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To: combjelly who wrote (473410)	4/20/2009 9:39:22 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575602

The difference between the US (South) and the Italian South is the installed base of air conditioning. Only a few years ago, when old people started succumbing to the heat in masses in France, Greece and other hot countries, did a market for air conditioners slowly emerge. Why is that? A combination of high energy costs and high AC unit costs due to the small market has kept AC from getting big in Europe. Just imagine Arizona and Texas mid summer and no AC.... How hard do you believe those guys would work? Did I forget FL? Nobody does any real work there anyway. We had a company in Ft Lauderdale for 8 years. Carl Hiasen's FL stories are fun - and true. Taro

To: combjelly who wrote (473410)	4/20/2009 1:18:12 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575602

Or rather as I mentioned before, the heat." Europeans are weird. It is hotter in the American South. Just look at a globe. My current location is about the same latitude as the center of the Sahara desert. It is a lot hotter here than in Italy. My wife's friends from Germany used to schedule visits in August. When warned about the heat, they replied that they liked it when it was hot. But they were thinking Spain, not Northern Africa. Needless to say, they decided they didn't like it quite so hot... Spain and Italy have a Mediterranean climate like CA. Much drier, humidity wise, than TX and that makes the heat much more tolerable. Plus, when Germans go to Spain, they spend their days on the beach playing, not working, with few if any clothes on. Are Southerners more lazy than they rest of the country? Granted, most Southern states are poorer. But that is more correlated with much of the South is still rural. The metroplexes are not nearly as poor and probably stack up favorably with similar areas in other parts of the country. I don't think southerners are lazier but I do think southerners [outside the cities] don't put as much of a premium on education as northerners and westerners do. I think that contributes significantly to the economic gap between the three regions. Do you disagree?