Reply #162: Having lived both in the Midwest and California, I think you all should fess up: It's Jealousy.

[Warren DeMontague]

Admit it.

Also, despite this bullshit about some places being "not meant to live in", disasters happen all over. Even in the midwest- flooding, tornadoes, even giant fucking snow and ice storms (I was in Chicago in 1979, ahem.)

When was the last time San Diego was destroyed by fires? This isn't happening every year, certainly not in the exact same place. Last massive fires, destruction-wise, that I can remember being this bad in California were in the Berkeley/Oakland hills. And that was, what, over 15 years ago?

California is a BIG PLACE. Yes, "every year" there are "fires, mudsildes, earthquakes" somewhere in California, but that doesn't mean we're constantly rebuilding our houses every six months. Certainly not on YOUR dime.

Maybe no one has explained to you how insurance works, but trust me- they have professional bean counters who carefully quantify the risks of these fires and earthquakes (which is paid for on a separate insurance policy, by the way) so the people who are getting "paid" by their insurance companies to rebuild have PAID for it in their policies and in the policies of other people living in places where pissed off, bitchy frostbitten midwesterners don't think they should be allowed to live.

Let's take your logic one step further- you're unemployed and you can't afford your house in the Midwest because there are no jobs there? Why is that our problem? Why don't you move? What business do you have, living in an area where there are no jobs? :shrug: