Current Events > Why do people live in hurricane and other disaster-prone areas

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Do they really think "Well, maybe next year will be different"?

Honestly some just don't have the means to leave the country i guess. Like the island countries of east and southeast asia get hit annually by them typhoons (hurricanes). They should migrate over to places that don't have storms like west coast USA

Oh wait that place has earthquakes. Well they will find a suitable country if they have the means for travel. I'm too lazy to designate disaster-free countries for them atm and I'm also on my phone

Moving is expensive.

Why do people live in boring **** holes like Ohio or Indiana?

As climate change intensifies, many places will either be flood zones or wildfire zones.

i feel for the folks who were born in those areas, because relocating is expensive and difficult. but why in the world would anyone make a conscious effort to move to an area that gets decimated by nature almost every year?

Mia_K97 posted...

Why do people live in boring **** holes like Ohio or Indiana?

low cost of living means i can afford to travel to more exciting places w/o worrying about nature destroying everything around me on the regular

Giant_Aspirin posted...

low cost of living means i can afford to travel to more exciting places w/o worrying about nature destroying everything around me on the regular

I would rather live in a hurricane prone area then live in the Rust Belt. Yes, it's that bad lol.

Also inland areas get random flash floods and tornados so it's not paradise up there either

The rent's cheap.

Giant_Aspirin posted...

low cost of living means i can afford to travel to more exciting places w/o worrying about nature destroying everything around me on the regular

Do you make a lot of money in that low cost of living area? If the pay is shit. Gives me another reason not to live out there.

Mia_K97 posted...

Also inland areas get random flash floods and tornados so it's not paradise up there either

who hurt you

rideshort posted...

Do you make a lot of money in that low cost of living area? If the pay is shit. Gives me another reason not to live out there.

I make good money living in a small Midwest city. It's great.

VeggetaX posted...

I make good money living in a small Midwest city. It's great.

this

making good money in the midwest is easily the best realistic option

i say realistic because i'm assuming nobody on CE is making the requisite $500k to make living in LA/SF/etc. even remotely palatable

Mia_K97 posted...

I would rather live in a hurricane prone area then live in the Rust Belt. Yes, it's that bad lol.

shrug. i dont have any basis of comparison b/c i've lived here my whole life, but Columbus is the 13th largest city in the US and we have a lot of stuff going on. it's not like all of Ohio is rural farmland. most major touring acts come through here and if not here, they hit Cleveland or Cincinnati.

rideshort posted...

Do you make a lot of money in that low cost of living area? If the pay is shit. Gives me another reason not to live out there.

i make enough that i am able to save over half of my paycheck each month. i do pretty alright.

TaylorHeinicke posted...

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making good money in the midwest is easily the best realistic option

i say realistic because i'm assuming nobody on CE is making the requisite $500k to make living in LA/SF/etc. even remotely palatable

based on my memory there are some multi-millionaires here according to a poll and people posting about their lives

I never got that either.

Why do people live in high crime or high poverty areas

Giant_Aspirin posted...

shrug. i dont have any basis of comparison b/c i've lived here my whole life, but Columbus is the 13th largest city in the US and we have a lot of stuff going on. it's not like all of Ohio is rural farmland. most major touring acts come through here and if not here, they hit Cleveland or Cincinnati.

i make enough that i am able to save over half of my paycheck each month. i do pretty alright.

Please don't trigger me with a city limit population statement. Columbus is not the 13th largest city in the country, please quit lying to yourself before you make yourself look silly.

Lower cost of living

Mia_K97 posted...

Please don't trigger me with a city limit population statement. Columbus is not the 13th largest city in the country, please quit lying to yourself before you make yourself look silly.

...He's talking about columbus being a city with things to do (like the coasts) in the same way you're talking about the midwest being nothing but rural farmland with nothing to do.

Mia_K97 posted...

Columbus is not the 13th largest city in the country, please quit lying to yourself before you make yourself look silly.

you're right, we're the 14th.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population

TaylorHeinicke posted...

...He's talking about columbus being a city with things to do (like the coasts) in the same way you're talking about the midwest being nothing but rural farmland with nothing to do.

exactly. our exact # on the list is wholly irrelevant to the point im making here. the point is that we're a sizable city with plenty of interesting stuff to do. it's also easy to travel anywhere in the east or south.

I'd live there if they all left

What area of the US is not disaster prone? That said, Florida does seem like a bad place to settle long term with rising sea levels.

EndOfDiscOne posted...

What area of the US is not disaster prone? That said, Florida does seem like a bad place to settle long term with rising sea levels.

Rocky Top Tennessee

EndOfDiscOne posted...

What area of the US is not disaster prone? That said, Florida does seem like a bad place to settle long term with rising sea levels.

there hasn't been a natural disaster in central Ohio since i've been alive. the closest thing we've had was a gigantic blizzard in '78 (i was not alive yet) that hit most of the midwest. there's been an occasional small tornado touchdown (none in central Ohio, but surrounding areas), but nothing like what they get in the central plains

seems like the "disaster prone" areas are:

South / SE - hurricanes / floods
middle plains - tornados
California - earthquakes
East cost - hurricanes / floods, but not nearly as bad as the south/south-east

The midwest has tons of progressive cities. I dunno why people keep thinking they're fly over states like Montana.

Columbus is alright. Unfortunate it's in the shithole that is Ohio, so you're subjected to horrible state laws and regulations.

people live where they can

living is tough people do it however they can manage

1) Because most places on earth have some sort of disaster anyway.
2) Some people just can't afford to move easily, especially in this awful housing economy.
3) Some people might like living there much of the year.

Smackems posted...

Why do people live in high crime or high poverty areas

Because they're not conservative and ones from it can represent the streets better and get credit for it when they visit hoods in other cities.

Why do people live

Why do people

Up until now Tampa has rarely been hit by hurricanes. Moving forward I wouldn't put my money on living there though.

Smackems posted...

Why do people live in high crime or high poverty areas

You mean cities?