<span style="font-size: 18px">Topic 5.4: Hybrid Location.</span><br/><br/>This is my favorite idea of a Venusian colony.  There would be a subsurface component beneath a surface component with a floating component tethered to the surface component by a number of umbilical lines.  Located near the Venusian equator, the floating component could connect the surface with a space-port via a space elevator.