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In South Eastern England (and especially in my protected Vale home) we get nothing like the temperatures you do. Our current overnight lows barely hit zero (32) and it's generally 10-16 (50-60).
Snow is unusual where I live. A hard frost is more likely, but having to scrape your car windscreen for more than three days in a row is too.
I am hardy as it happens. Walking into work I consider anything above 53 to be T-shirt weather. But that's because it's a mile uphill. I take a jacket or my cloak on Mondays because I have playground duty and am static for 15 minutes. I don't go for the hat, the scarf, the gloves and the boots that other teachers and TAs deem essential. And I walk back into the over-heated classroom reluctantly, rather than feeling relief at finally being warm!
A/C in private homes is extremely rare here. I have been in a millionaire's house and they didn't have it.
But with scorching summer tremperatures that might reach the giddy heights of 32 (90) for one day every year, we find a way to live without it. I melt at anything over 23 (73) but mobile fans and lying down tend to deal with that. Oh and sweating copiously. Still, at least I don't commute by Tube any more.
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