No air conditioning is fine. For places like Switzerland or Northern Italy where they can definitely afford it, it's obviously a deliberate choice and I respect that. But why, why, why would bug screens then not be on windows by default?
We don't really have that many bugs? Moths sometimes, but tbh they get in anyway so I don't think it would make much difference. Flying Ant Day can be a bit ghastly but otherwise there aren't enough bugs to bother.
Also quite a lot of our windows predate the invention of modern bug screens, so it would be quite difficult to retrofit them and would spoil the look. We have lovely old single-glazed sash windows, and while I'd love to have some sort of screening to have windows open but contain the cats, I don't think there's a way to do it attractively.
I lived in a very old building in Italy that for sure predated electricity and plumbing and yet it had both. I think it would be a fairly minor engineering challenge to have windows with bug screens. They make sliding ones and screens that snap on and off, if the sliding ones aren't aesthetically pleasing. I now live in a modern high rise in Switzerland with very modern window sills and still no screens and tons of bugs that fly in every day. I'm definitely not convinced that it's just the age of the buildings.
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u/OmegaTheta 8h ago
No air conditioning is fine. For places like Switzerland or Northern Italy where they can definitely afford it, it's obviously a deliberate choice and I respect that. But why, why, why would bug screens then not be on windows by default?