America, Stop Moving West
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America, Stop Moving West
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#2You can move west without moving to a desert. I’m in San Diego for a bit. It’s been in the low 70’s and climate control consists of opening or closing the windows.
Meanwhile back home in the midwest I’m trying to coordinate someone to be at my house while the HVAC folks replace the compressor in my heat pump. I was going to wait until we got back but the temps are getting so high we’re concerned our fish are going to die.
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#3Or south: Texas from the Gulf Coast to the Hill Country, New Orleans, Miami...
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#4Or south: Texas from the Gulf Coast to the Hill Country, New Orleans, Miami...
The article calls out Austin and Miami as risky places to move. It should probably be called “Americans, stop moving out of the north east.”
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#5> How did we become so divorced from reality?
Before criticizing those seeking a better life in questionable directions first ask why are they motivated to do so in the first place? This pattern predates COVID, what is the problem in the North East that is causing people to move south west? Answer that and you might have a clue as to why the migration is happening and what to do about it.
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#6Moving to Chicago from nyc because of lower rent
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#7You can move west without moving to a desert. I’m in San Diego for a bit. It’s been in the low 70’s and climate control consists of opening or closing the windows. Meanwhile back home in the midwest I’m trying to coordinate someone to be at my house while the HVAC folks replace the compressor in my heat pump. I was going to wait until we got back but the temps are getting so high we’re concerned our fish are going to…
san diego long time resident here. the city has the climate you describe only by virtue of it being centered almost entirely within a coastal scrub biome about 20-30 miles wide. it's a sweet spot both created by and geographically impacted within the enclosure of a low coastal range immediately east, beyond which things get very hot and barren almost immediately.
this strip exists in some form for most of the so cal coastline up through roughly the central coast, where the mountain range edges up to the water line itself.
it's just not anywhere near enough land. Too narrow, and much of the land is impractical to live within outside of retirement or vacation circumstances (not even considering that vast swathes are on military property).
It cannot absorb a mass westward migration. this is evident in the property values where settlement has already been long established.
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#8Or south: Texas from the Gulf Coast to the Hill Country, New Orleans, Miami...
The article calls out Austin and Miami as risky places to move. It should probably be called “Americans, stop moving out of the north east.”
Yeah, people living on the west coast read this as "stop seasteading." Which is actually good advice
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#9You can move west without moving to a desert. I’m in San Diego for a bit. It’s been in the low 70’s and climate control consists of opening or closing the windows. Meanwhile back home in the midwest I’m trying to coordinate someone to be at my house while the HVAC folks replace the compressor in my heat pump. I was going to wait until we got back but the temps are getting so high we’re concerned our fish are going to…
>You can move west without moving to a desert.
is San Diego really different from LA water (or climate) wise?
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#10Having moved from Boston to California — I’m never going to miss frozen hair, chipping ice off the sidewalk, and going for walks in shopping malls.