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For me scenery is why I want to move. There are some advantages to living in KS, but the lack of scenery kills me. Here is my problem here: Not only is there not much to do with the natural scenery, but the climate makes it almost impossible to landscape. I lived in SW Fla for a few years. It's not a gorgeous natural landscape, mostly swampland. However, you have the beautiful sunsets on the beach and a climate that will grow all kinds of flowers and trees. So although there weren't any majestic views, I was content looking at vegetation. Kansas...well I feel like our scenery is a double screw. Its flat and the climate isn't dry enough to get desert plants. We normally get heavy spring rains that tell the grass and trees, yes you can grow here. Then by mid June the rains are gone, the triple digit heat is here and by August is has killed everything. The trees here don't grow tall. And the wind and ice storms really deforms their shape. I don't hate the city of Wichita, but terrain depresses me. I can't imagine living in Amarillo, TX.
I've lived here for a couple of years now and I still poke whoever is sitting beside me in the car and say "hey, hey, look at that, isn't it just gorgeous"!
It annoys my DD to no end, but I don't think I'll ever tire of seeing the mountains all around me. I mean even the view from the Walmart parking lot is nice.
For me scenery is why I want to move. There are some advantages to living in KS, but the lack of scenery kills me. Here is my problem here: Not only is there not much to do with the natural scenery, but the climate makes it almost impossible to landscape. I lived in SW Fla for a few years. It's not a gorgeous natural landscape, mostly swampland. However, you have the beautiful sunsets on the beach and a climate that will grow all kinds of flowers and trees. So although there weren't any majestic views, I was content looking at vegetation. Kansas...well I feel like our scenery is a double screw. Its flat and the climate isn't dry enough to get desert plants. We normally get heavy spring rains that tell the grass and trees, yes you can grow here. Then by mid June the rains are gone, the triple digit heat is here and by August is has killed everything. The trees here don't grow tall. And the wind and ice storms really deforms their shape. I don't hate the city of Wichita, but terrain depresses me. I can't imagine living in Amarillo, TX.
no unfortunately -_-
the scenery here is very flat and boring, and our native trees are more like overgrown shrubs. all that we have is the crappy beach, with its 3 foot waves that aren't very useful. when i traveled from texas to california (by charter bus), the dramatic change in landscape shocked me. first time seeing a mountain, i must say
*hehe, someones defensiveness about hating palms made me lol, ive been around palms my whole life and i HATE them. like previously stated, they create no shade, are EVERYWHERE to the point of getting annoying. still, like i said, they're better than the trees that grow native to the area. i just wish we had beautiful, dramatic pines here like everyone else. you people take these kinds of things for granted
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Wow, a lot of East and Northeast love in a scenery thread! I feel all fuzzy inside!
I moved to New Mexico from New York's lower Hudson Valley for the scenery. When I move back, it will be for the scenery (and family :-).
I just prefer the balance of lush forest, wide rivers, steep cliffs, everything pulsating with life. There is nothing like seeing a quaint church steeple and gambrel roofs poking up from billowing, leafy branches of greenest green with hills rising wild in the background shedding numerous unnamed creeks and unvisited gorges of vine-dressed rock, cool and damp in their mossy cloaks.
Yes. If Portland wasn't close to Mt. Hood and the rest of the Cascades, Columbia Gorge, Oregon Coast, and didn't have forested hills on the outskirts of downtown, there's no way I'd live here. If Portland was plopped down in the middle of the Great Plains(no offense to those from there), and was almost exactly the same with the same populace, it wouldn't be enticing to me at all.
For me scenery is why I want to move. There are some advantages to living in KS, but the lack of scenery kills me. Here is my problem here: Not only is there not much to do with the natural scenery, but the climate makes it almost impossible to landscape. I lived in SW Fla for a few years. It's not a gorgeous natural landscape, mostly swampland. However, you have the beautiful sunsets on the beach and a climate that will grow all kinds of flowers and trees. So although there weren't any majestic views, I was content looking at vegetation. Kansas...well I feel like our scenery is a double screw. Its flat and the climate isn't dry enough to get desert plants. We normally get heavy spring rains that tell the grass and trees, yes you can grow here. Then by mid June the rains are gone, the triple digit heat is here and by August is has killed everything. The trees here don't grow tall. And the wind and ice storms really deforms their shape. I don't hate the city of Wichita, but terrain depresses me. I can't imagine living in Amarillo, TX.
That is why I won't move back to Kansas. I prefer the coasts or a place with lots of woods and greenery.
I don't think I could live somewhere solely on scenery unless I was filthy rich and didn't need a job. lol
But it helps.
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