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In reply to the discussion: Question: is it time to start looking at leaving Florida? [View all]calimary
(81,238 posts)51. That, and I wonder how long insurance companies will be there when needed.
The rates will be ungodly. And at some point, I doubt even the federal government can handle it, what with everything else our taxes pay for - that are also legitimate needs.
I feel bad for the Floridians. Even on this thread, people talk about that state in such honestly loving terms. It's appeal is REAL.
But 50 or 60 years from now - by the end of the century, what will be left of the peninsula? Some of the projection maps I've seen are horrifying. Whole chunks of the state expected to be permanently - and irretrievably - underwater.
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Thank you! I have lived in California my entire life and have NEVER seen a cockroach.
skylucy
Oct 2022
#22
Nor have I. Fifty-some years in California and I think I saw one or two outside somewhere.
calimary
Oct 2022
#29
Let's just say I'm glad I'm not the one who has to decide this for anybody other than just me.
calimary
Oct 2022
#38
Some don't leave with immediate disaster (hurricane) bearing down, so some will always stay.
UTUSN
Oct 2022
#24
I heard someone interviewed on the news - who'd defiantly decided to stay, regardless of warnings.
calimary
Oct 2022
#34
Definitely. We left California after retirement in part because of the constant drought and fires.
HeartachesNhangovers
Oct 2022
#25
We left a few years ago after daughter finally married her longtime boyfriend and
calimary
Oct 2022
#46
Live in Florida and the like you roll the dice. I'll stick with the North East thanks.
GuppyGal
Oct 2022
#26
And how do those officials plan to pay for all that build-back-better-and-better?
calimary
Oct 2022
#35