hills...not hardly. Some land is more rolling than others but mostly flat.
House is built on the peak of the grade...north slopes to the creek, south slopes to the street\sewer.
We in Illinois are known as flatlanders by those around us.
“We in Illinois are known as flatlanders by those around us.“
It must’ve been an illusion or something, or I’m just so used to seeing Hills that I saw one where there wasn’t.
Well, you are lucky, there’s lots of great reasons to have flat land. I’ve figured this out, since I moved here, and nothing is flat. We’ve had to move a lot of dirt just to build a shop. The hills do make things pretty, from a distance. Everything looks like a puzzle That I used to do in Bakersfield, of farms and country settings in the hills. But the first thing I had when I got here was sore ankles. It was hard to walk on all these hills! We gave up on one house because I kept falling down every time we tried to walk around.
Do you know when they measure acreage that follows the topography? So an acre here could actually be 2 acres where you live - the extra up and downhill stuff isn’t much value, but it makes it count as more acreage. The hills also do some interesting things with noise. In some situations sound echoes, like it did with those poor dogs that barked nonstop at our old house. People around the corner couldn’t hear them at all, but we heard them as if they were in our backyard.
And as I get older, I’m likely to fall down more. And then it’ll make it even harder to go up and down those hills. We have to totally redo our driveway, at least the part on the steepest hill. Rains and the hill have washed out the foundation. And it’s so steep we can’t just put gravel on it, it will all end up on the bottom. The bottom part of the driveway is flat and the gravel just stays there. It’s lovely. But the upper hill is going to cost us $40,000 to redo it in asphalt. Flat driveways are cheaper!!
So enjoy your flat land!