What is the RISKIEST Region in the US as the Climate Changes?
Climate Change is increasing the frequency and severity of natural disasters all around the world. And in the United States, more and more people seem to be moving to the places that are projected to be most impacted by climate change, from hazards such as flooding, wildfire, storms, drought and extreme heat; and leaving the most climate-resilient areas. At first glance, this seems like a bizarre and paradoxical trend. So, for this episode of Weathered, we decided to see if we could get to the bottom of it.
We spoke to experts and sifted through lots of data about moving trends and shifting climate patterns to figure out what’s really going on here and what you can do to avoid moving into harm’s way.
Weathered is a show hosted by weather expert Maiya May and produced by Balance Media that helps explain the most common natural disasters, what causes them, how they’re changing, and what we can do to prepare.
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Moving to Florida to escape climate change is about the least thought out thing I’ve ever heard, changing out fires for hurricanes
It's like sitting on a limb that you'll saw off soon!
You have a better chance of living through a hurricane than a fire.
@@reggiewest8975 Geographic Arbitrage is the main reasons why out of staters are moving.
what is happening we can do nothing about and if people understood the actual reality of the situation everyone would feel better, Ice core samples show Earth's history going back hundreds of thousands of years kzhead.info/sun/epR8oJt8qaiEf4k/bejne.html Joe Rogan Experience #606 - Randall Carlson 13:00
Hurricanes, which have always hit Florida? Sounds like nothing is going to change at all
As a Minnesotan, my personal mantra I say to myself whenever I find myself outside in windchill -40 has been “we don’t have earthquakes, we don’t have hurricanes, we don’t have alligators.” I can deal with snow and cold knowing that the infrastructure of my city is built for exactly that.
aye you can always put more clothes on you when your cold. you can only take off so many when you're hot 😂
The CA earthquakes thing is mostly to scare people away. The biggest earthquake ever was in the Midwest. True statement, look it up.
Don't you know that the -40 you experience isn't real? lol
Good. Stay there.
@@gsmscrazycanuck9814 Sounds like the thoughts ricocheting around in your head aren't real either. I've worked for many years at -40 and it it very REAL.
Growing up in Salem, Oregon, I would get frustrated with the seemingly endless season of rain. I recall many 4th of July celebrations being rained out. Then we'd have a few good weeks of sunny weather, and by the time Labor Day rolled around, it was raining again. I even recall summers that didn't feel like summer at all. But now it's becoming more common to have summers with temperatures in the triple digits, months of barely any rain, and a smoky haze from all of the surrounding wildfires. Past me would never have predicted that I'd someday look at the ten-day forecast hoping for rain.
Hey why did you have to use your witchcraft to curse us. Never trust anyone from Salem anything that's where the witch's are. (Salem witch trials joke)
Yes even the Olympia Rain Forest has dried out and burned. It was so soggy trees grew out of logs and it rained every day. I used to live there in the 1970s. It's nearly a desert now.
Yeah, same here from Vancouver BC. I remember one summer we didn't break 70 degrees.
We go weeks without rain now around Seattle.
From Salem, OR here too! I feel the same way, although growing up there I actually felt relatively safe. Everytime I heard about Tornados in the Midwest or Hurricanes like Katrina down south I count myself lucky I didn't have to worry about any of that.
I moved to Maine in 2021 to get away from the inevitable worsening drought and exhaustion of water resources in my home state of Arizona. Glad I did! I'd say my assessment was accurate. Maine is also getting warmer so the winters are more mild currently then they ever were historically.
I have lived in Arizona for over 40 years, and I am looking at Maine and possibly the PNW as possible relocation areas. Good for you that you were able to get there, and I hope it turns out to be a great move for you. Maine seems like an incredibly beautiful state--I drove through Maine back when I was a kid on a family trip in the back of a station wagging, and I can still remember being awe-struck by the natural beauty.
Living in the southeast now and looking at Maine as a place to settle down once I get my own place, so great to get some firsthand suggestions. How was dealing with the heavy winters? That's something to get used to, I'm sure. Not used to snow that lasts more than a couple days where I live, never mind feet of the stuff.
Currently wanting to move so my kid won't have to deal with the water wars over the Colorado River in the next few decades
Great choice! Wife and I grew up in Texas and we're about to move to Rhode Island! We explored 12 states in the northeast and found Maine to be beautiful but a little too small for us, so excited to move!
main has ALOT of arseholes tho doesn't it? i mean i guess you can't base your complete judgement from one cousin in law. but yeah.
Frankly, the biggest risk here is to people who can’t afford to move and it’s a shame that we’re not talking about that more.
You're absolutely right. And as if to rub salt in that wound, it's been a month since that comment and nobody else has replied. Likely because none of us HAVE an answer to that vitally important point...
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A thousand thumbs up
Honestly, yeah. Those caught up in the middle without any recourse… they’re just going to be left to fend for themselves so who knows how that will shake out
I was looking at real-estate near me in California. The affordable mobile homes were in flood zones.
Another thing to keep in mind when thinking about safest areas to live is the government of each state. Which states will invest in shoring up infrastructure to protect against climate change and which will just let key infrastructure fail even if it costs lives (ex. Texas)
if your governor is doubling down on oil, gas, coal, etc., it's probably bad news for climate risk mitigation in your state
Texas led the country in renewable energy projects in 2021, according to a report from the American Clean Power Association trade group. Its 7,325 MW of new wind, solar and energy storage projects far surpasses the 2,697 MW in the next most active state, California.
Y’all literally just comment anything to make ur point. No facts necessary. Brainwashed.
As a Texan who will never leave my state if I can help it, you aren’t entirely wrong. Specifically, my experience is with Harris County, the city of Houston, and surrounding areas (I’ve moved to a different area in TX partly because of the following reasons) The folks in power (Turner and Hidalgo for my time there) have purposefully ignored the very basic fact they are living in a swamp. I don’t mean that in a derogatory way, but literally. Houston is a swamp with asphalt poured on it. For many, many year, the folks in charge have just been pouring more concrete in and around flood zones. This includes roads, apartment buildings (soooooo many apartment buildings) dump expansions (in a neighborhood even) among other things. This is done without properly repairing or updating infrastructure and roads already in place. So you have a mish-mash of old construction and new construction intermingling and expanding along an already at-capacity floodplain. We Texans had known when to expect the floods and what to do. The new folks don’t, and even the old Houstonians aren’t prepared for the same natural events in a city no longer able to withstand the wind and rain. The storms are going to effect that area worse and worse as the years go by, if only because the ground isn’t respected. And the rich will move to higher ground and rebuild (meaning add more concrete) while the poor have to stay in place (sometimes in the worsening flood zones). And the cycle goes on and on until the city cannibalizes itself. I don’t have a lot of firsthand experience living in most of the rest of the state or wider energy infrastructure plans, but Houston itself is being run into the ground. Literally. I’m not knocking the city. I absolutely love that place. But the folks in charge love their money more.
@@pex3 that would be true if things like FEMA didn’t exist, but what you’re likely to see is states like Texas and Florida get helicopter money dumped on them after each storm, while their governors deny the reality of climate change lol
I moved from Texas to South Carolina - but not to the coast. I’m in Greenville, which is near the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. Since we are on the backside of the mountains, we miss the tornadoes and wild weather that go up from the Gulf of Mexico. We are not near the coast, so we avoid the hurricane risk. It is also slightly cooler here.
Its a better choice than TX for sure, but the DOD put the near future human habitable zone north of the Mason Dixon line about 15 years ago. I guess it depends on your age, but we picked Erie for our retirement.
U meant the Smokey Mountains, not the Appalachian. Lol
@@AA-cp8ry The Smokey Mountains are part of that chain. But I still suggest north of the Mason Dixon, especially if you're a young person.
Chicago is looking really really good and one of the reasons I moved here 5 years ago. It also has incredible economic opportunities and is incredibly affordable with amenities not found in most other US cities. We keep building densely and robustly which has kept pricing pretty stable. Lake Michigan is a huge fresh water source that can also produce flooding, but it’s not because of the same reasons as ocean rising. The lake’s total level is relatively controllable via the Chicago River and the huge lock that sits at the mouth of the river and the lake.
let's go Chicago! I moved back here after spending many years in Houston and it's definitely worth it. I don't miss the constant hurricanes, floods, heat advisories, boil water notices, flesh eating bacteria at the beach, STATEWIDE POWER OUTAGES DUE TO COLD WEATHER, and more. Lake Michigan is DOPE.
@@scareglare Welcome back home!
@@jhodapp thank you kind internet stranger, it feels good to be back
While I'm pleased so many knew to move north, know there is an aging nuclear plant in the area. When planning your moves, remember that the soil contamination spread out about 50 miles from Fukushima.
@@OldJackWolf I’m sorry but that’s overly alarmist and unfounded. Illinois does a good job funding the state’s nuclear plants and maintaining them. Please don’t project your own fears onto other people here in an unnecessary way.
I am a survivor of the Paradise, California Camp Fire of November 2018. Every adult living there back then should have known that the town was at high risk of burning completely down. It now has my vote for the highest risk community in the US, because they are rebuilding in EXACTLY the same place and the same way as before . . . we will never learn. UPDATE: I want to thank all the people who expressed empathy for me and the other survivors/victims of this tragedy. I'd also like to thank those people who have added thoughtful comments about how we as a nation could make more sensible decisions regarding where and how we build our homes. For those people who found it necessary to express their neurotic or psychotic delusions and fantasies in a KZhead comments section, my advice is simple . . . get help.
It’s pretty sad the Paradise city council didn’t take up most of Calfire’s recommended ordinance changes following the fire. I’m in Redding and pretty much in the same boat after the Carr Fire.
The houses might be rebuilt the same but not the costs. Insurance companies have taken note and are exiting markets or charge according to risk.
You guys should rebuild the homes from stone instead of wood. In Mexico and southern Europe most/all buildings in cities are built with bricks or stone. And there’s never a risk of them burning down completely. (Aside from the stuff inside I suppose)
@@plant.hacks.4.ur.environment I don’t think you understand how hot and how fast these fires get. Also Mexico and Europe don’t have the tinderbox issues that exist in California. It’s a combination of problems that lead to this widespread devastation. It’s way more than building materials.
@@archeo289 The town, county, state and federal government have all done nearly nothing to prevent yet another disaster there, or made any effort to replace all the affordable housing that was lost in the fire. It's a disgrace.
My wife and I left Los Angeles two years ago and moved to Upper Peninsular Michigan primarily due to wildfires and dwindling water. We now live 3 blocks away from 3% of the world’s freshwater supply. I grew up in TX, went to college in AZ and lived in LA for almost 25 years. Not even close to retirement age and we decided it was time to bail. Don’t regret it at all.
Say yah to da UP, eh? 😉
@Elena S I hardly think that an exceptional human being like yourself, an overflowing cup of kindness and compassion, is actually representative of 99.9% of Yooper Nation. Everyone we've come to know has welcomed us with open arms and could care less about which state we came from. I can only imagine, given your eagerness to put your disdain for a complete stranger (or outsiders in general) on public display, that you're probably one of the 0.1% of Yoopers who considers yourself a good, God-fearing Christian while dropping racial epithets at the dinner table. Honestly, I didn't think trolls ever made it north of the bridge, but thanks for proving me wrong.
Excellent place to move to for climate change coming. You've got the "Canadian Shield" which is purty damned tough. Water isnt going to soak the soil and send a mass flood if water n mud. Prolly just huge giant floods will be the problem. Hudson Bay above you? Is going to be your concern when the oceans flood ;(
@@ericsmith1567 anyday. LOVE MICHIGAN. LOVE THE U.P.
So in 100 years you’ll be safe but until then, cultural amenities, things to do, you can only stare at trees for so long right?
You might want to consider mapping where in America there is the most political resistance to acting on climate change. It would be very interesting to know how that relates to areas in the country where there is most risk.
The impact map pretty much shows the former confederate states- the most conservative and thus resistant to climate action- getting most of the ill effects. kind of ironic, really. we all know those governors are not going to be the ones who suffer from what happens to their constituents
I live in Tucson, and I’ve been wondering the last few weeks just how much longer people will be able to exist here. Plants, pets, A/C systems, etc. will make it a tough decision even before it makes it to lethal levels.
The illegals will kill you before the heat does
Oh please, we've ben saying the same thing about Palm Springs, you either adapt or go cry in some corner u pu$$y, it gets over 120° here in PS so $+FU.
Banks keep giving people loans on property that obviously going to be out of water, and a ghost town desert. What gives?
who in Tucson is dying of lack of plants, lack of energy for A/C?
Doesn’t anybody notice that Hawaii and Alaska are part of the US but are rarely mentioned in programs like this about the US?
Don’t you think it’s obvious. They not in the mainland
The information provided is clearly not sufficient enough to make a decision. The Arctic is supposedly warming the fastest. So what are they doing about it? Positioning troops in North Pole Ak to protect resources as the traffic increases in the Arctic. It's almost like they are using environmental engineering or weather modification to warm the planet so the globalists can exploit resources in the Arctic. And where did Bi just say it's okay to drill? Ak. When Trum was in he made a comment about how they should buy Greenland. Tillerson was making a deal with Russia to drill in the Arctic years ago. All winter they seed the sky with jets, the temperature goes up and then the aerosols rain out. Over and over again in PA. Nature doesn't do things repetitive like humans. The storms would vary more in behavior. Every storm this winter was a mix of rain and snow with great increases in temperature. Clouds warm the earth and they are making man made clouds that warm the earth. For profit. The coldest days are the clearest.
@@jodh-cx1zd They should still be considered though
Hawaii is illegally occupied
Since I live in Hawaii, yes, I definitely notice this but also am very accustomed to it.
Last year, I moved from Raleigh, North Carolina to western Massachusetts, which is more climate resilient. The amount of deforestation taking place in North Carolina, along with the resultant flooding from stormwater runoff, was the last straw for me. You have to think not only about climate change, but also how each individual state deals with environmental concerns. In North Caroina, the environmental laws are weak, allowing developers to deforest large parcels of land, even destroying stream buffers, with little to no consequence. I had to take out FEMA flood insurance after loggers removed 300 acres of trees upstream from me for a mega-subdivision.
Because of my skill set and age, I am going to need to leave Massachusetts. Theyve jumped the rent on us and its only a matter of time before our situation gets bad. Ohio. Thats the goal.
Developers took over North Carolina in 1980's.
Add PFAS contamination in the Cape Fear River basin. And really lousy traffic planning in many areas.
People are stupid over greed.
My brother really wants me to join him there, but my husband and I are thinking more Illinois or Vermont. My Dad is going to Florida at the behest of my stepmother. 🤦🏻♀️
We moved from Chicago to Los Angeles 22 years ago for my husband’s job. For the first 5 years we didn’t even own a fan, and our central AC was wonky and we didn’t need it anyway. We got a fan when I started having hot flashes. Then over the next few years we got another fan, and another, and a couple of years ago we had our HVAC replaced because we needed the AC. The change has been, no pun, palpable. We went from a joking 72 degrees year round to 90 in the summer and low of 40s in the winter. (We are 4 miles from the beach; the valley gets to 115).
Would love it if, in a great presentation like this, you also include information about how to make a region more resilient by restoring some of the natural features of the landscape and other low tech means
TREES! MORE TREES! 🌲 🌴 🌲
And, create floodplains to recharge wells and aquifers. Nobody wants to go there, though.. That is what makes the trees grow, and the weather improve.. Yes. We need those trees to stabilize the weather.🌲🌲🌲🌲
@@Earthbound369 Not even just trees (which can take decades to bear fruit, both figuratively and literally), but restoration of natural North American grasslands can have huge results in just a couple of years (not to mention it can be an equivalent carbon sink acre-for-acre, as many of their roots extend several feet deep into the ground!). Most of the US is either covered now by pasture grasslands (non-native) or by residences inhabited by overly-obsessed Baby Boomers who want to mow the entirety of their properties every 5 days to "Keep Up with the Joneses". Just letting non-essential parts of your lawn revert even to non-native grasses would be a start, but actively planting species like gamma grass, greasy grass, big blue stem etc will actively restore prairie conditions; it grows quite a bit taller than most common grasses found throughout the US today, but also grows thicker, provides more shade in the under-grass and helps keep the ground cooler (which can help mitigate wet bulb temperatures and also more quickly lower hotter night-time temperatures).
Tear down the Gucci outlets!
Humans will not take those smart steps
After my degree, my partner and I chose to move back to Michigan. It has a depressed economy and bleeds people every year... but every time I watch one of these videos, there is a bit of comfort that we are in a climate resilient area. We bought our house not thinking about the next 5 years, but the next 50.
So much of what is happening economically and demographically in the US has absolutely nothing to do with climate change. Good luck with your fifty year plan, but don't be surprised if things change drastically - even in Michigan - along the way.
Gee... I wonder why Michigan has a depressed economy. *SMH
@@vhfgamer what is SMH?
@@hewitc shaking my head
Yesss
As a native Floridian. Our family moved to New England in 1992. Winters were tough -20, but today we hardly see that type of weather. We made our own work. I felt we made the right decision years ago.
And it's all because of driving cars and that damn fossil fuels, right? Except there's no consensus on that whatsoever, so stop listening to climate fearmongering.
Cindy, I remember sitting on our back deck looking out over the lake that we live on in northern Maine and saying to my wife, “we live where everyone is going to want to live in the future because the earth is heating up“. Like you said, yes it gets cold but the summers and fall are amazing. The cost of living is cheap too because we live in an unorganized territory. Cheers!
@@palexander2288 I've been saying for years Maine is the place to be when climate knocks on the door. I'm unfortunately stuck in Florida as it gentrifies around me, but I'm happy for those that aren't.
I am from the 'Upstate' part of South Carolina. And if you look at the map toward the end of the video, the Southern Appalachia is one of the safest. I am barely 40 minutes from that region--or maybe even significantly part of that region. But New England is truly beautiful. I have fond memories of a brief trip with wife to VT, NH and Maine in June 2016. Cold weather wouldn't bother me unless I would have to drive on ice. And of course I don't have any experience with shoveling snow--I have only seen snow plows in movies! Hahahah!
@@andrewklingenberger7475 well please stop saying it we don't need it ruined like the shithole panhandle
Awesome job! I have been waiting for this kind of analysis for at least 10 years. I live in Philadelphia, PA, on the top of a Ridge line, and count myself very lucky given all the misery we are seeing. Thank you for doing this. Keep it coming!
What are the climate change benefits of living in Philly?
@@paulandwendy6772i have been in philly for 19 years, winter has changed a lot. We are in the northeast and there hasn’t been a snow day in 2 years. What i mean by snow day is, snow that sticks to the ground for the whole day. When i was younger I remember being happy because during winter we would get days to weeks off from school because of snow storms. Now i would have to pray for snow to fall at all. So its gotten warmer for sure. Of course i am talking only about Philadelphia. I cant speak for the other counties in my states.
@@thuc753951The last snow storm to hit Philly was in january of 2022. And as a New Jerseyite, it was mostly Northwest New Jersey that was getting snow storms in 2023. But that is because Northwest part of New Jersey is basically like Upstate NY.
I thought I lived in the safest place in the USA--Portland OR--well above any flood hazard, then the Heat Dome of 2021 brought three days of 108F-116F with very warm nights. This is so different than anything I've seen in 40 years in this place, and terrifying that it can get that hot here where we are not prepared for it. Every year now, the summers are hotter and the winters have more 'atmospheric river' events causing flooding and landslides. And then there is the wildfire smoke in late summer. It really IS changing.
@@lunistylz8260 Only seems like it between mid-October to July 4. Historically, then the sky clears and it’s immediately summer. Only this year, we had 90F days and practically no rain in May and June, which was crazy, eg, totally not normal. I had tomatoes in July-never happened before in the 40 years I’ve lived there.
wow. 40 years. 40. that's SO MANY YEARS considering the world is 4,000,000,000+ years old. damn. 40 years. you've seen EVERYTHING
I aim to retire in about four years and was planning to move overseas to a more affordable, tropical, coastal climate. But the more I learn about how climate change is rapidly becoming a life or death consideration, the more I realize that my current Midwest location on one of the largest sources of fresh water on the planet, (a serious topic you didn’t mention in this report) the more I realize that I’m already in a pretty good location, all things considered.
U.s. has 4 EQ safe zones... underground Aquifer n water in Ogallala Aquifer. Thered also undrrgrnd aquifer in Fla. If memory serves. We NEED, as a nation UNITED? To begin to seriously plan out climate DISASTERSSSS. Its not climate heating up half as much as tectonic plates shifting? Boiling hot magma flowing onto towns n ppl? Volcanoes erupting w boiling hot magma raining down on us... dust n ashes so bad we cant breath, no clean water? And zero food... that's the why to bush2 giving NEW WORLD ORDER to LDS CHURCH... cause theyve got the food STUFFS to survive n live on - for a SMALL group of ppl= congress n pols, DHS n LDS, and few wealthy world leaders... And the rest of us are slated to be murdered by the LDS church #DEZNAT mormon cult. Not kidding. Martial law to seize guns.. food n supplies.. RX n drgs, cash n CC, *HOMES* n dogs, livestock n farm implements, vehicles n fuel, flashlights, water, gas masks etc... and? ALL GUNS. We need to vome together n unite. C Calif!! and 2nd Oregon are seriously under attack. Far worse even than back East. We have power... but we need to stand strong agsinst this white male supremacist movement to destroy the u.s.
100%
Well-reasoned. You can come and visit us down south in the wintertime.
I'm retiring to where i want. Why would i worry about climate change killing me when my life span will be at its shortest when i retire. Go out having a blast as i doubt the world will end in the next 10 years.
@@JM-gg8ko you have ~5 years, at the most...
I’m closing in on my retirement and I’d like to move from Minnesota to a warmer climate, but the prices on homes are stupidly ridiculous and Mortgage prices has been skyrocketing on a roll(currently over 7%) do I just invest my spare cash into stock and wait for a housing crash or should I go ahead to buy a home anyways
Nobody knows anything; You need to create your own process, manage risk, and stick to the plan, through thick or thin, While also continuously learning from mistakes and improving.
@@jeffery_Automotive Uncertainty... it took me 5 years to stop trying to predict what bout to happen in market based on charts studying, cause you never know. not having a mentor cost me 5 years of pain I learn to go we’re the market is wanting to go and keep it simple with discipline.
The one effective technique I'm confident nobody admits to using, is staying in touch with an Investment-Adviser. Based on firsthand encounter, I can say for certain their skillsets are topnotch, I've raised over $700k since 2017. Just bought my 3rd property for rental. Credit to ‘’Julie Anne Hoover.. my Investment-Adviser.
@@georgebarret I greatly appreciate it. I'm fortunate to have come upon your message because investing greatly fascinates me. I'll look Julie up and send her a message. You've truly motivated me. God's blessings on you.
Buy the home NOW! All this investment chatter is only going to make an adviser money. Good advice is often free.
The bottom line is that no matter where you live, you had better assess the risks and prepare. Maybe the answer is not to move to where the risks are highest; maybe you need AC installed or flood mitigation. OR maybe you need a tornado shelter or earthquake retrofits to your home. I read the Rhodium Group's report when it first came out, dumped the data into a spreadsheet by county, sorted by overall risk score across 7 risk factors, and aside from one county in Colorado and one in New Hampshire, the slightly higher locations in the Pacific NW have the lowest climate risk. But then there's the volcanoes and Cascadia subduction zone earthquake looming out there. We are making the best of a bad situation until we get smart about carbon emissions.
Yes, tonight on PBS Newshour, Katherine Hayhoe discussed how imminent massive disasters are for the human race. I found a longer clip of hers on PBS. Search this: “Scientists warn steps needed to prevent catastrophe.” Clip: 03/20/2023 | 6m 59s
I've lived in San Diego for 25 years and I'm moving north of Seattle next month. There are several reasons, but the primary one is the lack of intense heat and access to water.
Considering younger generations are struggling to become home owners, I imagine the majority of those people moving to the riskier areas are less concerned about the 30 year climate projection.
OMG! Yeah, the last 30 year projection did not result in the coastal flood predicted did it? obummer and gore both bought seaside residents...think they know something you do not?
So they should buy cheap homes in the worst possible areas??? Sounds like a good decision😂
@@Thurnishaley6969 What are you talking about?
Actually older people in America have already dealt with 60 years worth of fake predictions. Its why only younger people fall for the man made climate change hoax. Eventually most younger people realize theyve been lied to & used as political pawns then the Government gets the next generation to do there bidding. Truth is we are not smart when were young. We believe in Santa Claus & the Tooth Fairy until we realize its not true. Realizing the hoax of man made climate change takes longer because its like a religion. Everything on Earth is constantly being Recycled which make's everything "Green" in reality. The Earth renews its self 24/7 & nothing just disappears. I suggest all Critical Thinkers go check out one of the Greenpeace founder's Patrick Moore.
@@Thurnishaley6969 No, James is suggesting that it is older Americans who are buying these houses, and so many of these people may not expect to live long enough to even see the 2050s, which could mean that they are not as concerned with the data.
Born in Austin, Texas, lived in Miami, now in Denver. I find it interesting how buzzy both Austin and Miami have been. My car flooded multiple times and I had to sell it while living in Miami (a guy kayaked down my street on south beach in 2021) and I’m currently back home in Texas and feel like I’m going to quite literally pass out if I spend too long outside, in JUNE. Denver had the wettest May on record this year I’m hoping will dampen fire season, but dang, trying to nail the matrix of ideal climate, access to culture, job opportunities, safety, and affordability seems to be an impossible task in the States these days.
Bullshit.
Excessive Heat is much easier to deal with than 6 months of snow & ice. Texas is a no-brainer
I'll take 6 months of snow and ice ... No thanks to that kind of heat. I'm not down for that at all. I live in southern Vermont, near the mass. And n.y. border. Thankfully I'm not further north where the capital, Montpelier of probably still under six feet of water. Not good. Usually it's pretty safe here, we still for the most part have all four seasons. Sometimes we don't get much of a spring. If it doesn't stop raining here I'm going to move though. Anyway, of you want a nice place to move to, move to Berkshire county mass. Tons of stuff to do in the summer, and the winter is quiet, and if you like to ski that's a bonus, because there are some good mountains here.
Lived here for 33 years and once before we had a "Seattle" May June. It feels as if the seasons are off by about one month out here. Summer: Mid-July to Mid-October, Fall Mid October to Mid-January, Winter Mid January to Mid April and Spring Mid-April to Mid-July.
@@GabrielBacon Only while your AC working.
I'm moving from Central Oregon to Eastern North Carolina next summer for economic reasons and to be closer to family. I grew up in Florida (Cape Coral, actually) and have lived all over the East Coast up to Western New York. Now that I've seen many sides with blizzards, fires, and hurricanes, I'd much rather live near hurricanes again. They move slower, so it's easier to escape, and having asthma, smoky summers are unbearable in CO. When you're poor, you don't have many options, unfortunately. Thank you for this video.
When I moved to northern Nevada the risk was officially 'low' because nobody considered that the smoke from California wildfires would cross the Sierras and then lodge in the Great Basin. 2019, 2020, and 2021 were horrible years in which I had to shelter in place and run an activated charcoal air purifier in order to breath without particulate matter impacting my health. Normally autumn is our best season but the smoke is now likely to ruin that. Yet I note the same experts here are ignoring the Canadian wildfires which blanket the Midwest & elsewhere with wildfire smoke. So I don't believe any area of earth is relatively safe from climate change -- we're all at risk.
I grew up and still live at the tri state area of Minnesota, South Dakota, and Iowa. My father told me 30 years ago that the weather pattern would shift and that it would get warmer. "Don't move south. One can dress for the cold, but you cannot undress for the heat." He was right! The winters are shorter than when I was a kid. We had frost in September and snow by October. It would be snowing until Prom in April! Now Thanksgivings are "brown, Christmas is white, artic blasts in Jan and Feb... Robins by April!
I live in maine and the robins and Canadian geese never left. Last year they left for a couple months and that’s it. This weather phenomena has more to do with our magnetic poles and the jet stream and less to do with global warming. I k ow it has to do with the magnetic poles because it’s messing with migratory animals very clearly. It’s unnerving that we’re hundreds of thousands of years past due for a pole reversal. Life won’t end for humans on the surface when that day does come, but it will become much more difficult.
Robins by March .* I live in NY and since I was a kid I've noticed the change as well
who knows how much humans affect the cycle though . the Earth has been going through cycles of Ice Age / Tropical for millions of years . maybe we are just a witness to this one
I’ve lived in the South (North Carolina and South Carolina) all my life and have loved it. I love the tropical weather in Charleston, SC - mild in the spring and tropical- feeling in the summers and we have a lovely Fall and mild Winters, the latter being the shortest seasons. The media has a way of over exaggerating their coverage of storms and other events. Weather events are very rare and last maybe a day and no one dies. Your Dad’s warning isn’t really substantiated and shouldn’t deter people from living in this lovely area of the USA. ❤️💫🌍
Your observations are spot on. I live in Fayetteville NC. Work in construction my whole live. I am in my 60's now. The heat and humidity are getting worse. Many more days of extreme. When I was a kid hardly ever had days above one hundred degrees. Now we have 4 to 5 days in a row. When you work outside you know it's bad. Not in an air conditioned work environment. Leave your house at a nice 78 degrees. Jump in your air conditioned car and drive to work. Go inside your air conditioned place of work. Without ac no way would I live here!!! Hurricanes knock out the power and you hear people complain oh the humidity is so bad. No ac. I dread the months of June thru September now. We start at the crack of dawn and roll up the cords around lunch. I think clean water will be a huge issue that is not put into the equation. I have been on the dam at Jordan Lake in the summertime at night and when the wind comes off the lake it smells like a sewer. Major cities like Raleigh draw their water from the lake. Downstream Fayetteville gets a majority of their water from the Cape Fear. Enough doom and gloom for today. Heading to work. 61 degrees outside. It's 6:55 am and it's February 16th. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
And one thing that should be added is the increased risk of contracting a tropical disease in some areas that were previously safe from them.
Apparently LA has mosquitos now where they were never there before.
Don't forget the agriculture plants, animals, etc. Palm tree in Quebec Canada funny and NOT FUNNY
Maybe we'll get that affordable Malaria vaccine once it starts affecting places that "matter". >__>
Be certain to include Superfund Waste sites, available clean water, homelessness, crime.
Even non-tropical diseases like lyme disease get alot more frequent if you don't have a hard frost to kill off a bunch of ticks and other insect vectors.
10 years ago we moved from Houston to the upper Midwest. Our risks are different and much less frequesnt.
As a professional GIS person, this is a good summary of what's coming or at least be aware of what potentially is coming.
as a professional, you know your ability to predict the future is horse shit
Planning on leaving Florida for the northeast. Heat in the summer is brutal and housing insurance is a big problem
ill be selling my place in Vermont soon. very safe here. i just miss Oregon
Good call
Best decision you would make right now.
I have family there. Homeowners Insurance is ridiculous the southern part of the state is extremely expensive but more people move there every month. It’s rather sad.
Fyi,I have lived in ny for 60 years,15 in nyc the rest upstate. The cost of living is much higher, especially housing. Gas in my town today is $4.09.The effective property tax rate is 3 % or if you have a home assessment of $250,000 you will pay $7,500 a year in property taxes. Ny state income tax is 7%,more for high earners, nyc has its own income tax of 3%. Sales tax of 8-11%. If you expect to live near a large city expect rent for a decent apartment for a 1 bedroom to be above $1,000 a month, $2,500 in nyc. If you are middle class or retired it's very hard here. These are the same people who are leaving ny state(200,000 a year)to head to Florida. Ironic.
I have a background in security (military and civilian), as well as permaculture. A few years ago I spent months digging into climate change, natural resource base (especially fresh water), demographics, crime/civil unrest, etc. As a result I moved to Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and have been very happy with that decision. I anticipate the dual trends of climate migration and remote work to really enhance the economy over time and our population density is such that we can absorb a lot of folks before it would be a concern. Your video reinforces my independent research, I appreciate the work you are doing on this channel.
May I ask where? Marquette? We have taken a couple of vacations there and the UP is beautiful.
I moved from California to northwest Ohio, but I’ve been leaning towards the UP now for similar reasons, and to get as close as possible to 10% of the worlds fresh water in one single lake.
Watch out for those pesky ticks.
How do you feel about western Vermont?
Michigan has had severe dangerous cold weather.
We moved to Erie in '18 to reduce our climate risk. And we love it. The home was quite affordable allowing us to climate proof the structure too. Plus, we're only 5 minutes to a ball game, a good play or opera, and good food. And we have a beach (without sea level rise, sharks or jellyfish)!! I think all those leaving the safe states will be back. BTW, I heard many say they were 'going home' after Ian. I was deployed there to do damage assessments. Personally, we can't afford to lose our home. Insurance never covers all the costs. And insurance products are increasingly hard to get in those high risk areas. Those in high risk areas will all find insurance to be a huge issue in the future.
I live in upstate South Carolina where, literally, all of my neighbors have moved from up north. Apparently, this has been due to either the affordability of housing or the moderate weather. Or both. Based on the information in your video, I suspect the population growth here has only just begun. For me, it’s home and, while we have definitely already been experiencing drought, it’s safe enough for me and mine to stay put. Thank you for the information!
I was born and raised in Miami. Looking to leave as soon as I can. So many people have moved here and driven up the price of everything. The city is now only for the wealthy. Building skyscrapers on top of piles of sand. It’s unsustainable. There’s not enough space. The traffic is getting insane. I don’t know what makes people want to move here. The weather is awful except for winter and part of spring. 90+ degrees and humidity so high you can’t cool off.
I bet most people are escaping the high taxes and bad politics of the “safe areas”
@@jackcolt6875 coming to florida to escape “bad politics” LMAO. Yeah ban more books, that’ll fix it. Delusional.
I watched a video on why Miami will be under water soon. Yet, people are still buying property there.
@@kayalcorn9569 yep. Plus it’s just going to keep getting hotter and hotter. I feel like a lot of the people moving here would change their mind if they ever experienced what it’s like to have no AC in the summer. This is a common occurrence between ACs breaking from overuse and from power outages from storms and hurricanes.
@@kayalcorn9569 like all the politicians who fear monger global warming? like al gore who said we'd all be under water by now... how come the same fear porn mongers dont care about REAL man made disaster like the train derailment in ohio...
I had been living in Phoenix, but when I made a career change I moved back to Michigan, in part because I can afford to own a house here and I'm closer to family, but climate change factors also played a substantial role in the decision. We get some pretty good snow storms here, but not much of other forms of natural/weather-related disasters, and we have a LOT of water.
I moved to the mitten in '06. Back then, it snowed in late November and we wouldn't see the ground again until April. I moved back in '18 at it amazes me how much the winter has changed. Yesterday was the second snow this winter. It was well above freezing a few weeks back. It is truly wild and unsettling being able to tell the difference in just a decade's time.
I’m originally from MI as well and while it doesn’t necessarily excite me to think about moving back, it’s getting harder and harder to justify not buying a home there and settling down permanently.
I lived in Apache Junction (a suburb of Phoenix) for years. Personally, while the mountains were pretty, I hated the heat there. I moved back home to Wisconsin in 2015. I don't miss Arizona. The heat, the drought, and all the critters (spiders and scorpions). I'm happy to be in the Cheese State!
We'll be seeing more and more Sun Belters moving to/back north
This is exactly what I did except I was in San Antonio, but now I’m in Illinois and I work from home.
This was a great episode because it confirms my, and my husband's opinion, that we are currently living in the best place for us as we move into retirement: the Cleveland, OH area. We are at less risk for all of the weather conditions related to climate change, we live, literally, on Lake Erie, above the flood plane, (my husband, a skier, has actually been frustrated by the lack of snow in the area especially over the last couple of years), and we don't have to think of the issues of job security. Cleveland offers amazing cultural activities; We have a world-renowned art museum and orchestra, numerous music and event venues, parks and beaches providing hundreds of miles of hiking and biking trails. We have a major airport that we can travel from all over the world, which we have. Our home is about 2700 sq. ft. and we couldn't touch a house like this, on big water, for the amount we paid for it. (According to Zillow, our house, a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house at 1,332 sq. ft., NOT on the water, runs 1.5M!!! 10x what we paid in 2001.) So, even though we have discussed retiring out of the cold we have decided we're going to stay where we are. And although I wish our government would take climate change more seriously, we've had milder and warmer winters.
Good! We moved to the city of Erie in '18 after an extensive climate risk analysis. We're a P.E. and scientist couple, BTW. And once we found the right house, we tried to make it climate proof with a home generator, hurricane windows, hardiboard exterior, stuff like that. And we made sure the home had fireplaces and a basement too. Good luck! And BTW, we liked Cleveland too, except for the nuclear power plant to your west. They're at grave risk too as impacts worsen. I checked the soil contamination after Fukushima. It spread out about 50 miles. If you do move in the future, keep that in mind too. But hopefully, like us, age will prevent us from seeing the worst.
That’s funny considering none of the major cities across America have any significant change in their average highs and lows from the 1970s to now. Look it up yourself.
@@jakemiller1814 You're wrong. Averages have been creeping up since the 70s. And now the averages are being blown away as we enter a new phase of the change. Look it up yourself.
I wish you guys also added Alaska and Hawaii in the mix for projections!
I've lived my 72 years in So California. There is little risk to me from heat, cold and fire. I worry about my kids & their kids but find some comfort in the fact that both of my boys are very aware of heat illness; when it's occurring and what to do about it. The biggest problem here is drought. Our water comes from various places and all of them are drying up. The biggest take I got from this excellent & understandable presentation is that the poor will move to dangerous places in order to earn a living and feed themselves, and the rich will go wherever they want and be very comfortable.
"People with more resources have more resources."
@@gorkyd7912 bootlicker
@@gorkyd7912 That is very true. Unfortunately, the great resource of the rich ARE the poor. Without that particular resource, the rich would not be.
There is some truth to what you say in that the poor will move to places where it is cheaper to buy property and to live even if in the long run those places are at great risk from climate change. It is also true that some rich people move to places at great risk due to climate change. They move to beautiful places in the forest in California and other places in the west and then may find they can't go outside because of wildfire smoke and then possibly lose their home to wildfire some day. They leave their homes in New York or Chicago and buy expensive property on the coast of Florida because they are tired of dealing with winter and like the beautiful view of the ocean and perhaps don't care that much if their property will be inundated by the sea in 30 years because they expect to be dead by then or because they can afford to write off a lost property.
@@geofflepper3207 yup exactly. My cousin and his wife live in San Clemente (she’s from there) and I remember flew out there for the wedding 6 years ago (we live in Baltimore) and all these huge mansions and stuff looked like they were gonna fall off a cliff from erosion. Her friends house where they had a party for the younger people was right on the beach and we weren’t even allowed to walk on the sand bc they were worried about erosion. Like what’s the point of having a home on the beach if you can’t even go on the beach. Crazy thing is it’s the rich ppl that are screwing up the environment in the first place bc they know they can just move somewhere else when it gets bad. Hopefully they’ll realize before it’s too late that eventually no place will be safe.
What I think is that Maiya May and the rest of the excellent production team do an outstanding job presenting these topics in a smooth, easily understood, and impactful way with zero hint of any politics. It's just here it is, do with it what you will.
Now if only our politicians would act this reasonably, haha.
Thank you so much! We appreciate the kind words ❤
Why not have the Economist and Maiya May get "the best minds in the space" to figure out exactly WHAT TO DO ABOUT STOPPING CLIMATE CHANGE?!?! It's as if 4°c climate change is a fait accompli. Why care about where to live if life itself will become so much less livable? I think only people with money - "the number one motivator" (for people who read The Economist) - think this way.
@@paulwolinsky1538 Kinda been done to death already. We already know what to do. But right wingers block it, in eternal servitude to Koch Industries and the rest of the petroleum industry.
@M Huberty Funny that you're so matter-of-fact about it; I kind of get the impression that a good many people either don't care at all about climate devastation or are completely out to sea about what we should do. But at least I have some idea of what you mean.
I wish Alaska and Hawaii were calculated in this too. We are part of the U.S. too!
Living in a valley you expect the heat. Where I live, last Summer it was a record breaking 121 degrees. It was uncomfortable but didn’t feel life threatening. In 2018 I experienced a heat not as warm as last Summer and I thought I was going to have a stroke. The humidity was much higher. Unfortunately that year a mail carrier passed away from the same heat. The weather is changing so much it's really worrisome.
We live in the Great Lakes region and have no plan to ever leave. Very low risk for everything including plentiful fresh water and self-sufficiency for food if one chooses to learn the skills. Yes, our cold climate carries its own risks, but with the availability of early weather forecasts and high-tech winter clothing and gear, you can mitigate those risks by being smart. You can layer clothes to safely be out in the winter. You can only take off so many to deal with humidity and heat. We also live in a progressive state with protections for people and the environment. I was surprised to not see any risk for flooding in the Red River basin in North Dakota, which has seen multiple 500-year floods in the last 30 years alone.
Look into Nestle using increasing amounts of water to sell bottled water, they're draining the aquafer there and harming farmland as well as draining water from the Great Lakes. They're set up in Ohio and homeowners haven't been able to change this.
@@randomchance7796 Capitalism at its finest 🎉
They no longer do this. Nestle sold the company and the new company did not use the permit to take water, They are putting put laws to stop all this corporate crap to make money.
Yeah, flooding is pretty much expected in the springtime in the Red River Valley (North Dakotan here, lol). Thankfully I don't live by the river, but it does make crossing the bridges fun when they have to close them.
The biggest danger is the fear mongering
We moved our family from the gulf coast of Florida to north Georgia about 10 years ago. I pushed for it with my wife *primarily* for climate change reasons. But I learned not to mention it to others. They looked at me like I was nuts. I also didn't want to get stuck holding a piece of property in FL when the reality of flooding and heat finally hits the housing market there. (Granted, it may not happen any time soon . . . but it will sneak up on us. And suddenly you'll have 20 million houses that are both financially (and in some cases, literally) under water.)
I see that FL has a number of large insurance companies leaving it and the state has to to create it's own and mandate it now, which is hilarious to me...
Even if you don't see the great benefit of moving out of FL, your children and next generations will. With flooding, heat people will migrate out in mass.
It's a bunch of crap. Don't believe all the shit you watch on PBS
@@misshell Yeah well I guess everyone from New York will drown lol
Yet, Obama - who supposedly consults w/ the best scientists - invests millions in properties sure to be underwater. Is he an idiot? Or is he just indifferent to losing millions? Seriously, the fact that you people take this crap seriously is just hilarious. The climate has been changing forever; there's zippo evidence of anything unusual or anything caused by humans. Indeed, carbon levels have been changing forever, so - again - who cares that a trace gas (which is less than 1/2 of 1% of the atmosphere) is changing? Please, stop being ridiculous. Look at what Obama does, not what he prattles on about.
I find it satisfying that by the areas of the country most resistant to even the idea of climate change are going to be hit the hardest!
I live in central Indiana. I have a stream flowing in my front yard. There are days I lament living in a dormant, backward area where education is tertiary at best. I also recognize the fact I have an acre to raise a large garden, and the season in which to grow plants seems to be expanding. My family would love to move to the Rocky Mountain west but water concerns have so far nixed the move.
I live in a coastal county in Northern California with high property values. I did a thesis on landslide hazard in this county, As part of this education I did a site visit with my professor to a location where a house was demolished by a slide. If one mapped out the area using a predictive spatial model the house was situated in a location where a slide would naturally occur. The owners of the property had some notion of this as they had modified the property for better drainage. However in one intensely wet winter the owners were noticing signs of instability on the hillside. They notified the county and a county representative came out, took a look, and offered his opinion that if a slide did occur it would not directly impact their house. That night one of the owners went out and stood in front of the hillside as he was hearing some unusual sounds. Unfortunately that was when the hillside collapsed and killed him and destroyed part of the house. The surviving owner sued the county and won, then sold the property in which the new owner rebuilt in the same location, which, from my analysis, was a prime area for slides even without climate change. On that same field trip we climbed up a slope (myself, my professor and a county land use manager). Looking down the slope I could see a house that looked to be a bullseye for a slide - something the land use manager agreed with. I asked him if they would notify the property owner and he said no. My take-away from all this is that money and property have greater value over the consideration of risk.
Duh, capitalism, yeah of course.
wow! mudslides in northern california. and you think this is something NEW? and you think climate change has something to do with moving the muddiest mud on earth when it gets wet? good lord
@@RobertMJohnson if you read my comment you would understand that I wasn’t talking about climate change but about how risk is appraised.
On the money there. And keeping in the dark about the risks is the key
Are you the child of Dr Goedecke who lived in Alaska then in central PA at one point?
when i was growing up (near St. Louis) we always had to bundle up for Halloween- winter coats over our costumes! The past few years Halloween has literally been T-shirt and shorts weather. I don't understand how some people still don't believe in climate change when it is literally happening.
The climate has always changed and always will.
Same dude!!! I used to have "onesie" style costumes as a kid (of like a unicorn or something cute lol) that were full head to toe coverage and we'd get cold if we werent actively running around. This samhain I literally wore a tshirt and thin leggings and this April everyone is freaking out about garden season being sooooo early and even the wasps are out in full force already. It's def here.
Fox News is the answer you’re looking for. People choose not to believe in objective fact on purpose, because they really like Fox News.
@@hurryandleave9680 If you don’t think humans are contributing to the problem, then you’re a big part of the problem.
@hurryandleave Yes. Sadly, we have exacerbated the negative aspects of those fluctuations, and our corporate overlords have to keep breaking those profit records.
Four years ago I made the decision to leave my home state of Colorado and particularly where I was living in the Colorado River watershed to move to Eastern Washington state because of what I saw and heard about the future of the area around Grand Junction, CO with regards to ongoing drought and increasing heat. I moved to Spokane, WA, where I do have to deal more with smoke from wildfires, but this story makes me believe I made a good decision. Housing prices don't help, but I believe I am safer from many of the short term impacts of climate change.
I live in Colorado. I had to evacuate my home 3 times because of encroaching fires. I lived 2 miles from the Superior fire that burnt over 1000 homes. That being said, I love this state and if I ever move, it would be to Alaska. I was raised in Ohio. The amount of times Ohio had a blue sky, is the amount of time Colorado has grey skies.
Great episode. One thing they didn't really emphasize: these projections are within our lifetimes! (if you're under 60) and the biggest uncertainty in these projections is how fast we will continue to add heat-trapping gases to the atmosphere. Climate modelers have a pretty good idea of what we'll experience at 600 ppm but no idea how quickly people will make the changes necessary to avoid the worst.
The problem is that linear and exponential curves look similar at the onset which we have now passed with a rapidly steepening upward trend that is starting to capture the attention of more of mainstream voices. It certainly looks as if feedback loops have already started the ball rolling down the hill. There is an excellent analysis by James Hanson, discussing the increasing earths energy imbalance which is trapping more and more heat it’s worth a look I wouldn’t be surprised if large amounts of methane are coming out of the East Siberian ice shelf. When you look at average sea surface temperature anomalies and the clustered data for over 50 years and then 2023 a full degree over that, the barn doors been open, and the horse has been gone for quite a while
I left SWFL for the Capital Region of NY. The move was 50/50 economic and climate based. 10 months later, Ian rolled right through where I had lived in FL. Can’t say I regret the decision.
Ian reduced the area to the likes of a warzone. I was there doing relief the day after it hit, the scale of destruction escapes description
@@danmoriarty6901 I thought Irma was bad, but it didn’t touch Ian’s level of destruction.
Make sure you turn out the lights when everyone has left.
They're still trying to pull the Fishing and Shrimping boats that are in piles on the shores
people don't realize how beautiful and livable rural New York is. I am in the Thousand Islands region and I love it.
I’ve lived in Houston for essentially my entire life, and I plan to move somewhere else ASAP. The heat here in the summer is unbearable (summer here lasts from March/April-October/November), and the flooding that occurs throughout the city when it just moderately rains can impede your ability to travel depending on what area you live in. Heat bulbs are a very real concern here because it’s very common for us to have 90-100% humidity for the majority of the year. We are very familiar with hurricanes, and we’re also not strangers to tornados, although they are extremely rare within Houston proper. Something probably not considered in this mapping is the mosquitoes. They will eat you alive from the beginning of spring sometimes through to Christmas. This means the possibility of contracting a disease from them is very high here compared to other areas of the country.
Yes! Mosquitoes are definitely a consideration. So is crime and what about allergies due to pollen or poor quality air? Lots to consider when moving.
Yep. Sounds like the 80s when I was there.
Sounds like it sucks. Move to cold weather state.
Cry baby
Is it just as bad in Dallas, or is that less hot/humid/prone to flooding?
Also surprises me the people move to Texas with extreme droughts they have as well as the other weather situation such as hurricane's
I’ve been asked if I could move anywhere in the country, where would I choose, and after thinking about it, I like where I am. I’m in the mountains of Virginia. We still have seasons but the winters aren’t bad and summers better than other places. We don’t have too many floods, earthquakes, blizzards, or hurricanes and we are reasonably close to larger metropolitan areas with world class medical and amenities. All and all, I’m happy here and think moving might put me in harm’s way, not to mention being annoying.
Virginia was my firsts choice. I lived in DC for several years but found that it was not a good place for artists after Nixon arrived. It's the first place I was ever shot at for having mixed race passengers in my car and the first place where black friends were afraid to have me visit. Othewise, Virginia is a perfect place....long springs, long falls and gorgeous landscapes
After 36 years living in the San Francisco Bay Area, I’ve moved to Milwaukee to retire. Consequences of climate change was a significant reason as was the cost of living. Every place has its own beauty. Every place has its challenges. I’ve left droughts, fires, earthquakes, congestion, and high cost of living for climatological predictability, water, uncongested traffic, and low (by comparison) cost of living. Of course, it’s not perfect. We have Ron Johnson after all.
@@evegreenification You are exactly right. He stands up for no one.
@@153haring People such as yourself don't care about those less fortunate unless pretending to do so loudly and publicly is proven to make you look cool.
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Welcome to WI Gil. Glad you're here to help us fight the good fight. We were so close to getting rid of that Q creep. Maybe he'll take a hint and retire early 😉🤞
Vote him out! I live in Northern Nevada from Southern California. (I don’t think I can live in a red state.)Too many people are moving here and now we have a red governor! Ugh!!
We fled the Mt Shasta region of Northern California after witnessing years of catastrophic fire, extremely smoky summers and drought. We had to evacuate the Lava fire in the summer of 21, which missed us only by a mile. Then we decided to consider moving to somewhere in the northeast if the winter of ‘22 was dry. It was, so we sold our home and moved across the country to Central New York. We love it here, are enjoying a pretty darn mild winter, though we do love snow. As a native Californian, born and raised in the Bay Area, I am so tired of fire and drought, and it is such a relief to be someplace where these issues are not so prevalent. I am a retired CA educator, and my husband is able to work remotely for the UC system, so we have been able to make this move. We count ourselves as very lucky.
I was in Mt Shasta last year while hiking the PCT right before the McKinney fire started. I remember walking through the woods and just seeing how dry everything was. It's a miracle that wildfires aren't even worse in that area because a lot of the wilderness looks like a tinderbox ready to go off.
Agreed you truly are! I had a dear friend who is a musician who had his recording studio in his mountain home there. And a considerable collection of several rare old instruments of famous players which he still used and played in his recordings now. Then a sudden evacuation with Fire officials pounding on his door in the middle of the night. All they could do was grab a small bag containing their most critical papers and their dog. At one point they had to race thru flames on both sides of the road and barely escaped. Two weeks later he was allowed in to see the standing stone of the fireplace and upper basement walls. Everything else was ash filling the basement and no tree of his forested property even had a stump left. It undid him. He rebuilt in the mountains in Oregon, but still hasn’t ever come fully back to being himself. It just crushed his soul and he’s recorded only a few songs since then. But they lack the life of his former work. They’re still funeral songs for the place of peace he had and for the sacred objects that had become significant parts of his soul. I’m glad you didn’t have that! And glad you two could place logic first in the aftermath and safely restart in peace. I wish you only the best there. That too is truly a very beautiful part of the country most people never see or know about.
Thanks very much for this thoughtful reply. I am truly sorry for your musician friend… what an absolutely heartbreaking story. Last summer the fire that tore through Weed tragically took several lives and many homes. It was 1/4 mile from the home we left, followed by another fire a month later. I am happy to see they are finally receiving good precip, but hope the summer is not too hot and dry, increasing fire risk with all the new foliage. Best to you and yours.
Yes… it was a continual source of worry and stress, for sure. Thanks.
Smart move. California has had water and drought issues since before it became a state, and I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
Where are the sources for these maps?
I live in RI...so do worry about this alot...there is a cove just down the street..ugh
I live in Canada, in southern Quebec just across the border from northern Vermont. I feel so blessed to be in an area with low risk. We have high winds sometimes and rain storms. We have a lot of snow in the winter and it can be very cold, but the low risk of summer heat, almost zero risk of tornados or hurricanes, is a great feeling. Because I live above a valley, I don't have to worry about flooding either. I wish for everyone to have a safe and comfortable place to live.
Don't worry, the risk is overstated for political reasons. How many people actually die from the weather? Not many.
@@gorkyd7912 People here in Texas die from the just the HEAT every year!! Where have YOU been??
The snow and cold keeps the rabble out. The more sun, the lower the IQ.....I'm not kidding.
Montreal is high risk. Make sure the 2050 risk maps back up your thoughts
@Huples Cat they just said where they live and made it clear that they don't live in Montreal. So why are you talking about Montreal? Quebec is a huge province. Just because Montreal is at risk of flooding due to being in a river valley of a massive river and like all big cities at greater risk of extreme summer heat due to being a heat island does not mean that a place somewhere else in Quebec that is not in a river valley and is at higher elevation and is much more rural is also going to be at extreme risk due to climate change.
Seattle resident here. I know that this video was focused on natural disaster due to climate change rather than geological anomalies but when considering the Pacific Northwest one must factor in the Cascadia Subduction Zone. Many people currently viewing this video may see this disaster happen within their lifetimes. The effects will be catastrophic .
Probably the most catastrophic loss is life will be from the resulting tsunami. People need to know when the big one hits they need to move to higher between immediately because there isn't a lot of time. It will be 2011 Tohoku levels of destruction.
@@dojokonojo Fun fact, the Japanese have historically kept good records about earthquakes and tsunamis which is why the only written record of the last time the Cascadia Subduction Zone did its thing is because the tsunami it caused travelled all the way across the Pacific ocean which made it extremely noteworthy to Japanese recordkeepers as they had no earthquake to warn of its approach.
@@dojokonojo I was also thinking about the resulting 9+ earthquake and the liquefaction of the ground in a large part of downtown Seattle.
99% of houses in Japan survived their 9.0 earthquake and tsunami. Don't live in the lowlands. That's all. Japan still exists and is thriving. In the 60s Alaska also had a subduction zone earthquake. It's really not as big of a deal as people fear as long as you are not in the lowlands.
@@dojokonojo That is unlikely due to the geography of the coast and where people live in Washington. Most people live out of the way of danger and Seattle is at a low risk of tsunami damage because the Puget Sound is protected by Vancouver Island and the Olympic Peninsula. Those areas are likely to get hit harder, but they are much less populated. In addition, due to the cliffs/hilly geography, most people would be safe or could safely evacuate.
I live in SW Oregon, where there is a lot of smoke and fire danger, also potential earthquake hazard. A friend from here just relocated, after studying risk factors extensively (he's a retired engineer). He now lives in Charlottesville, WV. Even though I wouldn't live there (heat, humidity and mosquitoes) he feels safe there, from earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, fires, droughts and extreme heat.
Didn't the video say West Virginia has the likeliest increase in rain fall? He may be at risk for floods.
I have lived in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area for just over 40 years now, and but for being self-employed and still having to work, I would have moved years ago. We're just coming out of one of the most intensely hot summers I can remember, in my area we've seen maybe .2 inches of rain, etc. Water is already a huge problem, and with the summers starting earlier, lasting longer, it just seems like a disaster waiting to happen. The polluted area is also a very significant problem here--I regularly get "Air Quality Alerts" on my phone. I am currently trying to figure out how to work 100% remotely and once I do, I am out of here and moving to the Pacific Northwest where there is at least some snow and rain.
That's a great idea. I live in PHX too, and now I hate it because it's hot dry and basically just a big dust hole when you compare it to naturally vibrant places like the Pacific Northwest where the air is clean and there's WATER!
right. phoenix was NEVER hot before the industrial age. ever. and who precisely is dying of thirst in AZ?
People move to Florida and the southwest, because, and I cannot stress this firmly enough, winter sucks. As you age, it becomes more difficult to shovel inches or even feet of snow. It’s not just the cold, which does indeed hurt when it comes to arthritis. It’s the fact that you can’t get out of your driveway because you got 6 inches of snow and you’re no longer physically able to clear that out.
Here in Bozeman, MT we average 90" snow each winter. You shovel snow constantly. If I could I would move to one of the MT towns that average under 20" snow/year that would be perfect but my job keeps me here.
I'm 66, live in Phoenix. Very nice. Now I'm getting ready to move to an eternal spring city, Baguio Philippines or Da Lat Vietnam. Highs of about 75F everyday of the year. A lot of rain, landslides are a risk, but I can deal with that. Rent is about 75% less than the US and labor is low cost so a live-in housekeeper is about $100/mo and a live-in Register nurse is about $500/mo. But mostly I just like adventures.
Im literally DYING IN MASSACHUSETTS the state is a deathcamp a collapsed failure the winter lasts 8 months a year i went to California its impossible where can i go in America anymore???? That isnt also a collapsed failure? I hate human life its fucking horrible i want to die i hate the northeast god damn this place
Just don't bring your vote blue bs. Florida is happily a red state.
The cost of living in most of those areas is cost prohibitive, especially for retirees.
In 2000, I moved from Chicago to Maine. Working remotely allowed me to enjoy a great natural environment. The winters here have certainly warmed over the years, but overall the state remains particularly temperate, safe and enjoyable.
I'm interested in moving to Maine because of climate and also from suffering the heat in Phoenix long enough. I can't wait to move away...I told my spouse I don't care where really just away from Phoenix. It's wild here!
@@judynguyen1579 Lifelong Mainer. Great state, but understand that Southern Maine is different than the rest. It's an old, white, lightly populated state. If you like small towns there are plenty of options.
When I lived in northern Michigan back in the Winters were harsh and we got tons of snow. I think we will get there again because climate and weather is cyclical and natural not man affected.
@@cericson3426 Agreed! I have fallen in love with the northern Michigan outdoors. Considering it for potential relocation... just not sure what to think of the state's politics and whether I would be replacing one problem with another by moving. And yes, it's cyclical. 100%.
How to do whites treat POC or LGBT people? Do most whites more there to get away from "others"?
I was born in TX, and lived here all my life, but the heat is getting unbearable. I have family in Roanoke VA. I’m really thinking about trying to move there.
Not planning on moving, I live in El Paso, TX, it's hot but not sustained humidity. I noticed nothing mentioned on tornadoes and their paths.
I moved to Maine recently from Long Island, NY. Maine may be cold but climate change is making it warmer every year. I was worried about drought and hurricanes but I picked a town far enough from the coast to avoid the impact from storms and I’m surrounded by water but I made sure my house is not in a flood zone. You learn how to deal with snow by experience and it looks beautiful out the window. Maine is also much more affordable.
Do you want a live in fellow long islander?? I cook, I clean!! 😂 Escaping Long Island is high on my list… the housing prices are the worst in the country.
How do you stay warm? blankets?
Lol. I'm from the south, and I almost froze to death in Long Island in June. You're tough!
@@Swan-rb4yg haha!! June is the only good month here! Not too humid yet!
Susan B: Actually, I'm choosing to remain in a "happy medium" place, central KY, as long as that works well. (I'm already in my 60's with some health issues, so don't need to worry long term). No real blizzard risk, especially now. No hurricane risk. Little earthquake risk. Good water supply. Moderate temperatures, and only a handful of really hot days. No flooding risk beyond rainstorms (I live near the top of a decent sized hill). I'd be really concerned living in parts of CA, FL, TX, etc, but I think there are a LOT of reasonable places for the next couple to few decades, that have decent cost of living, taxes, etc. But hey, if you don't mind cold winters, then places like Maine away from the coast sound reasonable for several decades out.
Very interesting. I live in Chicago where we don't have many climate issues, but in the last 20 years or so we have had significant rainstorms that cause flooded streets, basements and viaducts. My suggestion would be for the city and surrounding suburbs to offer financial incentives for homeowners to install rain gardens and keep their backyards permeable instead of paving them over with concrete, both of which can mitigate flooding.
SoCal raised so what is a rain garden? Not a clue over here. They cover over dirt because it blows in & makes everything dirty and they never got any water down south anyhow. Like Las Vegas gets something like an inch a year. They should not be allowed to build neighborhoods in deserts without providing a water system in advance. That stops a lot of stupidity if we could. Bribing all the materialists out to the desert and tempting them with debt & no down Own own my bejesus's, you don't own anything till it's paid for. EVER. Owe no man anything but Love. Remember the Bible. NO WATER. That is truly the definition of a fool. God get out. Leave AZ a death trap of so many will die or be reincarnated where they live. Stuck there. Oh no, freewill, so Heaven can't forbid. Poor foolish not yet awake to who they really are. But you will reincarnate on youtube on why it was taken out of bible and where and when and by whom. That's the first step being a seeker, someday a seer like me.
It's called the lake effect
Sounds more like city neglect or poor engineering of storm water drain systems to me 🤷🏻♂️
Where and when was all this rain you speak of. Living in this area for 50 years and you are talking out the side of your neck.
Political climate change risk is pretty bad in Chicago. You pay for it with higher taxes and less rights to your body.
After 20 years in South Florida, I moved home to upstate NY. Everyone in both places say I’m crazy!
That's why I don't think I will move out of Wisconsin. I can deal with snow and cold temperatures.
Living in Michigan the majority of my adult life, I feel very lucky. Despite the lack of upward mobility and continued economic inequality, I feel like we still come out ahead of the curve. Climate here is not only pretty risk free (if you don't mind snow) but arguably creates better opportunities for mental and physical health because our natural areas are so outstanding. If you can get a sustainable source of income you can live very well here, and many do.
I live in the Pittsburgh area and I say the same thing I don’t particularly like the snow but I can deal with it We have many areas of historic and natural beauty here. That and a low cost of living make it worth living here
Don't go telling people it is good here. Michigan has its issues, but when I visit the other places with population growth ... well, they are nice places to visit.
SSHHHHHH! Don't tell anyone! (Wisconsinite here). Keep sending them to Florida!
@@Mr_MKE Florida here, we're full, go away. 🙃
@@Primalxbeast happy to oblige. It's all old crusty boomers moving there anyway. Enjoy climate change!
Would like to see a companion video on the least risky places to live that are economically favorable
Yes, please. Or at least a list of the least risky regions of the country.
Those places that are least risky on the map for climate change troubles will also end up being the most economically favorable.
@CoolChannel Name you clearly havent heard of Greenville, SC. Growing demographically and financially, great weather year-round, and not in any danger zone. *chef's kiss*
it's called... Minneapolis. Enough lakes to name a basketball team after it.
Unfortunately, when those places are listed folks quickly move there raising land values and property taxes. Tucson, Az was named the least expensive city in the country back around 2009 or 2012 or so. Tons of people moved there and now it's very expensive.
I moved back to Florida several years ago and have no regrets. The opportunities here are far better than where I was in New England and I don’t have to shovel the heat out of my driveway. Flooding during heavy rain is definitely concerning in many areas here, as are large hurricanes but with a concrete construction home it is far less dangerous than the matchstick houses built elsewhere and the entire eastern seaboard has been seeing more hurricanes not just FL.
I lived in Florida for a year and couldn't get out fast enough. I guess some people have high tolerance for heat, high, on-going humidity, hurricanes, tropical storms, heavy rainstorms, flooding, flying cockroaches, noseeums, huge "housekeeper" spiders, sometimes droughts and wildfires (yes!) and crazy political leaders. There are many areas of the country that have economic opportunities, and DON'T have those "challenges."
Thank you for the detailed video that actually references studies and gets specialty opinions (so rare these days). I am planning to move to Tucson later this year for a job opportunity and would love to finally, after 30+ years of moving around, create a forever home. I know this dream is unlikely due to climate change. Now it being one year after you posted this video, does PBS Terra or any other reputable organizations have any updated reports and predictions for the riskiest and safest places, in regards to climate? Thank you.
I'd be curious to see a global version of this research (which is excellent, by the way). Specifically, I'm curious about the Caribbean and its ability to withstand both warmer seas and a warmer climate. As an anthropologist, I'm interested to see how this will affect human behavior, especially migration patterns. Your work is great and really important. Keep it up.
Yessss. This. Climate change doesn’t just affect the United States. It affects the whole planet. Especially those in different regions.
I also want this, because I’m trying to figure out where to move, outside of the US.
LOLOLOL. isn't it amazing how in a warming climate and rising oceans that NO ONE from the Caribbean has been migrating?
@@RobertMJohnson The Caribbean has experienced a great deal of out-migration over the years, but my understanding is that the root cause has been mostly economic rather than ecologic. But I wonder if that's changing now.
OMG the Carib area is AWESOME! Perfect weather, great diving and swimming. Fishing. People are pouring into the area I live by the ton. One day they will flock the Caribbean and ruin it but for now, watch the volcano, have a cup of rum and enjoy! Warmer weather is always better, don't let the doomsayers convince you otherwise. Being able to grow food year round beats freezing in Boston.
I want to leave Florida so badly, despite the fact of being born and raised here. Since growing up, the heat has progressively increased and is awful with the humidity. My health requires cooler weather, yet not too cold. Being retired and on Social Security alone makes it difficult to afford living here or even moving away. Perhaps living a nomadic lifestyle is the answer by chasing the nicer weather. It does require further research.
Thank God we never moved to Florida. We moved to NH instead. Great climate, gorgeous water and air and mountains and great people.
Florida is a terrible place
@@MetalmirqUnless you love waterparks
I'm a lifetime Floridian too, but I'd never leave. I'm 61 now. When I was younger my peers couldn't wait to leave Miami. As I got older, I realized doctors and hospitals are an important retirement consideration. The absolute best are available here in Florida. Over the years I watched a lot of family and friends who moved out just to come back to visit specialists and receive advanced care. When I was a kid I'd run around all day in the sun and it didn't bother me one bit. My family didn't even have AC in our home until 1973. The first AC school that I attended was in 1976. We always had big fans in the classroom. Now, I can't imagine being without AC. Today. I keep my AC in my bedroom at 64 degrees. I hear a lot of complaints about the heat. I think a good part of that is due to getting old than global warming. In Florida you have to be concerned about hurricanes, but you will never have to worry about freezing to death during the Winter. You can mitigate a lot of hurricane concerns via Impact windows or storm shutters. Sorry to hear you're leaving.
It's astonishing that you can feel a 1F Fahrenheit difference in temperatures between 1950 and today.
I left upstate NY 10 yrs ago for Florida to be closer to my aging parents. The past few weeks, we've had heat index over 112 degrees nearly every day. It's humid and it's unbearable. When my parents are gone, I'm going back north.
I live in Georgia which is Hot and Humid most of the year. We hardly have any Fall or Spring season. If the temperature is 80°, it can be as debilitating as 100°+ !!
Moving to Florida and California is literally impossible for new homeowners to move to. They’ve recently lost their top 4 home insurers in the state making it much more difficult to get home insurance for mortgage purposes. I’m sure they’re about to pull out of more states as well.
You can still get wind and flood insur down here from Citizens for about $13000 a year and like you said if you have a mortgage you must have both.
When I was younger, heat was never a problem for me. I spent a couple of weeks doing roofing in 100+ temps, and I was quite happy. Just drank a lot of water. Now, I'm a live-in caretaker for my kid, her kids, and their property and garden. I can take my time doing the outside stuff. I won't be around a lot longer anyway, so I'll be spared the really rough stuff. I feel horrible for the younger people who will see the worst of it. I've done as much as I can to help... living extremely minimal impact. Good luck y'all.
Thank you for bringing that point forward. It is ugly what is coming. I don't have children for many reasons, especially climate change. It is always my goal to live minimally. My home is under 390 square feet, no ac, and I live 5 miles from work. Grocery store behind my home. There is no reason to waste fuel, I try to keep things simple, reusable sacks and so on. Some things are too expensive so no electric car. But, there are many people that waste without regard to future children.
The future is unfriendly
@@user-op9mv5lq1u The universe does not favor life, and we've treated this little bubble with no respect. It's about to pop if we don't get our shit together. I'm not optimistic.
I knew some of these risks and area to avoid. Now I have a deeper understanding, I will need to learn about micro Climate. Thank you
Here in Phoenix it is nice today. 83 degrees and sunny at 10 am. We anticipate another hot summer with highs above 120. As retirees, we simply keep our AC in top shape and keep cool. We do project however in 25 years the roads will be unusable due to heat and the capacity of tires to operate. So we too are concerned, but not enough to move today. If we had to move, it would be close to the Canadian border.
You should look into buying a backup air conditioner. I would recommend one of those cheap wall units from a big box store. That way if your house unit fails and it takes 2 days to repair it you can at least keep the bedroom cool and stay alive. And a backup generator to run that unit in case of a power failure
@@spacecoyote6646 Yes. Good idea. We will consider that.
We recently retired and climate was a major factor in our decision as to where to retire. While most of our family lives in Texas, we didn't want to spend our remaining years locked inside air conditioned spaces. So young people may not think of life in 50 years, those of us on the short end of life take these things to heart.
What region did you end up settling on?
Texas is big , what part?
@@smks8er we actually ended up moving to Italy.
You weren't worried about drowning from sea rise?
@@francismarion6400 I live far higher above sea level than I ever did in Texas.
One of the primary reasons I left Las Vegas was concerns over water and drought. It doesn’t seem sustainable to live in the desert with the growing burden on the water system.
We moved in 2021 from inland New Jersey (near the Delaware River and the Pennsylvania border) to Marion County in the northwest region of Arkansas. It shows up on your map in the 10% of ten safest places. It was very hard to get used to living on a mountainside in the forest. The summers are very, very hot. Millions of all sorts of bugs for each person. Bears running around our house, knocking down the bird feeders and garbage cans. Snakes on our doorstep. Scorpions in our kitchen. Tarantulas in the backyard. It was unbelievable. But I got to appreciating it when I saw, repeatedly, that even though tornadoes raged in the states around us, literally, even down in the Little Rock area, it all went right by us. For some reason, our spot in Arkansas is safe from the worst disasters that nature throws at us. We love those fierce, crazy thunderstorms and wild lightening though!
Cool video. It goes along the lines of what I've thought but a lot of local and state governments have spent the most affordable years of updating at a community level creating ropes and barriers to self renewable energy. The fact that a individual has to get permits to have renewable energy because they might get a check from the utility company for producing more than they use. We need a fix and it's mostly gonna be in removing government restrictions on private citizens at the community level. At the industrial level we need businesses to start taking up the banner at using their precious profits that line people's pockets faster than they can spend it to update there sector of power.
We live in MInnesota, and were thinking about moving to northern New Mexico, but the climate issues certainly worry me. We are in about as safe a place as there is in the country right now.
One projection found that by the end of the century the climate for Minneapolis will be much like Kansas City is now.
I used want to live in Arizona to get away from New England winters, now it looks like staying here in Massachusetts is a great idea
@@deepashtray5605 Alas, my odds of being around until the end of the century are exceedingly low.
@@davestagner It's our legacy :(
You should start buying some land now when the price is low. I believe the land value will increase in the future. You can then sell it to retire on or leave it for your children and grandchildren who will need it.
PBS terra and Propublica seem to be the only media outlets doing practical stories about this, which is really awesome. It would be nice to get a global version of this story and see how places like Canada fair
RIGHT NOW, CANADA NEEDS WORKERS, OVDR 100 THOUSAND, SO YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET SUBSIDIES TO MOVE THERE AND WORK, TORONTO IS NICE
Yes planning on moving- will try to avoid the riskiest places that you mentioned
I would love to see some data around canada and how it will be affected. I watch your climate episodes all the time and find them very informative. Keep up the good work!
Thanks! I'd really like to do an international take on this idea as well.
@@pbsterra Chilean here. Please do.
I live on the West Coast of Canada and climate change has been glorious weather wise for the most part but there have been disasters such as increased forest fires and longer dry spells. The big issue is that we’re vulnerable living in a rainforest that will likely burn during a dry hot spell at some point in the next 50 years.
Eastern Canada along the Great Lakes-St.Lawrence are very resilient. There's a lot of water here to moderate extreme tempreatures and induce rainfall. The most worrying thing is that everyone else on earth moves here and prices us out. I visited the Rocky Mountains in Alberta and while the weather was locally pretty nice, there was smoke in the sky the whole time I was there. I saw mountainsides of trees that have just burned to a crisp. There's a big fire on its way because of the stupid pine beetles. I'm worried.
I think the biggest impact on Canada will be climate refugees from the US, Mexico, Central and South America.
I lived in Phoenix in 1980, the heat was unbearable back then
In other words, nothing has changed.
You were near peak of a solar activity cycle back then. No surprise
And now they’re about to have a greater homeless crackhead population. Not to mention that water recently got cut off to a certain foothills suburb near phoenix. Arizona is about to have it.
What's so interesting about this sort of video is they absolutely ignore the actual realities of climate change.... Which are the rapidly industrializing nations of China, India and central Africa.... But they have no control over these nations so they try making it a political issue to gain political power, even though they know they have absolutely zero control over climate change. India and china do, not the United States.
Back in the late '90's, I remember seeing people use pot holders to open their car doors. Crazy hot there. Vegas was worse.
On the flood map,that darkest blue on the Texas coast is us.. Brazoria county texas.. We have been hit hard the past few years
where is the link to the Pro Publica study this is based on?
I moved to southern California for health reasons, living with Sickle Cell Disease in Chicago during the winter is really difficult, but I got here in 2014 during the drought and what would become some historic wild fires in this State. All I can say is "I miss Lake Michigan!"
So sorry for your illness, KennethCarson. I can honestly say that Shytown is def NOT a place I'd ever feel safe. Lori Lightfoot is a nightmare and if Chicago's reputation is true, it's not going to get better there anytime soon. Best wishes for your happiness. 🌺
Living in a suburb outside Chicago 35 miles South West & this winter has been very mild. Just a cold spell & storm right around Christmas. Chicago is one of the most beautiful cities in the US with a diverse population. Restaurants are also great here too. Lived here my whole life & its been a great place if you like 4 seasons. The Lake front in summer is awesome !
There has not been an increase in wildfires. There has been an increase in them being more severe more often. Why? Because as predicted by experts in the 70s we banned things like controlled burns etc . . . Who pushed for that? Environmental Nazis
@@ag4allgood we just moved from about an hour and a half west of the chicago lakefront to CO. Mainly for the very reason mentioned in the video, economic reasons/job. The problem with northern illinois and southern wisconsin is the concentation of PFAS/PFOS in fresh water supplies. While chicago proper and many closer suburbs have the lake to draw drinking water from nearly every community in wisconsin and northern illinois are subject to enormous amounts of forever chemicals. The source is mainly chemcial producers, 3M, etc... that have been able to operate without real regulation and oversight for nearly 50 years. So while there many sources of water from the Mississippi (which is also heavily polluted from Clinton, IL - 3M plant and south) they are largely polluted bodies of water. "Mixed" is the best water quality rating you will find in the middle Midwest and extending north into WI and MN. Everyone is dying of cancer and getting sick with cancers they wouldnt have otherwise died from by eating fish, recreation in PFAS/PFOS tainted water, and otherwise being subjected to wind carrying pesticides that are in EVERYONES water in the Chicagoland area. There are things to be said about this part of the country, and we still own a home there, but the water issue in the midwest is the big elephant in the room. My wife is in healthcare and there are droves of people dying in the chicagoland area due to lack of early testing, with colorectal and other GI cancers, and the lack of enough specialists to diagnose folks early enough. This trend is even worse in the collar counties and the rural areas of northern illinois. Take one look at a PFAS map of Michigan and then remember that if there was actual oversight and regular testing, IL, WI, and Iowa would look the same. Iowa now has the worst water quality of the whole midwest. Not a very good crown to wear. The midwest has trouble with water just like anywhere else. What scares me the most is the lack of planning and the lack of oversight because water has historically been plentiful. State and Local Gov arent into the idea of regulating anythign unless its mandated by a higher form of Gov. And they dont want to regulate the use of pesticides that fowl their municipal supplies because the Big Ag end of the system wont let any meaningful regulation come forward. Its a diseaster unfolding ...
But you certainly don't miss the winters.
As someone who moved from Lousiana to Oregon years ago, I sometimes find myself shutting all the windows due to wildfire smoke and elevated temperatures at the same time that my relatives back home are dealing with Hurricanes.
Fellow Oregonian here! We are planning to move to New Hampshire in a few years when prices stabilize a bit more! We moved from saint helens to bend about 5 years ago and the heat is getting so bad our vinyl siding melted off our house! And the winters are dwindling! This place is getting more unstable every year!!!
You guys are exaggerating we had some idiot start a wildfire. Oregon and Washington do not have wildfires every year stop the cap.
@@mindlessmonk3322 do you live in Oregon?
@@TSITTEL13 yes I live in Oregon and I've lived in Washington. We had snow this year and it's been cold and rainy. In the last couple of years we've had two people start major fires like dummies doing fireworks during the dry season.
@@mindlessmonk3322 well where I live in Oregon is full of tweaker bums and with the extreme dry summers and drought it is inevitable that we will have fires when the bums are moving further out where I live in the high desert! Doesn’t matter how the fires start, with the dry weather we cannot combat the spread! And the last fire we had close to me this last summer was from lighting which is how most of them start!
We moved our family from Salt Lake City, Utah to Eugene, Oregon in July of 2019, partly for the climate. Turns out the winters in Oregon are very gloomy with few sunny days, and there are fires. But springtime is glorious and the climate is relatively moderate and, once we were used to the cloudiness, not hard to deal with at all. We still miss the sun in winter, though.
in case you didn't know, there are almost 8,000,000,000 people NOT living in Oregon and doing just fine
I'm staying here in San Francisco, earthquakes and all (luckily I live on bed rock--so, if you are thinking about moving to this beautiful city, make sure you take a look at the liquifaction maps first).
For decades property developers have filled in wetlands and low lying areas and built homes, strip malls and shopping centers on them. Wetlands are natures over flow, flood storage and ground water recharge ares. Wetlands need to be protected, expanded and appreciated for the flood control and water storage that they provide.
Really? You realize that George HW Bush protected the wetlands - he was president from 1989 to 1993. Please.
In Hawaii they build in lava zone 1-2 . Pure greed