Goodness, so much sky and flatness! Some of those give me a particularly unfocused, dispersed feeling (with a tinge of existential angst) -- Pittsburgh is so hilly that you're always in a very focused and somewhat claustrophobic space no matter where you go.
I felt really disoriented when I lived in Richmond...I always felt sort of boxed in and claustrophobic. I miss the sky when I go somewhere else...you can't see it in these photos, but we also get the most amazing sunsets I've seen anywhere. I think I would miss the sky if I moved somewhere else.
I missed all sorts of strange things when I moved here from New Orleans. Weirdly, I actually liked driving across Ohio and Indiana (which seem to be comprised entirely of really long grass which may or may not be on fire, and cows, and uninhabited farmhouses, and signs pointing to Toledo) on the way to Chicago all the time last year, because at least there was a little bit of sky. Just walking around in Arizona was some really amazing geographic euphoria :)
yeah, driving across indiana really gives me an appriciation for not living in indiana...have you ever been to eastern colorado/western kansas before? That is seriously one of the most surreal places I've ever been...dead flat, mostly uninhabited. and just mile after mile of treeless fields. It's actually kind of impressive if you're overanalytical like me and think of it as a microcosim of the most fertile and efficient agricultural land in the world, and realize that the hundreds of miles that you can see at any given moment are only a tiny percentage of the actual scope of the great plains. That being said, it's still boring to drive through; there's nothing to look at. Oklahoma is like that in some parts, but central oklahoma, where OKC is , is really more low, rolling hills covered in dense, small trees, with occasional towns, cities, and tract housing developments carved out of it
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