4d3d3d posted:

You don't tell a dying patient they'll be ok.

Stereotype posted:

the mobile link the app gives you doesn’t work, or at least I don’t know how to get the bbcode link from my phone. on desktop it gives you more share options.

RandomBlue posted:

When you're essentially powerless to do anything about it you either drive yourself crazy posting in the biosphere collapse thread or you ignore it as best you can.

Ignore_Me posted:

I used the img /img code and it worked, my post just showed up as a blank post so I assumed Imgur is not an acceptable host for SA forums and maybe yous guys had resurrected waffleimages or something since I had last been here

im_sorry posted:

Or you make beep boops. https://soundcloud.com/the_door_is_scary/03-12-2024a

Trapezium Dave posted:

Katauskas:

uguu posted:

Also, somewhat related, the hatred of some people against climate activists profoundly scares and saddens me.

RandomBlue posted:

When you're essentially powerless to do anything about it you either drive yourself crazy posting in the biosphere collapse thread or you ignore it as best you can.

RandomBlue posted:

When you're essentially powerless to do anything about it you either drive yourself crazy posting in the biosphere collapse thread or you ignore it as best you can.

Stereotype posted:

im not crazy, im laughing actually. would a crazy person be laughing this much??

Hubbert posted:

Rectal Death Alert posted:

https://x.com/Climate_Earth20/status/1771978960341233833?s=20

I'm still team sun.

quote:

Boomers fed up with Florida are moving to southern Appalachia, fueling a population spike in longtime rural communities

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The Wall Street Journal recently reported that many so-called "halfbacks" — or boomers who moved from the Northeast and Midwest to Florida before settling in environs midway — are starting to populate once-heavily rural counties in areas that include Southwest Virginia, North Georgia, parts of both North Carolina and South Carolina, and portions of Alabama and Tennessee.

Many boomers moving into southern Appalachia have also bypassed Florida altogether.

The population in southern Appalachian counties that have retirement or recreational areas grew by 3.8% from April 2020 to July 2022 — a rate significantly higher than the national average — according to The Journal.

The changes have brought forth a sort of whiplash. Counties once defined by miles of countryside now see sustained development — newly-sprouted retirement communities featuring upscale amenities.

Big-box stores, more commonplace in larger cities and suburbs, have also crept further into southern Appalachia, where local downtowns have long been the economic engines of many towns and small cities. And with newer residents comes a growing demand for government services and additional housing and roads.

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Ed Helms, who is retired, and his wife, Johnnie, moved to a gated North Georgia community that partially sits in both Dawson and Pickens counties after living in Panama City Beach, Florida.

The couple sought to leave Florida due to the threat of hurricanes, increased traffic congestion, and elevated costs, The Journal reported. And while Ed Helms has encountered new development in North Georgia, he told the newspaper that it still pales in comparison with the sort of growth that he witnessed in Florida.

"Our property insurance was going sky high," he said of Florida living. "We got tired of being unable to find a place to sit in restaurants."

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Billy Thurmond, a county native and the chairman of the Dawson County Board of Commissioners, told The Journal that some recent arrivals now stop him to express their frustration over the sustained development.

"People who have moved here now want us to put up a gate and stop anybody else from moving here," he told the newspaper. "It doesn't work that way."

500excf type r posted:

Imagine how the people that were born there feel

Colin Mockery posted:

https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1771201408978534415

lol

lmao

CODChimera posted:

so is it going to go back to normal or what?

MightyBigMinus posted:

lower delaware with its handful of beaches is seeing one of the most amazing boomer-colonialism growth spurts ever.

they buy a 50 acre farm and turn it into 150 - 200 3 and 4br houses. then a year later another one down the road, over and over until now there's clusters where its like a checkboard, farm, subdivision, farm, subdivision. so the drainage is completely hosed and as warmer/heavier storms roll in the flooding is compounded.

then they all try to drive to the beach 15 - 20 minutes away, cry their brains out about traffic, cry their brains out about parking, and then come back with an anecdote about what jerks the people near them on the beach were. oh also the restaurant was crowded and the service was slow and the food was expensive and its impossible to get a doctors appointment because their eyeglass prescription doesn't seem right when they drive home (its not the blood thinners for their heart disease and the bottle of wine with dinner ofc).

truly gods most loved creatures.

MightyBigMinus posted:

lower delaware with its handful of beaches is seeing one of the most amazing boomer-colonialism growth spurts ever.

they buy a 50 acre farm and turn it into 150 - 200 3 and 4br houses. then a year later another one down the road, over and over until now there's clusters where its like a checkboard, farm, subdivision, farm, subdivision. so the drainage is completely hosed and as warmer/heavier storms roll in the flooding is compounded.

then they all try to drive to the beach 15 - 20 minutes away, cry their brains out about traffic, cry their brains out about parking, and then come back with an anecdote about what jerks the people near them on the beach were. oh also the restaurant was crowded and the service was slow and the food was expensive and its impossible to get a doctors appointment because their eyeglass prescription doesn't seem right when they drive home (its not the blood thinners for their heart disease and the bottle of wine with dinner ofc).

truly gods most loved creatures.

500excf type r posted:

This is rural southern new England as well. Destroying all the good irreplaceable farm land to build warehouses and upscale housing developments no one can afford

Erghh posted:

quote:

"Our property insurance was going sky high," he said of Florida living. "We got tired of being unable to find a place to sit in restaurants."

500excf type r posted:

Imagine how the people that were born there feel

Stereotype posted:

all land has been stolen by greedy callous thankless apes and should be immediately returned to its only true heir: trees.

Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:

Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:

Hubbert posted:

I'm going to enjoy some treats now (coffee).

Hubbert posted: