When my wife and I were looking for a home, our main priority was actually that it's "climate proof".
We found a souterrain apartment facing east, on top of a hill, far from any rivers or forest.
So it stays cool in the summer even without A/C, and is unlikely to flood or get caught in a forest fire.

For anyone looking for some cheap help tips:

1. Block the sun from comming in, by hanging a curtain or bed sheets on the outside of the window. Of course real shutters would be even better, but price and time wise this gets you there.

2. Close your windows in the morning BEFORE 8:30 or so. Open then after 20:00 BUT ONLY iit's colder outside. Keep them open during the night. You can not cool a house down with warm air. Yes it's warm inside, but it's even hotter outside so opening a window during the day does not help you. If you like a breeze, buy a fan

Tonight it cooled down to 19°C where I live. I opened all windows at about 10pm, when the room thermometer measured 31°C in the living room.

When I woke up at 7 it was still 26°C inside.

This is bullshit

Every summer, Europeans literally migrate to the hottest parts of Europe. Greece, Spain, Italy, you name it.

Do not underestimate us.

Holy shit, is this the moment where our balkan mud and straw houses just win? Finally, the punishment of our oppressors that was promised to us at battle of kosovo has come!! (/j ofc)

get small towel/flannel

soak in water and squeeze out until damp but not dripping

drape over your shoulders close to your neck

this directly cools your carotid and jugular, tricking your brain into thinking it's colder than it is as well as cooling the rest of your body

Australians:

Protip: Take a shirt and wet it down, then wear it and sit in front of a fan. It works like an air cooler. The evaporation draws the heat out of your body and the fan turbo-charges this process.

I feel like I've seen this headline every year for half a decade.

Time to put those heat pumps to use, we are not doing anything about climate change so it's the new normal.

Meanwhile I'm living in the basement of a couple who thinks an appropriate temperature is like 65f freezing my nuts off all summer.

I had ordered an airco before this madness started, but unfortunately the had to order it and it hasn't arrived yet. It has been hot for days already, it'll be 35 or higher the next 4 days, and I live under an almost flat, black roof with the sun on my the entire day. There will be no eepy sleepy time

Welcome to Canada 2021, where I thought the forecast was a typo

Houses that trap heat also trap cool air.

People who say their well-insulated house "traps heat" are probably keeping their windows open in the hottest part of the day.

Funny, I have air conditioning, but my crazy parents say it's bad for you.

Guess I'll just forget about sleep.

i do use the AC a lot u know >:|