What Our Grandparents Didn't Tell Us.

It's been 6 months since I moved into Toronto and I've discovered more oddness about my apartment.

It doesn't seem to get hot.

It's warm and it's been warm since yesterday, but it's not sweating hot. It's liveable. If the rest of the summer is going to be like this, I can live with it, since we've had record breaking heat.

Adding to the mystery, though, is "Why is the apartment so cool?!"

See, it's an older building. I'm not sure about the exact age, but I think it's 1950s or 1960s. It doesn't have the "feel" of buildings from the 1970s or later. There's also no AC. At all. Yet, the hallways stay amazingly cool. You can't feel it's almost summer from the hallways. The only spot in the building that gets warm and sticky is the front entrance, out by where the mailboxes for the units are.

It could also be that, with the trees now full, I don't get very little direct sunlight.

Now, some of the ideas we can cross off. I don't have the effect of living on waterfront. I do live in a very treed area of the city, being in an older neighborhood with lots of old trees. My apartment is about ten blocks from a major green belt, which would also effect the overall temperature, I think. The apartment also has a TON of windows, most of which I can open to let air flow around. There's also that I've lived for long amounts of time without a properly working AC unit (or a furnace, even), but I was breaking sweat at 9am yesterday morning outside. Not so much inside.

It's just a very strange building. Really, really warm in the winter, decently cool in 30 degree heat.

Makes me wonder why other buildings aren't built like this.