Have you considered climate change if you are relocating?

dseag2

dseag2

Dallas, TX
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We moved from South Florida to Dallas in 2006 due to the hurricanes. Now it seems we have to anticipate what natural disasters will happen in the next 10-20 years in each state. We have had over 45 days of 100+ degree temps in Dallas. It is now predicted that California may see disastrous floods. The Midwest is on the map to see extremely hot temps over the coming years. Arizona is coming close to rationing water. Las Vegas has seen monsoons that have flooded the parking lots at the hotels. Here is a list of states that are most vulnerable to climate change. I guess we may be leaving Texas for Vermont soon!

https://www.safehome.org/climate-change-statistics/
 

Climate change isn't high on the list, but I'd like to move out of Calif. We won't, because my kids and grandkids and Michelle's mom and siblings live here, but I'd like to.

Why is Calif expected to have disastrous floods? Where's the water coming from? We have room for it, what with all the dry lakes and riverbeds.
 
Right now I am trying to get out of Northern Virginia. I have narrowed it down to a few states, but I don't know if you would consider it climate change, but I am looking for a place with lower humidity in the summer, unless it's located on a coast, like Pensacola, Florida.
 

Climate change doesn't worry me but the current condition of the weather, ie not what it will be in 20 years and also the politics of the area keep me from picking up and going every time.
 
I think about it, but if I were moving to Atlanta, I'd still do it.

I'd rather move to Vermont, which is one of the places that I read won't be affected much by climate change. The winters are brutal, though, and it is an expensive place to live. It is beautiful, and Vermonters are, by and large, very friendly people.

I am moving to Mass, and the government is taking action on climate change issues. Since I have to move there, I'm glad.
 
Regardless of climate change I am staying where I am. Moving is expensive and living away from what and who I know is something I have done in the past and it is not easy. I will take my chances here. No place is perfect but I think the heat would do me in if it wasn't for the air conditioner.
 
katlupe said:
Regardless of climate change I am staying where I am. Moving is expensive and living away from what and who I know is something I have done in the past and it is not easy. I will take my chances here. No place is perfect but I think the heat would do me in if it wasn't for the air conditioner.
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The South would not be the same without air conditioning. Not just heat, but also high humidity. I've never been anywhere in which the heat occurs without humidity.

Atlanta is my former home, and I have friends and relatives there. I don't mind the heat and humidity because of air conditioning. I've been living in the Northeast for 3-1/2 decades. When I walk out of the Atlanta airport, it feels like I walked into a wall (of humidity), and I'm not used to it.
 
WheatenLover said:
The South would not be the same without air conditioning. Not just heat, but also high humidity. I've never been anywhere in which the heat occurs without humidity.

Atlanta is my former home, and I have friends and relatives there. I don't mind the heat and humidity because of air conditioning. I've been living in the Northeast for 3-1/2 decades. When I walk out of the Atlanta airport, it feels like I walked into a wall (of humidity), and I'm not used to it.
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I grew up in FL, though NY is my home state. When you are a child the heat is no problem. I went back in the 94' and could not tolerate it even with air conditioning. I left after two years.

As hot as it has been there are times during the day that I shut my air conditioner off. I get cold which I never used to do. My building is brick and well insulated so once I get it cooled off it holds the temp for awhile.
 
katlupe said:
As hot as it has been there are times during the day that I shut my air conditioner off. I get cold which I never used to do. My building is brick and well insulated so once I get it cooled off it holds the temp for awhile.
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That happens to me, too. I read somewhere that as people age, their bodies become less good at regulating their temperature. It sure seems like that to me.

My son, who is 28, runs hot and always has. I just put on a sweater or I'd freeze to death (not literally). He is good about turning off the a/c until he gets too warm, which I appreciate.
 
Thanks @dseag2 for the linked article, spot on and very important...
I'm too old to move, but I do worry about global warming, I think there is already a migration due to climate change, imagine what it will be when seas rise a few feet. I will be dead in a few years and will not have to live in the worst aftereffects of global warming but I'm afraid my grandchildren face a dismal future, with the current conditions being a preview of disasters to come.
 
There is NO perfect place to live, with regard to the climate, etc. All a person can do is see what they are willing to put up with, and decide accordingly. Heat, drought, rising oceans, Hurricanes, tornadoes, etc., are all factors to take into consideration. If there was a perfect place to live, it would be overrun with people.
 
I've heard that if possible--and of course it isn't for most people--move to somewhere north of the 45th Parallel in you live in the Northern Hemisphere, or south of the 45th if you live in the Southern Hemisphere; in other words as close to either Pole and as far away from the Equator as you can due to global warming.
 
Murrmurr said:
Climate change isn't high on the list, but I'd like to move out of Calif. We won't, because my kids and grandkids and Michelle's mom and siblings live here, but I'd like to.

Why is Calif expected to have disastrous floods? Where's the water coming from? We have room for it, what with all the dry lakes and riverbeds.
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As i understand it part of the issue is that the wildfires have removed root plants that helped absorb rainfall in place, which can also be a factor in mudslides not just rivers getting too high.
 
@dseag2
You are right extreme conditions very possible everywhere. But one has always had to 'pick your poison'. I don't think remaining near or moving to coastal locations wise. Me, i'll take the 1 or 2 blizzards a year over hurricanes, tornados and severe earthquakes. We have them in NM but have only felt them once in 10 years. That's something that could change for variety of climate related reasons, but since it's luck of the draw everywhere. i'm staying put in the mountains here.
 
WheatenLover said:
I think about it, but if I were moving to Atlanta, I'd still do it.

I'd rather move to Vermont, which is one of the places that I read won't be affected much by climate change. The winters are brutal, though, and it is an expensive place to live. It is beautiful, and Vermonters are, by and large, very friendly people.

I am moving to Mass, and the government is taking action on climate change issues. Since I have to move there, I'm glad.
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I hope you can move to the western part of the state which has a more rural feel to it, smaller towns and friendlier people and borders Vermont. You might enjoy the area. :giggle:
 
A flaw in the article is dividing up vulnerability by whole states and not similar environmental regions. In many cases, whole states relatively share the same weather, landscapes, environments, however a few other states are too varied with California the most extreme example. Low elevation coastal areas on all our sea coasts, especially those with large urban areas, and arid states where water is scarce, are most vulnerable. Northern California through Alaska immediate coastal regions won't have water issues because rainfall is high, nor heat issues, and beyond a few immediate coastlines and harbors won't have to worry about coastal sea rise flooding because little of the immediate coast is at sea level as is the case along the East Coast or Gulf Coast. In fact, our Pacific coastlines given powerful waves, most often have high bluffs with cliffs dozens of feet above adjacent lands. Where I live in the vast populous San Francisco Bay Region, many are in danger of sea level rise and is not far enough north to receive consistent higher winter storm precipitation for the overpopulation that exists.
 
Don M. said:
There is NO perfect place to live, with regard to the climate
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I spent a little time in Quito, Ecuador and it comes pretty close. Right on the equator at an elevation of over 9,000 feet the high temperature was in the 70s, every day year round and cooled into the 50s at night. It rained enough to keep everything quite green, but not so much as to be annoying. And you were not far from almost any climate you could want to visit, glaciers on the Andes, or tropical rainforest along the coast or just across the Andes.

On the other hand they have volcanos, and the Ecuadoran politics to contend with.
 
chic said:
I hope you can move to the western part of the state which has a more rural feel to it, smaller towns and friendlier people and borders Vermont. You might enjoy the area. :giggle:
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I am moving to the Pioneer Valley area, very close to CT's border. The area you are talking about is my favorite part of Mass. We lived in Boston for 20 years before moving to PA. The kids and I spent many happy vacations there when they were little.
 
WheatenLover said:
I am moving to the Pioneer Valley area, very close to CT's border. The area you are talking about is my favorite part of Mass. We lived in Boston for 20 years before moving to PA. The kids and I spent many happy vacations there when they were little.
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Yes, the Berkshires are beautiful. I hope you enjoy living up here. šŸ˜Š
 
feywon said:
As i understand it part of the issue is that the wildfires have removed root plants that helped absorb rainfall in place, which can also be a factor in mudslides not just rivers getting too high.
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Normal rainfall does cause flooding and landslides every year. But we'd have to have mega-snowfall for a mega-flood to happen.

It'll be interesting to see if this prediction triggers a response, where the snowfall-measuring people go up and poke their measuring sticks in the snow, and then the run-off people dig trenches to direct the melting snow toward the desired shed troughs.

Problem is, that costs money, and by late winter the past several years, the snow-melt funds get used up to fight wildfires. We haven't seen many wildfires so far this year, but the season isn't over yet. Last year, wildfires cost something like 3 times more than the state could afford. Plus, they've been allocating extra funds on dams ever since 2017, when the Oroville Dam spillway collapsed.
 

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