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Originally Posted by sammyg2
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Basically it goes like this: People who bought houses sitting on the top of a hill or in the bottom of a canyon have to pay for their poor judgement.
The rest of us just go about our business.
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actually, the rest of the popn. has to pay for it!
it is a subsidy to those who live in far, sprawled out areas that probably should not have eve had house built there anyway. as you correctly note, some areas are prone to fire (chaparral ecosystems burn pretty regularly) and/or are prone to slides (SoCal area has uplift of weakly "glued together" rocks, and they fall apart with little provocation)