unrelated to the broader tree discussion, but i find this comment incredibly indicative of the type of forum this is. only with engineers do you have to state your point and enumerate through all edge cases around how your idea can be interpreted even though GP PROBABLY didn't mean go back and live there until the end of his life. But even so, that's a derailment of the entire discussion anyway. You always have a person that needs to point out something inane like that which ends up causing a tangent discussion. On a forum, it's fine, you have threads, you can just ignore it and move on, but a lot of meetings & real conversations end up this way. there has to be a name for this because I want to call it something and then coach people out of it

Let’s wait 20 years and re-assess.

For context I live in US city that everyone knows, and the talk of the town is “when will our tap water will become brackish, and for how long?”

Fun times ahead. Not sure the appeal of the industrial time will stand.

Edit : the when is a matter of days / weeks. Not years. ( salt of the gulf goes up the river )

Have you ever seen The Truman show ? Your comment reminds me of that movie.

I said that I want to visit. Not stay forever.

On the other hand, I’m not sure what it is but people seem to always have to point this same thing out. Actually seems like it’s a more common thing to say nowadays. It comes across as insecurity to me.

“You wouldn’t want to go back to simpler times they are just awful, run along now…”

I grew up around my great grandparents and grandparents. I never heard them say anything horrible about the past. I heard a lot of beautiful things though.