Reach for the Sky ...

More serious thread from me.
I notice more and more sky homes and boxes. BUT are we in danger of polluting our skies just as we have polluted our land?
How many of you live in the sky and have relinquished our bottom land to throngs of flightless newbies?

I move from land to sky, back to land then sky, depending on what's around my place. My recent home is in the sky, not really to avoid newbies, though we did get a handful of strange ones right before I moved us again. I moved to get away from the ad farms, trashy abandoned property, and the new nearby sex club. The club itself is in a tasteful house, however the HUGE rotating sign above it is awful. Plus, the lag is quite a bit lower for me. However I didn't just abandon my downstairs. It still looks nice with lots of Straylight/Botanical trees, an icerink and my little quilt shop next to a stream I built. And I go down at least twice a week to make sure no trash was left by anyone.

I do both also....but the beach is where Im happiest

Sky living is cool...the sunsets can be fabulous...and i love jumping off the edge and landing in the sea (thrill seeeker!!)

Ground dweller here. Never lived in a sky home that I can recall. Then again, I've been on private islands pretty much since joining SL.

Got a nice little fishpond on the ground for anyone to wander through, skybox in the air with an orb for privacy.

My store's on the ground as well.

If I have draw distance at normal the sky where I am is terrifying.

If I have it at 64, and esp in Windlight, I appear to live in a Utopian little "island" which if you have imagination (I do) looks like "sea" from the bedroom window.

On private island, I have a neighbour (LOVELY lady, I have no beef with her) who has a rental business and has skyboxes in the sky up to the whimwham. Ironically, I wouldn't want to give up my sky "illusion" but I am equally seeing myself living very simply on the beach.

Just goes to show that even estate can not be relied upon to have clear skies. Damn I want my own sim!

My home, the Egotherapy centre, is on the ground and always has been. I do have a platform way above it in the sky where I make stuff and experiment.

I had an unofficial skyfield second home in an abandoned sim that was set to anyone create objects. I had to move the skyfield once because a newbie who I invited back to demonstrate building rezzed a set of noisy missiles inside it and left! But my place was there for several months until the owner cleared the site!

No, we are not in danger of polluting the skies - they are already polluted - on mainland anyway.

I would never lived on the ground, for the simple reason of privacy. Also, there is virtually no lag high in the sky.

I am quite happy being grounded on my lsland estate. The sunrises are too pretty to give up.

I've almost always had a house both on the ground and in the sky. I really like landscaping on the ground with trees and buildings that suit the look of the parcel and have a park-like feel. In the sky I feel free to do whatever I want. Right now I have a wooded hillside with a garden on the ground and I built a beach with prim water, ocean waves, and a prefab beach house for a change of scenery in the sky. I love it.

I agree the skys are pretty full, but I like the freedom, creativity, and privacy up there. Also, as others have mentioned, I tend to have a lot less lag in the sky.

SLEarth bound here....


I like having my cyber feet on the ground. my house is on Saraluv which is a private island and it's quite well maintained. I'm right on the water (3 plots actually, one is my business) and the view is beautiful. IRL I'm an ocean person....so a house on the water was a must in SL.

I had absolutely no desire for a floating structure in the sky until I came up with the idea to do my photo studio..... then a skybox made sense for the fact that I would get unobstructed windlight skies for backdrops. I love my studio skybox for what it is....but I could never 'live' in the sky. I like my landscaping too much and the realism of putting together a home on 'land'. But....I will say...I did once see these incredible spaceship builds that apparently can roam free all over SL (not sure I believe it but the notecard said it would)... And that would be totally cool....living in a spaceship and orbiting SL.....party on the holodeck~!!! Hehe

In 2005, LL released some renders done with a supposed SL version 2.0. The images no longer exist on the forums, but I found this linked to by blaze Spinnaker: /120/8c/41033/1.html

Yeahhh.. that is a bit junked up, isn't it. Note the absence of ad farms? Wow, I'd like it looking like that if it didn't have them!

Happily live in the sky! I prefer the peace and solitude and, as someone else mentioned, wth draw distance at 64, I feel like I'm on my own oasis.

QFT!
But I also have a treehouse on my ground parcel with lots of nice trees around it. I'm happy in either one, but use my skybox more.

The monocromatic view in the sky is pretty depressing during the day. Give me land lots of land with Heart palms and water to look at.

I think we DO have crowded skies on the mainland. Flying at any speed that puts your draw distance inside your reaction time is asking for serious trouble.

Our clouds have lots and lots of rocks in them.

Having said that, I ADORE the sky house my neighbor has built, and I put a skybox at their level just to have it for a view.

I've got a tiny 512 that I call "home." Yeah, I broke down. Anyway, I pretty much only go there to change clothes and sort inventory. The parcel was so cheap because it's nearly vertical (side of a mountain.) I don't have the energy to work with the land shape and I refuse to flatten it, so I bought a lovely little sky platform, threw a campfire on it, a rug, and some cushy chairs. Granted, all my neighbors ALSO have skyboxes, but whatever, we all are at different altitudes, and I just set my draw down to 64. So yes, it's littering up the skies, but honestly, I don't care. Call me a bad citizen.