For those of us who live where air conditioning is vital to life, you have to take what you can get. Not only does central air cost more to install, it costs more in electricity as well.
You see them everywhere here.
edit: @ML... come on down to Texas later this month and stay through August and go to work with me while you're at it. I'll supply you with plenty of water.
But the heat doesn't bother me too much. Because I've gone through times where it was almost 100 down in CT. And it never bothered me too much. But now it might be different because my body adjusted to the cold.
It got that cold with the wind chill when I used to live in New York. We were right next to Lake Ontario, so we always got the lake effect snow and weather, which dropped the temperature obscene amounts