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My room temperature typically oscillates between 12°C (bedtime temp on chilly winter days) and 28°C (bedtime temp on warm summer days). On a normal year, the extremes are around 9°C and 31°C. I still don't have a fan, but it might help on these warm evenings.
If I had AC, I'd ideally set it to around 21°C, though I'd probably end up setting it to 25°C to save some bucks.
How much heat do you use? If you're in a large apartment building that has good insulation, maybe you could get away with no heat on many winter days?
I usually don't use heat in my room unless I'm sick (hot water heaters on this side of the pond). Though when the temp goes below a certain temp around the heater, the thermostatic valve automatically lets in some hot water (I guess to prevent freeze?). In other rooms, heating is set to about 19°C-20°C, so it is still needed. Yeah, that is a large difference, but my room faces the north, is below the roof and the building has basically zero insulation (single glazing and about one foot wide brick and gritstone walls). It sometimes feels like entering a fridge.
No A/C, in my parents' home, temps got to around 85F at most in afternoons/evenings on the ground floor, but the basement was low 70s at most with a couple beds we could sleep in at night. Generally temperatures wouldn't go above mid 70s on the main floor though since we usually opened the windows at night and closed them (and blinds if necessary) during the day in the summer.
Now I'm going to spend my first summer away from my parents' home in university (would spend summers at parents until now) so we'll see how this house does. My parents' home is a 1960 ranch house, the one I'm renting in is a 2 storey century home.
Generally, I like the heat at around 65F in the winter, and am quite comfortable in 75F, even low 80s aren't too bad (even with humidity). 65-70F is my ideal for sleeping.
According to my mother, I set mine to "meat locker". She carries on about it and brings a sweater on those rare occasions she visits.
I have window units. Right now it's been in the 90s and I set my digital window unit control to between 72 and 74, but put it down to 70 for sleeping. When it starts reaching the high 90's and 100's and staying there, I set it as low as it will go, which is 65, but that doesn't mean the room ever actually gets down to 65. My bedroom has no shade and tons of windows and the house is over 100 years old so it's a struggle to keep it comfy in the worst part of summer. The living room, on the other hand, is very shaded and stays nice and cool with the larger window unit that is in there.
In winter, we have a single large gas heater in the middle of the apartment that does TOO good of a job heating up the left half of the place and does practically nothing for the "right half", where the bedrooms and bathroom are located, unless we leave all the bedroom doors open. We rarely turn that on, only if it's below 40 and never overnight as it gets too warm. We just use electric blankets and wear hoodies and sweats around the house. We use a small electric space heater in the bath for avoiding a cold bathroom after a shower.
I also forget that some people don't have AC and have no need for it. It's like hearing tales of Neverland or something.
I live in a place where no one has a/c (it rarely gets over 80 here in the summer), but when I lived in central California I kept it at 80 in the summer and 65 in the winter. My town there cooled down to the 50s or 60s at night (after often being over 100 during the day), so we just opened the windows at night and turned off the a/c.
According to my mother, I set mine to "meat locker". She carries on about it and brings a sweater on those rare occasions she visits.
I have window units. Right now it's been in the 90s and I set my digital window unit control to between 72 and 74, but put it down to 70 for sleeping. When it starts reaching the high 90's and 100's and staying there, I set it as low as it will go, which is 65, but that doesn't mean the room ever actually gets down to 65. My bedroom has no shade and tons of windows and the house is over 100 years old so it's a struggle to keep it comfy in the worst part of summer. The living room, on the other hand, is very shaded and stays nice and cool with the larger window unit that is in there.
In winter, we have a single large gas heater in the middle of the apartment that does TOO good of a job heating up the left half of the place and does practically nothing for the "right half", where the bedrooms and bathroom are located, unless we leave all the bedroom doors open. We rarely turn that on, only if it's below 40 and never overnight as it gets too warm. We just use electric blankets and wear hoodies and sweats around the house. We use a small electric space heater in the bath for avoiding a cold bathroom after a shower.
I also forget that some people don't have AC and have no need for it. It's like hearing tales of Neverland or something.
yeah I wish I could just leave the AC on during the intense summer heat. but every time we do that the Ac unit will freeze up and then I'll have to deal with temps in my house around 90. So I'll take 80f-82f as long as I can avoid freezing up the unit.
yeah I wish I could just leave the AC on during the intense summer heat. but every time we do that the Ac unit will freeze up and then I'll have to deal with temps in my house around 90. So I'll take 80f-82f as long as I can avoid freezing up the unit.
yes 1 of them but those are not the one i'm talking about i'm talking about the central AC for the entire house.
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If you're in a large apartment building that has good insulation, maybe you could get away with no heat on many winter days?
She carries on about it and brings a sweater on those rare occasions she visits. 
Georgia is flat out hot in summer. 90/75 weather is awful.
