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Re:Living in the world's most welcoming countries by Arcsech on Thursday February 16, 2017 @02:00PM (#13662538)
Colorado Springs is about the same altitude (~6000ft), Denver is only a little lower. By and large you don't notice unless you do something that makes you breathe hard, in which case it'll take you a while to catch your breath for the first few weeks.

Honestly the biggest annoyance about living at altitude is baking recipes require adjustment pretty much all the time, you can't just use a bread recipe designed for sea level and expect it to work right.

Re:Living in the world's most welcoming countries by david-given on Thursday February 16, 2017 @02:23PM (#13662751)
A British friend of mine lives in Colorado. He loves everything about the place, except for one thing: he can't get a decent cup of tea there for love nor money. (Because water boils at too low a temperature.)
Re:Living in the world's most welcoming countries by Arcsech on Friday February 17, 2017 @01:36PM (#13670556)
I just drink green or white tea mostly, which you steep at a lower temperature anyway.

But yeah, water boils at 201F where I live, so I know this pain.

Re:Living in the world's most welcoming countries by wnoise on Thursday February 16, 2017 @02:31PM (#13662823)
Now I'm wondering about pressure-cooking tea...
Re:Living in the world's most welcoming countries by Arcsech on Friday February 17, 2017 @01:35PM (#13670542)
I think the problem you'd have is that good tea is a function of both time and temperature - you'd end up ruining the tea because of the time it takes to get the vessel to pressure.

Unless you had some way of keeping the tea isolated until the vessel got to pressure...