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> There's an old joke that you can watch your dog run away for three days which is not that much of an exaggeration.

We have a joke here about people who live in the flat northern coastal regions of Germany: They can see at breakfast who is visiting at lunch. -- But that is nothing compared to the people who live in the mountains in the south: They can see at breakfast who is visiting at supper.

As a midwesterner, California feels to me as if the very earth itself is conspiring against me, saying “those people in the hills above, they’re richer and better than you, poor lowly scum”.

It just unnerves me when I’m in California.

They're also the ones with all the wildfire and power outage risks though.

Oh, the hills are definitely saying that. Don't take it personally though, they say that to all of us.

As a Californian, I moved to Sacramento but it drove me crazy it was so flat.