Posted On: April 13, 2007, 4:01 pm CDT

Posted By: waiting breathlessly

I read a real good article that applies here. It said that subsidized insurance and catastrophe insurance just encourages dangerous behavior. If you have to assume the costs of your behavior and cannot look to others for help you will not be as likely to live in a dangerous way. I hear all your complaints but in this country you are free to live and work wherever you please. If you live in a dangerous, expensive area and cannot afford it-leave. I have read all of these postings and I feel so blessed. I live in Calif 250 miles from LA, 200 miles from SF and 100 miles from the coast. No earthquate danger, no flood or hurricanes, no tornadoes, lots of sunshine and 1 hour from Yosemite. I pay $1200/yr property taxes, $400.00 for property insurance, own my home outright in a nice neighborhood and cannot conceive of the problems you people have. If I had your problems I would move. Maybe that is why everyone moves east to west. Do not believe all you hear about Calif. This is truly paradise.