What is the RISKIEST Region in the US as the Climate Changes?

[@philmanable]

Moving to Florida to escape climate change is about the least thought out thing I’ve ever heard, changing out fires for hurricanes

[@reggiewest8975]

It's like sitting on a limb that you'll saw off soon!

[@osuave7811]

@@reggiewest8975 Geographic Arbitrage is the main reasons why out of staters are moving.

[@philobetto5106]

what is happening we can do nothing about and if people understood the actual reality of the situation everyone would feel better, Ice core samples show Earth's history going back hundreds of thousands of years kzbin.info/www/bejne/fWGmoWp6p9uBgrM Joe Rogan Experience #606 - Randall Carlson 13:00

[@johnmcclain2848]

Hurricanes, which have always hit Florida? Sounds like nothing is going to change at all

[@blipco5]

Yes, the genius who moved to Florida to avoid weather related problems. 😂😂😂

[@velmapi7492]

As a Minnesotan, my personal mantra I say to myself whenever I find myself outside in windchill -40 has been “we don’t have earthquakes, we don’t have hurricanes, we don’t have alligators.” I can deal with snow and cold knowing that the infrastructure of my city is built for exactly that.

[@fletchergoldie561]

aye you can always put more clothes on you when your cold. you can only take off so many when you're hot 😂

[@jameshisself9324]

The CA earthquakes thing is mostly to scare people away. The biggest earthquake ever was in the Midwest. True statement, look it up.

[@gsmscrazycanuck9814]

Don't you know that the -40 you experience isn't real? lol

[@deborahdurhamwhatdoesgodsa5386]

Good. Stay there.

[@johnarnold893]

@@gsmscrazycanuck9814 Sounds like the thoughts ricocheting around in your head aren't real either. I've worked for many years at -40 and it it very REAL.

[@LoisAGrimm]

Seeing West North Carolina lit up on this map a year before Helene tells me that while imperfect, educated and thoughtful projections serve an extremely important purpose.

[@andrewroberts7428]

southern appalachia, as we've already seen many times, is VERY vulnerable to stronger storms caused by climate change. they get all the rainfall from strong tropical storms like hurricanes, which produce a huge volume of water, which then has to move through those valleys all at once.

[@allwheeldrive]

Yes, and that nobody seems to listen to! Humans are historically really bad at planning.

[@gt0783]

Zero regrets leaving Florida for upstate NY last year after 18 years for me, and my wife’s entire life. It’s hotter than ever, hurricanes are more frequent and dangerous, and homeowners insurance is spiraling out of control. It’s an untenable, ticking time bomb and it’s going to be ugly when the exodus begins.

[@TheU.S.]

Was it too hot for you? It only gets to like 120 at the highest, and it rains a lot during the summer.

[@tonyromano6220]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@leob4403]

​@@TheU.S.apparently this summer has been unusually dry in parts of Florida

[@brucefrykman8295]

You do realize that every one of your facts is a made up and contradicted by real records (not "records" spit out by computer programs for events that never occurred) The three most intense hurricanes to ever make landfall in the USA (by highest windspeed): Labor day hurricane of (1935) : 184 MPH (hurricanes were not named yet) Hurricane Camile (1969): 172 MPH Hurricane Andrew (1992) 167 MPH (hmmm are hurricane intensities actually decreasing) Decade with the most annual USA land fall hurricanes: (1940s): 51 Decade with the fewest USA annual land fall hurricanes: (1970s): 23 (hmmm, are the frequencies of hurricanes deceasing?) * Top windspeed data is missing for the decade of the 1970s*** Decade featuring the most intense hurricanes (by avg top windspeed) (1960s) (118 MPH) Decade featuring the least intense hurricanes (by avg top windspeed) (1930s) (88 MPH) The decade of the 1930s was the hottest USA decade by measurement (not models) and yet we had the fewest hurricanes, in the 1930s (what gives?) There is no way on God's Green Earth that anyone can support the lie that hurricanes "are getting" More intense or more frequent is there? So simple to prove.

[@mikefialko2979]

@@brucefrykman8295 I don’t know if the hurricanes are getting worse but the fact that Insurance companies are leaving Florida and it’s helping drive up the cost of housing is true. If I’m paying for a home or I’m retired and the house is paid for I don’t want to have to worry about hurricanes in the gulf states, tornadoes in the Midwest states or wildfires and drought in the southwest. To have to keep repairing or worse rebuilding doesn’t seem to be a happy life for me.

[@evenif7431]

Another thing to keep in mind when thinking about safest areas to live is the government of each state. Which states will invest in shoring up infrastructure to protect against climate change and which will just let key infrastructure fail even if it costs lives (ex. Texas)

[@pex3]

if your governor is doubling down on oil, gas, coal, etc., it's probably bad news for climate risk mitigation in your state

[@yateswebb]

Texas led the country in renewable energy projects in 2021, according to a report from the American Clean Power Association trade group. Its 7,325 MW of new wind, solar and energy storage projects far surpasses the 2,697 MW in the next most active state, California.

[@yateswebb]

Y’all literally just comment anything to make ur point. No facts necessary. Brainwashed.

[@DracoTriste]

As a Texan who will never leave my state if I can help it, you aren’t entirely wrong. Specifically, my experience is with Harris County, the city of Houston, and surrounding areas (I’ve moved to a different area in TX partly because of the following reasons) The folks in power (Turner and Hidalgo for my time there) have purposefully ignored the very basic fact they are living in a swamp. I don’t mean that in a derogatory way, but literally. Houston is a swamp with asphalt poured on it. For many, many year, the folks in charge have just been pouring more concrete in and around flood zones. This includes roads, apartment buildings (soooooo many apartment buildings) dump expansions (in a neighborhood even) among other things. This is done without properly repairing or updating infrastructure and roads already in place. So you have a mish-mash of old construction and new construction intermingling and expanding along an already at-capacity floodplain. We Texans had known when to expect the floods and what to do. The new folks don’t, and even the old Houstonians aren’t prepared for the same natural events in a city no longer able to withstand the wind and rain. The storms are going to effect that area worse and worse as the years go by, if only because the ground isn’t respected. And the rich will move to higher ground and rebuild (meaning add more concrete) while the poor have to stay in place (sometimes in the worsening flood zones). And the cycle goes on and on until the city cannibalizes itself. I don’t have a lot of firsthand experience living in most of the rest of the state or wider energy infrastructure plans, but Houston itself is being run into the ground. Literally. I’m not knocking the city. I absolutely love that place. But the folks in charge love their money more.

[@WalkWalkWalk-c2y]

@@pex3 that would be true if things like FEMA didn’t exist, but what you’re likely to see is states like Texas and Florida get helicopter money dumped on them after each storm, while their governors deny the reality of climate change lol

[@patrickfitzgerald2861]

I am a survivor of the Paradise, California Camp Fire of November 2018. Every adult living there back then should have known that the town was at high risk of burning completely down. It now has my vote for the highest risk community in the US, because they are rebuilding in EXACTLY the same place and the same way as before . . . we will never learn. UPDATE: I want to thank all the people who expressed empathy for me and the other survivors/victims of this tragedy. I'd also like to thank those people who have added thoughtful comments about how we as a nation could make more sensible decisions regarding where and how we build our homes. For those people who found it necessary to express their neurotic or psychotic delusions and fantasies in a KZbin comments section, my advice is simple . . . get help.

[@archeo289]

It’s pretty sad the Paradise city council didn’t take up most of Calfire’s recommended ordinance changes following the fire. I’m in Redding and pretty much in the same boat after the Carr Fire.

[@zettaiengineer4202]

The houses might be rebuilt the same but not the costs. Insurance companies have taken note and are exiting markets or charge according to risk.

[@plant.hacks.4.ur.environment]

You guys should rebuild the homes from stone instead of wood. In Mexico and southern Europe most/all buildings in cities are built with bricks or stone. And there’s never a risk of them burning down completely. (Aside from the stuff inside I suppose)

[@obfuscatethecode5696]

@@plant.hacks.4.ur.environment I don’t think you understand how hot and how fast these fires get. Also Mexico and Europe don’t have the tinderbox issues that exist in California. It’s a combination of problems that lead to this widespread devastation. It’s way more than building materials.

[@patrickfitzgerald2861]

@@archeo289 The town, county, state and federal government have all done nearly nothing to prevent yet another disaster there, or made any effort to replace all the affordable housing that was lost in the fire. It's a disgrace.

[@FoxVox]

Frankly, the biggest risk here is to people who can’t afford to move and it’s a shame that we’re not talking about that more.

[@Darquine]

You're absolutely right. And as if to rub salt in that wound, it's been a month since that comment and nobody else has replied. Likely because none of us HAVE an answer to that vitally important point...

[@ChooseCompassion]

💯

[@catfan6519]

A thousand thumbs up

[@philmanable]

Honestly, yeah. Those caught up in the middle without any recourse… they’re just going to be left to fend for themselves so who knows how that will shake out

[@hapsate]

I was looking at real-estate near me in California. The affordable mobile homes were in flood zones.

[@pjf55]

People who are moving from places that are less vulnerable to climate change to places that are the most vulnerable to it, like Arizona, Texas, and parts of Texas are either short-sighted, uninformed, not expecting to live much longer, or deny climate change altogether. Sincerely, resident of Austin,Tx, whose increasingly hotter and hotter summers have him considering migrating to affordable places that people are ironically leaving. You can take that fragile higher standard of living and financial security, and I’ll take the lower standard living and more secure physical security

[@gurupurkha]

Or people could be moving for a thousand other reasons not listed.

[@vladimirs8760]

Exactly, hurricanes in Miami are once in a while but mentally unstable marginals in Chicago are after you every single day

[@johnpierre1898]

Doesn’t anybody notice that Hawaii and Alaska are part of the US but are rarely mentioned in programs like this about the US?

[@jodh-cx1zd]

Don’t you think it’s obvious. They not in the mainland

[@Dashbshots]

The information provided is clearly not sufficient enough to make a decision. The Arctic is supposedly warming the fastest. So what are they doing about it? Positioning troops in North Pole Ak to protect resources as the traffic increases in the Arctic. It's almost like they are using environmental engineering or weather modification to warm the planet so the globalists can exploit resources in the Arctic. And where did Bi just say it's okay to drill? Ak. When Trum was in he made a comment about how they should buy Greenland. Tillerson was making a deal with Russia to drill in the Arctic years ago. All winter they seed the sky with jets, the temperature goes up and then the aerosols rain out. Over and over again in PA. Nature doesn't do things repetitive like humans. The storms would vary more in behavior. Every storm this winter was a mix of rain and snow with great increases in temperature. Clouds warm the earth and they are making man made clouds that warm the earth. For profit. The coldest days are the clearest.

[@james.a]

@@jodh-cx1zd They should still be considered though

[@Lana-pf5ce]

Hawaii is illegally occupied

[@hebneh]

Since I live in Hawaii, yes, I definitely notice this but also am very accustomed to it.

[@blakekuehn8899]

My wife and I left Los Angeles two years ago and moved to Upper Peninsular Michigan primarily due to wildfires and dwindling water. We now live 3 blocks away from 3% of the world’s freshwater supply. I grew up in TX, went to college in AZ and lived in LA for almost 25 years. Not even close to retirement age and we decided it was time to bail. Don’t regret it at all.

[@ericsmith1567]

Say yah to da UP, eh? 😉

[@blakekuehn8899]

@Elena S I hardly think that an exceptional human being like yourself, an overflowing cup of kindness and compassion, is actually representative of 99.9% of Yooper Nation. Everyone we've come to know has welcomed us with open arms and could care less about which state we came from. I can only imagine, given your eagerness to put your disdain for a complete stranger (or outsiders in general) on public display, that you're probably one of the 0.1% of Yoopers who considers yourself a good, God-fearing Christian while dropping racial epithets at the dinner table. Honestly, I didn't think trolls ever made it north of the bridge, but thanks for proving me wrong.

[@sedg03]

Excellent place to move to for climate change coming. You've got the "Canadian Shield" which is purty damned tough. Water isnt going to soak the soil and send a mass flood if water n mud. Prolly just huge giant floods will be the problem. Hudson Bay above you? Is going to be your concern when the oceans flood ;(

[@sedg03]

@@ericsmith1567 anyday. LOVE MICHIGAN. LOVE THE U.P.

[@luvslogistics1725]

So in 100 years you’ll be safe but until then, cultural amenities, things to do, you can only stare at trees for so long right?

[@derrith1877]

10 years ago we moved from Houston to the upper Midwest. Our risks are different and much less frequesnt.

[@TheSpecialJ11]

And the infrastructure here is built for extremes already. Storms, blizzards, extreme heat, extreme cold is already routine here, so when an outlier even happens, its not too far from our normal. I distinctly remember during the really bad polar vortex a few years ago, life shut down all over the middle and southern US, but up here it was business as usual except for school getting cancelled because people were worried about kids getting frostbite. Also my area has been flooded by so many flash floods over the decades, we've built tons of retention ponds and sculpted roads in a way that by the time a storm is over, things are already driveable again on most roads. It takes repeated storms with heavy, steady rain to really flood things around here. But we haven't even tried the other methods that would work, like bioswales and more natural vegetation yet, so I'm sure we'll be fine with climate change.

[@Mavmode]

Good for you. We’re in Houston and it’s obviously getting worse and worse. We hope to be out in the next year.

[@ryanmalone2681]

Dude moved to Florida to escape climate change. What a genius.

[@hallamshire]

After my degree, my partner and I chose to move back to Michigan. It has a depressed economy and bleeds people every year... but every time I watch one of these videos, there is a bit of comfort that we are in a climate resilient area. We bought our house not thinking about the next 5 years, but the next 50.

[@patrickfitzgerald2861]

So much of what is happening economically and demographically in the US has absolutely nothing to do with climate change. Good luck with your fifty year plan, but don't be surprised if things change drastically - even in Michigan - along the way.

[@vhfgamer]

Gee... I wonder why Michigan has a depressed economy. *SMH

[@hewitc]

@@vhfgamer what is SMH?

[@vhfgamer]

@@hewitc shaking my head

[@davidwilkins5932]

Everything is cyclical. Those “boom” areas will subside, and the struggling areas will prosper. And that’s largely true without the calculus of climate change. One minor example of locality is the city of Pittsburgh. They have morphed away from the past prosperity of steel. The same will eventually happen for Detroit, and Michigan in general. When things become radically “cheap enough”, people with a vision for the future will go there and make something new happen.

[@M00Nature]

Last year, I moved from Raleigh, North Carolina to western Massachusetts, which is more climate resilient. The amount of deforestation taking place in North Carolina, along with the resultant flooding from stormwater runoff, was the last straw for me. You have to think not only about climate change, but also how each individual state deals with environmental concerns. In North Caroina, the environmental laws are weak, allowing developers to deforest large parcels of land, even destroying stream buffers, with little to no consequence. I had to take out FEMA flood insurance after loggers removed 300 acres of trees upstream from me for a mega-subdivision.

[@TypeOneg]

Because of my skill set and age, I am going to need to leave Massachusetts. Theyve jumped the rent on us and its only a matter of time before our situation gets bad. Ohio. Thats the goal.

[@johnkelly7217]

Developers took over North Carolina in 1980's.

[@eh3477]

Add PFAS contamination in the Cape Fear River basin. And really lousy traffic planning in many areas.

[@crawwwfishh3284]

People are stupid over greed.

[@AmaraJordanMusic]

My brother really wants me to join him there, but my husband and I are thinking more Illinois or Vermont. My Dad is going to Florida at the behest of my stepmother. 🤦🏻‍♀️

[@MzJugni]

Growing up in Salem, Oregon, I would get frustrated with the seemingly endless season of rain. I recall many 4th of July celebrations being rained out. Then we'd have a few good weeks of sunny weather, and by the time Labor Day rolled around, it was raining again. I even recall summers that didn't feel like summer at all. But now it's becoming more common to have summers with temperatures in the triple digits, months of barely any rain, and a smoky haze from all of the surrounding wildfires. Past me would never have predicted that I'd someday look at the ten-day forecast hoping for rain.

[@parkerwebb3470]

Hey why did you have to use your witchcraft to curse us. Never trust anyone from Salem anything that's where the witch's are. (Salem witch trials joke)

[@inharmonywithearth9982]

Yes even the Olympia Rain Forest has dried out and burned. It was so soggy trees grew out of logs and it rained every day. I used to live there in the 1970s. It's nearly a desert now.

[@QBRX]

Yeah, same here from Vancouver BC. I remember one summer we didn't break 70 degrees.

[@patrickbertlein4626]

We go weeks without rain now around Seattle.

[@Addisonmoreno]

From Salem, OR here too! I feel the same way, although growing up there I actually felt relatively safe. Everytime I heard about Tornados in the Midwest or Hurricanes like Katrina down south I count myself lucky I didn't have to worry about any of that.

[@katescott4357]

My husband and I considered moving south for retirement. After several bad hurricanes, we decided to stay in Michigan and visit the south in the winter.

[@EricUnderwood-v2x]

What winter in the South... just teasing

[@cSharp244]

Planning on leaving Florida for the northeast. Heat in the summer is brutal and housing insurance is a big problem

[@cmoshpit9171]

ill be selling my place in Vermont soon. very safe here. i just miss Oregon

[@ecurewitz]

Good call

[@muhammad-bin-american]

Best decision you would make right now.

[@cindylewis3325]

I have family there. Homeowners Insurance is ridiculous the southern part of the state is extremely expensive but more people move there every month. It’s rather sad.

[@georgetsokanis3542]

Fyi,I have lived in ny for 60 years,15 in nyc the rest upstate. The cost of living is much higher, especially housing. Gas in my town today is $4.09.The effective property tax rate is 3 % or if you have a home assessment of $250,000 you will pay $7,500 a year in property taxes. Ny state income tax is 7%,more for high earners, nyc has its own income tax of 3%. Sales tax of 8-11%. If you expect to live near a large city expect rent for a decent apartment for a 1 bedroom to be above $1,000 a month, $2,500 in nyc. If you are middle class or retired it's very hard here. These are the same people who are leaving ny state(200,000 a year)to head to Florida. Ironic.

[@mhub3576]

What I think is that Maiya May and the rest of the excellent production team do an outstanding job presenting these topics in a smooth, easily understood, and impactful way with zero hint of any politics. It's just here it is, do with it what you will.

[@nasonguy]

Now if only our politicians would act this reasonably, haha.

[@maiyamay_]

Thank you so much! We appreciate the kind words ❤

[@paulwolinsky1538]

Why not have the Economist and Maiya May get "the best minds in the space" to figure out exactly WHAT TO DO ABOUT STOPPING CLIMATE CHANGE?!?! It's as if 4°c climate change is a fait accompli. Why care about where to live if life itself will become so much less livable? I think only people with money - "the number one motivator" (for people who read The Economist) - think this way.

[@mhub3576]

@@paulwolinsky1538 Kinda been done to death already. We already know what to do. But right wingers block it, in eternal servitude to Koch Industries and the rest of the petroleum industry.

[@paulwolinsky1538]

@M Huberty Funny that you're so matter-of-fact about it; I kind of get the impression that a good many people either don't care at all about climate devastation or are completely out to sea about what we should do. But at least I have some idea of what you mean.

[@bellasheehan]

Born in Austin, Texas, lived in Miami, now in Denver. I find it interesting how buzzy both Austin and Miami have been. My car flooded multiple times and I had to sell it while living in Miami (a guy kayaked down my street on south beach in 2021) and I’m currently back home in Texas and feel like I’m going to quite literally pass out if I spend too long outside, in JUNE. Denver had the wettest May on record this year I’m hoping will dampen fire season, but dang, trying to nail the matrix of ideal climate, access to culture, job opportunities, safety, and affordability seems to be an impossible task in the States these days.

[@matthewjk9016]

Bullshit.

[@GabrielBacon]

Excessive Heat is much easier to deal with than 6 months of snow & ice. Texas is a no-brainer

[@michelleshafto4141]

I'll take 6 months of snow and ice ... No thanks to that kind of heat. I'm not down for that at all. I live in southern Vermont, near the mass. And n.y. border. Thankfully I'm not further north where the capital, Montpelier of probably still under six feet of water. Not good. Usually it's pretty safe here, we still for the most part have all four seasons. Sometimes we don't get much of a spring. If it doesn't stop raining here I'm going to move though. Anyway, of you want a nice place to move to, move to Berkshire county mass. Tons of stuff to do in the summer, and the winter is quiet, and if you like to ski that's a bonus, because there are some good mountains here.

[@charlieshort6394]

Lived here for 33 years and once before we had a "Seattle" May June. It feels as if the seasons are off by about one month out here. Summer: Mid-July to Mid-October, Fall Mid October to Mid-January, Winter Mid January to Mid April and Spring Mid-April to Mid-July.

[@naturewatcher7596]

@@GabrielBacon Only while your AC working.

[@tutoring1013]

This is why I live in Traverse City, Michigan. Nice town, more moderate temps cuz we're coastal, it still rural enough to enjoy the nature, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, we've even got a peninsula, wine country, a growing job market, access to Great Lakes water, almost no risk hazards (storms mostly die off over the lake), milder winters relatively speaking, and it's still affordable for the most part. We escaped South Florida when insurance skyrocketed a little over a year ago and we love it up here.

[@phil2u48]

I was in Traverse City last year ( a road trip from Chicago) and was so impressed with the downtown. I know it is a work in progress, but the progress is visible and encouraging.

[@sdcanada91]

Coastal?

[@CJoab95662]

@@phil2u48sounds wonderful. One concern though not mentioned in this story but that is affecting all the US as well as the world is harmful algal blooms. The Great Lakes (e.g. Lake Erie and Lake Superior) have been plagued with cyanobacterial blooms that produce toxin, so that is something to be concerned with and will continue to get worse with increasing temperatures and flux of storms dumping nutrients in the water.

[@cindylewis3325]

As a native Floridian. Our family moved to New England in 1992. Winters were tough -20, but today we hardly see that type of weather. We made our own work. I felt we made the right decision years ago.

[@5-Minutegeography]

And it's all because of driving cars and that damn fossil fuels, right? Except there's no consensus on that whatsoever, so stop listening to climate fearmongering.

[@palexander2288]

Cindy, I remember sitting on our back deck looking out over the lake that we live on in northern Maine and saying to my wife, “we live where everyone is going to want to live in the future because the earth is heating up“. Like you said, yes it gets cold but the summers and fall are amazing. The cost of living is cheap too because we live in an unorganized territory. Cheers!

[@andrewklingenberger7475]

@@palexander2288 I've been saying for years Maine is the place to be when climate knocks on the door. I'm unfortunately stuck in Florida as it gentrifies around me, but I'm happy for those that aren't.

[@meengla]

I am from the 'Upstate' part of South Carolina. And if you look at the map toward the end of the video, the Southern Appalachia is one of the safest. I am barely 40 minutes from that region--or maybe even significantly part of that region. But New England is truly beautiful. I have fond memories of a brief trip with wife to VT, NH and Maine in June 2016. Cold weather wouldn't bother me unless I would have to drive on ice. And of course I don't have any experience with shoveling snow--I have only seen snow plows in movies! Hahahah!

[@philipm3173]

@@andrewklingenberger7475 well please stop saying it we don't need it ruined like the shithole panhandle

[@robertandleslie]

You might want to consider mapping where in America there is the most political resistance to acting on climate change. It would be very interesting to know how that relates to areas in the country where there is most risk.

[@natMMI]

The impact map pretty much shows the former confederate states- the most conservative and thus resistant to climate action- getting most of the ill effects. kind of ironic, really. we all know those governors are not going to be the ones who suffer from what happens to their constituents

[@Helga_Chi]

As far as I know - the safest places care the least. Michigan, Wyoming, Montana…

[@Ceerads]

The two overlap, I’m sure.

[@fred-ts9pb]

No risk anywhere for a long time if ever.

[@Mostly_Harmless99]

@@Helga_Chi Don’t know about Michigan, but Wyoming and Montana already have high drought and wildfire risk. In these two, the general opinion is that the US Government will take the risk since much of the land is federally-owned AND the population density is low. Coal production gets a lot of attention, too.

[@Stillness1]

I aim to retire in about four years and was planning to move overseas to a more affordable, tropical, coastal climate. But the more I learn about how climate change is rapidly becoming a life or death consideration, the more I realize that my current Midwest location on one of the largest sources of fresh water on the planet, (a serious topic you didn’t mention in this report) the more I realize that I’m already in a pretty good location, all things considered.

[@sedg03]

U.s. has 4 EQ safe zones... underground Aquifer n water in Ogallala Aquifer. Thered also undrrgrnd aquifer in Fla. If memory serves. We NEED, as a nation UNITED? To begin to seriously plan out climate DISASTERSSSS. Its not climate heating up half as much as tectonic plates shifting? Boiling hot magma flowing onto towns n ppl? Volcanoes erupting w boiling hot magma raining down on us... dust n ashes so bad we cant breath, no clean water? And zero food... that's the why to bush2 giving NEW WORLD ORDER to LDS CHURCH... cause theyve got the food STUFFS to survive n live on - for a SMALL group of ppl= congress n pols, DHS n LDS, and few wealthy world leaders... And the rest of us are slated to be murdered by the LDS church #DEZNAT mormon cult. Not kidding. Martial law to seize guns.. food n supplies.. RX n drgs, cash n CC, *HOMES* n dogs, livestock n farm implements, vehicles n fuel, flashlights, water, gas masks etc... and? ALL GUNS. We need to vome together n unite. C Calif!! and 2nd Oregon are seriously under attack. Far worse even than back East. We have power... but we need to stand strong agsinst this white male supremacist movement to destroy the u.s.

[@bluoval3481]

100%

[@mediamannaman]

Well-reasoned. You can come and visit us down south in the wintertime.

[@JM-gg8ko]

I'm retiring to where i want. Why would i worry about climate change killing me when my life span will be at its shortest when i retire. Go out having a blast as i doubt the world will end in the next 10 years.

[@sedg03]

@@JM-gg8ko you have ~5 years, at the most...

[@OvertheGarage-wv1wn]

I moved to the rust belt a year ago from Atlanta. I have square footage that would have cost a million dollars in Atlanta for a fraction of the cost. Traffic isn't much of a problem, food and labor costs less up here. The last summer I was in Georgia I hardly went outside. Though it gets cold up here, locals tell me the winters are milder now. No regrets at all.

[@buddhaweatherby368]

I have a background in security (military and civilian), as well as permaculture. A few years ago I spent months digging into climate change, natural resource base (especially fresh water), demographics, crime/civil unrest, etc. As a result I moved to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and have been very happy with that decision. I anticipate the dual trends of climate migration and remote work to really enhance the economy over time and our population density is such that we can absorb a lot of folks before it would be a concern. Your video reinforces my independent research, I appreciate the work you are doing on this channel.

[@tjsullivan4793]

May I ask where? Marquette? We have taken a couple of vacations there and the UP is beautiful.

[@JustinBeaudry]

I moved from California to northwest Ohio, but I’ve been leaning towards the UP now for similar reasons, and to get as close as possible to 10% of the worlds fresh water in one single lake.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

Watch out for those pesky ticks.

[@psterud]

How do you feel about western Vermont?

[@specialstone9153]

Michigan has had severe dangerous cold weather.

[@billgoedecke2265]

I live in a coastal county in Northern California with high property values. I did a thesis on landslide hazard in this county, As part of this education I did a site visit with my professor to a location where a house was demolished by a slide. If one mapped out the area using a predictive spatial model the house was situated in a location where a slide would naturally occur. The owners of the property had some notion of this as they had modified the property for better drainage. However in one intensely wet winter the owners were noticing signs of instability on the hillside. They notified the county and a county representative came out, took a look, and offered his opinion that if a slide did occur it would not directly impact their house. That night one of the owners went out and stood in front of the hillside as he was hearing some unusual sounds. Unfortunately that was when the hillside collapsed and killed him and destroyed part of the house. The surviving owner sued the county and won, then sold the property in which the new owner rebuilt in the same location, which, from my analysis, was a prime area for slides even without climate change. On that same field trip we climbed up a slope (myself, my professor and a county land use manager). Looking down the slope I could see a house that looked to be a bullseye for a slide - something the land use manager agreed with. I asked him if they would notify the property owner and he said no. My take-away from all this is that money and property have greater value over the consideration of risk.

[@MissionHomeowner]

Duh, capitalism, yeah of course.

[@RobertMJohnson]

wow! mudslides in northern california. and you think this is something NEW? and you think climate change has something to do with moving the muddiest mud on earth when it gets wet? good lord

[@billgoedecke2265]

@@RobertMJohnson if you read my comment you would understand that I wasn’t talking about climate change but about how risk is appraised.

[@henrimatisse7481]

On the money there. And keeping in the dark about the risks is the key

[@mkervelegan]

Are you the child of Dr Goedecke who lived in Alaska then in central PA at one point?

[@jamesg7016]

Considering younger generations are struggling to become home owners, I imagine the majority of those people moving to the riskier areas are less concerned about the 30 year climate projection.

[@winstonsmiths2449]

OMG! Yeah, the last 30 year projection did not result in the coastal flood predicted did it? obummer and gore both bought seaside residents...think they know something you do not?

[@Thurnishaley6969]

So they should buy cheap homes in the worst possible areas??? Sounds like a good decision😂

[@winstonsmiths2449]

@@Thurnishaley6969 What are you talking about?

[@wandameadows5736]

Actually older people in America have already dealt with 60 years worth of fake predictions. Its why only younger people fall for the man made climate change hoax. Eventually most younger people realize theyve been lied to & used as political pawns then the Government gets the next generation to do there bidding. Truth is we are not smart when were young. We believe in Santa Claus & the Tooth Fairy until we realize its not true. Realizing the hoax of man made climate change takes longer because its like a religion. Everything on Earth is constantly being Recycled which make's everything "Green" in reality. The Earth renews its self 24/7 & nothing just disappears. I suggest all Critical Thinkers go check out one of the Greenpeace founder's Patrick Moore.

[@AuntieHauntieGames]

@@Thurnishaley6969 No, James is suggesting that it is older Americans who are buying these houses, and so many of these people may not expect to live long enough to even see the 2050s, which could mean that they are not as concerned with the data.

[@therolandx]

As a Texan I can tell you the humidity factor is making parts of Texas unbearable. Dry heat at 105 is very livable. Humid heat at 100 is unlivable. The last 20 years in Texas have been a big wake up call in the humidity factor.

[@mark1vietvet]

West Texas is a lot drier and less humid.

[@noonebeer]

PBS terra and Propublica seem to be the only media outlets doing practical stories about this, which is really awesome. It would be nice to get a global version of this story and see how places like Canada fair

[@domcizek]

RIGHT NOW, CANADA NEEDS WORKERS, OVDR 100 THOUSAND, SO YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET SUBSIDIES TO MOVE THERE AND WORK, TORONTO IS NICE

[@MILITANTMONEY]

its a scam homie. Climate change is Europeans changing the North to be more warm and more like a paradise and submerge the southern continents. There flooding the earth with carbon dioxide and flourocarbons in an attempt to steal the abundance of other nations. Climate change is a scam and its really terraforming. Trump said Draconian economic impositions. look how they play with words. remember that movie with charlie sheen and those aliens.

[@ahauckify]

I left SWFL for the Capital Region of NY. The move was 50/50 economic and climate based. 10 months later, Ian rolled right through where I had lived in FL. Can’t say I regret the decision.

[@DFM761]

Ian reduced the area to the likes of a warzone. I was there doing relief the day after it hit, the scale of destruction escapes description

[@ahauckify]

@@DFM761 I thought Irma was bad, but it didn’t touch Ian’s level of destruction.

[@tdub25]

Make sure you turn out the lights when everyone has left.

[@daveassanowicz186]

They're still trying to pull the Fishing and Shrimping boats that are in piles on the shores

[@Alex.smiffy]

people don't realize how beautiful and livable rural New York is. I am in the Thousand Islands region and I love it.

[@terry1912]

I've lived my 72 years in So California. There is little risk to me from heat, cold and fire. I worry about my kids & their kids but find some comfort in the fact that both of my boys are very aware of heat illness; when it's occurring and what to do about it. The biggest problem here is drought. Our water comes from various places and all of them are drying up. The biggest take I got from this excellent & understandable presentation is that the poor will move to dangerous places in order to earn a living and feed themselves, and the rich will go wherever they want and be very comfortable.

[@gorkyd7912]

"People with more resources have more resources."

[@axcruz987]

@@gorkyd7912 bootlicker

[@terry1912]

@@gorkyd7912 That is very true. Unfortunately, the great resource of the rich ARE the poor. Without that particular resource, the rich would not be.

[@geofflepper3207]

There is some truth to what you say in that the poor will move to places where it is cheaper to buy property and to live even if in the long run those places are at great risk from climate change. It is also true that some rich people move to places at great risk due to climate change. They move to beautiful places in the forest in California and other places in the west and then may find they can't go outside because of wildfire smoke and then possibly lose their home to wildfire some day. They leave their homes in New York or Chicago and buy expensive property on the coast of Florida because they are tired of dealing with winter and like the beautiful view of the ocean and perhaps don't care that much if their property will be inundated by the sea in 30 years because they expect to be dead by then or because they can afford to write off a lost property.

[@abigailelizabeth4655]

@@geofflepper3207 yup exactly. My cousin and his wife live in San Clemente (she’s from there) and I remember flew out there for the wedding 6 years ago (we live in Baltimore) and all these huge mansions and stuff looked like they were gonna fall off a cliff from erosion. Her friends house where they had a party for the younger people was right on the beach and we weren’t even allowed to walk on the sand bc they were worried about erosion. Like what’s the point of having a home on the beach if you can’t even go on the beach. Crazy thing is it’s the rich ppl that are screwing up the environment in the first place bc they know they can just move somewhere else when it gets bad. Hopefully they’ll realize before it’s too late that eventually no place will be safe.

[@TheUnnamedAssailant]

Here I am just chilling in Birmingham, MI comfy as hell while droughts, hurricanes, tsunamis, and rising ocean levels create chaos everywhere else

[@Francois_L_7933]

And one thing that should be added is the increased risk of contracting a tropical disease in some areas that were previously safe from them.

[@chazdomingo475]

Apparently LA has mosquitos now where they were never there before.

[@bigjeffrey26]

Don't forget the agriculture plants, animals, etc. Palm tree in Quebec Canada funny and NOT FUNNY

[@planescaped]

Maybe we'll get that affordable Malaria vaccine once it starts affecting places that "matter". >__>

[@vichy7661]

Be certain to include Superfund Waste sites, available clean water, homelessness, crime.

[@jasonreed7522]

Even non-tropical diseases like lyme disease get alot more frequent if you don't have a hard frost to kill off a bunch of ticks and other insect vectors.

[@coolnormalandwelladjusted]

I was born and raised in Miami. Looking to leave as soon as I can. So many people have moved here and driven up the price of everything. The city is now only for the wealthy. Building skyscrapers on top of piles of sand. It’s unsustainable. There’s not enough space. The traffic is getting insane. I don’t know what makes people want to move here. The weather is awful except for winter and part of spring. 90+ degrees and humidity so high you can’t cool off.

[@jackcolt6875]

I bet most people are escaping the high taxes and bad politics of the “safe areas”

[@coolnormalandwelladjusted]

@@jackcolt6875 coming to florida to escape “bad politics” LMAO. Yeah ban more books, that’ll fix it. Delusional.

[@kayalcorn9569]

I watched a video on why Miami will be under water soon. Yet, people are still buying property there.

[@coolnormalandwelladjusted]

@@kayalcorn9569 yep. Plus it’s just going to keep getting hotter and hotter. I feel like a lot of the people moving here would change their mind if they ever experienced what it’s like to have no AC in the summer. This is a common occurrence between ACs breaking from overuse and from power outages from storms and hurricanes.

[@DiamondGunProduction]

@@kayalcorn9569 like all the politicians who fear monger global warming? like al gore who said we'd all be under water by now... how come the same fear porn mongers dont care about REAL man made disaster like the train derailment in ohio...

[@lisastevens682]

I grew up and still live at the tri state area of Minnesota, South Dakota, and Iowa. My father told me 30 years ago that the weather pattern would shift and that it would get warmer. "Don't move south. One can dress for the cold, but you cannot undress for the heat." He was right! The winters are shorter than when I was a kid. We had frost in September and snow by October. It would be snowing until Prom in April! Now Thanksgivings are "brown, Christmas is white, artic blasts in Jan and Feb... Robins by April!

[@musicman0423]

I live in maine and the robins and Canadian geese never left. Last year they left for a couple months and that’s it. This weather phenomena has more to do with our magnetic poles and the jet stream and less to do with global warming. I k ow it has to do with the magnetic poles because it’s messing with migratory animals very clearly. It’s unnerving that we’re hundreds of thousands of years past due for a pole reversal. Life won’t end for humans on the surface when that day does come, but it will become much more difficult.

[@HigherRPMs]

Robins by March .* I live in NY and since I was a kid I've noticed the change as well

[@HigherRPMs]

who knows how much humans affect the cycle though . the Earth has been going through cycles of Ice Age / Tropical for millions of years . maybe we are just a witness to this one

[@HoneyBunches100]

I’ve lived in the South (North Carolina and South Carolina) all my life and have loved it. I love the tropical weather in Charleston, SC - mild in the spring and tropical- feeling in the summers and we have a lovely Fall and mild Winters, the latter being the shortest seasons. The media has a way of over exaggerating their coverage of storms and other events. Weather events are very rare and last maybe a day and no one dies. Your Dad’s warning isn’t really substantiated and shouldn’t deter people from living in this lovely area of the USA. ❤️💫🌍

[@dellalderman8011]

Your observations are spot on. I live in Fayetteville NC. Work in construction my whole live. I am in my 60's now. The heat and humidity are getting worse. Many more days of extreme. When I was a kid hardly ever had days above one hundred degrees. Now we have 4 to 5 days in a row. When you work outside you know it's bad. Not in an air conditioned work environment. Leave your house at a nice 78 degrees. Jump in your air conditioned car and drive to work. Go inside your air conditioned place of work. Without ac no way would I live here!!! Hurricanes knock out the power and you hear people complain oh the humidity is so bad. No ac. I dread the months of June thru September now. We start at the crack of dawn and roll up the cords around lunch. I think clean water will be a huge issue that is not put into the equation. I have been on the dam at Jordan Lake in the summertime at night and when the wind comes off the lake it smells like a sewer. Major cities like Raleigh draw their water from the lake. Downstream Fayetteville gets a majority of their water from the Cape Fear. Enough doom and gloom for today. Heading to work. 61 degrees outside. It's 6:55 am and it's February 16th. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[@lanszoominternet]

My wife and I grew up in FL. We both hated the summers. The “wet bulb” thing is a reality when the temperature and the humidity are both 95%. We have lived in Southcentral PA for the past 50 years and have no plans to move. We are actually in a low risk spot, although we did have our first tornado last August.

[@NJcruiser]

Are you near Gettysburg. One of my happy places on this earth. Love it out there.

[@LuEmanuel]

I live in Canada, in southern Quebec just across the border from northern Vermont. I feel so blessed to be in an area with low risk. We have high winds sometimes and rain storms. We have a lot of snow in the winter and it can be very cold, but the low risk of summer heat, almost zero risk of tornados or hurricanes, is a great feeling. Because I live above a valley, I don't have to worry about flooding either. I wish for everyone to have a safe and comfortable place to live.

[@gorkyd7912]

Don't worry, the risk is overstated for political reasons. How many people actually die from the weather? Not many.

[@larrydrozd2740]

@@gorkyd7912 People here in Texas die from the just the HEAT every year!! Where have YOU been??

[@larrydrozd2740]

The snow and cold keeps the rabble out. The more sun, the lower the IQ.....I'm not kidding.

[@HuplesCat]

Montreal is high risk. Make sure the 2050 risk maps back up your thoughts

[@geofflepper3207]

@Huples Cat they just said where they live and made it clear that they don't live in Montreal. So why are you talking about Montreal? Quebec is a huge province. Just because Montreal is at risk of flooding due to being in a river valley of a massive river and like all big cities at greater risk of extreme summer heat due to being a heat island does not mean that a place somewhere else in Quebec that is not in a river valley and is at higher elevation and is much more rural is also going to be at extreme risk due to climate change.

[@SoulfulMole]

I moved to Maine in 2021 to get away from the inevitable worsening drought and exhaustion of water resources in my home state of Arizona. Glad I did! I'd say my assessment was accurate. Maine is also getting warmer so the winters are more mild currently then they ever were historically.

[@Jmaninaz1]

I have lived in Arizona for over 40 years, and I am looking at Maine and possibly the PNW as possible relocation areas. Good for you that you were able to get there, and I hope it turns out to be a great move for you. Maine seems like an incredibly beautiful state--I drove through Maine back when I was a kid on a family trip in the back of a station wagging, and I can still remember being awe-struck by the natural beauty.

[@peeblekitty5780]

Living in the southeast now and looking at Maine as a place to settle down once I get my own place, so great to get some firsthand suggestions. How was dealing with the heavy winters? That's something to get used to, I'm sure. Not used to snow that lasts more than a couple days where I live, never mind feet of the stuff.

[@tundrabancho7207]

Currently wanting to move so my kid won't have to deal with the water wars over the Colorado River in the next few decades

[@aminadabmorales8529]

Great choice! Wife and I grew up in Texas and we're about to move to Rhode Island! We explored 12 states in the northeast and found Maine to be beautiful but a little too small for us, so excited to move!

[@VivaRonnieJamesDio]

main has ALOT of arseholes tho doesn't it? i mean i guess you can't base your complete judgement from one cousin in law. but yeah.

[@KBreimeier]

We live in the Great Lakes region and have no plan to ever leave. Very low risk for everything including plentiful fresh water and self-sufficiency for food if one chooses to learn the skills. Yes, our cold climate carries its own risks, but with the availability of early weather forecasts and high-tech winter clothing and gear, you can mitigate those risks by being smart. You can layer clothes to safely be out in the winter. You can only take off so many to deal with humidity and heat. We also live in a progressive state with protections for people and the environment. I was surprised to not see any risk for flooding in the Red River basin in North Dakota, which has seen multiple 500-year floods in the last 30 years alone.

[@staycurious3954]

@Random Chance Capitalism at its finest 🎉

[@Emmy-J]

They no longer do this. Nestle sold the company and the new company did not use the permit to take water, They are putting put laws to stop all this corporate crap to make money.

[@moonflight1867]

Yeah, flooding is pretty much expected in the springtime in the Red River Valley (North Dakotan here, lol). Thankfully I don't live by the river, but it does make crossing the bridges fun when they have to close them.

[@E-Glide]

The biggest danger is the fear mongering

[@waywrdsun]

True. But also very low risk of finding rewarding work that pays well.

[@jenhasken]

Maine is wonderful and needs young people! 😬🤗

[@curtandoscar]

Maine is still ice cold for 5 months of the year. It's safe crime wise, with not many climate or weather risks other than the cold and snow and ice for months on end.

[@solarcat_]

I had been living in Phoenix, but when I made a career change I moved back to Michigan, in part because I can afford to own a house here and I'm closer to family, but climate change factors also played a substantial role in the decision. We get some pretty good snow storms here, but not much of other forms of natural/weather-related disasters, and we have a LOT of water.

[@hallamshire]

I moved to the mitten in '06. Back then, it snowed in late November and we wouldn't see the ground again until April. I moved back in '18 at it amazes me how much the winter has changed. Yesterday was the second snow this winter. It was well above freezing a few weeks back. It is truly wild and unsettling being able to tell the difference in just a decade's time.

[@madzo2013]

I’m originally from MI as well and while it doesn’t necessarily excite me to think about moving back, it’s getting harder and harder to justify not buying a home there and settling down permanently.

[@Kristen242008]

I lived in Apache Junction (a suburb of Phoenix) for years. Personally, while the mountains were pretty, I hated the heat there. I moved back home to Wisconsin in 2015. I don't miss Arizona. The heat, the drought, and all the critters (spiders and scorpions). I'm happy to be in the Cheese State!

[@meng-hsuanlee8543]

We'll be seeing more and more Sun Belters moving to/back north

[@jobe457]

This is exactly what I did except I was in San Antonio, but now I’m in Illinois and I work from home.

[@ninahyatt9859]

We fled the Mt Shasta region of Northern California after witnessing years of catastrophic fire, extremely smoky summers and drought. We had to evacuate the Lava fire in the summer of 21, which missed us only by a mile. Then we decided to consider moving to somewhere in the northeast if the winter of ‘22 was dry. It was, so we sold our home and moved across the country to Central New York. We love it here, are enjoying a pretty darn mild winter, though we do love snow. As a native Californian, born and raised in the Bay Area, I am so tired of fire and drought, and it is such a relief to be someplace where these issues are not so prevalent. I am a retired CA educator, and my husband is able to work remotely for the UC system, so we have been able to make this move. We count ourselves as very lucky.

[@attackofthelumbie9029]

I was in Mt Shasta last year while hiking the PCT right before the McKinney fire started. I remember walking through the woods and just seeing how dry everything was. It's a miracle that wildfires aren't even worse in that area because a lot of the wilderness looks like a tinderbox ready to go off.

[@bobbyhendley3084]

Agreed you truly are! I had a dear friend who is a musician who had his recording studio in his mountain home there. And a considerable collection of several rare old instruments of famous players which he still used and played in his recordings now. Then a sudden evacuation with Fire officials pounding on his door in the middle of the night. All they could do was grab a small bag containing their most critical papers and their dog. At one point they had to race thru flames on both sides of the road and barely escaped. Two weeks later he was allowed in to see the standing stone of the fireplace and upper basement walls. Everything else was ash filling the basement and no tree of his forested property even had a stump left. It undid him. He rebuilt in the mountains in Oregon, but still hasn’t ever come fully back to being himself. It just crushed his soul and he’s recorded only a few songs since then. But they lack the life of his former work. They’re still funeral songs for the place of peace he had and for the sacred objects that had become significant parts of his soul. I’m glad you didn’t have that! And glad you two could place logic first in the aftermath and safely restart in peace. I wish you only the best there. That too is truly a very beautiful part of the country most people never see or know about.

[@ninahyatt9859]

Thanks very much for this thoughtful reply. I am truly sorry for your musician friend… what an absolutely heartbreaking story. Last summer the fire that tore through Weed tragically took several lives and many homes. It was 1/4 mile from the home we left, followed by another fire a month later. I am happy to see they are finally receiving good precip, but hope the summer is not too hot and dry, increasing fire risk with all the new foliage. Best to you and yours.

[@ninahyatt9859]

Yes… it was a continual source of worry and stress, for sure. Thanks.

[@sandrad9695]

Smart move. California has had water and drought issues since before it became a state, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon.

[@zoex7993]

when i was growing up (near St. Louis) we always had to bundle up for Halloween- winter coats over our costumes! The past few years Halloween has literally been T-shirt and shorts weather. I don't understand how some people still don't believe in climate change when it is literally happening.

[@hurryandleave9680]

The climate has always changed and always will.

[@ayyydn]

Same dude!!! I used to have "onesie" style costumes as a kid (of like a unicorn or something cute lol) that were full head to toe coverage and we'd get cold if we werent actively running around. This samhain I literally wore a tshirt and thin leggings and this April everyone is freaking out about garden season being sooooo early and even the wasps are out in full force already. It's def here.

[@FoxVox]

Fox News is the answer you’re looking for. People choose not to believe in objective fact on purpose, because they really like Fox News.

[@tzz615]

@@hurryandleave9680 If you don’t think humans are contributing to the problem, then you’re a big part of the problem.

[@graciefreebush394]

@hurryandleave Yes. Sadly, we have exacerbated the negative aspects of those fluctuations, and our corporate overlords have to keep breaking those profit records.

[@Ert1239_wea]

I agree that most people move for economic reasons, such as job opportunities, lower cost for housing, etc….and that is especially true for seniors/retirees living on a fixed income. But when talking about costs, there are many of their factors that impact the cost of living, such as the cost for utilities, food, and insurance (e.g., Florida, for example is one of the most expensive states to insure your car or home).

[@MILITANTMONEY]

Climate change is Europeans changing the North to be more warm and more like a paradise and submerge the southern continents. There flooding the earth with carbon dioxide and flourocarbons in an attempt to steal the abundance of other nations. Climate change is a scam and its really terraforming. Trump said Draconian economic impositions. look how they play with words. remember that movie with charlie sheen and those aliens.

[@dpottermaine]

In 2000, I moved from Chicago to Maine. Working remotely allowed me to enjoy a great natural environment. The winters here have certainly warmed over the years, but overall the state remains particularly temperate, safe and enjoyable.

[@judynguyen1579]

I'm interested in moving to Maine because of climate and also from suffering the heat in Phoenix long enough. I can't wait to move away...I told my spouse I don't care where really just away from Phoenix. It's wild here!

[@mattdavis3147]

@@judynguyen1579 Lifelong Mainer. Great state, but understand that Southern Maine is different than the rest. It's an old, white, lightly populated state. If you like small towns there are plenty of options.

[@cericson3426]

When I lived in northern Michigan back in the Winters were harsh and we got tons of snow. I think we will get there again because climate and weather is cyclical and natural not man affected.

[@fleatactical7390]

@@cericson3426 Agreed! I have fallen in love with the northern Michigan outdoors. Considering it for potential relocation... just not sure what to think of the state's politics and whether I would be replacing one problem with another by moving. And yes, it's cyclical. 100%.

[@Ray-pp5qb]

How to do whites treat POC or LGBT people? Do most whites more there to get away from "others"?

[@coelleen]

Moving to Florida and California is literally impossible for new homeowners to move to. They’ve recently lost their top 4 home insurers in the state making it much more difficult to get home insurance for mortgage purposes. I’m sure they’re about to pull out of more states as well.

[@crashdsnowman1]

You can still get wind and flood insur down here from Citizens for about $13000 a year and like you said if you have a mortgage you must have both.

[@mjmonjure]

Would like to see a companion video on the least risky places to live that are economically favorable

[@msherry5]

Yes, please. Or at least a list of the least risky regions of the country.

[@CyrilAndPriscilla]

Those places that are least risky on the map for climate change troubles will also end up being the most economically favorable.

[@RafaelVolcanes]

@CoolChannel Name you clearly havent heard of Greenville, SC. Growing demographically and financially, great weather year-round, and not in any danger zone. *chef's kiss*

[@sam4secretary]

it's called... Minneapolis. Enough lakes to name a basketball team after it.

[@nostromo7928]

Unfortunately, when those places are listed folks quickly move there raising land values and property taxes. Tucson, Az was named the least expensive city in the country back around 2009 or 2012 or so. Tons of people moved there and now it's very expensive.

[@87Rado]

Planning to move out of MA, as we have had enough of the Winters here. But after doing some research, it seems that dealing with snow is much easier than dealing with tornado's, hurricanes, or excessive temps/fires.

[@jeffreywilkinson9821]

Living in Michigan the majority of my adult life, I feel very lucky. Despite the lack of upward mobility and continued economic inequality, I feel like we still come out ahead of the curve. Climate here is not only pretty risk free (if you don't mind snow) but arguably creates better opportunities for mental and physical health because our natural areas are so outstanding. If you can get a sustainable source of income you can live very well here, and many do.

[@emilyfeagin2673]

I live in the Pittsburgh area and I say the same thing I don’t particularly like the snow but I can deal with it We have many areas of historic and natural beauty here. That and a low cost of living make it worth living here

[@allenday2132]

Don't go telling people it is good here. Michigan has its issues, but when I visit the other places with population growth ... well, they are nice places to visit.

[@Mr_MKE]

SSHHHHHH! Don't tell anyone! (Wisconsinite here). Keep sending them to Florida!

[@Primalxbeast]

@@Mr_MKE Florida here, we're full, go away. 🙃

[@Mr_MKE]

@@Primalxbeast happy to oblige. It's all old crusty boomers moving there anyway. Enjoy climate change!

[@amybouchard]

One of the primary reasons I left Las Vegas was concerns over water and drought. It doesn’t seem sustainable to live in the desert with the growing burden on the water system.

[@TheZandrag]

One of the reasons I left LV years ago, also. I actually had a nightmare about it then.

[@cimbalok2972]

Very interesting. I live in Chicago where we don't have many climate issues, but in the last 20 years or so we have had significant rainstorms that cause flooded streets, basements and viaducts. My suggestion would be for the city and surrounding suburbs to offer financial incentives for homeowners to install rain gardens and keep their backyards permeable instead of paving them over with concrete, both of which can mitigate flooding.

[@jwilcox4726]

SoCal raised so what is a rain garden? Not a clue over here. They cover over dirt because it blows in & makes everything dirty and they never got any water down south anyhow. Like Las Vegas gets something like an inch a year. They should not be allowed to build neighborhoods in deserts without providing a water system in advance. That stops a lot of stupidity if we could. Bribing all the materialists out to the desert and tempting them with debt & no down Own own my bejesus's, you don't own anything till it's paid for. EVER. Owe no man anything but Love. Remember the Bible. NO WATER. That is truly the definition of a fool. God get out. Leave AZ a death trap of so many will die or be reincarnated where they live. Stuck there. Oh no, freewill, so Heaven can't forbid. Poor foolish not yet awake to who they really are. But you will reincarnate on youtube on why it was taken out of bible and where and when and by whom. That's the first step being a seeker, someday a seer like me.

[@mojokurk1637]

It's called the lake effect

[@davidwebb9752]

Sounds more like city neglect or poor engineering of storm water drain systems to me 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@frankfurter2891]

Where and when was all this rain you speak of. Living in this area for 50 years and you are talking out the side of your neck.

[@jessereinhardt6320]

Political climate change risk is pretty bad in Chicago. You pay for it with higher taxes and less rights to your body.

[@frankblangeard8865]

Some States which are currently devastated by flooding (Iowa, Minnesota 6/24/2024) are shown on the map at 5:24 to be safe from climate change.

[@JayOyster]

We moved our family from the gulf coast of Florida to north Georgia about 10 years ago. I pushed for it with my wife *primarily* for climate change reasons. But I learned not to mention it to others. They looked at me like I was nuts. I also didn't want to get stuck holding a piece of property in FL when the reality of flooding and heat finally hits the housing market there. (Granted, it may not happen any time soon . . . but it will sneak up on us. And suddenly you'll have 20 million houses that are both financially (and in some cases, literally) under water.)

[@artboymoy]

I see that FL has a number of large insurance companies leaving it and the state has to to create it's own and mandate it now, which is hilarious to me...

[@misshell]

Even if you don't see the great benefit of moving out of FL, your children and next generations will. With flooding, heat people will migrate out in mass.

[@KB-ke3fi]

It's a bunch of crap. Don't believe all the shit you watch on PBS

[@KB-ke3fi]

@@misshell Yeah well I guess everyone from New York will drown lol

[@chrispaige8880]

Yet, Obama - who supposedly consults w/ the best scientists - invests millions in properties sure to be underwater. Is he an idiot? Or is he just indifferent to losing millions? Seriously, the fact that you people take this crap seriously is just hilarious. The climate has been changing forever; there's zippo evidence of anything unusual or anything caused by humans. Indeed, carbon levels have been changing forever, so - again - who cares that a trace gas (which is less than 1/2 of 1% of the atmosphere) is changing? Please, stop being ridiculous. Look at what Obama does, not what he prattles on about.

[@Feltcutemightchangelater]

I’ve lived in Houston for essentially my entire life, and I plan to move somewhere else ASAP. The heat here in the summer is unbearable (summer here lasts from March/April-October/November), and the flooding that occurs throughout the city when it just moderately rains can impede your ability to travel depending on what area you live in. Heat bulbs are a very real concern here because it’s very common for us to have 90-100% humidity for the majority of the year. We are very familiar with hurricanes, and we’re also not strangers to tornados, although they are extremely rare within Houston proper. Something probably not considered in this mapping is the mosquitoes. They will eat you alive from the beginning of spring sometimes through to Christmas. This means the possibility of contracting a disease from them is very high here compared to other areas of the country.

[@WillWilliams2001]

Yes! Mosquitoes are definitely a consideration. So is crime and what about allergies due to pollen or poor quality air? Lots to consider when moving.

[@ut000bs]

Yep. Sounds like the 80s when I was there.

[@Zb_Calisthenic]

Sounds like it sucks. Move to cold weather state.

[@mikekautz5953]

Cry baby

[@dianastevenson131]

Is it just as bad in Dallas, or is that less hot/humid/prone to flooding?

[@DAILG_2024]

I would love to see some data around canada and how it will be affected. I watch your climate episodes all the time and find them very informative. Keep up the good work!

[@pbsterra]

Thanks! I'd really like to do an international take on this idea as well.

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

@@pbsterra Chilean here. Please do.

[@thebigpicture2032]

I live on the West Coast of Canada and climate change has been glorious weather wise for the most part but there have been disasters such as increased forest fires and longer dry spells. The big issue is that we’re vulnerable living in a rainforest that will likely burn during a dry hot spell at some point in the next 50 years.

[@appa609]

Eastern Canada along the Great Lakes-St.Lawrence are very resilient. There's a lot of water here to moderate extreme tempreatures and induce rainfall. The most worrying thing is that everyone else on earth moves here and prices us out. I visited the Rocky Mountains in Alberta and while the weather was locally pretty nice, there was smoke in the sky the whole time I was there. I saw mountainsides of trees that have just burned to a crisp. There's a big fire on its way because of the stupid pine beetles. I'm worried.

[@rustyicepick8462]

I think the biggest impact on Canada will be climate refugees from the US, Mexico, Central and South America.

[@jlynch877]

I left FL 2 years ago and moved to Colombus GA. I did a fair amount of research on climate and natural hazards. Even though it's part of the southern heat, we don't get extreme high temps. that other parts get. I'm lucky enough to have a basement, so if it gets really bad, I can cool off in it. I'm on a hill, so water drains away. I feel lucky that I checked off many boxes in my hunt for a safer location.

[@ericgray6625]

We recently retired and climate was a major factor in our decision as to where to retire. While most of our family lives in Texas, we didn't want to spend our remaining years locked inside air conditioned spaces. So young people may not think of life in 50 years, those of us on the short end of life take these things to heart.

[@smks8er]

What region did you end up settling on?

[@98898685894]

Texas is big , what part?

[@ericgray6625]

@@smks8er we actually ended up moving to Italy.

[@francismarion6400]

You weren't worried about drowning from sea rise?

[@ericgray6625]

@@francismarion6400 I live far higher above sea level than I ever did in Texas.

[@susanb8354]

I moved to Maine recently from Long Island, NY. Maine may be cold but climate change is making it warmer every year. I was worried about drought and hurricanes but I picked a town far enough from the coast to avoid the impact from storms and I’m surrounded by water but I made sure my house is not in a flood zone. You learn how to deal with snow by experience and it looks beautiful out the window. Maine is also much more affordable.

[@bobbys2643]

Do you want a live in fellow long islander?? I cook, I clean!! 😂 Escaping Long Island is high on my list… the housing prices are the worst in the country.

[@francismarion6400]

How do you stay warm? blankets?

[@Swan-rb4yg]

Lol. I'm from the south, and I almost froze to death in Long Island in June. You're tough!

[@bobbys2643]

@@Swan-rb4yg haha!! June is the only good month here! Not too humid yet!

[@rogergeyer9851]

Susan B: Actually, I'm choosing to remain in a "happy medium" place, central KY, as long as that works well. (I'm already in my 60's with some health issues, so don't need to worry long term). No real blizzard risk, especially now. No hurricane risk. Little earthquake risk. Good water supply. Moderate temperatures, and only a handful of really hot days. No flooding risk beyond rainstorms (I live near the top of a decent sized hill). I'd be really concerned living in parts of CA, FL, TX, etc, but I think there are a LOT of reasonable places for the next couple to few decades, that have decent cost of living, taxes, etc. But hey, if you don't mind cold winters, then places like Maine away from the coast sound reasonable for several decades out.

[@deirdre108]

Seattle resident here. I know that this video was focused on natural disaster due to climate change rather than geological anomalies but when considering the Pacific Northwest one must factor in the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Many people currently viewing this video may see this disaster happen within their lifetimes. The effects will be catastrophic .

[@dojokonojo]

Probably the most catastrophic loss is life will be from the resulting tsunami. People need to know when the big one hits they need to move to higher between immediately because there isn't a lot of time. It will be 2011 Tohoku levels of destruction.

[@Default78334]

@@dojokonojo Fun fact, the Japanese have historically kept good records about earthquakes and tsunamis which is why the only written record of the last time the Cascadia Subduction Zone did its thing is because the tsunami it caused travelled all the way across the Pacific ocean which made it extremely noteworthy to Japanese recordkeepers as they had no earthquake to warn of its approach.

[@deirdre108]

@@dojokonojo I was also thinking about the resulting 9+ earthquake and the liquefaction of the ground in a large part of downtown Seattle.

[@jc4354]

99% of houses in Japan survived their 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. Don't live in the lowlands. That's all. Japan still exists and is thriving. In the 60s Alaska also had a subduction zone earthquake. It's really not as big of a deal as people fear as long as you are not in the lowlands.

[@vinniezcenzo]

@@dojokonojo That is unlikely due to the geography of the coast and where people live in Washington. Most people live out of the way of danger and Seattle is at a low risk of tsunami damage because the Puget Sound is protected by Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula. Those areas are likely to get hit harder, but they are much less populated. In addition, due to the cliffs/hilly geography, most people would be safe or could safely evacuate.

[@thecircledance]

I'm moving to a fire/flood area for a simple reason: I want to live in the mountains close to rivers, forests, and lakes. It sucks it's dangerous, but I'm currently in a big city, and I also feel unsafe here for other reasons. It's depressing but the world doesn't feel safe anymore no matter where you go, so might as well live in a beautiful location.

[@Debbie-henri]

I suppose you could always dig a Hobbit hole deep into your mountainside, a great retreat from surprise fire, high heat, wet bulb events, hail damage, storms, and (with a bit of clever disguising - roving bands of climate migrants looking for food/stuff to steal/victims. Just need a good pantry, water bottles, and maybe air tanks in case of prolonged wildfires above.

[@alexanderg117]

@@Debbie-henri- “Climate Migrants”! What a GREAT term for the hordes of ignorant people that never bothered to plan ahead for ANYTHING, ever. They’re comin’ with their guns drawn, ready to steal and hunt down anything and everything that isn’t bolted down. 😢

[@nerobernardino88]

@@Debbie-henri Just like how mammal ancestors survived the big fuck-off rock from beyond the clouds!

[@aarongreer1657]

I'd be curious to see a global version of this research (which is excellent, by the way). Specifically, I'm curious about the Caribbean and its ability to withstand both warmer seas and a warmer climate. As an anthropologist, I'm interested to see how this will affect human behavior, especially migration patterns. Your work is great and really important. Keep it up.

[@mattwhaley1865]

Yessss. This. Climate change doesn’t just affect the United States. It affects the whole planet. Especially those in different regions.

[@EmpressoftheLoneIslands]

I also want this, because I’m trying to figure out where to move, outside of the US.

[@RobertMJohnson]

LOLOLOL. isn't it amazing how in a warming climate and rising oceans that NO ONE from the Caribbean has been migrating?

[@aarongreer1657]

@@RobertMJohnson The Caribbean has experienced a great deal of out-migration over the years, but my understanding is that the root cause has been mostly economic rather than ecologic. But I wonder if that's changing now.

[@Dannysoutherner]

OMG the Carib area is AWESOME! Perfect weather, great diving and swimming. Fishing. People are pouring into the area I live by the ton. One day they will flock the Caribbean and ruin it but for now, watch the volcano, have a cup of rum and enjoy! Warmer weather is always better, don't let the doomsayers convince you otherwise. Being able to grow food year round beats freezing in Boston.

[@kennethcarson3336]

I moved to southern California for health reasons, living with Sickle Cell Disease in Chicago during the winter is really difficult, but I got here in 2014 during the drought and what would become some historic wild fires in this State. All I can say is "I miss Lake Michigan!"

[@lorielizabethwade7505]

So sorry for your illness, KennethCarson. I can honestly say that Shytown is def NOT a place I'd ever feel safe. Lori Lightfoot is a nightmare and if Chicago's reputation is true, it's not going to get better there anytime soon. Best wishes for your happiness. 🌺

[@ag4allgood]

Living in a suburb outside Chicago 35 miles South West & this winter has been very mild. Just a cold spell & storm right around Christmas. Chicago is one of the most beautiful cities in the US with a diverse population. Restaurants are also great here too. Lived here my whole life & its been a great place if you like 4 seasons. The Lake front in summer is awesome !

[@OldDawg-mc3dy]

There has not been an increase in wildfires. There has been an increase in them being more severe more often. Why? Because as predicted by experts in the 70s we banned things like controlled burns etc . . . Who pushed for that? Environmental Nazis

[@SLHJR0390]

@@ag4allgood we just moved from about an hour and a half west of the chicago lakefront to CO. Mainly for the very reason mentioned in the video, economic reasons/job. The problem with northern illinois and southern wisconsin is the concentation of PFAS/PFOS in fresh water supplies. While chicago proper and many closer suburbs have the lake to draw drinking water from nearly every community in wisconsin and northern illinois are subject to enormous amounts of forever chemicals. The source is mainly chemcial producers, 3M, etc... that have been able to operate without real regulation and oversight for nearly 50 years. So while there many sources of water from the Mississippi (which is also heavily polluted from Clinton, IL - 3M plant and south) they are largely polluted bodies of water. "Mixed" is the best water quality rating you will find in the middle Midwest and extending north into WI and MN. Everyone is dying of cancer and getting sick with cancers they wouldnt have otherwise died from by eating fish, recreation in PFAS/PFOS tainted water, and otherwise being subjected to wind carrying pesticides that are in EVERYONES water in the Chicagoland area. There are things to be said about this part of the country, and we still own a home there, but the water issue in the midwest is the big elephant in the room. My wife is in healthcare and there are droves of people dying in the chicagoland area due to lack of early testing, with colorectal and other GI cancers, and the lack of enough specialists to diagnose folks early enough. This trend is even worse in the collar counties and the rural areas of northern illinois. Take one look at a PFAS map of Michigan and then remember that if there was actual oversight and regular testing, IL, WI, and Iowa would look the same. Iowa now has the worst water quality of the whole midwest. Not a very good crown to wear. The midwest has trouble with water just like anywhere else. What scares me the most is the lack of planning and the lack of oversight because water has historically been plentiful. State and Local Gov arent into the idea of regulating anythign unless its mandated by a higher form of Gov. And they dont want to regulate the use of pesticides that fowl their municipal supplies because the Big Ag end of the system wont let any meaningful regulation come forward. Its a diseaster unfolding ...

[@ryankuypers1819]

But you certainly don't miss the winters.

[@RoadThruGrace]

I want to leave Florida so badly, despite the fact of being born and raised here. Since growing up, the heat has progressively increased and is awful with the humidity. My health requires cooler weather, yet not too cold. Being retired and on Social Security alone makes it difficult to afford living here or even moving away. Perhaps living a nomadic lifestyle is the answer by chasing the nicer weather. It does require further research.

[@maureenrosen2736]

Thank God we never moved to Florida. We moved to NH instead. Great climate, gorgeous water and air and mountains and great people.

[@Metalmirq]

Florida is a terrible place

[@EEE-1409]

​@@MetalmirqUnless you love waterparks

[@jcaesar134]

I'm a lifetime Floridian too, but I'd never leave. I'm 61 now. When I was younger my peers couldn't wait to leave Miami. As I got older, I realized doctors and hospitals are an important retirement consideration. The absolute best are available here in Florida. Over the years I watched a lot of family and friends who moved out just to come back to visit specialists and receive advanced care. When I was a kid I'd run around all day in the sun and it didn't bother me one bit. My family didn't even have AC in our home until 1973. The first AC school that I attended was in 1976. We always had big fans in the classroom. Now, I can't imagine being without AC. Today. I keep my AC in my bedroom at 64 degrees. I hear a lot of complaints about the heat. I think a good part of that is due to getting old than global warming. In Florida you have to be concerned about hurricanes, but you will never have to worry about freezing to death during the Winter. You can mitigate a lot of hurricane concerns via Impact windows or storm shutters. Sorry to hear you're leaving.

[@johnperic6860]

It's astonishing that you can feel a 1F Fahrenheit difference in temperatures between 1950 and today.

[@drecksaukerl]

I used to hate the cold and long winters in NY's Capital Region, but they've gotten alot milder overall in the last 15 years or so. The house is paid for; I'm staying put. Also grateful that my sister and I sold the parent's home in Cape Coral, FL right before hurricane Ian turned it into part of the Gulf of Mexico. Though about moving there once. Ain't happening now.

[@richardjreidii]

People move to Florida and the southwest, because, and I cannot stress this firmly enough, winter sucks. As you age, it becomes more difficult to shovel inches or even feet of snow. It’s not just the cold, which does indeed hurt when it comes to arthritis. It’s the fact that you can’t get out of your driveway because you got 6 inches of snow and you’re no longer physically able to clear that out.

[@borkfork3163]

Here in Bozeman, MT we average 90" snow each winter. You shovel snow constantly. If I could I would move to one of the MT towns that average under 20" snow/year that would be perfect but my job keeps me here.

[@MrWaterbugdesign]

I'm 66, live in Phoenix. Very nice. Now I'm getting ready to move to an eternal spring city, Baguio Philippines or Da Lat Vietnam. Highs of about 75F everyday of the year. A lot of rain, landslides are a risk, but I can deal with that. Rent is about 75% less than the US and labor is low cost so a live-in housekeeper is about $100/mo and a live-in Register nurse is about $500/mo. But mostly I just like adventures.

[@aeonsbeyond]

Im literally DYING IN MASSACHUSETTS the state is a deathcamp a collapsed failure the winter lasts 8 months a year i went to California its impossible where can i go in America anymore???? That isnt also a collapsed failure? I hate human life its fucking horrible i want to die i hate the northeast god damn this place

[@SPAZZYok]

Just don't bring your vote blue bs. Florida is happily a red state.

[@marvinsizemore427]

The cost of living in most of those areas is cost prohibitive, especially for retirees.

[@davestagner]

We live in MInnesota, and were thinking about moving to northern New Mexico, but the climate issues certainly worry me. We are in about as safe a place as there is in the country right now.

[@deepashtray5605]

One projection found that by the end of the century the climate for Minneapolis will be much like Kansas City is now.

[@ecurewitz]

I used want to live in Arizona to get away from New England winters, now it looks like staying here in Massachusetts is a great idea

[@davestagner]

@@deepashtray5605 Alas, my odds of being around until the end of the century are exceedingly low.

[@deepashtray5605]

@@davestagner It's our legacy :(

[@BkNy02]

You should start buying some land now when the price is low. I believe the land value will increase in the future. You can then sell it to retire on or leave it for your children and grandchildren who will need it.

[@KJSvitko]

For decades property developers have filled in wetlands and low lying areas and built homes, strip malls and shopping centers on them. Wetlands are natures over flow, flood storage and ground water recharge ares. Wetlands need to be protected, expanded and appreciated for the flood control and water storage that they provide.

[@chrispaige8880]

Really? You realize that George HW Bush protected the wetlands - he was president from 1989 to 1993. Please.

[@foxywhitetip7387]

In Hawaii they build in lava zone 1-2 . Pure greed

[@pgreenwood478]

Thanks for all this relevant information. I do appreciate your efforts. I live in the high mountain desert. We have been in severe drought for ten years and are now at risk for catastrophic fires which have recently devoured thousands of acres close by. We are constantly fighting new development to protect our watershed. Our river is dying in muddy flash floods. A few weeks ago we had two inches of rainfall in one event. The forest service plans to burn up to 3,000 slash piles in our riparian areas over the next 10-20 years to prevent catastrophic fire. But what will this do to our river? To the ecology, the biodiversity? Those trees were sequestering CO2 and giving off O2. It's discouraging.

[@jfbeam]

As someone who owns property inside a FEMA flood exclusion zone (that has been _growing_ for years) in Wake County NC, your flood risk map is way optimistic and macroscopic. The county as a whole, on average does not flood, but any properties near even a drainage ditch has issues with water. Even in my community, there are units with rain water issues - partly due to everything being slab-on-grade, so the slightest bit of build up will flood the house. And we're not even in a FEMA 1000 year zone.

[@rolandthethompsongunner64]

Great incite thanks.

[@ViceCoin]

What about heat?

[@NastyFool7]

Being personally effected is one thing, but the affects of climate strife can damage your entire community. Your house might not be flooded, but maybe the grocery stores aren't so safe. You might have AC, but if your child's school can't keep up, the school closes. All of this is considered ~

[@ViceCoin]

@@NastyFool7 Bad hair day:(

[@nanwilder2853]

@@rolandthethompsongunner64: Sorry, Roland, but “incite” is not right… The word you want is INSIGHT. You are most welcome!

[@SaveMoneySavethePlanet]

One additional thing to consider is how willing an area seems to actually address these issues. Obviously the region that I live in LA has some serious challenges ahead of them due to wildfire smoke, being a flood plain, and heat waves, but my wife and I have decided not to move. Our reasoning is that we constantly hear our governments respond to these issues by bringing the conversation back around to their plans for more water recycling, rewilding select areas that need it, subsidies for home insulation, and tons of other stuff. Im not trying to claim that LA is a bastion of perfect behavior or anything. Just that they seem more aware of the challenges headed our way and willing to confront them than other cities which I could potentially find work in.

[@KOKO-uu7yd]

Sound reasoning, IMHO

[@thebigpicture2032]

@@breeda9196 sounds climate change hater like. Their reasoning is sound and they’ve made an informed decision. There is no issue with their comment.

[@thebigpicture2032]

@@breeda9196 the world has solid evidence of human driven climate change. The science is in and it’s not even debatable. Check out the smoking gun of climate change - carbon 13 ratios. Then take a look outside - everywhere is affected. Don’t get me wrong - I despise electric vehicles. However, I also despise pollution and choking from fumes in rush hour or at any time in a major city. The lockdown showed how clean the air could be with most of the gas vehicles gone.

[@The.Nasty.]

Vegas on the other hand couldn’t care less, limiting water supply to poor neighborhoods while the casinos, gated communities, and 30 golf courses use water galore… Its only getting worse out this way 😅

[@ecurewitz]

I live in one of the safest climate areas, and we are among those taking it most seriously

[@samd3497]

I've always lived in the midwest, and certainly would like to stay around the area. I've never even considered moving to the sunbelt, just because of the horrible car-centric urban planning, but this is just another reason not to.

[@PASH3227]

Oh yes. Cleveland and Detroit are highly walkable cites. Seriously aside from Chicago and parts of Pittsburg and Saint Louis how is the Midwest walkable?

[@knotkool1]

the south thanks you for your commitment to staying the fuck away.

[@brucet2756]

Meh, I'd take the risk of a disaster over a 100% chance of being scammed on my taxes and freezing every winter for eternity in Illinois

[@mirzaahmed6589]

@@PASH3227 Chicago and Pittsburgh are not walkable either, especially in winter.

[@PASH3227]

@@mirzaahmed6589 I'd argue PARTS of the city are walkable, but regardless the Rust Belt isn't a pedestrian paradise compared to the Sun Belt's "suburban hell".

[@paulsmith1411]

We know how to Help and Fix this issue but greed and development is destroying Us ...

[@ardiris2715]

This video has a LOT of information to unpack. My cardiologist recommended strongly that I move from Seattle because of the smoke. I am retired, so no problem. I decided to move back to the region where I grew up, the Great Lakes. The winters here are totally different now. I have new grass growing in my yard. In January!! That's crazy!! (:

[@doncasino]

The smoke in Seattle - now seemingly a permanent fixture due to the climate-change induced cycle of wetter winters watering increased spring foliage growth that fuels bigger, more frequent summer burns - goes to show just how unpredictable the negative effects of climate change will be long-term. I suspect that few, if any, places will be 'safe' and even then that safety will only be relative to places that are getting slammed by multiple Cat 5 hurricanes a year and other such apocalyptic catastrophes.

[@solarcat_]

The winters are definitely VERY different, even from when I was growing up here in the 90s. We got some snow today, but otherwise my lawn has also been green for weeks! A green January would have been unimaginable as a kid.

[@purpleicewitch6349]

Yeah I remember when Michigan had snow almost solid from like November through March. Wild that it changed so much just in our lifetimes.

[@jbaez4914]

@@solarcat_ I wish we had snow down here in middle TN :( We freak out when we get anything past 2-3 inches of snow lmao.

[@MrLeonightis]

It's called a mild winter , not normal , it happens , wait until it's 20 below for 3 months lmao, idiots

[@French-Kiss24]

I moved from Texas to South Carolina - but not to the coast. I’m in Greenville, which is near the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Since we are on the backside of the mountains, we miss the tornadoes and wild weather that go up from the Gulf of Mexico. We are not near the coast, so we avoid the hurricane risk. It is also slightly cooler here.

[@OldJackWolf]

Its a better choice than TX for sure, but the DOD put the near future human habitable zone north of the Mason Dixon line about 15 years ago. I guess it depends on your age, but we picked Erie for our retirement.

[@AA-cp8ry]

U meant the Smokey Mountains, not the Appalachian. Lol

[@OldJackWolf]

@@AA-cp8ry The Smokey Mountains are part of that chain. But I still suggest north of the Mason Dixon, especially if you're a young person.

[@pini5076]

Cant wait to get tf out of Texas as well.

[@valeriedevereux5912]

Sounds like a great place to live.

[@YouGuessIGuess]

As someone who moved from Lousiana to Oregon years ago, I sometimes find myself shutting all the windows due to wildfire smoke and elevated temperatures at the same time that my relatives back home are dealing with Hurricanes.

[@TSITTEL13]

Fellow Oregonian here! We are planning to move to New Hampshire in a few years when prices stabilize a bit more! We moved from saint helens to bend about 5 years ago and the heat is getting so bad our vinyl siding melted off our house! And the winters are dwindling! This place is getting more unstable every year!!!

[@mindlessmonk3322]

You guys are exaggerating we had some idiot start a wildfire. Oregon and Washington do not have wildfires every year stop the cap.

[@TSITTEL13]

@@mindlessmonk3322 do you live in Oregon?

[@mindlessmonk3322]

@@TSITTEL13 yes I live in Oregon and I've lived in Washington. We had snow this year and it's been cold and rainy. In the last couple of years we've had two people start major fires like dummies doing fireworks during the dry season.

[@TSITTEL13]

@@mindlessmonk3322 well where I live in Oregon is full of tweaker bums and with the extreme dry summers and drought it is inevitable that we will have fires when the bums are moving further out where I live in the high desert! Doesn’t matter how the fires start, with the dry weather we cannot combat the spread! And the last fire we had close to me this last summer was from lighting which is how most of them start!

[@akeleven]

Arizona risk not mentioned: running out of water and wage hours lost to pay for air conditioning. Irresponsible to ignore Arizona's looming water crisis.

[@jl535]

It was covered, focused on Phoenix.

[@TremendousSax]

Did you not watch the video? It's mentioned at about the 7 minute mark as extreme heat risk

[@akeleven]

@@TremendousSax not a word about water

[@shellylofgren]

I’m closing in on my retirement and I’d like to move from Minnesota to a warmer climate, but the prices on homes are stupidly ridiculous and Mortgage prices has been skyrocketing on a roll(currently over 7%) do I just invest my spare cash into stock and wait for a housing crash or should I go ahead to buy a home anyways

[@jeffery_Automotive]

Nobody knows anything; You need to create your own process, manage risk, and stick to the plan, through thick or thin, While also continuously learning from mistakes and improving.

[@theresahv]

@@jeffery_Automotive Uncertainty... it took me 5 years to stop trying to predict what bout to happen in market based on charts studying, cause you never know. not having a mentor cost me 5 years of pain I learn to go we’re the market is wanting to go and keep it simple with discipline.

[@georgebarret]

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[@DavidRiggs-dc7jk]

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[@icebergs411]

Buy the home NOW! All this investment chatter is only going to make an adviser money. Good advice is often free.

[@foxwaffles]

I'd love to see a video discussing wet bulb temperatures. Many people including me have a hard time really grasping and taking seriously how deadly the heat is. I almost got heat stroke as a young teenager once and learned my lesson to respect the heat and be aware of my body

[@vladtepes481]

Far more people die from cold than from heat.

[@iqbalindaryono8984]

@@vladtepes481 More people die from the heat than those who live in a comfortable temperature.

[@michaeldeierhoi4096]

@@vladtepes481 Whether intended or not your comment comes off as an attempt to minimize the threat of heat to our health. As the original commented stated he is concerned about wet bulb temperature because of a near stroke episode which is a scary event. Add to that is the reality that heat waves are becoming more frequent as the climate warms. Just a couple summers ago the northwest had an unprecedented spike in temperature in some areas to 120° F or 49° C.

[@catscradle72]

I recommend reading Hothouse Earth by Bill Maguire. He has an entire chapter that explains the wet bulb index. Put simply, the wet bulb index (WBI) calculates the air temperature and the humidity together. The WBI is usually lower than the dry bulb index. The closer the WBI get to the DBI, the closer the humidity is to 100%. At that point, sweat can't evaporate from the body because there is too much water in the air, so you can't effectively cool through sweat. Around the globe, it's considered too hot to work or do anything strenuous with a WBI of 87°F or 31°C. The real feel temp is closer to 122°F or 50°C. A WBI of 95°F (35°C) would kill you in a matter of hours and you would know you were going to die unless you got to an air conditioned environment. The real feel would be 158°F (70°C).

[@vladtepes481]

@@iqbalindaryono8984 No Duh!

[@FoxVox]

I’m one of those people moving away from Las Vegas and into northern Arizona. As someone who’s been a native Las Vegan, my entire life, I feel I am equipped to deal with the heat. My friends, and I are starting a nonprofit to help regreen our little portion of the desert. It’s really refreshing to hope to be part of positive impacts for the environment. If everyone homesteaded in the lowest risk places they could happily afford, we would have a different economy and a different country. Corporate capitalism will continue to spin out of control, and become more dystopian as time goes on so the more people opt out of it sooner the less power it will have in the future.

[@Eddisdedd]

I'd love to donate, I know that Nevada needs more native greens. Let me know if there's any way I can help from Nebraska!

[@damunzy]

I'm looking at Vermont or Canada. Thinking about my kids' kids' kids and having a place for them that if liveable.

[@ChooseCompassion]

Well spoken. I love with you and your friends are going to do well I hope it inspires others to do what they can to be part of the solution.

[@TheSpiritombsableye]

Because re-greening a desert is positive for the environment. 😏

[@source5729]

@@TheSpiritombsableye You’re wrong. Israel did it with astounding results. Creating a lush environment in a desert will help climate change’s impact. It can & should be done asap

[@JessicaRichardson]

The fact that we are still not talking about the risk of drought in Phoenix is bewildering.

[@gilbertgoetz2287]

After 36 years living in the San Francisco Bay Area, I’ve moved to Milwaukee to retire. Consequences of climate change was a significant reason as was the cost of living. Every place has its own beauty. Every place has its challenges. I’ve left droughts, fires, earthquakes, congestion, and high cost of living for climatological predictability, water, uncongested traffic, and low (by comparison) cost of living. Of course, it’s not perfect. We have Ron Johnson after all.

[@153haring]

@@evegreenification You are exactly right. He stands up for no one.

[@evegreenification]

@@153haring People such as yourself don't care about those less fortunate unless pretending to do so loudly and publicly is proven to make you look cool.

[@Izzy-qf1do]

🤣🤣

[@lblaylock513]

Welcome to WI Gil. Glad you're here to help us fight the good fight. We were so close to getting rid of that Q creep. Maybe he'll take a hint and retire early 😉🤞

[@susanm7354]

Vote him out! I live in Northern Nevada from Southern California. (I don’t think I can live in a red state.)Too many people are moving here and now we have a red governor! Ugh!!

[@mjuang9]

The other issue you guys haven’t address: if someone owns a home in a high risk area and wants to move to another safer area, who’s gonna wanna buy their previous home if it’s in a bad area?

[@scrumbfunk]

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[@BRUtahn]

All the antiwoke crusaders who are willfully ignorant about climate change

[@supremekizzle]

Aquaman.

[@I2AmUS]

You'll find someone....There's a sucker born every minute! 😂😂😂

[@chowchowtales]

People move or stay put for many different reasons. Remember, in the video she talked about some moving out of high cost of living, but safer areas for a location where they can get work. Others move to a safer area with less opportunity for jobs. And remember, there is no, no risk place to live. We have to weigh risk and benefits, with opportunities and preferences. Where you would live, some others never would, and where you would never live, others would love. Kind of like the pioneers. Risk it all for a better life, or stay put and take your chances.

[@rayellenkishbach8998]

Helpful to see this data superimposed. I'd love to see a follow up that provides places that are still good to move to from both the climate but also political, cultural, and economic perspective.

[@emilyfeagin2673]

It’s a series of trade offs I could have made more money if I had moved away from Pittsburgh. But my cost of living would have been much higher. I loved Santa Cruz, CA but I couldn’t afford to live there

[@80s_Boombox_Collector]

Political and cultural perspectives are unique to each person. No way to make a TV show about it

[@kbanghart]

@@emilyfeagin2673 whew, I've heard that Santa Cruz is super hard to move to. I live in Sacramento. I have an aunt who lives in the Foothills above SC and has for decades.

[@carloschip]

@@emilyfeagin2673 hey, i saw Pittsburgh mentioned as high risk for storms in the video. In your experience, is it common / dangerous?

[@kbanghart]

@Truth is Harsh yeah sorry, I believe scientists over some social media rando.

[@joker6solitaire]

I lived in Nashville in 2018-2019, and my fellow Millennial coworkers (a couple) told me all about their dream to move to Florida to be near Disney World 🙄These were two educated, environmentally-conscious vegans! I gently warned them about the future climate risks to Florida--including the contamination of their underground freshwater aquifers as sea levels rise through the porous rocks. Florida is doomed no matter how much they protect their coastlines! I pleaded with them to at least not buy property in Florida, but just to rent, so they wouldn't be stuck with an unsellable home in a few decades. They didn't listen. On the bright side, another close friend of mine (also a Millennial) who has adored the Southwest all her life is taking me seriously about only renting her home in Tempe, not buying. Videos like this are getting through to her. Meanwhile, I resolved never to move away from the Great Lakes again. I've lived in various Chicago suburbs throughout my life, close to Lake Michigan, so my towns always have access to the fresh water in Lake Michigan. It's the largest source of fresh water in the world--and the world only has 3% fresh water to begin with!

[@CherylMinskey]

I was born and raised in Detroit but have lived in Florida for the past 50 years as first my parents and both sets of grandparents made the move from Michigan to Florida back in the 60's. Now that I'm older, I'm tired of worrying about whether a hurricane is going to hit each and every summer. I looked for a place not prone to fires, tornadoes, earthquakes,, etc. and Michigan fits the bill. I'm seriously thinking of moving back to Michigan, maybe somewhere in the central part so I don't have to worry as I get older.

[@kenwilliams4086]

Regardless of what this video suggests, Michigan has violent weather episode's just as every other state. Floods, extreme cold and heat, violent summer thunderstorms and winter blizzards, and forest fires. A devastating tornado touched down in the small town of Gaylord last summer destroying 100's of homes and businesses. The grass isn't always necessarily greener on the other side of the fence.

[@louurich9087]

GREAT! We'd love to have you back.

[@catherinesanchez1185]

Detroit is going to come back BIG in the coming decades. Not only due to location with regards to climate change, but there's plenty of fresh water there. There's investors buying up land there now, because they know.

[@ApoJake13]

Come back home! I am a born and raised Michigander. I like it here and don't have any plans on moving. Yeah we get a few tornados here and there and some cold weather and blizzards, but I'll take those natural "disasters" over hurricanes, earthquakes, constant fires, etc. any day! Not to mention, we have the largest source of freshwater around us (not including the frozen Arctic and Antarctic sheets, of course).

[@henrimatisse7481]

please check the weather this week in MI. BRRR

[@bubblez_x_beast8721]

I've lived in Michigan my entire life practically, it's honestly really nice to live here for the climate reasons alone. Even before I knew about climate change I knew we were lucky to live here. I believe that once the disasters start happening even more Michigan might actually start to grow again. Good produce, some good schools, and affordable houses. It's worth the few months of cold. Plus Minnesota is way colder than us :b

[@sdarling6518]

Michigan made repeated and very public messes of Flint and Detroit, so much so that its reputation may not recover in the next 30 years. The economy in so many midwestern areas is horrific. People can't live without jobs either.

[@bubblez_x_beast8721]

@sdarling6518 if you aren't you should try visiting Metro Detroit. Yeah maybe it isn't what it once was but it's honestly still got a lot going on. People just have to visit once and realize that things said online aren't forever.

[@bubblez_x_beast8721]

@sdarling6518 also there are plenty of jobs in the Detroit area rn. I can't speak for Flint because I don't know the area enough but there's a lot of availability here from what I've seen and heard

[@katiedid1851]

I grew up in s.e. michigan Water quality is an issue

[@ludwigvanbeethoven8164]

Sorry buddy, but in 20 years the global ice age trend will come back. So i guess youre out of luck.

[@JeansMc100]

I appreciate how Redfin gives the climate risks on each house listing, I totally look at those factors when I’m looking at houses, particularly the flood and fire risk here in the PNW. It is amazing to me how houses that are 9/10 in a flood zone still seem to sell.

[@danaaustin7647]

Cool!!!! Didn't know Redfin did this! Thanks!

[@WallaceStegner-e7r]

Thank you for telling the truth. Please consider expanding this worldwide. Anthropogenic mass extinction is here now, and we will all suffer, no matter where we live.

[@johnbenson1251]

The reality is that we can't all live in the low risk areas. What we need is a coordinated, collective action plan based on the data we have to build smarter and defend territory as best we can. I have little to no hope such an effort will occur. The US is likely to deny what is coming, scream about it as it is happening, then cobble together some disconnected, horribly ineffective response that will cause much unnecessary suffering and needless death. We won't be alone in that approach. It will be an apocalypse we could have avoided, but chose not to.

[@DarkPriestessJae]

This is incredibly well said and I think that, unfortunately, you’re spot on with this prediction.

[@coryascott]

We absolutely can, but the NIMBYs would never let go of their single family zoning to let it happen. Bangladesh is the size of Iowa with half the US population I also see a future where billions migrate to Canada, Alaska, Russia, Greenland, Scandinavia, all places with abundant space

[@gregbors8364]

There is no money in avoiding apocalypse. Environmental collapse will occur first, then contractors and such will make money trying to mitigate it, because the country will have no choice but to finally deal with it at that time.

[@JustMe-gs9xi]

​@@coryascott Hmm,, Canada for one is very hard to get citizenship. (this i know personally,,, and since there is Govt. healthcare there,, it is Good,, but there is a long period where you won't have healthcare),,,,the other's,, i don't know.

[@coryascott]

@@JustMe-gs9xi Canada is expecting to triple its population over the next hundred years, and that’s not from natural born citizens since like most developed countries, they have a relatively low birth rate

[@covishen]

After all the smoke we dealt with in Salt Lake City, we decided to move. We chose Northwest Minnesota. We are very happy with our choice and it's gratifying to see that we chose a fairly safe area to live.

[@mastercreamer1398]

My neighbor went to get us more beer and cigarettes, while he ran out I pumped his wife and gave her a fat cream pie. She was begging for it! Is that wrong do you think?

[@ryanvandy1615]

Michigan, Wisconsin, & Minnesota are going to be booming once things escalate further.

[@tcurr0309]

SLC is going to be a toxic air emergency zone when they finish killing the lake so rich farming corporations can profit

[@RaniVeluNachar-kx4lu]

One problem with sea level rise is that long before an area is at the future sea level, the Salt Water Intrusion from coastal waters into ground water can make for problems in water treatment for city potable water supplies. There is something called Desalinization but I hear it's pretty expensive and has it's problems too with what to do with the heavily salted slurry from the extraction process.

[@ChrisHarmon1]

I was born in south Florida(first 30 years there) and now live in AL. I have seen the mass migration to Florida as a spectacle because there is nothing THAT special about the place. California has far superior weather and scenery/beaches are unparalleled. With climate change rapidly getting worse and the pricing in Florida going out of sight I cannot fathom what people are thinking.

[@Phoenix-Cloud]

Get away from people who live in CA?

[@hollydowns2279]

@@Phoenix-Cloud Go away from friendly Californians and go to cult cities that do not welcome newcomers?

[@karinaoliveira3988]

I almost moved to Florida, but decided to wait bc the property prices are similar to MA where my wages are 30% more.

[@Kerrviii]

California > Florida. I’ll always be biased. I’m guessing it’s less costly and many people cannot afford California.

[@cardshow......]

I lived in Florida for a good part of my life or should I say bad! It's filled with a bunch of backwoods rednecks racist . People thing of the vacation spot,but the reality of it is Florida is nothing but a bunch of uneducated racist rednecks.

[@bobbyhendley3084]

It bothers me as a 7th generation Texan (who has already had a heatstroke here) that every summer now gets drastically hotter and lasts longer than the previous ones in record. This past summer we went two months without getting below 100°F even at night! Then only had a few days with nights “cooling” down Into the 90s before heating up again. We were trapped indoors for months on end, just waiting for our grossly mismanaged power grid to fail again. I feel like I’m being forced to leave home because home is no longer livable.

[@seejayyou4462]

7th gen here too, and I 100% agree. The mismanagement of our grid infuriates me.

[@apdj94]

I'm sorry you had to go through that and I hope your government can make some changes that help alleviate these problems

[@seejayyou4462]

@@eattherich3328 I do hope you’re calling someone else the aholes, since I’ve been voting for climate-conscious politicians since I was 18. I also ride my e-bike to & from work every day and haven’t driven my car in a month. What are you doing to help?

[@bobbyhendley3084]

@@eattherich3328 I have always voted green, and as far left as was on any ballot here. So no, I did not create it. But thanks for the insults.

[@rhondacalderone862]

@@bobbyhendley3084 How did anyone insult you?

[@speedyrunner101]

As a lover of maps, awesome video. As a Midwest resident, I think 'storms' shouldn't be compared to any of the other events. I feel like we received 2 bad storms this year but they don't really cause much damage (we don't get tornados in my area) lastly, the cold is dangerous for those living on thr streets or ppl without heating. For the vast majority of ppl here, the cold doesn't bother us because we're used to it

[@kimhunter8395]

I plan on moving from S Wisconsin north because it's getting too warm for me here. ❄⛄

[@brodriguez11000]

Storm and tornado season has been rather busy especially in January.

[@VirtualMayhem]

How resilient is your heating system when it gets cold? Do you have a backup system? Because natural gas lines can fail during an earthquake and electricity fails rather often. Know that it is the timing of system failures which can amplify what should be a minor nuisance into a major survival challenge.

[@speedyrunner101]

@VirtualMayhem lived in the Midwest for 33 years. Never lost electricity for more than a few hours. I usually keep my heating around 66/67 degrees. that being said infrastructure in certain areas is much worse and can have issues like that. There are bad storms/tornados that have hit areas close to Chicago and knocked out power but those are very rare

[@catherinesanchez1185]

@@speedyrunner101 Infrastructure is the key word!!! We are capable of building infrastructure that can survive different challenges, but until people are willing to pay for this vs cosmetics in their community and on their homes, it won't happen. This is something I'm doing on my home right now, since I currently have the extra $$ to do so.

[@acarter4865]

35+ years ago we decided (reluctantly on his part) to build in NH instead of moving to Dallas or Sarasota. Given how much griping about the cold has gone on over the years, this video is reassurance that we made the right decision

[@jacksfacts20]

I'll never understand why anyone would move to florida or arizona nowadays, the issues with both are so enormous that it boggles the mind.

[@Vannabee13]

Having worked in San Francisco, I found it way too cold and was surprised to see it listed as a great "moderate" area. (they completely skipped over the major earthquake risk and the fact the soil is a terrible foundation to build on. Not any where near ideal when compared to other much nicer areas of California). Arizona, while hot, is livable for me. I can just handle heat better than cold, having already lived through 100+ degree weather with no AC. And Phoenix is very well planned for it's climate with very few lawns and lots of drought resistant landscaping that California really should have been implementing years ago (seriously, why does the LA/Hollywood area have so much landscaping for all it's rich mansions? LA is a desert area, there shouldn't be any lawns!)

[@sdnw1840]

Well planned? You live in a desert. Do you know what hubris is?

[@jacksfacts20]

@@Vannabee13 Phoenix is well planned because they have less grass lawns?? I visit phx from time to time every year and it is one of the worst-planned cities I've ever seen. It just spawls out for miles and miles without any attempt to build upwards to concentrate people so that resource distribution is more efficient. There is barely any efficient pubic transportation system out there as the spawl prevents those systems from being cost-effective. The sidewalks barely have any tree coverage on them meaning that it's nearly impossible to stay cool with it's 120 outside when you're just outside trying to walk. You may be fine with such high heat, but children and the elderly cannot take the heat as well and as the demand for electricity increases as more people move into the suburbs, there will be more and more brownouts during the summer where people will die of heat stroke. Lawns are only a small part of the water usage in these areas, golf courses, and most importantly, the alfalfa fields that the state lets Saudia Arabia use for next to nothing to grow fodder for their camels are much bigger issues. There was just a news article a month ago how a whole suburb of phx is basically rationing water because the city planners tried to get around AZ's water laws because they were "too restrictive". Phx is one of the least prepared cities for climate change I've ever seen.

[@Vannabee13]

@Jack's Facts you can't just "build up" when you live in a desert climate. You have to build out. Concrete, metal, and glass absorbs heat and makes a concentrated urban area even more hazardous in the heat (and will drain resources to keep temperature controlled). It's actually easier to keep a small single story house temperature controlled in the heat than a tall building because heat rises. Compared to the LA area (which is a horribly planned, and ALSO a desert) Phoenix has a better understanding of what it is. You don't have more trees because... it's a desert. You sprawl outward and not upward because... it's a desert. Want to talk about wasting water, look at LA!

[@jacksfacts20]

@CoolChannel Name You've certainly owned the libs by running out of water and not being able to go outside during the summer.

[@benjaminsteele13]

A central problem here is that the markets will make riskier places cheaper. The longer Houston and Phoenix get hammered, the lower the cost it will be to get a house (obvs. with water costs in Phoenix being a slight mitigation, but it is still so much cheaper there than in safer Seattle). The problem is allowing market forces to dictate housing when the government creates the markets and can change incentives. Deep interventions like California's statewide housing legislation have the possibility of opening more space in California to those displaced, especially in high demand areas like the Bay Area, which is no longer allowed to keep its internal migration control structure of simply not building enough places for people to live any longer. What California is doing needs to be expanded to a national level to rewrite the market while seeing a massive investment into public and subsidized housing in the top safe cities-but that would require a more basal rewriting of the way we see housing and reduce asset values of, yes, major investors like BlackRock, but also those who have been sold the narrative that housing will create generational wealth without problem (short version: if housing builds wealth, the price must increase. If the price must increase, wages must to ensure there are buyers in the market. But asset inflation and wage inflation rarely happen at the same time, and so as housing costs increase and wages stagnate, the entire housing market becomes a generational Ponzi scheme). Housing prices are working as designed, and they're putting as many Americans as possible into harm's way.

[@deepashtray5605]

Property values in areas hit by recent hurricanes, such as Ft Meyers Beach, have actually increased.

[@paullehrbmx]

the problem is capitalism, it's time to change how we operate as a society.

[@jillpatton3432]

Insurance rates will increase for property owners...as long as the Fed government doesn't subsidize them .

[@jfbeam]

@@jillpatton3432 The fed has been reducing the funding to NFIP for years. If you paid flood insurance, you'd bloody well know that!

[@jfbeam]

@@deepashtray5605 Those properties are "recently remodeled", thus more $$$$$

[@marshall4439]

I recently moved from Los Angeles (due to cost of living and desire for quiet and more nature) to Iowa, and climate change was a large factor in location choice. When buying a home, we took into consideration flooding, cold, and windstorms and sought out a house least at risk of this that was still in our price range.

[@kg4gav]

We also moved from southwest Georgia to Iowa about 3 years ago. I had several job opportunities, and climate was a large factor in which ones I pursued. We also factored in flood risk and storms when making out decision as to what specific area to live in. Curious as to where in Iowa you landed.

[@alaalfa8839]

I thought people go to risky places as the title says....because the job is needed there to repair everything. and therefore employment is there.

[@Sidebranches]

Yep Iowa is very affordable for new families. Our 4 bedroom is only 250 a month and the property tax is less than $1500 a year

[@tomaslopez2940]

Hope it works out for you! Just make sure not to vote democrat as democrats are a big reason why California became too expensive!

[@marshall4439]

@@kg4gav We're in Des Moines. My partner went to Drake and still has a lot of friends in the area.

[@paulstremple5296]

I’ll stay in Boston thank you very much

[@mylifeintexas]

Born and raised in Tampa Florida (35 years) and now in Houston Texas. I always thought Florida was hot, that all changed when I moved to Texas. I was here for Harvey. With this clay soil covering the entire state, it floods really easily and fast and takes days to a week or more to dry out. Florida is sand on top of limestone. Drains naturally in hours. Plus I really didn’t know they built houses out of wood till I moved away from Florida. In Florida it’s all cmu block. In Texas, it’s 2x4’s with bricks but the bricks are cosmetic and serve no structural purpose.

[@theblackschwab3561]

I am a Household goods mover from Houston, Texas. I did a job in Boca Raton, Florida in the summer a couple years ago. At the end of that job I felt like I needed an IV. I was sweating through my shoes onto the floor. The humidity and sheer heat on the West coast of Florida beats Houston imo.

[@mylifeintexas]

@@theblackschwab3561 Must of been a day with absolutely no breeze. Being right on the water like that and the ocean breeze always kept it comfortable. Plus I don’t think it ever hit triple digits in my life while living there. I remember when it hit 98-99 degrees and people thought the end of the world was coming. Here in htx it hit 103-107 regularly during the summer. Gives a whole new meaning to swanpazz imho.

[@michaelstratton5223]

Not to be the boastful Bexar guy in the room, but San Antonio is kind of hilly, and their aqueducts and dams have been just about perfected over two centuries of engineering. I would be surprised if the Alamo City has much flooding in the years to come. :D

[@mylifeintexas]

@@michaelstratton5223 Been there a few times. Not my cup of tea. Personally Austin is the place for me. The outdoorsy life and being within 15 minutes to the city is perfect 👍. As far as flooding goes, yeah the engineers need to figure something out cause when Harvey hit in 2017, I had 2 feet of water in my yard for a week. Back in Tampa in 04-05 after back to back hurricanes, yeah I had 2-3 feet of water in my yard to, for a few hours. Florida is sand, like a filter as the water runs through it. Here in Texas, it’s clay. Clay is used to make bowls and cups, cause it holds water very well. Hence why it floods so easily here. The water just doesn’t absorb in clay, stays on top of it and flows in the direction of least resistance.

[@jtex9412]

Texas is a shithole after all the suburban growth there is hardly any open space left.