# My move to the retirement facility (If joining the thread late, at least skim the first few posts)

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> [@echoreply](#):
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> Probably more appropriate for one of the dormant climate catastrophe threads, but I really don’t want to be holding any real estate in the sunbelt. I think that fresh water access, sea level rise, and heat will make the whole region a disaster area, possibly much sooner than people think. At that point all of the real estate will be worthless (excluding the predicted government bailout).

Ah, found the thread I was referencing for anyone who wants to rant / look into it!

> [@Move ... then roast](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/move-then-roast/988522):
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> Some people are moving out of high tax and high RE priced states to the sunbelt. Low taxes, lower RE prices. They are making a big mistake: [https://www.axios.com/2023/08/13/extreme-heat-climate-change-sunbelt-growth-cities](https://www.axios.com/2023/08/13/extreme-heat-climate-change-sunbelt-growth-cities) The millions of Americans who [migrated to the Sunbelt](https://www.axios.com/2023/03/30/america-population-sun-belt-census) over the past decade are now stuck in the middle of this summer’s brutal and [record-breaking heat wave](https://www.axios.com/2023/07/25/heat-waves-climate-change). Why it matters: The country’s fastest-growing region is enduring some of the highest temperatures in the U.S., thre…

And now anyone who wants to discuss it further can do so there. (Thread is only a month old, so no zombie issues)

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