, Americans are wasteful. In so many regards, it is not funny. Living in suburbia and driving gas guzzling trucks where a normal car would more than suffice are just two examples.
European windows (and the general thermal isolation of houses in Europe) are way better at keeping cold and heat separated than even the better insulated cardboard boxes Americans call "houses".
Do you understand Q = C~th~ Δ T?
And most Europeans deal better with humidity (and heat) because they are used to it.
No you've got your bingo card full, go home and whine.
Yea... I can pretty much promise you, if it was 43c and 60% humidity in europe, like it is where I live currently... they would have A/C units.
Then, everyone always fusses because we drive so much here in the US, instead of walking everywhere.... without accounting for, the US is drastically bigger. So, yes karen, I don't ride by bicycle 35 miles to work.
Texas (one of the many states/territories in the US), overlaid onto europe:
Seriously, fuck off with the America is bad insults, with poor apples to oranges comparisons.
There is a lot of stuff we do that can be drastically improved, but, saying Europe doesn't need AC and the U.S. does, because (insert US lazy / inefficient reason here...), is pretty dumb.
I can literally cook food in my car, or on my roof. Yes, I need A/C.