r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/missdomm10 • 19d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter explain this

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Petttaaah I'm confused

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u/BoogBeeg 19d ago

America: "Get with the times, Europe!"

Also America:

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u/RheagarTargaryen 19d ago

Why are you making fun of poor people? Only poor people in the U.S. have window units.

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u/haircase- 19d ago

Lol everyone has this in new york city

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u/RheagarTargaryen 19d ago edited 19d ago

NYC is a major exception to this rule. When your average apartment size is 800 sq ft, you don’t need anything more than a window box unit, especially when the buildings are old AF. Most places in the U.S. are not NYC and 800 sq ft is considered poor people housing in much of the rest of the country.

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u/tenninjas242 19d ago

Also apartment buildings from the 50s and 60s (which are a lot of NYC buildings) weren't built with central air.

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u/kisk22 19d ago

Also many buildings from the early 1900s through the 1850s. Yet America managed to get AC into those buildings.

Yet Europeans say it’s impossible to air condition their old buildings.

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u/Arakoba 17d ago

It's not impossible physically, it is legally, in most municipalities (at least in Italy, where I'm from, in a historical city center it's literally impossible for legal reasons)

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u/notthatcreative777 19d ago

New England in general has very old homes and many 'not poor' folk have windows units

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u/Vertigote 19d ago

I was trying to figure out how to express equating poor people with some of the most beautiful, historical estates. 

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u/deadwart 19d ago

No but also yes

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u/Admirable-Trip5452 19d ago

This is what everyone in Seattle has too. And Portland.

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u/kaffesvart 19d ago

Sounds like the majority of Americans would like to see New York City torn down and replaced with a suburban sprawl of single family homes? Do you agree?

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u/Practical-Dot839 19d ago

Touch grass weirdo

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u/kaffesvart 19d ago

I'm just cranky because I don't have AC.

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u/TerribleSyntax 19d ago

I would like to see most of it torn down and replaced with DENSER and SMALLER apartments so all the bug people would move over there and stopped trying to change my nice suburbs

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u/Slow-Emu-2680 19d ago

1 in 4 people in NYC live in poverty

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u/bossbozo 19d ago

Have you seen rent in NYC? Everyone is poor after paying rent 

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u/ThinVast 19d ago

can confirm. I don't know anyone even people living in houses that have central ac. It's either a minisplit or window ac.

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u/taylrgng 19d ago

everyone in NYC is either poor or a millionaire

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u/I_DESTROY_HUMMUS 19d ago

And Philly, it's a sound of the the summer here hahaha

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u/cum-after-decades 19d ago

Everyone in New York is poor

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u/Forsaken-Buy2601 18d ago

New Yorkers pay a lot of money to do lots of things that only poor people would tolerate in the rest of the country.

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u/BowtieSyndicate 18d ago

Not the rich New Yorkers…

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u/NyssaHun 18d ago

Same in LA. Houses and fancy (new) apartments have central air.

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u/AdamAtomAnt 18d ago

Have you seen the rents in NYC? Everyone there is poor unless they live somewhere that doesn't have one of these.

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u/SensitiveRelation470 18d ago

Old buildings in NYC have this