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In reply to the discussion: This will get lost in the GD thread. I just have a hard time and need to rant over this Ian bullshit [View all]Historic NY
(37,449 posts)and it will take years before recovery is complete. Come to Florida, where you work for less to pay more for housing.
My brother and family moved there in 2017 and bought a place in Largo. My niece has a place at Madeira Beach, it's all concrete condo, rents there have gone through the roof. Riding around down there, you see a lot of older concrete/concrete block houses as compared to plastic sided wood frame structures. They have weathered the storms. It is not just hurricanes, but often time freak wind events that do damage. I find it's a nice place to visit when cold here in NY, but as the heat rises it is brutal. I can drive 3 miles to my local airport and be in St. PETE in 2hrs. That's my relationship with Florida now. I have had other family members and relatives that lived there for decades, they all experienced the weather and its costs multiple times.
Note there is a field of old rotting FEMA shacks that sit in a field near Largo, like a monument to past catastrophes.