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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter just graduated from college and got a job in Miami.  She said it’s pretty bad there now.  Nothing like she expected.  Luckily her whole company is going to relocate to California so she only has another year there.

She’s in one of those high-rise apartment building like the one that collapsed due to failed inspections and I hate it! Nothing changed after all those people were killed. [/quote]

Sure she’ll be able to afford a nice tent in Cali.[/quote]

No one calls California “cali”, PP.  The salary increases will cover the differences in rent - and for apartments that don’t fall down!  Imagine that! [/quote]

I’m not taking sides in a California vs. Florida debate. They both have their pros and cons and are large enough to have better and worse areas.  However, I have to question the assertion that apartments don’t fall down in California, proving its superiority, when California is known to have earthquakes that can topple buildings, including apartments. I think in both states, the incident rates of toppling apartments are relatively rare, but subjectively, lacking hard data, I’d worry more about it in California. [/quote]

Are you that dumb that you cannot understand human error vs earthquake? If Florida had the earthquake risk that California had, hardly anyone would be alive down there. California has building codes for many types of earthquakes, except the Big One, which no technology can protect us from. [/quote]

Florida building codes are actually pretty stringent given the hurricane risk. The condo collapse was an awful tragedy, but I’m not sure you can peg that on the state. I do wonder why people are so determined to hate Florida though. It’s pretty amusing. [/quote]

Correct. Florida has some of the strictest building codes in the country. Unfortunately, that older condo building was not the only building to ever collapse in the country. There are buildings like that up and down both the East and West coasts.[/quote]

I bet hurricane codes and earthquake codes are not the same.[/quote]

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