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Thousands Of People In Florida Have Lost All Due To Florida's Flood Insurance Laws
2022 Sep 30, 3:48am 16,811 views 95 comments
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B.A.C.A.H.
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2022 Dec 20, 8:05am
B.A.C.A.H.
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2022 Dec 20, 8:05am
ad says
We Californians agree with your assessment about the Grifting going on in Sacramento.
Why do we remain?
Probably different reasons for each of us. Some of us have deep roots here. For the time being, living near family means more to us than the tax rate. Others, like Patrick, don't have family here, but have other reasons, their own reasons, for remaining. We can always leave if the tradeoffs become unbearable.
We can always find things to point out about how it's worse somewhere else than where we choose to live. But we don't need to use pejoratives and swear words for that.
We don't define ourselves by who we hate.
liberal shithole California
We Californians agree with your assessment about the Grifting going on in Sacramento.
Why do we remain?
Probably different reasons for each of us. Some of us have deep roots here. For the time being, living near family means more to us than the tax rate. Others, like Patrick, don't have family here, but have other reasons, their own reasons, for remaining. We can always leave if the tradeoffs become unbearable.
We can always find things to point out about how it's worse somewhere else than where we choose to live. But we don't need to use pejoratives and swear words for that.
We don't define ourselves by who we hate.
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RWSGFY
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2022 Dec 20, 9:33am
RWSGFY
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2022 Dec 20, 9:33am
AmericanKulak says
In other news Texas and Florida now have their own heavy traffic and exploding housing costs.
California has a massive underfunded pension problem in spite of sky high taxes.
The plan is to leverage their Representation in the House to get every other state to eat their ludicrously generous State pension deficit.
And massive traffic, overdue for a big Earthquake, housing costs that put home ownership completely out of reach for most and certainly for the working class, ridiculous sprawl and a hatred of density which only increases heavy traffic, Third World shit and drugs in the open, etc. etc. That the middle class flees California and the influx is mostly the wealthy and the very poor/addicted/lumpenproles and has been for years is the most damning indictment.
If Republicans wanted to win, they'd be saying "Do you want Texas and Florida America or Philadelphia, Chicago, and California America?"
In other news Texas and Florida now have their own heavy traffic and exploding housing costs.
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TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter
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2022 Dec 23, 9:49am
TheAntiPanicanLearingCenter
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2022 Dec 23, 9:49am
RWSGFY says
Florida has a ~$22B dollar state budget surplus. That's after taking all the tolls off for several weeks during the Hurricane season.
In other news Texas and Florida now have their own heavy traffic and exploding housing costs.
Florida has a ~$22B dollar state budget surplus. That's after taking all the tolls off for several weeks during the Hurricane season.
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Bd6r
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2022 Dec 23, 7:38pm
Bd6r
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2022 Dec 23, 7:38pm
RWSGFY says
...because californians destroyed their state and now are running to tx and fl
other news Texas and Florida now have their own heavy traffic and exploding housing costs.
...because californians destroyed their state and now are running to tx and fl
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Booger
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2022 Dec 23, 7:48pm
Booger
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2022 Dec 23, 7:48pm
AmericanKulak says
Then why don't they drop the tolls completely?
Florida has a ~$22B dollar state budget surplus. That's after taking all the tolls off for several weeks during the Hurricane season.
Then why don't they drop the tolls completely?
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Bd6r
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2022 Dec 23, 7:50pm
Bd6r
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2022 Dec 23, 7:50pm
zzyzzx says
GOOD. Oceanfront rich fucks should pay full price for insurance, instead of pawning it off to rednecks in middle of state
GOOD. Oceanfront rich fucks should pay full price for insurance, instead of pawning it off to rednecks in middle of state
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Not readily apparent is an aspect of the law in Florida concerning flood insurance. If your house or apartment has a roof over 10 years of age, you cannot get flood insurance. I spent hours watching many people in the area of destruction being interviewed. Most had lost everything, and their normal homeowner's insurance will not pay for the losses. They could not get flood insurance. Many are old and have lost all. Imagine yourself in a situation like that.