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It's scandalous, though, that the public will pay for firefighting efforts in areas that are unsafe to build in. It's insane to build on a slope or in a canyon
by HarryHirsch 2y ago
It's scandalous, though, that the public will pay for firefighting efforts in areas that are unsafe to build in. It's insane to build on a slope or in a canyon that's plagued by katabatic winds.
- noirbot 2y agoThere's some of that, for sure, but isn't the issue that folks have been living in that area for ages? There's a lot of towns and areas that were founded 100 years ago when it either wasn't as bad of an idea, or we just didn't know how bad of an idea it was. It's not trivial to just go "yea, you all need to move to somewhere new".
- xnx 2y ago> It's not trivial to just go "yea, you all need to move to somewhere new". Definitely true. Insurance rates and property tax can incentivize this as they have in places like Florida. After this, California will probably catch up.