Could be worse, we could live in California

[Dill]

(06-06-2023, 12:04 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I have a feeling Phoenix is going to end up as Vegas part two.

(06-06-2023, 12:22 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: Absolutely. My brother-in-law lives out there and every time he complains about this stuff I just remind him that he is living in a hell hole that the earth did not design for human habitation to this degree. It is a manufactured landscape for human development, much like Vegas, and as such the resources are extremely limited.

The whole recent debacle with the Colorado River is just a recent prime example of the shit show out west. We're in this thread about insurance companies leaving California and while it is happening in part because of dumbass government policies in the state there is a large component of it being that it is just becoming too expensive to insure homes in areas where drought and wildfire are decimating landscapes that have been overpopulated. We've been trying to control these areas far too much but as people have learned when they plant a building in the middle of an elephant migration path, nature will find a way to take back what is hers.

Where is B-zona? He knows Phoenix corporate real estate from top down, and I'm guessing a ton about zoning and insurance, and might have some more insights into what's driving such changes, at least in one Western state.