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I've only been living in SoCal for 6 years. This is the first year I've seen any greenery since I got here.
by ntaylor 10y ago
I've only been living in SoCal for 6 years. This is the first year I've seen any greenery since I got here.
- tradersam 10y agoWhere in SoCal? It's always green during the spring/summers here in Orange County.
- enraged_camel 10y agoIf you think that, you probably haven't lived anywhere that's actually green. Source: I lived in Seattle for 7 years, followed by an 8 year period in SoCal. SoCal is basically a desert with some green plants.
- tradersam 10y agoI lived in Texas and other states for quite a few years, I do know what I'm discussing so I'd refrain from making assumptions like that in the future.
- enraged_camel 10y agoWait, you think Texas is green? Hahaha. Good one.
- tradersam 10y agoYou've obviously never been.
- jldugger 10y agoIt's not, compared to the pacific northwest. I recall taking photos on my first visit to an Oregon university because they _obviously_ were watering their lawn in the winter to keep it that green instead of letting it go dormant.
- soundwave106 10y agoA large sliver of the PNW is temperate rainforest, so yes. When you have areas that get 100-170 inches of rain a year (e.g. Olympic peninsula area), it's probably going to be very green at that point.
- enraged_camel 10y agoI live in Austin. I do know what I'm discussing so if I were you I'd refrain from making assumptions like that in the future.
- usefulcat 10y agoOther than during the spring, most of TX is not particularly green (to put it charitably), even by the coast where it rains more. Source: have lived there for a long time
- btilly 10y agoTexas is a large state, with many different climates. The Eastern part of it is classified as humid subtropical. It is indeed very green. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Texas#Piney_Woods https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Texas#Piney_Woods for verification and https://www.pinterest.com/CollyBlackSheep/east-texas-piney-woods/ https://www.pinterest.com/CollyBlackSheep/east-texas-piney-w... for plenty of acceptably green pictures.
- foota 10y agoCool picture from the Texas climate page, showcasing the darkening affect of rainfall. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rain-Darkened_Texas.jpg#mw-jump-to-license https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rain-Darkened_Texa...
- PhilWright 10y agoTry visiting Ireland for a holiday. Your eyes will bleed green.
- tradersam 10y agoIt's on the list for next year, trust me.
- Filligree 10y agoI live in Ireland. It's not that green; there's lots of thorny, hardy plants that honestly look more brown/yellowish. Lots of greenery, yes. :) Visit Norway sometime, and you'll know what a truly green country looks like. (Can we get another few links on this chain, I wonder?)
- Swizec 10y agoSince we're dick measuring: come to Slovenia some time. 60% of the country covered in forests. NatGeo just voted us the most sustainable country in the world. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/features/2017-best-in-sustainable-tourism/sustainable-slovenia/ http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/features/2017-best-... /micdrop
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoYou should see my cousin's green. But anyway, come to Tasmania in June through August, go for a hike in the temperate rainforests and see some of the tallest flowering trees in the solar system. Also we do artisan coffee (or just coffee if you're not in to that wank) out of a trailer we hand-built from the ground up.
- Swizec 10y agoBucketlisted.
- stevekemp 10y agoCome to Finland! Forests cover 75 percent of Finland's land area. For every Finn, there is around 4,2 hectares of forest. In Finland, land area is classified according to its use. 86 percent of land area is forestry land. It is very green, unless it is winter in which case it is either white (due to snow) or bleak and miserable due to darkness.
- btilly 10y agoI grew up in Victoria, which is pretty much like Seattle. I currently live in Orange County. I've also lived in New Hampshire, New York, and a few other places with varying levels of lushness. When I go for hikes these days in the hills of OC, it really is green. Shockingly so. The flat areas remind me of your description still, but tradersam is not crazy here.
- supercanuck 10y agoDitto in Ventura County
- cjslep 10y agoAgree. Lived in NC for 20+ years, now live in OC too. It was a bit of a culture shock moving here, seeing all the desert and dust everywhere. Happy to see quite a bit of green again!
- oxide 10y agoI had a similar, yet opposite experience moving from AZ to CA.(Northern) Going from a lifetime of desert living with miserable weather and the greenest sight being olianders, to a sea of green trees with more normal weather. Night and day difference.
- scruple 10y agoAnd to think, we didn't get nearly as much rain as other parts of the state.
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- WillPostForFood 10y agoThe grass isn't greener in seattle or ireland than SoCal. It's just that the grass in socal turns brown in the summer, and sometimes for a few years at a time. But right now after a several months of rain, and spring arriving, the hill I look out my window at is 100% green. It can't be any greener, because it is entirely covered in green. SoCal is literally a desert, that turns green when it rains.
- killjoywashere 10y agoI live in SoCal and have lived in or worked in most other parts of the country, including Seattle. You are only seeing SoCal from the ground level: looking straight across the earth, yes, it looks green right now. I did a trail run this afternoon, I definitely agree it's green. But it's still a light green. Some of the palms are still yellow. Get in a plane and look down. You have no idea how brown it still is. You fly that plane to Seattle, there's three layers of green canopy, held up by trunks covered with green moss, rising indistinguishably from the ground which is also dripping with green.
- WillPostForFood 10y agohttps://twitter.com/tinashakour/status/845730376660103168 https://twitter.com/tinashakour/status/845730376660103168
- legohead 10y agoI imagine he's talking about the mountains. When I moved here 5 years ago, all the mountains were just dead, brown, and ugly. I didn't understand how anyone called the mountains beautiful. This is the first year I've seen them green, and looking alive.
- freshyill 10y agoIve been flying out to SF from the east coast three to four times a year for the last three years. Every time, I've been struck by how brown everything is. Well, I'm in San Diego right now (a little different, I know), and now I'm struck by how green everything is. Glad it's finally let up.
- codecamper 10y agoThanks for your CO2 contributions. Happy to hear you are enjoying the scenery.
- shaftway 10y agoIt'll go brown again by June. It's not called The Golden State because there was gold, it's because of the characteristically gold color of the hills in the summer. https://www.google.com/search?q=california+hills+summer&tbm=isch https://www.google.com/search?q=california+hills+summer&tbm=...
- freshyill 10y agoIve been flying out to SF from the east coast three to four times a year for the last three years. Every time, I've been struck by how brown everything is. Well, I'm in San Diego right now (a little different, I know), and now I'm struck by how green everything is. Glad it's finally let up.