Forcing “off the grid” people to meet ridiculous building codes in places nobody should build in the first place is paving the wrong cowpaths. Move the damn cows to safer places.
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In general, this is an early case study in what climate change related politics and displacement will look like. And I’m well aware that LA is nearly as ridiculous a place to live, cf water scarcity, etc.
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But given a global population pushing 8 billion, some high-risk areas are going to have to be occupied. The American southwest in unfortunately one of them.
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I have no real skin in this CA fire situation since I’m a renter and will likely not live in CA long term (doing some hard and unsuccessful thinking about where to move to next and hopefully for the last time — “retire there” intent move), but drawing some real lessons here.
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Climate resiliency is now in my top 5 factors to consider, making “where to live” an even more insanely hard problem. It wasn’t even on the list a decade ago. And it’s compounded by the fact that my horizons have lengthened. Tired of moving around.
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We went from nomad to settled 3.5 years ago and didn’t consider climate resiliency (but should have).
Repeated wildfires and the awful air quality that comes with have us nervous in CO now…
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Boulder is probably fine for your average person for the next decade or two. Especially if wealthy. Private services will keep the town fine. I am more of a doomer so not my preference for risk and quality of life
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which, coming from California, maybe not so striking!
We moved from TX, so it was bit daunting
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We kept coming to the mountains (CO and northern CA) for longer and longer stretches. Really love being outdoors and doing mountain-y things that aren't so fun in TX.
Also summers in TX brutal, allergies awful – contrib. to wife's chronic health issues
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