Enormous & Accelerating Threats Stacked Up For Florida - Sea Level Rise Just One Of Them

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10. Easy to say, not easy to do.

Housing in NE FL is cheaper than almost any place else. We can't sell our house and buy a house any of the other places we've looked - we tried about 3 years ago. Sure, if you want to move to MS, AL - it's cheaper - but those places are worse than here so no thanks. Hubby also has a nice part time job he likes with no stress and with full benefits and those are hard to find. Also, both our children live and work here. We live in a nice diverse neighborhood with a number of good neighbors and live on 2/3 of an acre of elevated land across from the river. We are at least 20 ft. above the river with great drainage and Jax. has only been hit 1 time in 200 years with a hurricane. Even when it did get hit in 1969, the area where I live now stayed dry, no flooding.

If drumpf has won, however, that would have been game changing time. If that happened, we were strongly considering moving to NZ - we will not willingly be part of a fascist right wing state. Our friends there tell us that this can happen and they will get us in. If that didn't work, we were thinking about buying some of our friends' land in Sonora CA and getting a trailer. Since thankfully that didn't happen, we are hanging in here.