Bloom May Be Slightly Off The Rose In FL, But Americans Keep Moving To States In Climate Crosshairs

[hatrack]

?resize=800%2C600&ssl=1

In recent years there has been a lot of talk about Americans moving to so called “Climate Havens”, areas that purportedly will not suffer heavy impacts from climate-pumped extreme events. (which btw is seeming less and less true with every passing season)
In fact, the highest growth parts of the country remain regions that are critically exposed to climate risk.
Part of me says, have at it, bro.
The other part of me knows that the rest of us are going to end up paying for this mass delusional behavior.

NBC:

Florida has had a population boom over the past several years, with more than 700,000 people moving there in 2022, and it was the second-fastest-growing state as of July 2023, according to Census Bureau data. While there are some indications that migration to the state has slowed from its pandemic highs, only Texas saw more one-way U-Haul moves into the state than Florida last year. Mortgage application data indicated there were nearly two homebuyers moving to Florida in 2023 for every one leaving, according to data analytics firm CoreLogic.

But while hundreds of thousands of new residents have flocked to the state on the promise of beautiful weather, no income tax and lower costs, nearly 500,000 left in 2022, according to the most recent census data. Contributing to their move was a perfect storm of soaring insurance costs, a hostile political environment, worsening traffic and extreme weather, according to interviews with more than a dozen recent transplants and longtime residents who left the state in the past two years.
–

While costs have been rising across the country, some areas of Florida have been hit particularly hard. In the South Florida region, which includes Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Palm Beach, consumer prices in February were up nearly 5% over the prior year, compared to 3.2% nationally, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

EDIT

https://thinc.blog/2024/04/02/americans-moving-directly-into-climate-change-grinder/

[303squadron]

1. Shhh, don't tell a soul about Florida's other main problem

Water!!!!

[hatrack]

2. Too much or too little, too brackish and too expensive.

.

[Random Boomer]

3. So my resident state of West Virginia is losing population?

The negatives of this state are no worse than that of other poor states, especially in the South, so I'm curious why there's such a dramatic drain away from West Virginia.