03-10-2008, 03:48 AM
Good Morning All,
Hi April, I'm wholly with you.
I chose to live up the mountain primarily because my project here is a long term one, and the climate at 2700 feet is about perfect as far as I can see. It's 40 to 80 degrees every day, warms up fast, and the wood is used only minimally at night and at a very low burn simply to keep the house dry. If you figure that you'll add 10 degrees F to that in 20 years, very possible, it will be plenty toasty. As well, I get adequate sustainable rainwater, year round. As everybody clears and builds down the hill, the rain will first cease at the coast and get dryer and dryer up the hill. The altitude buys me a great deal of time, and I simply don't believe anybody has the will to avert disaster. As well, I work for a living, and it has a physical component to it, and while the climate down low is nice for cocktails on the porch in the shade it's pretty mean at the end of a tool. As well, there just a whole lot less "busybody" action up here, hippies, activists, methheads, or baby boomers posting signs about meetings of one thing or another. And that's fine too. It's very quiet, mostly real people with real jobs. Certainly, there's some kooks in the brush, and you should lock your stuff up, but all in all it's pretty sleepy and the riff-raff is going to get starved out with fuel prices as they are. That's already happening.
I really believe that high altitude tropical is probably the most valuable land in the world, and sadly there's very little of it.
Hi April, I'm wholly with you.
I chose to live up the mountain primarily because my project here is a long term one, and the climate at 2700 feet is about perfect as far as I can see. It's 40 to 80 degrees every day, warms up fast, and the wood is used only minimally at night and at a very low burn simply to keep the house dry. If you figure that you'll add 10 degrees F to that in 20 years, very possible, it will be plenty toasty. As well, I get adequate sustainable rainwater, year round. As everybody clears and builds down the hill, the rain will first cease at the coast and get dryer and dryer up the hill. The altitude buys me a great deal of time, and I simply don't believe anybody has the will to avert disaster. As well, I work for a living, and it has a physical component to it, and while the climate down low is nice for cocktails on the porch in the shade it's pretty mean at the end of a tool. As well, there just a whole lot less "busybody" action up here, hippies, activists, methheads, or baby boomers posting signs about meetings of one thing or another. And that's fine too. It's very quiet, mostly real people with real jobs. Certainly, there's some kooks in the brush, and you should lock your stuff up, but all in all it's pretty sleepy and the riff-raff is going to get starved out with fuel prices as they are. That's already happening.
I really believe that high altitude tropical is probably the most valuable land in the world, and sadly there's very little of it.