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by jdavis703 1649 days ago
Because people rich enough to buy coastal California real estate will be dead or in a nursing home by the time this happens. Or if they’re young, they have enough money that loosing a couple million is a cheap price to pay for living on the beach.
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"Coastal real estate" in California is in no way endangered by sea level rise, being characterized by bluffs. Sea level rise imperils people who live along undesirable shores in places like Stockton and Newark and East Palo Alto.
Depends how close the house is to the bluff. Higher water means more cliff erosion.
I wonder where people in Stockton and Newark and East Palo Alto will go and/or try to move to when floods start coming regularly.

Living 500 meters from the impact point of a catastrophe doesn't mean we aren't endangered by its consequences :/.

Most of SoCal coast is not characterized by bluffs. Not sure what you are referring to? NorCal?
I assume so, since they were mentioning Stockton and EPA.
/facepalm/

thanks.