Yes. Europeans are pretty weird in manner of AC installing and usage. Same goes for hearing in winter. For me (also an European) is super weird. Out of them all, Italians are the most... well, the most. You have to beg for AC, you have to beg for heating. Literally. I can confirm the turning on each other thing (though I think it applies to Positano or to Positano also). I suffered from heat in Rome and in Positano two years ago. Last year I was in Italy in December for a short holiday and I literally had to turn on all radiators in the rented apartment. I used the AC on heating. 4 days in and the radiators where barely starting to heat. I literally can't understand them. Germans are also kinda weird in the same way regarding heating. Greeks (and Croats people) have poor and/or old AC units in most of the locations. In my country normally you should not install ACs on facades, but nobody cares about this in many parts of the country. There is a stupid trend with central heating, central AC, being strong and adapting to outside temperatures, that it kills me. I don't get it. I don't want it. I want comfort.