What is it like...

[Farrowlesparrow]

...living somewhere like the desert?

I mean, I live in quite a hilly area and its nice looking out my window, seeing hills in the distances (and for the matter, pretty much everywhere), lots and lots of lush trees with buildings sprouting up between them.

Then I think of someone in the middle of somewhere like the prairies and I think about what it must be like living with just corn or something like that for as far as the eye can see...

 

[CyberSh33p]

if you're curious about the climate, I could tell you :|
I don't have hills for about 50 miles in each direction. its awfully hot, weather is always the bloody same.

I hate it. no forest here, no trees except when planted really, mostly farmland outside of the city.

wanna trade places?

 

[moppe]

I live up north in Sweden, in Boden.
When I was younger I lived many miles away from Kiruna, in the mountains.
Blizzards, not many houses and beatyful. I loved the place.

 

[un0x]

On holiday in the us (yay) I drived tru some real deserts.. and I wondered how people live there... Sometimes we drove 3 hours without seeing any houses and suddenly there's a group of three houses or something, standing in the middle of nowhere ...

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Yeah, like they found a water hole and built a couple of houses and maybe a petrol station round it. Weird seeing stuff like that...

 

[DizzyOne]

when i went to Jordan on holidays, there were kinda Nomad ppl living in the deserts ( also one area from one of the indiana jones movies) and all they have is a toyota pickup (most of em anyway) and their cattle, most of em also lived on tourism :S. thats all i know about em tho...

 

[DreamThrall]

My parents are getting ready to sell their house and move to Arizona (the desert!). I thought it was an odd choice because they've lived in New England (North-east area of the US for you non-Americans ) their whole lives. I suppose they got sick of all the snow in the winter. Anyways, the heat isn't as bad as say LOUISIANA (where I live, not by choice), because it is dry heat, so you don't really get that sweaty. As far as being in the desert, it is a drastic change from anyone used to living in a suburb or city. I went out to the property they bought a few months ago because my dad had to do some soil test. We drove out to the desert (just to lie down beneath this bowl of stars... </counting crows reference, sorry>) to check out the property, and as soon as we stepped out of the car you notice the different. With the exception of the wind, it is SILENT. Silent like you've never heard silence. It's almost deafening. I was so used to the background noises associated with living in a suburb that it almost made me uncomfortable to not hear them. It was the oddest feeling... kind of like when your ears only half pop, so when you talk it feel like your voice is right inside your ears. But you can imagine that it is very peaceful and serene. Oh yeah, and the land is dirt (well... sand, really) cheap! </bad pun, sorry>

So that's my story. Yep. Don't move to Louisiana.

 

[Brian Damage]

I used to live in the Australian Pilbara, which is mostly a kind of scrubby gibber desert.

The average temperature is around 35 degrees celsius, which only ever gets as low as about 25 in winter, and usually gets up to around 45 in summer (though in some places it has been known to get up to 60 degrees, which is the point where your hair and fingernails can start falling out...).

It's the kind of country where you quickly learn the "Aussie Salute", ie: a constant arm-waving movement used to keep the blowflies off (and there are plenty of them to go around).

Also, if you take your shoes and socks off (check the ground you'll be walking on before doing so, though; bull ants and three-corner jacks galore out there), make sure to shake them out before putting them back on, as you never know what's been using them as a nice piece of shade in the meantime...

It's the sort of place that looks as though it was made a billion years old to begin with. Lots of iron in the soil and rocks; take away the sparse vegetation, and most of the atmosphere, and you'd almost have Mars.

Nice wildflowers after the big wet, though...

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Wow brian....25 in the winter :O I would probably turn into a prune...Oh and the "looks as though it was made a billion years old to begin with" sounds very Terry Prachett Although I guess he could have got it from somewhere.

Well....heres a picture I just took outside my window. Its not so good as what I was describing in my thread the other day, The town is missing...

This is why I like English weather, it can be like this yet this morning it was quite warm and sunny.
As a contrast, I will show you two pictures looking out over the same direction. The misty one isn't very good though because of the rain. I couldn't really stick the camera out of the window. There is another one though, facing a different way that looks alright I suppose...But yeah, its not as cool as the other way where the mist was thick enough to cover the road just below my window.

 

[KagePrototype]

Yay, yummy rain. Again.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

I love the rain. I really don't know what people have against it...After all, being wet is a state of mind Also, it just seems to symbolise so much to me. Like, a freshness and life force (water). Bleh...Maybe its just me.

 

[KagePrototype]

I love the rain. I really don't know what people have against it...After all, being wet is a state of mind Also, it just seems to symbolise so much to me. Like, a freshness and life force (water). Bleh...Maybe its just me.

I agree, It's you.

 

[un0x]

I like rain when im inside.... but like yesterday I was on the streets driving my bike, when suddenly this shower started and I was all wet when I arrived

 

[Sprafa]

I love rain too

 

[KagePrototype]

Hmm, maybe it's just me then.

 

[CyberSh33p]

I'm thirsty

 

[Dax]

Yeah, rain is always lovely when you sit inside with a hot cuppa' tea and surfing teh intraweb and just hearing the raindrops hitting on your window like crazy, of course, walking home from the bloody school with no cover nearby is another thing.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Yeah, rain is always lovely when you sit inside with a hot cuppa' tea and surfing teh intraweb and just hearing the raindrops hitting on your window like crazy, of course, walking home from the bloody school with no cover nearby is another thing.

I'm not so sure...Did you read the advice? Don't care about the little things...Honestly, getting soaked is great fun if you look at in the right light(Well, not always but when you are heading home or something to that effect, its alright). I just have a thing about weather in general really. Its never boring for me...

 

[CyberSh33p]

I'm not so sure...Did you read the advice? Don't care about the little things...Honestly, getting soaked is great fun if you look at in the right light(Well, not always but when you are heading home or something to that effect, its alright). I just have a thing about weather in general really. Its never boring for me...

being soaked can suck at first, but it can be kind of fun after a while

didn't you go to lie down?

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Yeah I got bored, bu I don't want to sign on MSN...Not really ina chatter mood. I am getting some food though...and I don't bring meals into my room, or the computer area (Which happens to now be in my room also) as a general rule.


Once you are wet, yeah, you just enjoy it really. After all, what you can't change you make the most of. (Something thats really hit me hard this past few days :O)

 

[Foxtrot]

I'm not so sure...Did you read the advice? Don't care about the little things...Honestly, getting soaked is great fun if you look at in the right light(Well, not always but when you are heading home or something to that effect, its alright). I just have a thing about weather in general really. Its never boring for me...

I like rain, if getting wet won't get me killed...a few weeks ago on my backpacking trip in New Mexico it was raining and about 35-40 degrees, my sleeping bag got wet and all my clothes were soaked and I thought I was going to die that night, I haven ever been so cold in my life and I am from Minnesota! Also the rain makes everything heavier, soaks into everything.

 

[Brian Damage]

Wow brian....25 in the winter :O I would probably turn into a prune...Oh and the "looks as though it was made a billion years old to begin with" sounds very Terry Prachett Although I guess he could have got it from somewhere.

If he ever said something like that, it's probably because that's how it really does look.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Yeah, in one of his books (Although it isnt actually called australia, its pretty obvious. heh...Its actually called ecks ecks ecks ecks "XXXX") he mentions it and basically it wasmade that old. Everyone there is supposed to drink watery beer out of tins. Its a good book actually, its called "Lost Continent" I think.

 

[leadfish]

When I used to live in a desert climate (it wasn't the hardcore desert, but pretty close while still being able to scratch a living out of the dirt with crops), the temperature went 50°C a number of times, and we often had heat-waves where it wouldn't drop below 37°C for 10 days straight, sometimes more. Those we the times when the lowest temperature of the day was like 28°C

Winter though is pretty muchly the same as the rest of Australia, except it got a little colder overnight because it's clearer.

 

[h00dlum]

I live up north in Sweden, in Boden.
When I was younger I lived many miles away from Kiruna, in the mountains.
Blizzards, not many houses and beatyful. I loved the place.

I was going to Boden this sunday to go to the army. But i got out so i dont have to go. I live in the middle of Sweden i live in a city surrounded by forests..no hills or such only forrest as far as the eye can see..

living in the desert seems to be boring..i dont like the heat.. :rolling:

 

[No Limit]

I think people are never happy with where they live and always are out looking for something new. I live in the desert and I would love to have green trees everywhere.

 

[Brian Damage]

Yeah, in one of his books (Although it isnt actually called australia, its pretty obvious. heh...Its actually called ecks ecks ecks ecks "XXXX") he mentions it and basically it wasmade that old. Everyone there is supposed to drink watery beer out of tins. Its a good book actually, its called "Lost Continent" I think.

Ah, Fourecks, with the beardless dwarves and people who look strangely like animals, right? The one where Rincewind develops the strange ability to find totally mundane food where there should be bush tucker, right? The one with the talking kangaroo that follows him around, right?

Never heard of it.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

No, I didn't think you would have. Its a quite a good book though. It has beardless dwarves, people who look like animals and even a talking kangaroo. The mian character, Rincewind, also develops a strange ability to find food in odd places. Not just any food mind...

Heh, I liked the island where the wizards were trapped full of evolving life. Strang life at that...

 

[CptStern]

I think people are never happy with where they live and always are out looking for something new. I live in the desert and I would love to have green trees everywhere.

ya I'd like to live on the surface of the sun ...sick of cold canadian winters