Ten Lovely Cities You Can Migrate To and (Maybe) Survive Climate Havoc

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Since I started making videos about affordable walkability and underrated urbanism, I've gotten several requests to do something specifically around small and mid-sized cities. Well, this video isn't EXACTLY that, but it's adjacent!
It turns out, if my brazen misapplication of the EPA's Climate Resilience Screening Index is to be believed, small and mid-sized cities are going to be pretty good performers under trying climate conditions. So, if you were to pack up all your stuff and move to a place that had the least risk / most resilience, and was STILL a legitimate city, what city would it be? Well, this video has ten ideas for you. Ignore them at your peril!
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@EthanEves Жыл бұрын

Did the EPA not factor in water supply in their evaluation? So many desert cities on this list with highly precarious water supplies.

@cannotgetstarted Жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly. Reno? Really??

@emma70707 Жыл бұрын

@@cannotgetstarted , actually Reno has had a water surplus for the last few years according to my family who lives there and is pretty involved in local issues. They've done really well, apparently, with reducing the amount of grass, to the point where they're thinking of going back on that initiative because they have so much surplus and now they're getting rather warm, presumably from the gravel yards (and honestly the cement from all the roads/parking lots) retaining heat overnight.

@josephfisher426 Жыл бұрын

@@emma70707 I would be curious how the heat island effect works in more arid areas. Grass isn't much better than gravel, and there probably isn't enough leaf density in forested areas to shield the ground. I've bought a rural house that I'm working on, in probably a 75% wooded area, and it's reliably fully 5 degrees F cooler than it is 10 minutes away in suburbia... or in the single-family section of the city... or at the airport, which is where the official temperature is recorded.

@StLouis-yu9iz Жыл бұрын

I have been thinking about it ever since Ray had been living in Vegas for awhile, I’m not sure it’s worth it to advocate for good urbanism in cities in the American SouthWest. The Colorado river and associated reservoirs are being sucked dry; and even if all communities in the region become as strict with water conservation as Vegas has, there simply isn’t enough precipitation to support that many people in an arid region. Perhaps urbanists in the arid regions of the U.S. should support the revitalization of the good urban fabric that mostly still exists in Rust Belt and Eastern cities, before we try to fix places that have urban fabric that is less conducive to active mobility and will thus be much harder to repair. If your water rates get too high out west, we’d love to welcome you to StL! There’s still plenty of room for more city nerds in the Lou. ❤ Wherever you decide to call home, keep doing what you can to make it more sustainable though. :]

@AssBlasster Жыл бұрын

This definitely isn't an issue in Spokane-Coeur D'Alene area with nearby deep mountain lakes and significant area of hydroelectric power.

@JoshKablack Жыл бұрын

I'm gonna be really disappointed if your April Fool's episode isn't a list of most transit-accessable Cheesecake Factory locations.

@JordanPeace Жыл бұрын

Quite possibly the best video idea for this channel ever suggested

@kimberleemodel7182 Жыл бұрын

Please do this

@sjasonwang7384 Жыл бұрын

I can walk and bike to mine!!

@liannebedard5521 Жыл бұрын

OK, I will take the challenge…Seattle has a Cheesecake Factory within walking distance of light rail, many bus lines..,and ..,not too far from the ferry to either Bainbridge Island or Bremerton. Estimated number of coffee shops should you get tired…lots. Thanks for the chuckle…

@kimberleemodel7182 Жыл бұрын

@@liannebedard5521 I think Philly has you beat. 1 block from walnut-locust on the broad street line, but 2 blocks from city hall where the subways interchange, and not much further from suburban station for the regional rail. Of course, Max Brenner is a half block from the cheesecake factory, which is like a fancy chocolatier, so that's probably like an even finer purveyor of fine dining.

@susanb8354 9 ай бұрын

I moved to Maine last year and expected to be housebound for much of winter but discovered that Maine is expert at snow removal from roads and sidewalks. Benefits of experience that I should have anticipated. Winter 2022/2023 was my first Maine winter but it certainly was not Maine’s first.

@williamdemerchant7295 8 ай бұрын

It was nice to see Bangor/Penobscot County, being highest ranked? (If a high number was good.) However, it was just short of the population level for inclusion. I live in a Canadian city with very similar demographics and geography to Bangor, and only 3 hours to its northeast. Yes, winters can drag on, but maybe there are some small consolations to living here in the midst of approaching ecological Armageddon.

@aimxdy8680 6 ай бұрын

Same here in the midwest, a foot of snow is nothing and people still go on their days, meanwhile a snowflake is enough to cause a outage in the south lmao.

@LeeHawkinsPhoto Жыл бұрын

I love how Duluth (and that town on Cape Cod I guess) is the only city that isn’t directly downwind from the wildfires and actually has a great water supply. I seriously expected more of the Midwest and Northeast to show up on this list, but I guess the EPA doesn’t bother to notice how dry some places are and how the Great Lakes are really about as good as it gets, because we don’t get anywhere near the trouble that happens in the South or the West. We don’t get fires, we don’t get hurricanes, we don’t get a ton of hail or tornadoes, we don’t get blizzards much anymore, and flooding is nowhere near as bad with these heavy storms as it is in the Southeast. I love the West, but let’s get real…you gotta be thinking about a lot of smoke when those fires get big…and worse yet, water is scarce!

@evequeen8282 9 ай бұрын

Aren't you getting smoke from Canadian wildfires though?

@warrenpuckett4203 9 ай бұрын

@@evequeen8282 BIG time, depending on the wind direction. Lower Michigan.

@collinpetry1161 9 ай бұрын

@@evequeen8282sure, but I'd take being down wind from the fires over the scarcity of water

@LeeHawkinsPhoto 9 ай бұрын

@@evequeen8282 in all my life living in Northern Ohio that had never ever happened…until days or weeks after I wrote this. I’ve never seen it like this ever. It could be decades before it happens again too. The next bad wildfire out West will probably happen this year or next-so it still doesn’t compare. Those wildfires are still hundreds of miles away from us, which is nothing like having them in our backyard.

@timtation5837 8 ай бұрын

Mt St Helens… Do you remember what happened when she blew in 1980? Volcanologists prefect that the volcanos all along the ring of fire are going to start erupting once thier ice caps melt… Spoiler alert… They don’t have much ice left on them. The good news for those that live near them is that without the ice, there won’t be any lahars… The bad news for everyone living east of them is prepare to get massive ash clouds dumped on you., (the entire Midwest). The thing most get wrong (besides the ring of fire going ballistic), is sea level rise. The oceans have already absorbed 80% of global warming and they are at the tipping point and are going to release it… They are busy melting the Antarctic ice shelves from the bottom, and those giant dominoes are about to tip over into all the other dominoes… To the tune of 100 meters of sea level rise… the math is simple addition, and I urge all you to do the math yourself (don’t forget to include Greenland). So… Factor in volcanoes and sea level rise and a much bigger and far more violent ocean, and you can scratch all those places off the list… Washington DC becomes costal, and cross off about 6 billion humans… Csuse there are not many sustainable places left to call home. You better be able to grow all your own food and have something other than money or precious metals to barter with… Cus no one cares about gold or silver when they are hungry and trying to survive.

@aerob1033 Жыл бұрын

In North America, my votes are for Montreal, Toronto, Chicago, Pittsburgh. and Minneapolis. Gotta have good access to fresh water, mild summers, and decent-to-great urbanism.

@chrisbunka Жыл бұрын

I’m gonna cheer for my Pittsburgh Pirates!

@ilajoie3 Жыл бұрын

Columbus, Ohio isn't too bad. Most of the river related disasters like contamination and fires occur in northeast Ohio up near Cleveland

@jaimevelazquez765 Жыл бұрын

Minneapolis and Pittsburgh seem like my fav locations to go.

@neolithictransitrevolution427 Жыл бұрын

Montreal and Toronto won't escape the climate crisis... most because the US will invade the second they need water.

@mattgopack7395 Жыл бұрын

The criteria seemed to really dislike major cities - but I definitely agree, Chicago and the Twin Cities seem like very logical choices for major US cities. I was surprised to see so much in the southwest vs the Midwest with the water situation, too.

@striderSA Жыл бұрын

I'm not an expert, but I'm deeply surprised to see so many cities rank highly in the more arid states. Since one of the biggest challenges with Climate Change will be sufficient water supplies, I'd have expected anywhere arid to rank poorly (especially as compared to the Great Lakes, which alone could supply literal thousands of years of fresh water supply).

@Westlander857 Жыл бұрын

Flagstaff is more of a Colorado-like environment, very high elevation and they get tons of snow. Not the cactus-filled desert that people think of when they talk about Arizona. But it does come with a high wildfire risk, as someone else in this thread pointed out.

@striderSA Жыл бұрын

@@Westlander857 thanks for the info, I didn't know. Glad it's got a few more advantages than I thought, though I personally would still definitely aim for somewhere near the great lakes if I had to.

@jmlinden7 Жыл бұрын

Cities use very little water. It's mostly farms that worry about water shortages.

@StLouis-yu9iz Жыл бұрын

@josephfisher426 Жыл бұрын

@@jmlinden7 Have to grow the food for the city somewhere, and even though they are only supplying people the likes of LA and Vegas are already stretched.

@mrright1068 10 ай бұрын

10. Barnstable Falls MA 9. Santa Fe NM 8. Reno NV 7. Las Cruces NM 6. Coeur d'Alene ID 5. Grand Junction CO 4. Bend OR 3. Missoula MT 2. Duluth MN 1. Flagstaff AZ

@Nobody-wo5mb Жыл бұрын

I live in Las Cruces, NM. I’m VERY surprised it makes the list because we have many summer days that reach above 100 degree heat. You step outside at noon and it feels like an oven outside. If anything happens to the grid, it is unlivable without air conditioning. Plus we are always in a drought, with no natural water sources most of the year.

@rubyus7332 10 ай бұрын

If you believe in climate change you better believe your city is the best place to live😅😊😮 Actually I like new developments down there 😊

@youtubeuserremainsanonymou9022 10 ай бұрын

Having lived in New Mexico, I think the drought is better than wet bulb events (humidity makes heat worse) where nothing can protect you. Also the lack of any weather in Albuquerque protected the infrastructure

@warrenpuckett4203 9 ай бұрын

Try commercial cooking in that heat. Making 2500 lb batches of pie filling. You go outside to cool off in the 100 degree heat. Going from that to 80 inside is hard to take. Have to cool down in stages. Now make that a 10 hour day.

@RedScareClair 9 ай бұрын

I was looking at land in NM when I realized this beautiful, would be perfect plot was in the same county as the Trinity study. I was like is this why this land is so cheap?? Then I did more reading and uranium mining in NM and how the cleanup efforts have been subpar. Sadly, NM is probably off my places to live list forever

@kevinmccabe7263 9 ай бұрын

Yeah Las Cruces was an odd inclusion

@monovision566 Жыл бұрын

It seems like the EPA didn't consider water supply at all.

@StLouis-yu9iz Жыл бұрын

@mikeyreza Жыл бұрын

@@StLouis-yu9iz I agree that we need to focus on places in the Rust Belt and the East. People only live in cities like Phoenix so that they can live in a "quiet" and "nice" suburb for dirt cheap. There's no point in trying to urbanize a place like that, at least not on a large scale -- Many people DO like the desert, but not enough to justify a massive metropolis here.

@tuckerbugeater Жыл бұрын

@@StLouis-yu9iz i'd rather die

@StLouis-yu9iz Жыл бұрын

@@mikeyreza Very eloquently said and unfortunately very true as well.

@dawnreneegmail Жыл бұрын

Didn't the EPA get watered down ( forgive the sad joke in there) with 45's administration ⁉️

@dustyrusty75 Жыл бұрын

Ah, Reno. A great man once told me "what happens in Vegas, is cheaper in Reno." Anyhow, I'm questioning the EPA's methodology here. I was expecting more from the great lakes region. Mild climate, access to fresh water, well above sea level, affordable, and good historical urban fabric are huge assets here.

@renodeeg Жыл бұрын

Actually, Reno can often be more expensive, probably because it is in a prettier setting with more moderate summers (and real, snow-covered winters). Agree with your questioning why communities near Great Lakes not included more.

@NotKimiRaikkonen Жыл бұрын

Mild climate? My winters in Wisconsin are routinely below zero and summers are in the 90s...

@kenshin4113 Жыл бұрын

@@renodeeg as a Reno resident I can confirm this. living in Vegas is WAY cheaper compared to Reno. I can't say much about visiting the Paradise strip, because it was hella expensive down there compared with The Row in Reno, granted this was just after the pandemic, so there may be a margin of error.

@eyeamstrongest Жыл бұрын

@@NotKimiRaikkonen comfy weather

@Pistolita221 Жыл бұрын

I think what's happening is they ranked these based on what's doing the best RIGHT NOW with current population, and didn't consider what areas would handle a population growth the best. Flagstaff is fine with its current population, but add 1 million people and they were out of water a few hundred thousand people ago. Whereas the rust belt has vacant homes with power and water connections, and the power and water to supply them. A huge methodological oversight, that makes the list really unusable.

@intreoo 11 ай бұрын

In my opinion, the Great Lakes region will be the safest in North America for climate change. Constant water supply, colder climate, swaths of arable land, easy access to the world's transport routes.

@acmedata 10 ай бұрын

No, we have mosquitoes here, terrible drivers and it gets cold in the winter. Stay away from Michigan. ;-)

@masonkanterbury3007 9 ай бұрын

You have to consider the type of people you will deal with in a disaster scenario. Imagine dealing with kid rock and ted nugent in a serious situation.

@CharlesWillisBonsai 9 ай бұрын

@@masonkanterbury3007kid rock moved to Kentucky (or was it Tennessee) and Nugent moved to Texas.

@AmallieGames 9 ай бұрын

I completely agree. Attempting to move my family from Texas to Minnesota in the next yearish.

@efandmk3382 9 ай бұрын

Global Warming isn't just about heat. It's about EXTREMES in the weather. Move north and you won't die of the heat, you'll freeze and starve to death. There isn't anywhere to go to escape death. You're only choosing HOW you want to die.

@charlesajones77 Жыл бұрын

I live in Virginia and we get off pretty easy. Especially up in the mountains. Generally, we're too far north for hurricanes, too far south for blizzards and too far east for tornadoes.

@adayinforever 9 ай бұрын

I live in the Charlotte area of SC and I would say it's a very similar story here. This guy put a city in the hottest state as the number one place to escape climate apocalypse, what an idiotic video.

@theobserver9131 9 ай бұрын

Hello from Floyd VA! I would not suggest anyone move here! We have bears and coyotes... and no water, and really mean people, and all kinds of horrible things! BEWARE!!!!

@Inktron 9 ай бұрын

Southern Virginia here, this summer almost every day has been 90+ degrees, and it is HUMID. I used to think VA was perfect, right in the middle of too hot and too cold, and near the beach! But this summer and the past few winters have made clear it will only get worse. I don’t think it will be so mild in 30 years.

@sitdowndogbreath 9 ай бұрын

@@theobserver9131Don't forget the snake sweet pea

@theobserver9131 9 ай бұрын

@@sitdowndogbreath Yes! Giant snakes that drop out of trees, and get in your basement! Sweet pea? I'm an old codger....but hey gurl!

@dougclendening5896 Жыл бұрын

Detroit. The most fresh water in any part of the world, with an incredibly low cost, with the ability to take part in reshaping a big city.

@cannotgetstarted Жыл бұрын

Shhh don’t tell anyone until I move back!

@tristanridley1601 Жыл бұрын

If I was American I'd move there for sure. It almost makes me wish Toronto had an economic collapse, to allow us to build back better. (Almost but not actually.)

@Pistolita221 Жыл бұрын

@@cannotgetstarted The gentrification has already begun, my friend. They're starting to take back parts of the east side, and anything adjacent to indian village. Homes on 1 block are 20k (not habitable) and literally across the street they're finished and selling for between 250 and 350k.

@dawnreneegmail Жыл бұрын

GO DETROIT‼️ Motown is why this suburban kid growing up outside Chicago in a red-lining suburb believe with her whole heart WERE ALL PINK INSIDE‼️‼️‼️Thus we are the family of man, I mean we kids coming up didn't care what color the artists of the music that stirred our souls were💁🏼‍♀️... we just started wearing matching outfits, did karaoke before it was a thing, loving the Detroit vibe. Bring the whole wonderfulness without the racial divide that killed her and come back big and beautiful 🤗💯👍🏻

@kuba02 Жыл бұрын

@@Pistolita221 wrong

@Jarekthegamingdragon Жыл бұрын

As a portland resident, the wildfires are getting terrible. I run an annual tournament and I'm changing the date this year from late aug to early july just to avoid wildfire smoke. Oh god northern Idaho. No other place in the world, not even the deep south, did I feel more unsafe with my not white room mates than there. Place is a hell hole.

@AssBlasster Жыл бұрын

Moscow Pullman area is pretty okay, but we are the only blue island in a sea of red.

@styx15 Жыл бұрын

@AssBlasster9000 probably because of University of Idaho and Washington State

@kenshin4113 Жыл бұрын

seems like an eco-fash utopia. I mean the Aryan Nations basically made the land around Cour D'alene their base of operations.

@AssBlasster Жыл бұрын

@@styx15 Yeah they are typical college towns

@AssBlasster Жыл бұрын

@@kenshin4113 Yeah we have had problems with them trying to recruit people down in the Palouse region

@williamquigley5836 Жыл бұрын

At 70 and having lived in Michigan all my life, with the emergence of global warming, I truly feel lucky to be here. If I were an aware 20 year old right now and lived anywhere south of the Ohio river, I would want to move here if not actually Canada.

@warrenpuckett4203 9 ай бұрын

I have lived in MI, FL,TN, TX(El Paso), KS, CA, MD and MO. If a bit of humidity does not bother you east TN has a bit all. CA is just too crazy. If it was paradise, I would have not left. Michigan is also a bit of a tax me state. But No SSI or Military retirement income tax. So far. TN is OK for retirement. AL is a bit easier on taxes. If you do retire there. But picking a spot? Mobile, Sand Mountain, Brewton or Scotsboro? How about anywhere close to the Tennessee river? Now if I could just convince her to leave Wayne County, MI. I am really tired of the orange cone season that does not seem to work.

@evequeen8282 9 ай бұрын

Canada is ENGULFED in wildfires right now

@margaretash9706 9 ай бұрын

Major areas of Canada, including Quebec, have been hammered by wildfires. Large areas of Alberta actually have limited water supplies.

@warrenpuckett4203 9 ай бұрын

@@margaretash9706 But why? I can understand CA, OR and WA burning. Because the DNR there is smarter than mother nature. I also also have a college educated niece that bought a piece of land with a 12,000 sq foot house next to a no touch state park. I did not say anything like the house is too close to all that kindling. You she she is smarter because: A. she is female. B She grad E ated. C. I spent 3 years twice and bailed twice. Two different degrees. (Student $ loans) vs income. I could not marry MRS Billie Payer. The only one of my relatives that understood was the the one that owns two companies. I saw the world while I was young. That relative is afraid to. Somebody has to watch the cash register. There may be cash register reason or a edjamakated dummy reason. Or both? Sorry about the TLDR thing.

@brunoheggli2888 5 ай бұрын

How about Iceland or Argentina?

@hawaiianmoonlight 9 ай бұрын

Lahaina is your honorable mention? West Maui has had a history of fires and now Lahaina is gone!

@martinmcnulty1094 Жыл бұрын

The Duluth waterfront Collective is working hard on trying to remove I-35 from the waterfront! Duluth would be magical without that eyesore on the lake front

@DylanLandro Жыл бұрын

Can’t agree more! Can’t wait to move there from the cities.

@lizcademy4809 Жыл бұрын

Can we please lobby *someone* to get European style train service from the Twin Cities to Duluth? I would love to explore Duluth for a weekend, but not owning a car makes it near impossible.

@martinmcnulty1094 Жыл бұрын

@@lizcademy4809 The Northern Lights Express is currently working it’s way through the state legislature and is likely to pass this session. Look up the project. Don’t know if it qualifies as “European Level” since it’s top speed will only be around 90 mph but it will be huge for the state

@usernameusername4037 Жыл бұрын

@@lizcademy4809 IIRC the Democratic legislature is getting it done (called the Northern Lights Express), the plan is 4 round trips a day, taking ~2.5 hrs, with a ticket cost of ~$30 apparently

@usernameusername4037 Жыл бұрын

@@lizcademy4809 IIRC the Democratic legislature is getting it done (called the Northern Lights Express), the plan is 4 round trips a day, taking ~2.5 hrs, with a ticket cost of ~$30 apparently

@cannotgetstarted Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised, most of these cities are places that have, historically, had issues with lack of water and drought. Am I missing something, or does that seem like a big deal?

@oscaruglyface Жыл бұрын

The urban areas in the south west aren't the water hogs, it is the plantation style agriculture and ranching which doesn't need to really happen and profits out of state and out of country corporations while people here don't have water. The urban area I live in is water neutral in southern Arizona

@chillzedd8179 Жыл бұрын

Yeah Im definitely not leaving the great lakes to go to the desert

@enjoyslearningandtravel7957 Жыл бұрын

@@oscaruglyface I’m guessing urban areas in the southwest can be water hogs too if they have swimming pools in their backyard and water the lawn instead of having plants that are native to the areas such as rock gardens and cactus and bougainvillea. Still don’t need much water.

@remoir6273 Жыл бұрын

@@enjoyslearningandtravel7957 75% of arizona water is used solely for agriculture. the rest is used by cities

@oscaruglyface Жыл бұрын

@@enjoyslearningandtravel7957 not really when you compare it to growing alfalfa.

@justingerald Жыл бұрын

So as a Black family, we definitely would have to move to a less diverse area. Fun.

@flaviomolina7165 9 ай бұрын

Hey if enough ppl move it'll be p diverse there

@MrTwarner Жыл бұрын

As someone who’s lived in southern Michigan, Chicago, and central Pennsylvania, I’m very glad to have not been greatly impacted by climate change as of yet. Yeah, I’ve been through blizzards, ice storms, floods, and the occasional tornado warning, but those storms look much the same as they did decades ago. I’ve never had to worry about water availability either, which is more and more of a luxury each day.

@Pistolita221 Жыл бұрын

Indeed, Chicago is the only major city (in the world?) where you can go surfing on fresh water.

@chairmanlmao4482 Жыл бұрын

Yeah I've had the same experience here in Albany Western Australia. We only get 44 clear days annually, every other day is either overcast or raining, so water availability is not an issue. We rarely exceed 30 degrees celsius/86 degrees fahrenheit, downtown and its adjacent neighbourhoods are very walkable and full of historic charm. we get virtually no natural disasters and we are one of the few places in Australia to not be directly threatened by bushfires because its so cold and wet all the time. There is next to no development along the southern coastline and the region has become a refuge for locally endangered species. To top it all off, we have a coastal windfarm that is capable of supplying up to 81% of Greater Albany's energy needs (there are about 39,000 people who live in town and about 49,000 people in the greater region)

@awiegwa 9 ай бұрын

@@Pistolita221 Duluth and a couple others too for surfing

@Lithoxene 9 ай бұрын

Winters are definitely getting warmer. White Christmases are much rarer now than they were when I was growing up.

@TrexJerk8 Жыл бұрын

Flagstaff surprised the hell out of me considering all the wildfire danger and flooding during monsoon season

@alexconrad2904 Жыл бұрын

I'm very surprised to see Santa Fe and Flagstaff so high, especially with the wildfire risk in the area. The issue in the areas isn't just places burning, but the post-burn effects on the water supply, as burned soils become very hydrophobic and can flash flood like crazy and destroy municipal water storage. For an example, look at Las Vegas (New Mexico), where after the Hermit's Peak/Calf Canyon fire, has had to shift their supply and are now spending millions on new water treatment facilities. Also: Cheesecake factory count of 1, first video since the Las Vegas Strip video to mention it.

@patriciaeamon1388 Жыл бұрын

I thought the same about the the inland NW cities, especially Bend and Spokane--at least as far as wildfires go. Nice shoutout to Seattle native son CC with the "feelin' Minnesota" line!

@jmlinden7 Жыл бұрын

The 'natural disaster risk' factor is only one of many factors in the CRSI score.

@CityNerd Жыл бұрын

Reno was the only one on the list with a TCF. I was as surprised as you at the results. Would've expected a lot of small-midsized rust belt cities to fare well here! I'm leaving the climate analysis to the experts though (i.e., a groundhog)

@Austin6403 Жыл бұрын

@@CityNerd i underwrote insurance for the last 5 years or so. Most companies are pulling back from Santa Fe and Flag due to insane wildfire exposure

@Pistolita221 Жыл бұрын

@@CityNerd I think a part of what's happening is they're ranking them as they are, right now. Not how well they would handle climate refugees in the hundreds of thousands or millions. In a pinch, the southwest cannot supply water to 20% more people, but the rust belt can, with the mississippi tributaries and the St Lawrence/Great Lakes watershed. They didn't add that the vacant buildings/homes of the midwest are prime targets for climate refugees to move to.

@trackstarlol Жыл бұрын

We actually just moved from Flagstaff to Massachusetts because the annual wildfires stressed me tf out and concerns about water. Not to mention, you have to drive to Phoenix for a lot of amenities. Would not recommend.

@epicshade144 Жыл бұрын

Coeur D'Alene: "grayscale American flags" Hahaha! I almost spit my coffee on that one.

@hgman3920 Жыл бұрын

I'm surprised to see cities on the southwest on this list considering the historic levels of drought the entire region is experiencing.. Wildfires and hurricanes are sexy disasters and make headlines, but lack of rainfall and depleted aquifers are true civilization killers

@warrenpuckett4203 9 ай бұрын

No drought today. Be some flooding in CA, NV parts of AZ and further north. Today and tomorrow. Pretty much normal rain for any thing east of the Mississippi.

@smgoodreau Жыл бұрын

I was definitely expecting Midwest cities to rank higher on the list. Plentiful water and low risk of flooding or other disasters. Plus, their biggest downside (cold weather) will become a relative advantage as the planet warms. This wasn’t in the criteria, but Minnesota in particular has the sort of good people who are willing to take in refugees, climate or otherwise. If I weren’t already old, I’d definitely be looking at the Twin Cities!

@chrisbernard673 Жыл бұрын

I assumed places like Grand Rapids, Green Bay, Toledo etc. would make up most of the list. Anywhere near the Great Lakes will have bountiful fresh water, minimal natural disasters, and moderate temperatures.

@dirtydinner6463 Жыл бұрын

This list is nonsense honestly. Desert cities in Nevada and Arizona are going to be some of the first to fall to climate change due to lack of water… Really anywhere in the West besides Washington, Oregon, and parts of Idaho have a grim future due to drought.

@Pistolita221 Жыл бұрын

Michigan, Wisconsin, north/eastern ohio all great places to be for the exact same reason. I'm glad I'm in michigan, I wouldn't want winters any colder than these.

@kokorochacarero8003 Жыл бұрын

"The planet warms" is a reductionist statement. The increase in temperatures is on a global average. Climate systems are not as simple as "keep more heat in = more heat everywhere" Some places will become colder, in some cases extremelly colder. There's also the complex clusterfuck of how ocean currents will change (ocean currents that affect wether phenomenon, air mases, humidity and temperature on unpredictable ways) It's not as simple as "it will be hotter so the cold place will balance it out and make me comfy"

@smgoodreau Жыл бұрын

@@kokorochacarero8003 I understand. Indeed, most models predict the Midwest wil have more flooding and more days of extreme heat (>95F) Notice, though, that I said "relative advantage". If you compare all of the expected changes across common models, I think you'll find that the Midwest is expected to come out *relatively* well compared to other US regions, and part of that is the fact that it is starting from a colder average.

@georgecortez84 9 ай бұрын

Maui had a CRSI of 26.984. It makes the fire even more unbelievable.

@Warriorwolfivy Жыл бұрын

As a Colorado native my immediate reaction to hearing Grand Junction was a physical recoil and a loud "Eugh".

@stratostatic 10 ай бұрын

Good place to visit if you want to experience what life was like in the 1980s.

@Fuego065 Жыл бұрын

Yeah I think the methodology is actually insane on that one, heavily skewed for "quick" disasters (Probably including those totally unaffected by climate change like earthquakes), completely forgetting stuff like droughts. For the US, I've seen a video which was I think from PBS which was more complete and they came to the way more logical conclusion that basically the Rust Belt is the place to be. And in general Northern America, Europe and may be some parts of China will be relatively less affected by climate change (+ a few other here or there like New Zealand)

@ThreeRunHomer Жыл бұрын

I agree. This video gets my vote for this channel’s worst post.

@Gallagher2x2 Жыл бұрын

Here is that PBS video. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/osV_mJmKsJaol3k.html

@notstarboard Жыл бұрын

@@ThreeRunHomer Well, the video is totally fair; it's mostly just reporting on an existing index and is transparent with its methodology. I agree that the EPA's methodology seems questionable, though.

@StLouis-yu9iz Жыл бұрын

@jmlinden7 Жыл бұрын

Places that currently deal with droughts on a regular basis are already well-prepared for droughts. It's places that are unprepared for droughts that will suffer in this ranking.

@alecerdmann8505 Жыл бұрын

Duluth has also released and is trying to implement something called the "Better Bus Blueprint" to make their bus system more efficient and try to start the transition of a couple of lines to something like Bus Rapid Transit. There are also been an effort for at least 20 years to restart rail service to the Twin Cities which might finally be gaining a little more traction. Some other commenters have noted that there has been some publicized efforts recently to either remove I35 past the Mesaba Ave exit, or at least cap it throughout downtown to create a better connection to Canal Park. I really hope the political will remains to keep these initiatives moving forward and improving the livability of the city.

@officiallyunofficial1 Жыл бұрын

Honestly, Mesaba would be the perfect spot to end the interstate. It still gives easy access for the industrial area, and that's also where the urban fabric really starts as it goes north. If they do end the highway there, and they don't have the political power to destroy that bridge, they could easily run unhindered rapid bus service on the end of I-35 from Masaba to where I-35 currently ends with stops at each of the current exits. With no traffic, it would be cheap transit with quick service.

@jobw Жыл бұрын

I saw some comment about Duluth I-35 removal recently and now it gets mentioned in the video, nice.

@alecerdmann8505 Жыл бұрын

@@officiallyunofficial1 Mesaba is where 35 originally ended before it was extended in the late’80s/early ‘90s. They originally intended to extend it all the way to the beginning of the Highway 61 expressway to Two Harbors down by Brighton Beach, however the city decided to end it at 26th Ave E and basically pocket the money that had been set aside for the additional extension.

@elsingsaas Жыл бұрын

Some of my older Duluth neighbors fought I35 hard when they wanted to extend it in the 1980s. They did manage to get some of it covered with parks and some crosswalks so at least there’s some permeability between downtown and the lakeshore. We’re fighting to get better rail access to Minneapolis. We need the same amount of fight to get better bike infrastructure.

@52_Pickup Жыл бұрын

Northern Lights Express funding bills are making their way through the state legislation as we speak, with the house bill HF409 being heard tomorrow morning!

@marenpaisley 9 ай бұрын

Seeing Maui and Lahaina on here as an honorable mention is… ouch. The government’s metrics need to consider wildfires and heat going forward.

@clutterkase 11 ай бұрын

i was surprised to see Santa Fe and Las Cruces on the list. having lived in new mexico for most of my life, I've been hearing about the problems with the drought and the dwindling supply of water from all sources. I moved out and have been hesitant of moving back because I don't trust the state to survive those conditions.

@user-mm8vw1ow1x 10 ай бұрын

Surly the politicians will see there's nothing more valuable than a good environment, even over their friend's business that they benefit from. Surly community taxes go to helping the community. They'll see reason

@CastleMc 9 ай бұрын

Agreed-exactly!

@jeffdixon847 6 ай бұрын

This is my thought too. It seems to me that the best places will be inland, high elevation places toward the north. The rust belt comes to mind. Also, plan to live in a place where you can grow your own food.

@simondunham9998 Жыл бұрын

Surprised the EPA has such high praise for cities that I would consider to be very drought prone. I figured this list would be 100% Rust Belt/Great Lakes but I'm glad they consider governance and socioeconomic factors. Anyway, I'll see you all in Duluth

@jacobdumas7643 Жыл бұрын

I was also baffled by the relative lack of Rust Belt/Great Lakes cities. Cities like Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, and Milwaukee should be decent landing spots based on their proximity to the Great Lakes. Obviously the winter months are relevant concerns but these cities have the means to deal with massive winter storms.

@simondunham9998 Жыл бұрын

@Jacob Dumas Yeah, that's my first thought, but there must be something on the administrative front that keeps these cities from ranking better. Southwest cities certainly don't suffer from the same intensity of heavy industry as Midwest cities do and they tend to be more progressive. All that being said, I'm gonna stick to the Lakes since drought and fire seem to be a growing issue. If you can handle the snow, it's hard to beat even smaller cities like Duluth, Grand Rapids, Erie, etc.

@yabton5110 Жыл бұрын

@@jacobdumas7643 The reason the Rust Belt doesn't make the list is the very deep, mostly racialized segregation in those cities. This has a big effect on governance - mostly white county governments don't want to serve black urban populations and many regions are still shedding population, in contrast with the explosive western growth.

@josephfisher426 Жыл бұрын

@@yabton5110 Still a way more solvable problem than no water.

@yabton5110 Жыл бұрын

@@josephfisher426 that's debatable

@yhoooffhrndjffj4391 Жыл бұрын

I felt like this list didn't account for extreme heat...

@MohondasK Жыл бұрын

Or water scarcity. Or wildfires.

@CarrieJamrogowicz Жыл бұрын

@@MohondasK right, he mentions fires in the intro but then proceeds to list a bunch of places that, at minimum, get socked in with smoke every summer/fall, if they’re not actively on fire themselves.

@nonamenoname1133 Жыл бұрын

I read the EPA's doc, being a Great Plains midwesterner and expecting the area to rate well entirely due to favorable topography and access to water. We got dinged for drought HARDCORE. And yet Maui is really high up despite acknowledging water and erosion concerns? Bruh, Hawaii is awesome and they're actively pivoting to not sink, but I'm worried for family there.

@brendannoone3345 Жыл бұрын

None of the cities in the video get that hot

@bbbnuy3945 Жыл бұрын

@@brendannoone3345 Las Cruces absolutely gets hot

@kristie3592 Жыл бұрын

I have to vote for the Great Lakes region. Depending on where you are, winters can be long and snowy, but summers are tempered by the lakes. The sunsets are beautiful. The lakes are a wonderful recreation area. As far as natural disasters, tornadoes are few and far between, flooding is possible but not regular, and these areas are very good at dealing with snow. Like mentioned by other posters, the water supply is abundant with a great mix of cities and rural areas. It has lots of natural resources. Let's be honest, I don't think living in a city is the answer for climate change. Self sufficientcy is the most climate positive lifestyle I can imagine.

@rylove001 10 ай бұрын

Living in a city means that infrastructure is cheaper and resources can be pooled to create a community. Self-sufficiency won't ever be the answer as we lived in tribes even before any modern amenities. We need to work together to survive and thrive as a species.

@eedgerton769 10 ай бұрын

People simply have to get over their fear of snow and then they would see that the Great Lakes states are the most climate change proof. There are parts of the Great Lakes and Northeast which never (or hardly ever) suffer tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, forest fires, droughts or earthquakes... People have been living full lives in snowy places for millennia. Come home.

@mom.left.me.at.michaels9951 10 ай бұрын

I'm on the fence about this. Being responsible for your own food production makes you much more aware of the environment. Your environment is suffering you probably won't get much food. But there's no way there's enough space on this earth for everyone to have their own little sustainable farm acre. We need to bring back community gardens and buildings that can take the weight of rooftop farms. Let people have chickens and goats in their backyards. We need to find a balance of bringing natural ecosystems into cities. Like Canada making homes for bees and little pollen gardens on the top of bus stops. Or how Oslo is turning huge intercity roads into bike paths and gardens. There's plenty of ways to have both. We just need to start retrofitting infrastructure that supports green space in cities and allows the wildlife the ability to move through them unhindered. I've seen a great amount of "wildlife corridors" like bridges and tunnels that work for both us and the animals.

@warrenpuckett4203 9 ай бұрын

AS the mid west goes more progressive so will the taxes. Somebody has to pay for "Fix the Damn Roads". Seems to be a pattern. 1/2 half of the taxes to do that got earmarked for other purposes. Ask for agriculture in those states? Well those counties are predominately Republican for some reason. Could it be because farming is a business?

@theobserver9131 9 ай бұрын

I choose rural life as well, but I understand that not everyone could or would make the same choice. I'm grateful for the majority who choose to stay in the cities. They make my rural paradise possible. Don't move out to the country folks! Life is hard and brutal out here! Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! (and in the case of the great lakes region, the mosquitos are huge! They can pick up and fly away with small children and pets!)

@stevengerard7371 Жыл бұрын

Detroit is gonna be a completely different city in 10 years. The transformation is already pretty impressive. No shortage yet of v cheap land and housing close to the center

@Pistolita221 Жыл бұрын

Shh, my family is gonna buy a property there to flip in the next couple years THEN we can tell everyone that detroit is the place to be.

@bethanywesley Жыл бұрын

I’m looking to move there now from south bend

@lgee9027 10 ай бұрын

🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫🤫 I bought in the crash!!!! Love it

@Mmmmkaaay 10 ай бұрын

I keep thinking it'll be America's next artist colony since the Rust Belt has the only affordable real estate now.

@Lithoxene 9 ай бұрын

And the most ill-conceived new light rail line anyone has ever seen

@malivaster Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty skeptical of the EPAs methodology since they're recommending a bunch of southwestern cities that will be out of water in like 10 years

@lynnhettrick7588 10 ай бұрын

Or sooner. Arizona seems to be in trouble now, water-wise.

@carango1798 10 ай бұрын

Havent seen someone with a RS chathead as pfp in years...

@tfinvold 9 ай бұрын

They're planning a desal plant in the Mexico side of Sonora on the sea of Cortez for water supply but plans aren't final.

@AlicedeTerre Жыл бұрын

Interesting to see cities in Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada here given the news about water issues in the region. As far as I know, water scarcity is going to become a huge issue for the SW states or basically anyone who relies on the Colorado River for water, but maybe Reno and the NM cities don't have that exact issue even though the whole region is desertifying. Watched a video earlier about Flagstaff's water supply issues only a few days ago.

@Westlander857 Жыл бұрын

The Southwest is going to everything possible to shore up its water supplies before doing anything else. Desalination and very expanded water recycling specifically, even though it’s very expensive and polluting. I know many urbanists hate us, but you can’t uproot cities of millions of people overnight, and our cities aren’t getting any smaller.

@AlicedeTerre Жыл бұрын

@@Westlander857 idk man, it showed a lot of development in the region getting approved based on old water supply estimates. I don' think it's necessary to uproot everyone, but the type of lifestyle that people who live in the desert must adopt is going to look really different from the typical American one. I don't really see the majority demographic of these places willingly changing their lifestyles while they're still able able to get water, even as it dries of up the Colorado.

@StLouis-yu9iz Жыл бұрын

@elli6220 Жыл бұрын

Water scarcity is almost entirely due to agricultural uses. 80% of the Colorado River water goes for crops.

@Westlander857 Жыл бұрын

@@elli6220 This is very true. Everyday Arizona residents generally aren’t to blame.

@brianh9358 9 ай бұрын

Well, you mentioned Maui - a place I would never have thought would burn up but did. So I am beginning to think that we probably really don't understand what in the heck is going to happen due to climate change. The interconnected nature of the world isn't going to allow any area to remain unscathed. For example, I would have said some areas near the great lakes region would also be very climate change resistant - but then we had all of the forest fires burning in Canada this year causing pollution levels way off the charts for a few weeks. So regardless, you aren't going to escape the global nature of climate change.

@rubixrambo256 10 ай бұрын

Finally, Spokane gets recognized! It warms my heart to see my home town mentioned in the most Spokane way: an afterthought of a different city.

@jrm78 Жыл бұрын

I'm a little surprised that the small city not near but dear to my heart, Burlington, Vermont didn't make the cut since Vermont rates pretty well on the EPA's list overall.

@NoTimeForNoodles Жыл бұрын

Seconded, it got snubbed here! Also has a lot of access to AMTRAK stations

@ryanconnelly3685 Жыл бұрын

Yeah I was waiting for Burlington to make an appearance

@gcvrsa Жыл бұрын

@@NoTimeForNoodles " a lot of access to Amtrak stations" is NOT really true for Burlington, VT. Granted, with the re-opening of Burlington station, the city is closely served by two different Amtrak services ("Ethan Allen Express" and "Vermonter"). but the trains go in only one direction from there-South-and they don't run frequently. The Vermonter runs once a day in each direction.

@NoTimeForNoodles Жыл бұрын

@@gcvrsa That’s still way better than other similarly-sized US cities (and even New England, which is fairly well connected by US standards). Plus, when the Vermonter is expanded to Montreal, it’ll be even better situated.

@my4mainecoons338 Жыл бұрын

I live in VT. The cars whizzing by me on the interstate usually have MA, NY & CT plates. This is not the state for people with a City state of mind.

@tobertitus Жыл бұрын

"as a native Seattleite, it gives me physical pain to praise Spokane" is the most accurate description of being a Seattleite I've heard on yt

@jacklong7048 11 ай бұрын

I like Spokane-nothing like Seattle was a good slogan. Some of these cities like Pdx and Seattle may have been nice once, but now haven for homeless. I care about my safety more and areas which at are more moderate in politics.

@vvtv4565 11 ай бұрын

I'm surprised to cities in NM listed. Water scarcity is a already major issue there. It's one of the main reasons why I left.

@bemhibbits4157 Жыл бұрын

I've thought about this for years. I live in MN and feel like it's easily the safest area on many levels. A little snow and cold is a small price to pay.

@Pistolita221 Жыл бұрын

The whole great lakes region is great. Personally, I think michigan is the best state from a survivalist perspective. IDK if we'd have to import anything if we closed our borders. We have fruits, metals, salt, lumber, manufacturing, education, etc. all within our state. We even have oil and natural gas fields, though not enough to supply domestic demand, idk if our reserves could sustain us. Other than that though, we're a 1 stop shop.

@Mimi-iq4ll 8 ай бұрын

A little cold? A little snow? Hah!!

@bemhibbits4157 8 ай бұрын

@@Mimi-iq4ll All relative. If it gets to 50 degrees in Cali in Dec, ppl break out scarves. When it turns 30 in MN in Feb, ppl break out shorts.

@bemhibbits4157 8 ай бұрын

@@Mimi-iq4ll My home won't burn down due to wildfires, or get inundated with water, or crumble to an earthquake, or run out of water. and the ocean isn't going to make MN smaller. I'll take the trade off every time.

@Trenz0 6 ай бұрын

A little cold, a little snow lol. My West Coast ass cannot comprehend

@Jimmukun_ Жыл бұрын

Las Cruces completely lacks a real downtown. It's weird. It does have a cute old town area thats kinda denser. Idk. weird place, and it'll get hot as hell. Little water already.

@roycereidnm Жыл бұрын

Las Cruces, wow, what a scruffy southwestern underdog city. Truck dominated, few pedestrians. Good for avoiding gentrification and humidity. Bonus if you can eat burritos for every meal and have and iron gut to with stand red/green chile regularly. A great town to film a movie! LC please stay unpopular.

@johnhodge5871 Жыл бұрын

Just an FYI for CityNerd: There isn't much skiing in Grand Junction, Colorado (number five on the list). I live here. It's high desert, a four inch snowfall is likely to mean that the kids get a 'snow day'. There's a small, two lift ski hill an hour's drive away, with some outstanding cross country skiing a little further on, but the snow doesn't stick around long in the valley itself. What the area is known for is outstanding mountain biking, great hiking, wineries, and elected officials with rather unhinged ideas about the 2020 election. You should come for a visit, I can show you the sights. The city has a quirky history that's reflected in its urban development.

@combatLaCarie Жыл бұрын

As one who deals with the snow/winter, I see it as basically irrelevant in terms of real danger. I can sit in a lawn chair in the middle of a snowstorm. I can't sit in a fire, I can't sit in a tornado, I have never been in a hurricane, but I probably can't really sit in that either. Snow at best just kinda limits your mobility for a bit.

@Pistolita221 Жыл бұрын

lol, I love your take on hurricanes. Couldn't agree more!

@Mmmmkaaay 10 ай бұрын

The only perk of a hurricane is that it moves very slow. If you die in one, you pretty much had it coming.

@kirstencorby8465 9 ай бұрын

@@Mmmmkaaay As a Katrina survivor, that is a really unkind thing to say. Not everyone has the means or the ability to evacuate.

@Mmmmkaaay 9 ай бұрын

@@kirstencorby8465 obviously I don't include people who can't get out. That would be unkind. But let's be real, there are plenty of people who can put some bottled water in their car and drive away that still stick around.

@kirstencorby8465 9 ай бұрын

@@Mmmmkaaay It was not obvious at all. And there are way more people like that than you think.

@ryanjohnston9313 Жыл бұрын

As someone who lived my whole life in Duluth, I never thought I would see us show up in a City Nerd video but when you described the criteria for this one, I knew it was coming. Arguably Duluth could be #1 when you consider it has the best freshwater supply in the world and many of the other cities on here could have water issues. Duluth is a lovely place with the bones to become a better city. The Northern Lights Express, a ~90mph train from Minneapolis to Duluth, looks like it’s going to get built. With that, the expanding bike network, and increasing housing density, Duluth could really become a great small city!

@52_Pickup Жыл бұрын

As a Twin Cities neighbor, I can't wait to come visit Duluth when NLX is finished! I have high hopes for Duluth being one of the greatest places to live in America, and already it is one hell of a beautiful city. Pay attention to HF409 and SF202 in the Minnesota House and Senate respectively, those bills are the funding bills for Northern Lights Express which could start construction as early as next year if funded now!

@lynnhettrick7588 10 ай бұрын

Duluth has been named in other lists as the best place to move to, especially regarding climate. Love Duluth and the North Shore!

@38snipshow Жыл бұрын

I'm literally dying laughing at the proposal for a large share of the Citynerd fan base to settle into 1 underrated midsized city, consolidate power for urbanist visionary goals, and make the best city ever. This would be histarical. Wish I could take part. Sincerely 🇨🇦

@DRL1320 Жыл бұрын

Alas, the we’d have to take over the state legislature too or it would the the reason we can’t have nice things, just like is happening in Nashville. The legislature is holding city government hostage, about to cut the council districts from forty to twenty, eliminating a special sales tax zone around the convention center - all because the council declined to bid on hosting the 2024 Republican Convention in that meeting space.

@lifeinhd4053 Жыл бұрын

A similar thing has been done before. Read up on The Free Town Project in Grafton, New Hampshire, where a bunch of libertarians moved, took over, implemented a whole bunch of libertarian ideals, then were attacked by bears.

@tristanridley1601 Жыл бұрын

Provinces can also be the reason we can't have nice things. Toronto has been beaten down for decades by the Ontario government.

@38snipshow Жыл бұрын

@@tristanridley1601 I know, sad but true...

@tuffy11111 Жыл бұрын

@@DRL1320 Hey at least you guys had some progress for a while. I'm in Birmingham and we haven't been able to have nice things for 70+ years because the people in charge of this state genuinely hate the city.

@amillison Жыл бұрын

Seems like proximity to food production was not at all a factor here. I would say that being close to fertile watered farmland is a must for long term viability

@RockinCowgirl1000 9 ай бұрын

The southwest can't grow anything without irrigation.

@Moaritsu 11 ай бұрын

Keeping northeast Ohio a secret affordable / no natural disaster / beautiful place to live

@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un Жыл бұрын

Not sure about the arid cities on this list. Cities in New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada are some of the LAST places I'd want to be because it isn't just rising sea levels you have to think about...it's also drought. The Colorado River IS drying up, and MANY rely on the river whether it's for important agriculture or the drinking water of millions. That aside, meanwhile in Tuvalu's capital Funafuti, a place home to just over 6,000 people...when high tide hits, FORTY PERCENT of the capital is underwater. Rising sea levels there are TWICE the global average. If THAT doesn't show what can happen if we don't do our part...I don't know what will. It speaks VOLUMES when Tuvalu sees becoming the first virtual nation and recreating their nation in the metaverse as the only way to preserve their cultural identity. It's sad, and it's only gonna get worse.

@thespeedofchillax Жыл бұрын

Kiribati isnt doing much better than Tuvalu....

@rosskgilmour Жыл бұрын

Honolulu Hawaii. The tropics are supposed to be the least impacted by climate change. Also it’s Hawaii

@Davidkaisermusic Жыл бұрын

Moral of the story: when the apocalypse comes, follow granola hikers and hippies to their outdoor enthusiast cities

@procop4063 10 ай бұрын

I have was raised in Metro Detroit. I love it here. Our great Lakes and and interesting suburbs with several downtowns. Our weather is very stable and our up state and the UP Upper state is fabulous lots of outdoor sports, major Universities And medical care. My Grandparents migrated here from Georgia in the 1920 era for a good job. They really appreciated as I do the four distict seasons. Im staying put in an old Detroit suburb. Oh Im 68 and love our north. Lots of clean inland lakes. Great medical care and facilities that I have benefited from myself.

@tpurnell2 9 ай бұрын

Has the City of Detroit made any improvement in fixing the roads and removing the blight?

@Dbb27 9 ай бұрын

@@tpurnell2 since the new governor, yes. The Republican leadership wouldn’t spend any money. Worst roads I have driven on in eight states I travel.

@dantem4119 Жыл бұрын

Ok the Santa Fe resident description is perfect lmao

@brianmiller5444 Жыл бұрын

very skeptical about this list. Many of these cities won’t have enough water

@kristi.kervin Жыл бұрын

I’ve lived in maine all my life and I have ALWAYS said that it’s the safest place to live in terms of serious natural disasters. No tornados. No hurricanes. No wildfires. No earthquakes. No tsunamis. No flooding. It’s perfect… even the snow isn’t as bad as other states.

@EattheApple666 10 ай бұрын

I feel the same about North West NJ where I live. The worst we have to deal with is power outage from downed lines but I have a generator (thanks Sandy) so it not a problem.

@Allenmarshall 10 ай бұрын

Isnt Maine flooding right now?

@gracieb.3054 10 ай бұрын

@@Allenmarshall Vermont, I believe.

@Allenmarshall 10 ай бұрын

@@gracieb.3054 they both did

@alarm35m Жыл бұрын

Chicago's winters keep getting more mild and water is abundant.

@alexpaver5 Жыл бұрын

Gotta say I've got an issue with the methodology in your ranking here. There is no consideration at all for availability of water. We know Lake Meade and the Colorado River are drying up, these places in the southwest are not going be desirable climate refuge destinations at all if there is no water. They're unsustainable now. The methodology also seems to not be weighting the threat of sea level rise high enough or Cape Cod would never have made the list, nor any Hawaiian islands as honorable mentions. I would have expected the great lakes to dominate this list, but instead it was the desert and that's really weird

@Pistolita221 Жыл бұрын

It's the EPA study not CityNerd.

@MegaRobo25 Жыл бұрын

I'm geniunly surprised by how many cities in literal deserts are being recommended. I always assumed that states like Ohio would be the best since summers and winters are mild and water will probably never be an issue. Seattle may be known as the rainy city but Cleveland gets the most rainfall in the US

@rashakor Жыл бұрын

Cleveland is also the darkest city (as in the least amount of sunshine) in the lower 48.

@MohondasK Жыл бұрын

I’m very content in Cincinnati, which I think will be a nice sweet spot between the hot south and the still-prone-to-large-winter-storms Upper Midwest. It’s sunny and 75 here today. Plenty of water. Close to food sources. No issues with sea level rise or wildfires or earthquakes or drought. Great urban fabric.

@notstarboard Жыл бұрын

@@MohondasK How's the flooding risk, though?

@StLouis-yu9iz Жыл бұрын

@jmlinden7 Жыл бұрын

Summers are expected to become less mild (which is bad for places like Ohio that aren't set up to handle hot summers) and the midwest is expected to get more tornadoes and blizzards.

@nick_g Жыл бұрын

The narration, the delivery, those jokes! Liked and subscribed 🎉

@BabyBugBug 11 ай бұрын

I have a home near Rochester, NY. I feel good about my prospects as the climate is very stable aside from the occasional blizzard.

@nlpnt Жыл бұрын

I'm also surprised not to see more Great Lakes region/upstate NY and inland New England.

@8bitWWII Жыл бұрын

No Ann Arbor, MI? I always think of Michigan as one of the most climate-change resilient states, sad to not see it on here as it's got all of the favorable criteria, especially water access.

@conorreynolds9739 Жыл бұрын

As soon as he mentioned infrastructure as a criteria, I wrote off the entire state of Michigan. But I agree with you.

@8bitWWII Жыл бұрын

@@conorreynolds9739 haha that's why I said Ann Arbor, it's probably got the best infrastructure and transit in the state. Very walkable.

@Patrick_from_Youtube Жыл бұрын

@@8bitWWII If you think Ann Arbor has good infrastructure, you don't know what you are talking about. The power has been out in parts of the city for going on 9 days now due to an ice storm. The city utilities are notoriously bad.

@Pistolita221 Жыл бұрын

HEYY! I couldn't agree more. And we're a very blue dot in the state, too. I feel like Traverse City and Grand Rapids would be solid picks, too. Even somewhere like Ypsi or Chelsea would be nice.

@markweaver1012 Жыл бұрын

That's OK--we make enough top-10 lists as it is. Housing is already expensive enough. And I'm not sure it would be possible to fit in any more progressives without pushing out ones that already live here.

@jennifer3551 Жыл бұрын

This surprises me? From the little bit of research that I've done, those already warm areas are where people will be leaving in droves because of the increased heat and drought risks.

@deborahpontius Жыл бұрын

As a Reno resident, hard to see it ranked so high when we close schools every fall as the wildfires in the west cause smoke to sink into the basin and cause the worst air quality in the nation multiple times per year for month at a time.

@R.B.90 Жыл бұрын

This is bias but as someone from Toronto whose also loves learning about cities and staying up to date with climate change (but admittedly don't really know anything) I feel like I live in one of the best cities in the world for surviving climate change. There's so many layers to it, location is only 1 aspect. Toronto/Ontario has done a relatively good job of building a storm resistant city after hurricane hazel in 1953. The current city planing is focused on making the city a zero emissions city by I think 2040. Toronto might also have the greenest canopy in North America (I think). Although political leaders change given the demographic of the city I don't see this focus changing, only improving. As for weather being in Canada means water will never be an issue which it will for most of the world - if it isn't already. Southern ontario/the great lakes is a great place for growing food as well, although, yes, we are currently way to reliant on California and other provinces. Amentities and services are also a lot better than your average nortn american city n the provinces master plan for transportation called "the big move" is quite ambitious making it so a lot of southern ontario is all connected. Moving in and out the city will be more accessible with time. Hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, drought, wildfires, earthquakes are not things we really worry about. Ice storms in the spring and polar vortex in the winter are our biggest issues. Ice storms are a real threat, they can destroy cities. I'm surprised they aren't reported on more. Cost of living is the biggest issue living in Toronto, and it's a big one as I think Toronto is now the biggest housing bubble on the globe. But if you already have a foundation here, there is no reason to leave. And just a fun fact we're also the fastest growing n most multicultural city in North America. Which does matter since diversity is a huge benefit when faced with adaptation. Were used to, and willing to change here as the city is already always evolving. Sorry for the rant but I needed to state my case for my city lol

@jasonreed7522 Жыл бұрын

As someone from northern NY i have to agree. The Great Lakes region as a whole is probably the safest from a climate & geologic perspective, our worst natural disaster is basically just winter weather. (And personally i consider an ice storm a lot less scary than a wild fire, earthquake, or tornado. Maybe I'm just used to dealing with it but basically every way an ice/snow storm has to kill you can be prevented with a little bit of diligence. The main threat is how they shut down travel making it harder for emergency services to reach you.)

@MohondasK Жыл бұрын

On a trip to Toronto a couple years ago, my wife and I half-joked / half-serious stated instead of wintering in Florida when we retired (like everyone else) we're going to summer in Toronto. It's a great city.

@LeadTrumpet1 Жыл бұрын

I’m actually surprised Syracuse doesn’t make this list. Tons of fresh water from Lake Ontario, not a huge flood risk or hurricane risk (all of New York could potentially be affected by a big enough hurricane, but the Downstate counties are where the real risk is). It isn’t at significant risk of wildfires (we do get them in New York, the Catskills would know about that, they had multiple at one time last year). It isn’t a major area for tornados either. While it is hot and humid in the summer, the humidity isn’t oppressive like in Downstate, where most of it is actually classified as humid subtropical. And the infrastructure is there to deal with the snow and cold and plenty of social programs. Would certainly consider Syracuse over any drought prone city. Also Plattsburgh NY-Burlington VT Metro would be a good pick for similar reasons with an even milder summer and Canada is right there. Montreal is an hour away straight up I-87/Autoroute 15 from Plattsburgh.

@Pistolita221 Жыл бұрын

The great lakes region is being slept on. They made the list without considering what areas would handle population growth, they were just looking at sustainability for what's there now. The regions with enough water to deal with tens of millions of refugees is pretty clear, at least in the USA.

@emmyroserox Жыл бұрын

My fiancé and I are moving from Tampa, FL to Denver, CO in a couple weeks. The heat here was brutal last summer and then we had hurricane Ian. Now, we are experiencing nasty red tide. A couple of weeks ago we went to the beach and it made me sick. Denver has its problems, but at least it’s not fiery hot and depressingly humid half of the year. Colorado government also isn’t replicating Nazi Germany like it is here in FL, so we are stoked! 😂

@PETER394100 11 ай бұрын

I don’t blame ya. Leaving the Tampa area also later this year and moving out west to dry air, mountains, no swampy humid air or hurricanes and adults are treated like adults. Florida’s rapidly headed back to the 1950’s and it will be without me!😀😀……will never come back.

@iamhudsdent2759 10 ай бұрын

Nazi Germany? That's preposterous, but sheds light on your conclusions about everything else. And by the way, summers have always been brutally hot in Florida. Read the accounts of European explorers.

@christopherfritz3840 10 ай бұрын

Gooood riddance.. 😏

@stevefisher2553 9 ай бұрын

Smart! I'm leaving Texas!

@stevefisher2553 9 ай бұрын

@iamhudsdent2759 exactly like Nazi Germany.

@thenotoriousmichaeljackson8938 Жыл бұрын

To me, Twin Cities, Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo (meh), & Pittsburgh is ideal. Water, climate protection, some got really good urbanism (or potential urbanism) - excluding Detroit. These cities should be our main focus on improving tbh

@SeeNickView 10 ай бұрын

Cleveland is just so good, so much greenery with their Green Belt that surrounds Cleveland, plus public transit that takes you on either side of the side right through downtown.

@tpurnell2 9 ай бұрын

I live in Cleveland and I agree with you. Our summers are mild and the quality of life is good. The Great Lakes provide relief from the heat.

@emallace447 9 ай бұрын

Buffalo is extremely well situated though. Near water, near Toronto, not too far from the north east. Shame it declined in the 20th century so much.

@tomfields3682 9 ай бұрын

@@emallace447Buffalo IS in the Northeast.

@emallace447 9 ай бұрын

We@@tomfields3682 well sort of.

@sentrygl Жыл бұрын

I was expecting more cities in the northern Midwest on this list given the much greater amount of water in that region.

@acheekymonkey Жыл бұрын

The combination of nerdiness, humor and apocalypse make this my favorite CityNerd episode so far.

@judyweerstra9164 9 ай бұрын

I live in the Las Cruces/El Paso Metro flex and we do have bike trails but no one is on them. It's too hot in the summer and fall is a very short season. Then winter comes and we are indoors by the fire during the desert winter which is very very cold. But honestly, we never have anything but sunshine and the mornings are cools as the evenings. It's a lovely area if you like sun and boring weather, which makes this an ideal place for the apocalypse

@CallawayDay 9 ай бұрын

I lived in Fairbanks, it’s actually one of my favourite cities in the US. It’s small but not very small. The people are so friendly, the cold is cold but you just throw on a few layers and you’re good. The summer day never end… Literally. It’s a really amazing place to live, knowing this I might look into moving back LOL.

@foamyesque Жыл бұрын

I have extreme skepticism that the American Southwest is going to be a good place to ride out a climate apocalypse; access to *water* seems pretty fundamental and when I see overhead shots where the non-irrigated ground is baked brown, I kind of think "naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah".

@rantalmore Жыл бұрын

Everyone sleeps on CT but please continue to do so until I buy a house

@TopeRopeTom Жыл бұрын

Yeah New England is the best

@rantalmore Жыл бұрын

@Eternity row X you could say that but we still have much work to do. There’s definitely pockets of real impressive walkability however for sure

@rantalmore Жыл бұрын

@Eternity row X yea exactly but we will get there. New haven is wonderfully walkable but is not quite “there” in a lot of other ways. 10 years from now we will hopefully see Bridgeport, new haven, Hartford etc step up. (However everyone here has been saying that since I was a kid so who knows)

@jonblaich 9 ай бұрын

Fun video! I live in Albuquerque, NM and even worked as an Urban Transportation Planner... you know bus service and that Commuter Rail in Santa Fe you mentioned. My town was not mentioned in the list likely due to high crime rates. I was surprised that Santa Fe, NM, Las Cruces, NM, and Flagstaff, AZ were on the list. I know these cities well, as they are in the region I live, and they are nice smaller to mid-size cities... good for retirement. Arizona and New Mexico forests are highly susceptible to fires, and have been ravaged over the last decade. For that reason, I question why these Southwestern U.S. cities are in the top 10 for avoiding climate havoc.

@kjhuang 10 ай бұрын

As someone who needs to be somewhere relatively warm, it's good to see Las Cruces on here, even though it's one of the cities everyone else is dunking on.

@ridney5887 Жыл бұрын

As a climate grad student who is currently mapping a flood buyout zone in a poor community, this is the perfect coffee break video!

@sandymakesplans Жыл бұрын

what's a flood buyout zone?

@cogspace Жыл бұрын

@@sandymakesplans A flood buyout is a program where the government offers to buy your property because it's in an extremely flood-prone area and it would be better to have nobody living there. They probably plan to leave it vacant as a buffer, or maybe do active wetland recovery or even build flood control structures on the vacated land. I think a decent chunk of cash got earmarked for this in the infra bill.

@ridney5887 Жыл бұрын

@Jon Molnar Thanks! Yes, in this case, the goal is active recovery.

@R.B.90 Жыл бұрын

@@cogspace that's really cool as has the potential to be greatly beneficial to a lot of people. Hopefully we're not just handing out "buy low" checks but actually giving them options and plans for the future. Very interesting.

@R.B.90 Жыл бұрын

In your opinion what regions would you say are most sustainable. Not just in terms of location but other factors like government, urban planing, infrastructure, mitigation plans and other things you probably are aware of I can't even think of?

@muphart Жыл бұрын

So fun seeing Reno on this list right after watching the video about how unlivable it is by Yet Another Urbanist.

@cloudyskies5497 Жыл бұрын

Oh snap I just posted this exact comment before finding yours!

@sunandsage Жыл бұрын

Reno is a great location but it has a very poor excuse for a Transit System. I used to live there.

@AverytheCubanAmerican Жыл бұрын

"When the climate apocalypse comes, and it's coming up next" Your most ominous intro yet lol, well played! For Las Cruces, it's not actually walkable, although has nice neighborhoods where you can walk or bike for miles safely. The city ran a disastrous experiment years ago by turning several downtown streets as pedestrian only. The outcome was dozens of businesses closing down to never return to the area. Nowadays, traffic runs through downtown streets where it shouldn’t be and combined with clumsy public transit options, the area is only for tourists since residents rarely saunter in it. An example of a city that really puts into perspective the effects of rising sea levels is Malé, the capital of the Maldives, a country predicted to be uninhabitable by 2050. The city has a population of over 250,000 on an island that's JUST 8.30 square kilometers. Former President Mohamed Nasheed has tried to get the world aware of the big issue the Maldives is facing by presiding over the world's first underwater cabinet meeting in 2009 in scuba gear. He then founded the Climate Vulnerable Forum for climate change-affected governments with currently 55 members.

@kzisnbkosplay3346 Жыл бұрын

Yay NM! I would love to discuss the walkability of Santa Fe for tourists vs locals. And downtown Las Cruces has been converted to a walking area, but the incentives to go there are still minimal.

@Dysiode Жыл бұрын

I question the EPA's criteria when it comes to water. 4 of these top 10 are in not just deserts, but arid deserts (6 if you include high deserts of Bend and Grand Junction). Flagstaff and Santa Fe both have a high risk of wildfire impact, same with Idaho generally. I think a huge consideration should be granted to access to local food. The midwest could certainly retool, but the PNW likely still out competes it on the length of the growing season, especially as it dries out. Heat domes also mean excellent tomatoes, so there's that

@Pistolita221 Жыл бұрын

The great lakes region will suffer less from heat domes because of the lake effect. I don't think there's a region with more natural resources, especially water, or a region with fewer natural disasters. There have only been 2 storms in my life where winds reached 70mph in michigan, and I've never seen flood damage or fires within 200 miles, either. We get EF1-3 tornadoes a couple times a year in the state, but they're weak and don't track for long.

@dawnreneegmail Жыл бұрын

EPA is on crack since 45s tenure 🙁

@eljj7968 Жыл бұрын

Old Mesilla is a gorgeous, walkable historic part of Las Cruces!

@bhoutdoors507 Жыл бұрын

Duluth actually doesn’t get as cold as other cities in the midwest. Lake Superior helps moderate temperatures in both summer and winter.

@lettucetomato1823 10 ай бұрын

Great video! Thank you. Enjoyed your sense of humor 😂

@ChUmBaWaMbA31 Жыл бұрын

City Nerd- which cities are least captured by their local Fraternal Order of Police chapter? Which cities have the most mayoral autonomy (as it relates to police)?

@greggibbs3639 Жыл бұрын

People are moving to Duluth, MN and Minneapolis already. Though not in great numbers...cold, snow, ice, winter.

@billregan1981 9 ай бұрын

Glad I found your channel. Loving the dry and sarcastic humor.

@beefsteax Жыл бұрын

Reno is getting pretty cool. Just enough hipster injected into the old school casino scuzz. Midtown has expensive pastries and coffees and stuff and they’ve got a cool indoor public market with tacos and expensive home decor now.

@tristanwh9466 Жыл бұрын

This methodology is insane. "Drought prone wildfire risk" would not be high on my list of climate-safe cities

@liammitchell2225 Жыл бұрын

REPPING NM! Just saying, Las Cruces is super underrated. There's a gorgeous view of the mountains, white sands less than an hour away and the Gila National Forest less than 2 hours away. El paso is also there for your big city needs. Housing is also so cheap. Will say not the most walkable, but with a bike you can really do a lot (whether at NMSU campus or downtown). Santa Fe is nice, if you can afford it, but definitely not the cheapest.

@alfonsomunoz4424 Жыл бұрын

I've been in love with New Mexico all my life. Moved from Houston to Las Cruces in 2021. Moved away in 2022. It turns out I like visiting New Mexico, but I don't like living there.

@cute-pat00t Жыл бұрын

Just started the vid so dont know if it’s mentioned but I STRONGLY recommend y’all reading The Great Displacement by Jake Bittle, it talks all about climate migrants in the US from fires, floods, hurricanes, drought, etc. really good work, can’t recommend it enough

@kcalapaly 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for this recommendation. A quick search revealed a number of his recent podcast appearances. Looking forward to listening.

@michaelimbesi2314 Жыл бұрын

The EPA’s data wasn’t very good. It clearly didn’t properly account for water scarcity, since basically every city it picked except Barnstable is in a barren, waterless wasteland like Arizona or Nevada.

@Pistolita221 Жыл бұрын

Minnesota has water. They're on the largest body of fresh water on the continent.

@ssfc117 Жыл бұрын

Just based on the start I’m shocked that the PNW made you think you to move. Yeah the fires were bad, I fought em, but Seattle is gonna be like the most resilient area

@NickFrey1 Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same. I actually am not too concerned about wildfires living in the Seattle area. There are far greater risks elsewhere in the country and the amenities in Seattle are unbeatable. Plus, there’s abundant water and a high percentage of renewable energy and climate consciousness already.

@Pistolita221 Жыл бұрын

@@NickFrey1 There are really nice cities in the great lakes region, they have access to more water, while getting more sun, and also have fewer fires but just as much timber.

@fabes89 Жыл бұрын

The Cheesecake Factory call-out will never get old.

@glykolyse8076 Жыл бұрын

Requesting a video on the top urban parks in Europe! Loved the video you did about NA parks and am very curious to see how the old continent stacks up!