My ex owned the last car I drove. She did not have a license, so I was pretty much the only person to ever drive in the house. Now I'm out of her house, so no more car. I'm walking everywhere in an extremely car dependant area, there's public transport it just sucks ass. However, I'm liking the walking. The more I do it, the less I even think about it. My ass is gonna look great, I can still get pretty much everything I care about within walking distance, life is good.
I'm from massive two shits originally, so I kinda understand, but I didn't remember the summers being that bad and I know it's gotten worse but before I left in 2009 it was common to have AC, at the very least as a window unit and using methods like blankets to concentrate the AC in certain rooms, and I'm sure using plastic on the windows like we would during the winter would help too.