Reply #49: Ah - you live "On Base". Your housing is provided. Key factor!! [View All]

[politicat]

And when housing was built on Okinawa after WWII and during Korea, it was built with gov. funds and through gov contracts or Marshall planned.

The people who live on the gulf coast are usually retired (i.e. fixed income) or priced out of the expensive houses. It's not cheap to build in sand, and the entire area is sandy. (We lived in Port Charlotte for a couple years when I was small.)

As it happens, a concrete foundation house can be damaged as easily by a hurricane or the surge.

Be glad your housing was built in bulk, and subsidized. Most people down there didn't have that luxury.

Politicat