yes, Moonachie is right around (north of) MetLife stadium, which you know but a lot of FreePers don’t is an area whose “natural” state is that of a swampy wetland, tideland area, where in the best of times the Hackensack River meanders down to Newark Bay and where in the worst of times Newark Bay moves up the Hackensack River, threatening communities like Moonachie - just a few feet above sea level, a place where most prudent people WOULD NOT live for any reason
the term “people who live in glass houses should not throw stones” has a parallel wise Maxim - people who live where nature does not favor their tranquility get what they paid for - trouble
I am more in favor of buying residents out of our most endangered residential areas than always and forever paying to rescue them, rebuild for them, and trying to keep nature away from them.
If we give nature adequate space of its own instead of thinking we can easily occupy any space we chose, we will not have to artificially create “green spaces” we can all enjoy and we will not keep paying, and paying, and paying over and over just to prove (we don’t prove anything) we can live anywhere we want. We can, but the cost is not always worth it and particularly NOT worth it when too much of the burden falls on majorities who prudently do not live in perenially endangerd places.
In a totally Libertarian society, I could put up with it.
In as much as we all pay for it in this society, I’m agin it. Buy ‘em out, move ‘em out, leave room for the natural ebb and flow of natures waters, and we will all live more peacefully, even durimg the worst weather.
“a place where most prudent people WOULD NOT live for any reason”
“people who live where nature does not favor their tranquility get what they paid for - trouble”
Indeed. But I have news for you - by your apparent defintion of “nature does not favor”, MOST of this country would be “packed up and shipped out”.
My region in MD is probably the ideal place to live. However, we do OCCASIONALLY suffer major catastrophic flooding from hurricanes (1972), major snowstorms (2010 record-setting event), and other random acts of God. That doesn’t mean we should ignore how marvelously blessed it is 95% of the time and abandon it. NJ hardly suffers from hurricanes more than MD does - although it IS 1 giant flood plain/marsh, indeed, as is our Eastern Shore.
“People who live where nature does not favor.”
Where does it favor? The west coast? The west coast? I think not, while far from any hurricane, it has its earthquakes. The mid west? It has its tornadoes. Then there is the Madrid fault, not to mention the Yellowstone super volcano. Nature can get unfavorable anywhere.