I would say that it depends on humidity. If humidity is high then sweating stops working. If it's low, you want as much water evaporating off of you as possible.
Low humidity is so much better when you are living in a house with no AC. A good spray-bottle with water and a fan can keep you reasonably comfortable. Even better if you can rig up a proper swamp-cooler with a continuous spray.
Unfortunately summers in Philadelphia are too humid for swamp-coolers to work great, and in Seattle summers it doesn't work at all (there is no AC in Seattle, even though the city desperately needs it for almost two months out of the year. People will tell you it is only too hot in Seattle for 1 week out of the year... they are lying or crazy. Perhaps natives simply don't understand what it can be like to actually sleep in a cool room during the summer...)
I once spent a summer in a house with no AC in Atlanta. I honestly do not understand how areas like that ever became populated before the advent of AC in the first place.
Low humidity is so much better when you are living in a house with no AC. A good spray-bottle with water and a fan can keep you reasonably comfortable. Even better if you can rig up a proper swamp-cooler with a continuous spray.
Unfortunately summers in Philadelphia are too humid for swamp-coolers to work great, and in Seattle summers it doesn't work at all (there is no AC in Seattle, even though the city desperately needs it for almost two months out of the year. People will tell you it is only too hot in Seattle for 1 week out of the year... they are lying or crazy. Perhaps natives simply don't understand what it can be like to actually sleep in a cool room during the summer...)
I once spent a summer in a house with no AC in Atlanta. I honestly do not understand how areas like that ever became populated before the advent of AC in the first place.