Funnily enough I grew up in rural Australia, a lot of heat and experienced a couple of droughts. Probably not surprisingly my equivalent is a snowy home ideally on or at the base of a mountain. Also unsurprisingly loved my time in Germany and loved Innsbruck so much I fly around it every now and then in MS flight sim. Frequently during the trip in Germany and down through Austria/Switzerland I had a similar almost dream like feeling on the train through the mountainous areas.

Edits: 30s and I also attributed to wanting to see places different to where we grow/know.

No offence but that’s shortsighted to be generous. I feel like half of lemmy will carry on about social media being cancer, the frequent articles citing negative effects of SM on mental health and the fact that multiple social media companies are accused of propagating misinformation (Zuckerberg face sure is in lemmy a lot lately for some reason). Like Zuck has all but greenlit harassing lgbt+ people on FB and the SM ban is to stop gay kids finding a community? Please. Corporate SM is a blight and before someone says lemmy/reddit check the mod logs or the fact that lemmy only got CSAM under control relatively recently before suggesting it’s fine for kids.

Why does this read as passively blaming Australians for modern day California wildfires?? Also fyi (it’s a paragraph or two so I’ll put it in a spoiler) it was and still is a California problem.

This is a question that’s probably better suited for the perchance comm.