you are so right, it is crazy, my sister owns a million dollar property and even she does not have air conditioning, we do have some homes here with it, but far and few between, a top priority if I ever can afford a new home, a heat pump is what i would put in , gives you both heat and cooling system.

Not one school in NZ has air conditioning either and it gets up in the 80's and 90's here sometimes., and it is humid too, crazy huh?