All the red staters talk about how everyone is leaving California because of the housing costs. Yes, buying a house in California is expensive, and new construction costs a lot more, because California does have a lot of building codes for health, safety, earthquake protection, energy efficiency, etc. But it's kind of like insurance (whi…
All the red staters talk about how everyone is leaving California because of the housing costs. Yes, buying a house in California is expensive, and new construction costs a lot more, because California does have a lot of building codes for health, safety, earthquake protection, energy efficiency, etc. But it's kind of like insurance (which apparently a lot of them somehow didn't have.) You're paying for it in hopes you never need it, but when it keeps your house from pancaking during an earthquake, or means your house doesn't slide down a hill or go up in flames from a single spark, then maybe it was a good thing.
People in NC without homeowners' ins? They get hit at least once a year by a hurricane, or remnants of one. Not sure of that frequency. That's like living in CA without wildfire coverage.
All the red staters talk about how everyone is leaving California because of the housing costs. Yes, buying a house in California is expensive, and new construction costs a lot more, because California does have a lot of building codes for health, safety, earthquake protection, energy efficiency, etc. But it's kind of like insurance (which apparently a lot of them somehow didn't have.) You're paying for it in hopes you never need it, but when it keeps your house from pancaking during an earthquake, or means your house doesn't slide down a hill or go up in flames from a single spark, then maybe it was a good thing.
People in NC without homeowners' ins? They get hit at least once a year by a hurricane, or remnants of one. Not sure of that frequency. That's like living in CA without wildfire coverage.
It's the coast of NC that gets the hurricane hits all the time. The mountainous west of NC, hundreds of miles from the ocean, is not used to this.