Haha! As a midwest transplant to the northwest, I have to laugh at what people consider extreme temperatures here. 3 inches of snow shuts Seattle down for days, and when it gets over 90 they make special radio announcements about taking water in your car (which is a good idea, but it's funny that it needs to be said).

It's not cold until your car can be encased in an inch thick layer of ice in the amount of time it takes to watch a movie, nor is it truly hot until you don't bother wearing shirts because you sweat through them in under 2 minutes anyway. 30% humidity and 90 degrees is nuthin'.

Before the deep south chimes in, I've spent plenty of time in southern Florida during the summer, so I know how oppressive the humidity gets. You give up trying not to smell like BO pretty quickly. All you need is flip flops, shorts, and sunglasses.

That said, I still would have been in line for your place!

It was 85 degrees in my house here in Tacoma, and that was in the evening. I'm a transplanted Floridian, and you would think I could take it, but down there we never went out of the air conditioning if we could help it. I'm still holding out because I remember what AC can to to your electric bill. I was happy to be at work those couple of days.

Can't wait till August.

Try installing overhead fans before you opt for AC. They don't make any noise and they really do keep things cool--at least cool enough for the few hot days we have in San Francisco. They also will be useful to you when you become a woman of a certain age!

Consider a ductless heat-pump. Mounts on the wall, very quiet inside and outside, and cools/heats very well. The popular one is Mitsubishi Mr. Slim, but we installed one by Sanyo. FYI - very popular in AsiaPac and Eastern Europe for homes that cannot retro-fit central air/heat.

Ahhhh...a litle window unit is fairly inexpensive and provides cool bliss. I highly recommend it. And it is a lot less hassle than installing overhead fans and can be tucked away in storage after the summer has come and gone.

I live in Texas,,,,it's damn hot here. I don't live in the humidity,,,,the high plains. We have airconditioning in every building, even the dog houses, but it's a dry heat! Heat I can do. Keep that cold stuff away from me.

I live in Paris and my French husband told me that a/c wasn't needed because the walls are thick and you close the shutters and anyway, it only gets hot a week or two total in the summer. The next summer was the one where so many people died, mostly the elderly, as it got over 100 degrees for weeks running. By then, at my insistance, we had a little a/c unit. Guess who had it on whenever I came home? Best invention ever.