There’s a hilly village in Dorset, Britishland which was used in a TV commercial for Hovis bread many years ago. Here’s a view of the same hill taken during one of the “Beast From The East” winter storms recently:
My first question is: what the hell would possess anyone to build a village on so steep an incline?
My second question: I wonder what the incidence of thrombosis is in this village, compared to the national average?
I wondered much the same question (#1) when I lived in West Virginia. My only answer was that flat land was so rare and valuable that you wouldn’t want to waste it by building a house on it. Flat land was for farming and businesses, not living.
You mean like this: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lombard_Street_San_Francisco_2004.jpg
Steep AND earthquake.