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Le Chuck:
I've been caught in a few ---steaming pile of meadow muffin----assy sandstorms. Those can suck all kinds of balls as well. Don't go to Afghanistan kids, it's just no fun.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 07, 2012, 02:24:35 pm ---if the area you live in regularly has floods, tornadoes, earthquakes or hurricanes as soon as you can scrape up enough money... MOVE!!!! And yeah I'm not insensitive to the fact that some people can't afford to move but when you get that insurance check and/or enough dontations to completely rebuild your home, why not go the extra mile and rebuild it somewhere safer?
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I guess I'm not nearly as risk averse as you. I lived in Miami for 3.5 years and I loved it. And I've still never seen a hurricane. There are so many fantastic things about Miami that you experience just about every single day, or at least with great frequency. Why let the occasional bad thing outweigh every other consideration by default? The same goes for San Francisco. Are you enhancing your chances of being killed in a crazytown earthquake by living there? Sure. But what if you love living there. Are you better off living every day of your life in a place you don't love just so on that one day of the earthquake you can say, "Phew . . . Glad that's not me. I might have been one of the 300 people killed!" (out of a population of what . . . 10 million?)
Safety is just not the only consideration. Should a person build a home in a location that WILL flood at least once evry couple years? No, probably not. But worrying about the possibility of an earthquake, a tornado, a hurricane, a volcano? Meh . . . ya gotta strike a balance between living and staying alive.
Howard_Casto:
There is a difference between being risk adverse and stupid. I'm one of those rare people that isn't afraid of anything... literally. I'm freakish that way. I have no problems with people wanting to live in dangerous places, I just find it hard to give them my sympathy when they've been hit several times and still won't move. It's dumb to put your life in danger intentionally and it's dumb financially to build your home in a high risk area. Here's the thing... if you live in a psuedo dangerous area and you've had no problems then stay. As soon as you get wiped out though... it's time to frikkin move. "Lightning strikes twice" is a horrible saying, because it strikes twice all the time! Metaphorically speaking of course.
I don't get your logic either. I'm sitting here trying to think of a single place in the world that is hurricane, earthquake, tornado or volcano prone (and I mean REALLY prone, not this you get a little bit of nothing once in a while or it might erupt 300 years from now) I'm coming up empty.
The beach is a horrible place to live. Sure it's nice to vacation there, but the salt and sand gets in everything, it's hot all the time, you have to deal with idiot tourists. No thank you. Then you've got LA, our resident earthquake hot-spot. Bad traffic, even worse pollution AND you've got all the hassles of living near the ocean on top of that. Again, no thank you. The midwest is tornado alley... enough said on that one. ;) I can't really think of any nice places to live under a volcano.... Hawaii is nice, but most of the main islands are no longer active. You've got Mt. Fuji, but it isn't really active either... heck it's a popular toursit activity to hike to the top.
About the only nice place to live that fits your description is Japan. I've got a fondness to Japan... but I've never visited, so I might hate it once I get there. Like the other places on the list it looks really good on tv and in film... once you actually get there though... well let's just say I'll stick to my mountains even if they are being rapidly destroyed by mountain top removal. ;)
Don't misunderstand, I really get the sentimental attachment to where you grow up, I'm still living in the same place after all of these years. But when thinking of where I'd actually be willing to move, none of these danger zones come into mind... it's not even the risk, they just don't seem like nice places to live.
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 09, 2012, 05:12:36 am ---I don't get your logic either. I'm sitting here trying to think of a single place in the world that is hurricane, earthquake, tornado or volcano prone (and I mean REALLY prone, not this you get a little bit of nothing once in a while or it might erupt 300 years from now) I'm coming up empty.
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Shrug . . . ask your two-day-ago self what he was talking about.
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 07, 2012, 02:24:35 pm ---Here's a pro tip.... if the area you live in regularly has floods, tornadoes, earthquakes or hurricanes as soon as you can scrape up enough money... MOVE!!!!
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shmokes:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 09, 2012, 05:12:36 am ---The beach is a horrible place to live. Sure it's nice to vacation there, but the salt and sand gets in everything, it's hot all the time, you have to deal with idiot tourists. No thank you.
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After having spent 3.5 of the last 5 years in Miami, I think I'm qualified to say, "Nonsense." I mean . . . maybe if you literally lived on the beach. But typically you live by the beach and just visit it frequently. Sand does get everywhere when you visit. You shower most of it off when you're leaving the beach and then the rest when you take a real shower at home. The only place that gets any noticeable amount of unwanted sand is the car. Which you just vacuum every couple weeks. There are three months of the year in Miami where the weather is too hot. But even still we're talking low 90's. Where I worked in Southern Utah (St. George) has a few days per year that top 115 degrees, and pretty much the entire summer is over 100. Obviously there's the humid vs. dry heat issue, but that's chocolate and vanilla. I love the humidity. In any case, humid low 90's is unpleasantly warm, but not that bad. It doesn't touch 115. But that's just 3 months of the year. The rest of the year . . . like 8-9 months of the year is paradise. I'm talking 70-85 degrees 24-hours per day, 8-9 months of the year. You go out in shorts and flip-flops at 2 in the afternoon and you're perfectly comfortable. You go out in shorts and flip-flops at 2 in the morning and you're equally comfortable. And unless you're actually visiting the boardwalk or Lincoln Drive at South Beach or South Beach itself, you see no tourists ever. There are approximately 383473829 beaches in Florida, so South Beach isn't difficult to avoid.
The beach is a lovely place to live.
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