Chill Dude 69Maybe it's the hot air coming up from the subway. Or out of your fucking mouth.
In the south, you’re probably driving around in an air conditioned vehicle, sitting in an air conditioned house, visiting an air conditioned business. You’re spending as little time outside as possible. In NYC, you’re walking all over the fucking place, waiting for a subway car, standing on a platform surrounded by 50 other people, climbing three flights of stairs to get out of the subway station and on to the street where you still need to walk 5 blocks to get where you’re going.
That doesn’t make 81F hotter than 108F.
That’s obvious, but the sentence implies that we are talking about the experience of living in those temperatures in those places, you know, as a human and not just a computer comparing two numbers that are larger or smaller.
As a human, living in 108F is hotter than living in 81F and it is because one number is larger than the other.
The point they’re making is that folks aren’t typically experiencing 108 as a significant part of their lives, because they’re oftentimes shuttling around from air conditioned refuge to air conditioned refuge. There is minimum discomfort because if you don’t have AC you legitimately might die.
However at 81 and humid, plenty of places could lack ac. 81 and humid can still be uncomfortable, so as you live life you can experience more discomfort.