swampwiz

My 2nd GG-father and his brother were soldiers from Avoyelles Parish in the 2nd Louisiana Field Battery (Boone's Battery).

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If it’s not the lack of economic opportunity and crime it’s the cost of living. Such a sad thing to sit by and watch honestly.

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It's a combination of both - the Southshore (at least the core East Bank of Jefferson & Orleans upriver from the Industrial Canal) has prices that are in line with other places, but that have a labor market where the pay is enough to afford that housing. Enough folks have to make the pay-housing (including insurance) analysis to say "it's not worth it", so that there is enough of a labor shortage to boost wages up to a level to afford it.

That said, except for Slidell, the Northshore will have cheaper insurance (especially if the house is in flood zone X - the updated zones, of course), so folks can still live around here, just not on the Southshore unless they want to pay the price - or live in a new construction house that can take a Cat 5 storm. I think the problem is all the existing construction not being strong enough, or not high enough above grade, etc. (this presumes no Betsy/Katrina levee failure :rolleyes:).

Maybe this will motivate the poor people (who will experience much higher rents as the landlords will pass on the cost of insurance) to go somewhere else like Houston, and all the poor neighborhood housing can be demolished and replaced with super-strong housing. One thing that is for sure is that older houses will have such a high, extraneous cost (relative to a new house) will decrease in value.

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I'm just looking for a different place to live. To hell with this shite.

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So the Bogalusa Smell hasn't motivated you yet to leave? :yack:

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My premium went from approx. 1800 a year to to 2500 to 4500 now almost 10,000 a year. unsustainable

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WOW! :wha: :wha: :wha: Where are you at? What area under beam?

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i'm not missing the sarcasm, but universal programs are considerably superior to programs directly targeting idiosyncratic segments of society (race X, gender Y, income Z), both in terms of efficiency (you don't need nearly as much bureaucracy to implement a universal program) to political resiliency (see, e.g., social security).

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All I know is that as being considered "low income" (due to very early retirement, LOL), I got an extra $50K from the Road Home, so I kinds like these programs. :nana:

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I live 200 miles from the coast. Laura put us out of power for 9 days. Almost everyone had roof damage and many homes had trees on or through them.

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My current plan is to build a house in northern St. Tammany. I'm planning on putting a metal roof and as much structural resilience as possible. Will that be enough?

I guess in the end, classical economic theory will simply make property values go down to a level such that the net cost (i.e., including insurance) will equal that of a somewhat nearby with normal insurance costs. That said, at some point, folks would need to go to Shreveport or Jackson (MS) to get normal costs (i.e., because at least by then, hurricanes are not destructive).

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Where you been?

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Obviously not looking at p0rn in LA ...

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I’m trying to figure out how much money we have spent on killing each human being in the Ukraine war.

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Wow, you Russian trolls seem to make it to every internet forum.

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