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As a Californian I have the same problem. Just about anywhere you go here there's mountains or at least hills. Driving east from Denver on I70 is just a feature
by giantrobot 4y ago
As a Californian I have the same problem. Just about anywhere you go here there's mountains or at least hills. Driving east from Denver on I70 is just a featureless flat plane. I've driven all over the Great Plains and it's just unsettling. There's an old joke that you can watch your dog run away for three days which is not that much of an exaggeration.
- wincy 4y agoAs a midwesterner, California feels to me as if the very earth itself is conspiring against me, saying “those people in the hills above, they’re richer and better than you, poor lowly scum”. It just unnerves me when I’m in California.
- astrange 4y agoThey're also the ones with all the wildfire and power outage risks though.
- giantrobot 4y agoOh, the hills are definitely saying that. Don't take it personally though, they say that to all of us.
- ngold 4y agoAs a Californian, I moved to Sacramento but it drove me crazy it was so flat.
- Archelaos 4y ago> There's an old joke that you can watch your dog run away for three days which is not that much of an exaggeration. We have a joke here about people who live in the flat northern coastal regions of Germany: They can see at breakfast who is visiting at lunch. -- But that is nothing compared to the people who live in the mountains in the south: They can see at breakfast who is visiting at supper.