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Deciding Where Your Home Is Worth Dying For
from Kanye, Elon, & The End Of DEI | The Tim Dillon Show #431 · #431
4 min
He explains why he sold his cliffside home overlooking the valley due to mudslide risk on Mulholland Drive, then expands into a meditation on how people must weigh climate risk against loyalty to a place they love.
- Tim's house sat on a cliff overlooking the valley, with California hills that are packed dirt prone to mudslides rather than solid stone like Colorado mountains.
- Mulholland Drive, the road to his house, slid down and destroyed the pavement, taking months to repair.
- When you experience climate events beyond your control—fires, floods, hurricanes—you have to decide how much you love a specific region and what you're willing to sacrifice.
- Tim asks whether you can handle living on the west coast of Florida knowing a category 4 hurricane could destroy your home, or fires in parts of the West Coast.
- The real question: are you willing to die in your home, to save people in your neighborhood, to fight for your town and help your neighbors?
- You have to decide if your patch of dirt is worth it after a wild year of fires, hurricanes, and floods—though Tim acknowledges you often don't have a choice because of kids' schools and jobs.
- Not everyone can simply leave; circumstances like having your kids in school or a job in the area force you to deal with the situation.