h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Actually, anything under 500' would make me nervous. So I want to live on a *mountainous* island!

Well we haven't got mountains but our hills are pretty good.

They are indeed, WA.

Ben, one word: Tahiti.

Life begins at 4K feet for me. Low elevations are sometimes trying for me. I feel like I am drowning in air.

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That's a good way to put it Marv. I'm fidgetty below 800' so I'm ok lower down. But I need to be able to stretch my eyes. I like to look across to the sky, not up at it.

*sulks* Not Denmark, then...

I must say New Zealand does look appealing .
Am watching the crowd between home and first base trying to spot Hyp and syn . Looks hot , hope they took some suncream . Should have upgraded to HD all the faces are a bit

I must be an odd duck. Altitudes between sea level and about 8000 feet don't bother me at all. I mean, my ears pop when I come out of the Sierras and all that, but otherwise, no differences for me. I'm sure there a physiological ones, but I don't feel them.

People who live in apartment buildings should not allow their small children to play outside at 7 in the morning. That's all I'm saying.

Well, I'd like to be Danish, Santra - does that count?

It does. But all of us have to while away our lives well below 800 feet...

I don't have problems with varying altitudes--though I've lived most of my life below 200ish', I did spend a few years in and around Reno *googles* OK, that's only 4,500'... My main problem is transitioning--I once spent a couple of hours (OK, maybe half an hour once we'd returned to the lower elevation, but it felt eternal) in near tears before (about 10-15 years ago), because my ears would*not* pop coming down from7,500' to 1,900'. Fortunately, Faith appears to have inherited Tom's eustation tubes--he feels no discomfort whatsoever, and thinks my swallowing, yawning, jaw thrusting, and earlobe pulling a bit odd (gum chewing doesn't really work for me).

I'd like to be at a certain height (and with a liveable-on patch of land) for when sea levels rise. Some years ago there was a chance we'd be relocating to Lincolnshire. I did a lot of work with Ordnance Survey maps checking out the contours.

Mol

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The only time I've been affected by altitude is when I was just below 11,000 feet atop Beartooth Pass on the Montana-Wyoming border. The moment I stepped out of my car I felt like I was . It was awesome; I was so high, I could see the curvature of the .

And that's high as in altitude...not as in .

Mol, that must have been hard work. I didn't think there were many contour lines in Lincolnshire (at least not above mean sea level).

Well, there are the Wolds. And very woldy they are too. I was quite disorientated. http://www.flickr.com/groups/lincolnshire-wolds/pool/

Let me guess: "wold" is Olde Englishe for...something.

FG.

Wold springs from Olde Engish Wald...=forested.....goes back to Old Norse......Weald.

Hope this enlightens you!!!



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