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I lived in Texas and other states for quite a few years, I do know what I'm discussing so I'd refrain from making assumptions like that in the future.

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Try visiting Ireland for a holiday. Your eyes will bleed green.

It's on the list for next year, trust me.

I live in Ireland. It's not that green; there's lots of thorny, hardy plants that honestly look more brown/yellowish. Lots of greenery, yes. :)

Visit Norway sometime, and you'll know what a truly green country looks like.

(Can we get another few links on this chain, I wonder?)

Since we're dick measuring: come to Slovenia some time. 60% of the country covered in forests. NatGeo just voted us the most sustainable country in the world.

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/features/2017-best-...

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You should see my cousin's green.

But anyway, come to Tasmania in June through August, go for a hike in the temperate rainforests and see some of the tallest flowering trees in the solar system.

Also we do artisan coffee (or just coffee if you're not in to that wank) out of a trailer we hand-built from the ground up.

Bucketlisted.

Come to Finland!

Forests cover 75 percent of Finland's land area. For every Finn, there is around 4,2 hectares of forest. In Finland, land area is classified according to its use. 86 percent of land area is forestry land.

It is very green, unless it is winter in which case it is either white (due to snow) or bleak and miserable due to darkness.

As a Finn, I second the "bleak and miserable".

Hell, I moved to London for the weather.

As a Norwegian (from Oslo) living in London, who has visited Finland during the summer and found it "bleak and miserable" even then (ok, so not all the time we did have some days with sun too), I'm not surprised. Though London is bleak and miserable compared to Oslo even during the winter (I prefer snow over rain any day..)

I moved from Scotland to Helsinki. The snow & cold aren't so bad, but the darkness is really something that took some getting used to.

There's a reason why an area of California is referred to as "the emerald triangle".

Definitely lots of green.

Belgiu m ! We're super green, but the climate is so horrible that you'll be depressed anyway :-)

Michigan - no place in the state more than about 5 miles from a river, lake, swamp. :-)

Wait, you think Texas is green? Hahaha. Good one.

You've obviously never been.

It's not, compared to the pacific northwest. I recall taking photos on my first visit to an Oregon university because they _obviously_ were watering their lawn in the winter to keep it that green instead of letting it go dormant.

A large sliver of the PNW is temperate rainforest, so yes. When you have areas that get 100-170 inches of rain a year (e.g. Olympic peninsula area), it's probably going to be very green at that point.

I live in Austin. I do know what I'm discussing so if I were you I'd refrain from making assumptions like that in the future.

Other than during the spring, most of TX is not particularly green (to put it charitably), even by the coast where it rains more. Source: have lived there for a long time

Texas is a large state, with many different climates.

The Eastern part of it is classified as humid subtropical. It is indeed very green. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Texas#Piney_Woods for verification and https://www.pinterest.com/CollyBlackSheep/east-texas-piney-w... for plenty of acceptably green pictures.

Cool picture from the Texas climate page, showcasing the darkening affect of rainfall. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rain-Darkened_Texa...

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