Americans Moving To Places More Resistant To Climate Change 

“Small but growing number of WEALTHY Americans.” Lower income families cannot just move because of climate change, they have to stay where they are and deal with the conditions. This just further highlights wealth inequality in the U.S. and how many people have the ability to further ignore the problem.

You can run but you can't hide...how about showcasing some of the people in CA who can't afford to move away to places like Vermont and hear their helpful stories of how they are adapting, out of necessity, to living with wildfires, etc.

As a younger millennial, even I can say: The current climate is not the one I grew up with. Things have changed quite a bit in the last 2 decades. That’s too quick o.o

Only the rich can do this.

Notice that these folks built a huge house with a swimming pool. Wonder what the impact on our climate would be if everyone did this.

Vermont had cataclysmic flooding a few years ago. Everyone forgets! Lost most of our covered bridges. Issues from climate are everywhere.

Vermont is not ready for more people, people in Vermont are struggling. So many rich families moving in that it's forcing Vermonters out. Vermonters can't afford to stay and the Green Mountain state is slowly losing land because of excessive building and making room for new residents or travelers/vacationers.

When I was young we never had an air conditioner and it was ok. Sometimes it would get kind of hot but nothing too bad. We would just open the doors. Now the summer time in California is way too HOT. I had to give in and buy an AC because I got dehydrated and I was realized that it was getting worse every year. I am still pretty young so I am very concerned with how hot it has become. I live in the valley and there use to be lots of trees and flowers and now I see we are turning into a desert.

They moved into a big house with a huge pool… reproducing the same selfish behavior that is stressing the climate around the world, and has already destroyed much of California. Those parents should teach their children to respect nature, stop consuming and wasting resources as essential as water. May they continue to enjoy their pool for a few more years…until Vermont runs out of it.

We can only run so far... The right way to handle this problem is to tackle it by regreening our planet, stop consumerism, Go Green!

This should be titled "Millionaires moving to places more resistant to climate change." Oh my god the hardship, the suffering!

Look out Vermont; and the upper mid western states; there will be plenty of financially stabled people from California; and Nevada; and Washington state.; and Oregon that will relocate; and drive up the cost of housing; and cost of living in your states!

Our ancestors moved around constantly because of natural and catastrophic events. It’s only rational to move away from an area that’s going through a traumatic change! Now the only problem now is most of families can’t afford to move across the country. And this is going to be a very sad future for so many people, who are basically gonna be left behind…

I moved from Phoenix to Pittsburgh in 2014 because of climate change and now I'm moving to the Netherlands. It might end up being wrong in my choice, but the Dutch are phenomenal problem solvers and are tackling climate resilience head-on. They are already the most advanced at handling sea-level rise. I might try to move to Sweden later.

Yet we continue to do nothing to combat it🤦🏾‍♀️

Doesn’t matter where you live when the food supply starts to get tight. 🥂

The irony is people in the US move 100's of miles north to escape the heat only to realize in a few months from now they will be dealing with freezing temperatures, heavy snowfall, and blizzards in the winter.

When resources become scarce...you'll see how animalistic people will become.

It only makes sense to migrate to a more safe climate area of the nation. Our ancestors had to move according to environmental changes for their own survival.

You can say it all you want but nobody gonna do anything about climate change because people don't care and I'm sick and tired of it 😡😡😡

It will only get worse. Stop having children, folks. Don’t do this to them.

Toooo bad we got George W. Instead of AL Gore!!!!! We'd be seeing an entirely different picture today!

So instead of fixing the problem, we run from it. Makes sense.

The answers of their sons made me cry! What matters is their peace and relief.

Those with money can move. The poor are screwed.

A family with only 2 kids need that big butt house?

Cali, Nevada, Texas and the west is ripe with drought. It’s not sustainable. Florida is too low in elevation. It used to be a swamp. It’s only a matter of time it floods again along with louisiana. I predict within 50 years, these states will be dire need of infrastructure work so maintenance will be high and insurance will be high making it unprofitable. The upper Midwest and New England will be the safest in 100year plus but even that is not full proof, the east coast will also have flooding problems. If anything canada is the safest if you ask me if you’re looking for generational homes.

Escaping the impacts of climate change without trying to reduce their carbon footprint by having a swimming pool and no solar panels, where will they move next ?

This is exactly why I moved back to Michigan from southern California 12 years ago. It was already too dry there.

Everyone moving to these little towns causes damage. I’m in a smaller city in Idaho. The over pour of people who couldn’t make it in boise is killing my town.

I have moved all over America and I currently live in Raleigh, NC. The best place to live according to me. There's snow for just 4-5 days a year, no forest fire, less crime rate, the hurricanes and cyclones become very weak when it reaches NC, not as hot as California or Texas, all the big tech companies are slowly moving here as well, less psychopaths.

So why move to where virgin land, farmed land, forested land must be developed? Ohio, PA, Michigan, Indiana, West Va have thousands of half full cities. Plenty of water.....

This makes it seem like the family was putting the death notes in the kids' lunchboxes. 😂

I’m a millennial and the weather is not the same .. we really messing this planet up ..

We were told climate change is GLOBAL.

"Well, if we just move away, everything will be all right." "Or if we just move HERE it'll be OK." "Or maybe if we move way over HERE..."

I dunno man, I'm looking around at the news, and it looks like everything is turning into Southern California. I mean, wildfires in England? Thames drying up?

There is nowhere untouchable in the long run ask people in Eastern Kentucky.

If you come to the upper Midwest I’d just warn you we have the most oppressive winters in the entire country. For a few months it won’t be warm enough to do anything but stay inside and look forward to spring. It will shorten the life of your vehicle, possibly make you feel depressed, and require you to pay high utility costs just to stay alive. It’s just simply amazing here lol. If “the grass is always greener as long as it isn’t on fire” is your attitude though you’ll love it but I sure think it has it’s cons. I think it sucks if you enjoy geographic variations, the outdoors, and want to see something other than cornfields.

California population 1980 23 million 2020 39 million The ramifications not difficult to understand. California would be wise to pay people to leave.

I knew it. The Northeast is going to be a hotzone for real estate. It still has trees and water.

Moving to other states to “escape” yet every state is having issues, not as much rain in some states then flash flooding & landslides. Winters colder then before with more snow or not as cold with less snow & once it hits its food supply shortages power outages etc, hotter summer days with some food shortages plus with stuff not being the greatest & more destroyed from weather it’s already causing issues. Sounds mild but it’s all causing issues with land & farming as is & making prices go up, it’s just like with texas & the water issues, no rain for crops no food for cows so cows are getting sold like crazy & can’t be kept raised or even breed so meat prices will go up. Theirs tax increases in some states for land let alone rising prices as is when stuff already isn’t great in the states & tho California seems to be a focus for news all states are having major problems with drugs & more violence happening along with their own land & weather problems. You really have no state or place to escape to, some may end up seeming worse then others but all places are changing weather & price wise & will only get worse & I’d say much worse given how much hotter it’s suppose to be & how much water is already wasted a lot of crops won’t be growable in certain areas & with wether changing everyones flocking to take up other land in states that will only knock out more possible land for certain crops & cause prices to rise more given the lack of farmable land. Theirs no win win, no matter what state you live in no matter what country you live in everything globally will continue to change, people moving in masses is only going to worsen it so much more.

I think you will see more of this around the world. Some areas of the planet may become uninhabitable.

The kids are smarter and more rational than the parents nowadays

Will say it's hotter than when I Was a child.. winters are shorter and weather disasters are more frequent. Also the weather in general is way less predictable in terms of one month to the next.

I have honestly considered NH over Texas, Arizona and Florida. I like rain and snow. No hurricanes, or drought.

How can "Global warming" be LIMITED to localized areas?! And if polar ice caps melt, rising sea levels will also be uniform globally - not localized.

Don't talk only about the hotness, the winter is also getting extremely cold.

So, the wealthy ones decided We have destroyed the natural places enough now. Let's move to avoid consequences and let other who can't afford anything anyway in destruction. Then from far, we can tell them, if only you could do this and that. Meanwhile, the places that they are moving. Take the baseline survey and you will be surprised in 10years. Local flaura Fauna would be gone. All big mansions surviving on huge AC. Great big lawns with no trees in sight. And amazing water usage for just keeping the grass greener. Misuse of water with swimming pool, that us used to just brag or sit around but never going in, while other don't even have drinking water. And most of all, let's displace local people and put them out if their affordable housing option, because we are rich. We will displace farmers, ranches and many other local metro park t built multi acre housing for us only. Only to abandon it in few year, because yep, we would have started another wild fire. Don't they have any shame left. Raising self entitled kids and narcissism to the sky.

Pennsylvania , Upstate NY , Vermont , New England ! ❤️ my favs ! Great Lakes also an option !

You can run but you can’t hide from those UV rays

If you look online it says main issue with water shortage is the following: What is the main issue with California's water supply? The problem is inadequate infrastructure and a regulatory system that requires a huge amount of water to run straight to the ocean, so we aren't able to capture what we need to make it through the dry times. The loss of available water also has significant impacts on our ability to generate power.

It's not hard to find things to be afraid of. I live in the middle of a forest with no worry about forest fires which were much greater in the 30's

We all saw this coming since the 90s and now its here. It will get worse.

This will be painfully true for those living in the nations south of the US and around the world. Some have limited funds and may even lack the freedom to move somewhere more livable. We need a worldwide initiative to help them relocate for survival.

Nature's revenge is coming for y'all!!!

So this family who is part of the problem flees and let other people fix the problem instead of staying to help.

Please. Americans are moving to places in an effort to live freely and avoid tyranny.

A report by rich people, about rich people, for rich people.

Y’all don’t move to Vermont. Stay where you’re at. It’ll be fine. Besides, Vermont is notorious for it’s disease carrying ticks, mosquitoes and liberals.

I hope they don't mind the snow

Look into AR.........lakes, trees, rolling hills, lots of beautiful buildable land and temperate climate. Lovely place to live unless a "Starbucks' is necessary for life style. This is about loving and learning to live with nature. We need more "BLUE" in this state so your welcome here.

That living large lifestyle is what is causing the climate crisis

Only they’ll be met with different issues and disasters somewhere else . Climate has become unpredictable. You can run but you can’t hide .

It doesn’t matter where you go. Every place has issues- floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, severe winters, fires. You just have to pick the thing you can deal with.

Us in the south would love for y’all to stay where y’all at. It’s to many of y’all over there that’s draining the resources

I ❤️ North Carolina. Been here my whole life bc of it's mild weather 😊🇺🇲

Snow and extreme winters? No thanks !

How much water does it take for that pool?

☀️Great Lakes area is safe👍

Ok I feel terrible for these kids having parents that rather instill fear and running away than optimistic with proactive to solutions. Of course your child are gonna be cowering in a corner banging his head saying he can’t take it anymore. And they write letters to them threatening the fact that their parents may die?! What the heck?! I’m working in the climate industry right now and it’s these fear talking that makes people unproductive, in denial, and contributes to the continuation of global warming.

The kids are stressed because she told them she “might be dead now and they would go live with family members”??? Way to pump up the drama Mom, Geez. They’re little kids. Actually I don’t believe she actually said that, I bet she was encouraged to dramatize things for the news story, like climate change needs to be embellished! These news outlets really are something else.

I been in the Appalachian hills all my life and I never plan on leaving. If any thing I might tear my house down build me a under ground home! My current basement is under ground when it storms everyone runs to my house you could survive a direct hit here the whole house could blow away and you would be just fine under the ground with a concrete slab over your head.

Ok. Sure. Wealthy Californians will be sooo happy in freakin Prairie De Lac, Wisconsin.

Arizona, Texas and Florida, all red states............ I can assume that people are moving in to those red states for way more reasons than just climate.

I'm a retired 67 yo lady veteran who's been car camping for nearly 16 months. My heart is absolutely bleeding for these people. Poor babies. 😆 🤣 😂 😹

There is no “good news”. We are too late. We can only slow and mitigate the damage. These people moving around is a fix for them now. All areas will be fine eventually be affected by climate change.

There are a LOT of simple actions communities/governments could make in order to lessen the serious impacts of climate change, but no one ever does them. ALSO GIVING UP FOSSIL FUELS IS NOT THE ONLY ANSWER! GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEADS!

"Well we had to move from Vermont as we discovered it snows here and we were afraid we would freeze to death, and we had to write letters to our kids in case we froze".

Good luck. Calamity is everywhere cause the climate is everywhere

Who owns a pool in Vermont? Also houses that big AND new are rare and expensive in Vermont. No offense but they are part of a negative change of the character of some of these regions and are clearly outsiders bringing their priorities to a place without the infrastructure to accommodate. Glad they left a traumatic situation though.

Look at that big house with a pool! Take that California salary and live like kings in the wilderness. C'mon. It wasn't just the fires, Anne.

We have talked about moving to Maine for this very reason.

The Benevolent Bob Wells said, "Future homes will be on wheels!"

Prior to the last ten years, there were fires in the West, but not like this. Now, the west is heating up, burning up in fires, and running out of water. RE the heat, one thing I've noticed is that it doesn't cool off at night like it used to. Also, we now have fires in our county every year, and the smoke has lasted for months at times. And, while you can rebuild after fire, if you can afford insurance and if you have the money for materials, wells are running dry. You can't live in a place where there is no water. At just 1.2 degrees of warming, it is very clear that the climate crisis is here. Even thuogh they post otherwise, even the Exxon and Russian trolls who deny it here, know that they are lying when they do so. We have to get off of carbon. About a third of the food in America, and a quarter of economic productivity, comes from the Southwest. The Southeast will see deadly heat and hurricanes. The rest of the country will see crazy flooding. There is no place that will not be impacted by the climate crisis.

We need to make more real changes......these people are ridiculous......more green jobs,vote better realize that it is real

I live in Iowa now instead of Florida. Don’t have to worry about worsening hurricanes every year.

Atlanta doesn't have a lot of weather issues.

You mean red states?

I live in Florida in Brevard County where Cape Canaveral is located. Florida is known for Hurricanes, flooding due to rising sea levels and wildfires but Brevard escapes many times over. I watch on the radar when bad weather crosses the state and have seen get to our county line and spilt going north and south. I think this is why the NASA choose this county. Not to say that haven't been hit by any of these conditions, just alot less than many other parts of Florida do, do, do, do.......

I've had to come to the sad realization that it would be a bad idea for me to move from Wa state to the south. WA is very expensive and cold (for me) 7-8 months out of the year. But having to deal with the future flooding, excessive heat, and increased humidity would be even worse.

People who don't believe in climate change usually have a 1st-grade education.

These people are too much.

I have been saying that Detroit needs to repackage itself and sell it s cheap real estate older homes vibrant downtown and history Plus climate Side by every person complaining about the climate or their flood insurance or all the other things that have happened to them better not be voting Republican the grand climate deniers that they are

Climate refugees will be one of the biggest issues of this millennium. People will move to area's away from rising oceans, cooler area's and where food can be grown.

The grass is always greener on the other side... of the wildfire

I know Americans are hopelessly optimistic and about half don't believe in climate change at all, but if I were living anywhere near the Colorado river I would sell my house while I could still make money. Be a first mover. A pioneering climate refugee. Most will remain and will blame the government while their lives fall apart around them. If you can't get your house insured without "government insurance" you're living in a bad area. Are you listening, Florida?

Well dont come to Georgia. It's bad here!

the problem makers avoiding the consequences they made rather than fixing it for everyone else, classic americans 💀

"We are slicing the wrong throats" - Bill Burr