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Originally Posted by Quoth
In Ely?
Isn't that Fen country? I suppose you might need an artificial island for the Jet.
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Oh no he's in Silicon Valley, or at least the company HQ was in Silicon Valley before it allegedly moved to Texas without taking any staff with it: he himself is presumably on his private island at least some of the time, probably with a fleet of sharks with lasers on their heads for defence. (As for the island, though, Ely *is* an island: the Isle of Ely was a county, not too long ago, and a long time before that the place they grew Lords Chancellor.)
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Originally Posted by Quoth
I think I had a friend in my student days from there. Does Ely Cathedral occupy the only dry ground?  |
Hell no! The Isle is a good bit bigger than the city: you can really tell when you fall off it because you drop about 6m in not very much time at all (so, yeah, not a very *high* island) and all the houses suddenly get damp marks halfway up their walls, and deep drainage ditches pop up everywhere. I wouldn't really want to live down there half a metre below sea level, not in global warming times.
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Originally Posted by Quoth
Ah, you work from home and the boss's island is in the Caribbean!
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Exactly! I wouldn't want to live in the Caribbean: too hot.