The various things you've said over the years make most of us call everything you say into question. As to the why, we don't know why you would do that, attention maybe? I guess burning your personal reputation for so long has this small consequence, but I'm not worried, I don't think it will alter your behavior in the slightest.

A drought climate is not simply a binary state, an either you is or you ain't. There is nuance here, and we have seen a shift in the drought cycles over the last 100 years.

That's already done to a degree. But changes in the drought cycle hinder that. And addition of some invasive species had made it impossible in some areas. Invasive brooms blaze out of control even when trying to clear away a single season of growth. So it must be cut out first, which takes time and man power.

Interesting idea. I mean there are some snags, like that children ride bikes too. And if the smoke gives them a life-long respiratory disease then society will be on the hook paying for it. Either because your nation has taxpayer funded healthcare, or because private insurers will have to raise premiums in order to maintain profits.

Geographical mobility used to be much easier. In the age of credit scores and limited housing, it is extremely difficult to find a landlord who will admit you without a job, and much harder to find a job that will hire you without already being local.

Well, credit scores as we know them have been around since the 60's...so, not really that new.

There's PLENTY of housing....just depends on what part of the US you are in.

I see houses for sale all the time where I live (New Orleans area)....it may be scarce in NYC or west coast urban areas....but that is not the whole US.

In other parts of the US, there are homes...GOOD jobs, and cost of living is much less.

And those are regular W2 jobs.....if you jump into 1099 contracting....you can work wherever and very much often....remote.

I've done both....and if you have any job experience, you can get jobs before you moved.

I've never moved before having a job in that area....

I mean I used to run `xscreensaver -root` on Linux some 25 years ago as a novelty, but this is cool too.

That's what we do here. But we suspend controlled burns during drought. Dang climate change making forest management trickier than it was 2,000 years ago.

Yea, my Dad has a landscape rake for his Cub Cadet. And you can scale the concept up in size.

Of course, a landscape rake is not going to work in the coastal forests here. It will get hung up on coyote brush and roots. And coastal redwoods grow in tight clusters, where even a hand rake is not easily brought between them. (I helped my neighbor clear up his "yard" of 40 redwoods. It looks beautiful now and a local couple had their wedding there shortly after).

For me, a brush cutter on the front of a skid steer vehicle is the only way to manage my property. Essentially what looks like a mower deck that sits in front of a tracked vehicle. The deck has an array of polygonal blades and it'll cut through small trees and chop up brush into chunks a few inches in length. From there they can be spread out to decompose or raked up and bagged to move elsewhere. I have a lot of invasive species, so we left it in place to avoid spreading broom to new locations during transport.

Not so easy once your kids have friends and school in Seattle.

As a child, I had to move with my parents a number of times as Dad progressed through his career....

Hell,, military brats do it all the time still....but it wasn't that long ago this was pretty common....grow up, leave the nest....it's ok and natural....

I did accept a pay cut to work remotely, but once you factor in the commuting costs it wasn't actually a cut at all.

I guess you must be single or young....Reasons not to leave your area: owning a house, family, friends, not wanting to pull kids from school during critical times (or mid year), established connections, and a lot more tech jobs in Seattle than 99% of the rest of america, outside silicon valley? "Sell your house" and then you pick up a house that is also overpriced but pay much higher property taxes. Income tax is *zero* in Washington...Also, this is actually Redmond, not Seattle proper.

When did people get to be such pussies about moving?

Hell, when I grew up, this was a common thing....you moved to where the best job or new opportunity was.

Fun? No.

PITA? Yes

But families did it as a matter of how life is/was....

I remember as a kid moving a number of times

...as my Dad career progressed.

I myself have moved....

Do people today believe that as grown adults they STILL have to live near Mommy and Daddy?

Friends? Well hell, there's a TON of ways to stay in touch that weren't there when I was young....you only had phone calls and snail mail growing up and if they were real friends....you stayed in touch.

Today it's a piece of cake to keep in touch.

When I grew up, most people I knew hit the road at 18yrs or so and often it was to a different state for college and jobs....no one had to stay in same town as Mommy....but then again, we never too "Mommy" out on job interviews like they apparently do today...

So....I know this sounds strange this day in age..BUT you could do what they did in the "olden days" of say 20+ years ago and...

...MOVE TO WHERE THE JOBS ARE....

Simple really.....believe it or not, people used to do this type thing without a 2nd thought....

I guess if this is true....

Then I regularly shorten my neighbors lives (and mine) whenever I fire up my log burning offset smoker for BBQ.

I don't generally have any complaints....quite the opposite reaction in general (I share and offer to throw things on for them too, since it is large and I often have extra room).

Ack, dang unicode quotes got me!

Youâ(TM)ve got to take care of the floors. You know the floors of the forests, itâ(TM)s very important.
Finland is a forest nation. And they spent a lot of time on raking and cleaning and doing things, and they donâ(TM)t have any problem.

Sure, Jains have an entirely different reason. But the other religion I was referring to was some schools of Buddhism

Some. But a few other religions don't eat onions and garlic. My understanding are these hot and tasty foods arouse carnal desires in those that eat them. But for some practitioners the are not supposed to fulfil their material desires.