[davidscolgan]

I'm a freelance web developer from rural Indiana and want to move somewhere in the US I can at least possibly stay for a decade or more. Does anyone recommend a city/state that will survive the climate apocalypse, that is well managed, and/or that is doing everything the author of this article is saying California isn't doing?

I've had a hard time figuring out where to live since I don't have to be anywhere in particular for my job.

[rubidium]

How about ... rural Indiana? Or any one of the local Midwest cities should be fine as long as you have a tornado cellar.

[headcanon]

Sure, Detroit! Michigan is relatively insulated from climate change, is on the up economically speaking, reasonable property values, and a decent tech scene. Access to concerts and a thriving art scene. Plus you'd be close to home. The worst thing we have is the winters.

[sysbin]

lmfao Michigan is pretty bottom of the list when it comes to the states of the USA.

[headcanon]

Then you're clearly misinformed. We're basically like Brooklyn but cheaper.

[sysbin]

That’s such a stretch of reality.

[paulbaumgart]

Storrs, CT, according to Slate: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2005/09/where-to-hide-fr...

[mitfahrener]

Lol. Lived there during middle/high school when my dad worked at UCONN. A good place to grow up for sure. Winter was cold though!

[ngold]

Fun article, but I would be curious if that has changed after 15 years from the date of the article.

[antidaily]

Are you just bored with rural Indiana? Can’t imagine the climate apocalypse will do as much damage to the midwest.

[dunstad]

We may not end up underwater, but ecosystem collapse leading to famine, and increased pressure on all sorts of support systems due to the need to direct aid to people from coastal areas, are both going to affect people everywhere.

[plcancel]

Famine? Switching to freelance farming in rural Indiana could be your meal ticket!

[baggy_trough]

Do you honestly believe that famine is going to affect the middle of the United States in, say, the next 100 years?

[cagenut]

In a 2C world its very unlikely, in a 4C world its highly likely. So the question is, and always has been, where will we stop? The BAU trendline is ~4.5C by 2100. At which point everything from philidelphia to oakland will be desert.

[baggy_trough]

Even if that happened, I'm not connecting the dots on how it leads to a famine. Do we not have the ability to move food any longer, or something?

[cagenut]

empirically speaking no, we (mankind) have never moved half or more of our agriculture hundreds of miles in a generation or two without large number of people not making the transition.

maybe we pull it off this time? seems like a flat out evil experiment to run.

imagine your company running its failover plan to its DR site on short notice. what are the odds of it being flawless?

ok now imagine moving half the farming that feeds everyone you know and love from the midwest to manitoba and ontario. if your reaction to that isn't stark terror at the risk to human life, well then you've played waaaaaaaaaay too many civilization games and your brain has broken into believing this is just a question of right-clicking on the better squares.

[cagenut]

it is really disturbing how relentlessly hacker news reactionaries will downvote anyone who dares phrase the ipcc reports in plain english.

what does it mean to our concepts of reason and engineering if one of the most "technical" self-selected audiences on the internet cannot read basic graphs and charts?

what possible hope is there to get policymakers to base their understanding and decisions in the science if self-professed engineers can't or won't?

[defterGoose]

Californian originally from Lincoln, NE. Moving home is looking more and more enticing with each passing year...

[beauzero]

Atlanta, rent for the first couple years until you are established, start working remote and then move to the country. Also Raleigh, NC. Both have excellent tech pay/cost of living ratios and robust contracting opportunities.

[galangalalgol]

Western idaho is projected to become a perfect oceanic climate over the next 20 years. Its near large growing regions which will get longer seasons.

[vsskanth]

NC is affordable.

[jmtulloss]

Seattle?

[jmspring]

Slated to get a pretty major earth quake at some point.