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“The scale and grandeur. I’m used to nature being small, but everything in America is bigger: bigger storms, bigger mountains, bigger horizons. Even the sky seems…more. People in America are casually dealing with everything from alligators to bears, pitching tents on the sides of cliffs, and walking their dogs through literal wilderness; I genuinely feel like a hobbit watching Aragorn saunter through Middle Earth like it’s nothing while I’ve never been beyond the end of Farmer Maggot’s farm before. I love it.”

City skyline with snowy mountains in the background and a partially frozen body of water in the foreground

A person with long hair and a beard in an outdoor setting, carrying a quiver of arrows and looking back, dressed in medieval-style clothing

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—u/coffee_up

“Funny you should mention the sky, I live on the Colorado Front Range, which is about 1,610 meters above sea level. On an unpolluted day, you can see every friggin detail of the cumulus clouds in bright white. It looks like a hyper-realistic painting.”

—u/Leucipuus1