• Magnetar@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    It’s so eerily flat there, it’s unsettling. I don’t understand how people can stand it.

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      11 months ago

      I grew up in a very flat part of England, flatness to me is the default and I get genuinely excited by hills.

      • CashewNut 🏴󠁢󠁥󠁧󠁿@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        I get excited by hills but it’s because they remind me of home. Out of my window was a deep valley with a huge hill and just watching the seasons pass each year was a joy. The spring lambing season when the sheep covered the hills to the winter with snow covering them and you’d know it was time to fetch the sledge!

        Moved to Lincolnshire in my mid teens and it bored the absolute fuck out of me. Fields of rapeseed in all directions as far as the eye could see. Relentless wind that had no hills to block it so it never changed direction.

        I found it easier biking with a BMX on hills than I did using a mountain bike in windy flat conditions.

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      11 months ago

      As someone who grew up somewhere super flat it really doesn’t get to you because it’s all you’ve ever known. However, now that I live somewhere with hills it drives me crazy when I visit home.

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          11 months ago

          I’m ok with it when music are what they’re alive with, though. As long as there’s no nazis 🤷

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        11 months ago

        I can relate. I never imagined I would see someone complain or not understand what living on a flat area is like- it’s super easy! It’s the mountains and hills what’s difficult!

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          Hills are depth. They add character to any place for free. Oh you don’t like where you are right now? Just go up