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Disney cancels plans to relocate 2,000 jobs to Florida

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Re: Disney cancels plans to relocate 2,000 jobs to Florida

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I don't see how climate change is going to nuke the PNW. Our coasts are too high to be much affected (so we don't have issues with rising coast lines), while the heat makes summers more...normal for the rest of the country, the fact that we get rain 9 months out of the year should insulate us from the changes. Forest fire season does suck, but again, 9 months of rain a year means it isn't that long. Perhaps we should…

Wildfires are expected to get more intense and longer as climate change goes on in the PNW. I don't think you're going to want an inferno to be a destination point. It's nothing against the PNW - it's a beautiful part of the country we definitely need to preserve but if you're looking at things in decades I don't think you'd want to invest considerably into a tourist destination there if you're Disney is all.

Disney already puts up with yearly fires in Central Florida, which are as bad as anything we've had up here. Florida is literally a swamp on fire in the summer, which is such a contradiction!

Re: Disney cancels plans to relocate 2,000 jobs to Florida

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Where are they going to go, California? Unless they get huge tax breaks and some open land to expand on I doubt it.

They did it in Florida in the 1960’s and Disneyland Paris in the 1990’s, and they could easily do it again if they were again motivated to spend the enormous amount of money it would take.

They bought the Florida land through shell companies so no one would suspect what was going on during the 1960s. That wouldn't fly today. They'd have to pay 10x the price.

Re: Disney cancels plans to relocate 2,000 jobs to Florida

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So build floating cities? I think Tokyo or Osaka had that idea, they might actually make it a reality.

Building floating cities would be expensive. One of Florida's biggest attraction is cheap housing.

I wonder if it's cheap because of said future flooding?

Re: Disney cancels plans to relocate 2,000 jobs to Florida

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> Teachers preying on kids in school? First Amendment right! Got any sources or references I can read that backs this up?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_aRzXXCv4s
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