Jan 2nd, 2017: The Hilltop House

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Snakeadelic

You want better elevation, come check out where I live. I just found a list of over 80 named peaks in my home county, all of which appear to be 5,000-9,000 feet (a few sneak a couple hundred feet past the 9K mark, but I see no 10Ks on the list).

Just dress warm. It's a whopping 6 degrees F. out there this morning before the windchill...

Not a major mountain, a thousand feet with a commanding view would suffice.

Originally Posted by glatt

It's a good house for hermits. Looks like a zombie apocalypse bunker. Not a neighborhood house at all. Anti social. Plus it's a long way to take the garbage cans to the curb.

No, not at "neighborhood house", I don't want to live in a neighborhood. Privacy doesn't equate with anti social. Don't have to be a hermit, but no neighbors to wag about the size of my harem is a plus. Garbage cans don't go to the curb, everything goes into the nuclear incinerator to foil the NSA, then the only threat is Bond, James Bond.

[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

...then the only threat is Bond, James Bond.

...and earthquakes.

[blueboy56]

Where we are in Washington state, even if the sea level rose ~200 feet,
people could put in their kayaks and paddle to Seattle.

[Alluvial]

Originally Posted by Gravdigr

...and earthquakes.

I'm told that earth-sheltered houses ride out earthquakes very well, since they are within the ground rather than on top of it.