Picking a Future Home Recognizing Climate Change

At some point we'll want to move, and I want to think through a climate change future.

This is tricky, possibly pointless, because of the unknown-unknowns. And sometimes it feels like "every place will be hopeless" (collapse). But trying not to sink into crazy survivalism.

So I'll try to thread that needle and be pragmatic....

I feel like rural areas are going to be the worst.

But NYC doesn't feel ideal, either.

• flooding streets
• flooding subways, basements
• covid-19/pandemic elevator situation
• too many people to bring outside resources to?

So thinking about mid-size city, but not sure about it.

Some criteria at first blush

• walkable - hmm is this neighborhood?
• not south (heat)
• not Red (crazy, climate-dismissing)
• related: while I'm tired owning, just renting could leave you evicted or priced-out just when things get bad. TinyHouse? Recreational Vehicle?

Going to assemble some articles (saved a bunch Jan20'2024), and try to integrate their inconsistent recommendations.

Feb'2024: Start from list of cities over 100k. https://worldpopulationreview.com/us-cities. Suck them into googlesheet.