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On 9/15/2024 11:51 AM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Sep 2024 11:07:24 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
> 
>> As Mr Reagan noted well, where if not here shall we go?
> 
> His quote was:  "If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape
> to. This is the last stand on earth."
> 
> Over the last few years, Santa Cruz County and California in general,
> have had it's shares of storms and wildfires.  One result is that no
> insurance company will write new homeowners policies in California.
> The recent fires will probably make the insurance situation worse.
> 
> When we get together for various events, moving elsewhere is a common
> topic of conversation.  There have been many who suggested that it
> might be best to sell their homes and move elsewhere.  So far, one
> family has moved to somewhere in Idaho, while another has moved to
> Costa Rica.  A few, including me, have done some preliminary research
> into where to move.  I've been watching YouTube videos in the style of
> "Ten best places to live in [select a state]".  These are interesting
> but not very useful.  Others have done similar research.  In general,
> the best places to live are already saturated with immigrants or have
> undesirable environmental hazards (tornados, hurricanes, floods, snow,
> taxes etc).  The consensus seems to be that the potential benefits of
> moving do not compensate for the risks.
> 
> "How Many People Are Leaving California (2024)"
> <https://www.rubyhome.com/blog/leaving-california/>
> "Texas was the biggest winner of California outmigration...  Texas
> also was the state from which the most people moved to California."
> 102,000 Calif -> Texas
>   42,000 Texas -> Calif
> 
> 
> 

Much agreed.  It's a daunting and complex problem.

I know (and ship to) expats in Italy, Mexico, Japan for 
example each with new and different blessings and troubles 
and foibles.

For example, as Italy depopulates there are villages which 
will sell you a house for a Euro with a contract to live in 
it and maintain it for some number of years.  Then again 
Italy is more socialist than California so not for everyone.

https://www.housebeautiful.com/design-inspiration/real-estate/g61420190/places-in-italy-to-buy-one-dollar-homes/

Plus the Italian bureaucracy beats the California paper 
mavens hands down. Makes 'Byzantine' look like an 
understatement.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971