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I can relate to that claustrophobic feeling.
I miss the openness that the west offers.
Different strokes for different folks.
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Originally Posted by GraniteStater
I prefer pine trees, I have a yard full of various evergreen trees, much better than dealing with the nasty sun baking my yard all year, and cuts down on wind and evaporation. Open areas with little vegetation just have horrible climates and tons of wind, I lived in those areas, NEVER AGAIN. Not to mention constant drought and fire threats.
Western Washington has a good balance between dense evergreen forests to the wide open flat farmlands of Skagit with distant mountains in the horizons.
It gets old quick, especially when driving on the flat Interstate through Mississippi. The tall and thick pine trees growing on both sides is like driving through a tunnel.
It depends where you are. Every eastern state has at least some forested areas that are hilly, making the roadside scenery less monotonous, even Indiana.
Roads in the east that travel along rivers are often prettier than ones in the west as well. Things like this and this are okay but I'd rather look at something with more lush foliage overhanging the water.
It gets old quick, especially when driving on the flat Interstate through Mississippi. The tall and thick pine trees growing on both sides is like driving through a tunnel.
I think it depends where we are talking about. Places like Vermont are very hilly and green...stuff like that wouldn't get old but some place as you describe definitely would(to me anyway).
EDIT: didn't even see the response above me cover this lol.
Some Vermont pics. I wouldn't get bored of seeing stuff like this:
I think it depends where we are talking about. Places like Vermont are very hilly and green...stuff like that wouldn't get old but some place as you describe definitely would(to me anyway).
EDIT: didn't even see the response above me cover this lol.
Some Vermont pics. I wouldn't get bored of seeing stuff like this:
Wisconsin has a history of large, destructive wildfires. The Peshtigo Fire of 1871 burned over a million acres and killed more than 2,000 people.
Fires and drought can certainly occur in the Northwoods, however, the western US has much greater magnitude and quantity of fires and drought with no end in sight. Overall climate warming is more pronounced there as well.
Because they're mostly right. I've been to Arkansas and I very much enjoyed my time there.
Well, yeah, Hot Springs where Clinton lived when young and Eureka Springs are interesting places to visit.
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