Where are you moving to, due to climate emergency?

We (me and my SO) are saving and planning to move out of the city, to a piece of rural land that has its own water source and where we can grow most of the food we eat.

This should happen in a couple of years, once our daughter will be old enough to get a licence and drive to the city if she wants; we don't want her to be cut off from her network of friends.

Climate change is not the only reason why we are doing this but it's part of the list of "risk factors" that in our opinion made it a bad idea to keep living in a city.

We are in Sydney NSW, Australia and we will move to rural NSW.

Climate related factors that we considered in terms of the new location are: no low lying coastal areas, no areas located in a flood plain, no areas close to dense woodlands in order to lower fire risk.

Near the coast or another body of water, but obviously not where that will be submerged, and not where the humidity is too high and violent storms too prevalent. One thing that climate change will make worse is heat, and being near a body of water would keep the temperature at a relatively steady level. Also hopefully there will be adequate sun and wind for solar panels and windmills. I have already scoped out many such locations in Australia and New Zealand.

I live on a farm outside Ithaca, ny and was talking to some young people who studied ecology in school and they all agree that upstate NY should be a lot more resilient than most places.

Our water supply is expected to be more bunched in time, but at least we expect to still get water. A slightly longer growing season and ability to grow less hardy plants should make up for some things we lose.

I'm based in Dublin city, currently trying to buy a home somewhere that lets me live as car-free an existence as possible.

I'm avoiding reclaimed land and low-lying areas (of which there is a lot in the city), because they're probably going to flood more regularly, and getting flooded is awful.

I'm not going to move to the countryside because (for my lifestyle at least) living in a fairly dense urban area is much more environmentally friendly than buying a one-off house in the countryside, driving everywhere, and getting stuff (water, electricity, online shopping etc) delivered relatively long distances out to me.

I don't have the time, energy, expertise or inclination to grow my own food on my own land, so it's much more efficient to let farmers do the farming, and just walk or cycle to the grocers and supermarkets to pick up what I need. Irish agriculture could be a lot greener as an industry, but that's a topic for another day.

Same goes for mains water versus finding patch of land with my own well in it. Economies of scale exist, and the environment will benefit from my using them.

Maybe not climate emergency, but having lived my life in areas where is hot and humid as shit, I’d love to live somewhere with a more moderate or even cool climate.

My AC was out for a few days the other week and it was absolute misery. I was very jealousy to learn that even very hot areas of the country that don’t have the humidity have cheaper, effective options for indoor cooling.

It's possibly your decisoin to move might not be solely or even primarily due to the climate emergency (becoming some type of expected climate refugee), but if it's part of your decision-making process, where are you headed to, and what is your reasoning?

I've got a pile of cash in insurance stocks heavily into global warming insurance, hope to cash out early. I've got my eye on a nice villa in Tuscany with a pool, a short helicopter jump from Florence airport.

It’s an emergency? How much time do I have? Are we talking days or weeks?

Pretty much away from the coasts and inland. It all seems a little while off, but would suck to be on the coasts during climate change infused hurricane season. The coasts barely handle it now.

Why would you move?