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> People's aversion to moving, especially after a major disaster, boggles my mind. Social connections, networks that enable employment, and a lack of serious f

> People's aversion to moving, especially after a major disaster, boggles my mind. Social connections, networks that enable employment, and a lack of serious financial reserves (which will always be true for ~50% of people) are the main reasons. And no area is immune to disaster and lacks challenges. The "low natural disaster" areas have a total lack of warning before disaster strikes, heavy snowfall that can cripple normal services, deserts with poisonous creatures, or some combination of those three. For the most part, to be perfectly honest, as long as you are capable of picking up and moving on short notice...hurricane country is actually safer due to the amount of warning you get.

viraptor 9y ago
Central/eastern Europe is pretty good as far as disasters go. The most likely thing to happen is flooding from the local river and majority of them have designated flood areas. After that it's just heat waves and occasional freezing days. (Mostly affects elderly) No wildlife to worry about. Snow is common enough that a lot of people know to switch to winter tyres and roads are salted and cleared.
- kaybe 9y ago
  Some storms too that break trees and take down shingles. I think the most common death by nature might be getting hit by a tree during or after a storm.
- fweespeech 9y ago
  To be honest, the legal environment in Central/Eastern Europe in regards to speech would be a greater threat to me than the environment.
- nl 9y ago
  Central/eastern Europe is pretty good as far as disasters go. Natural disasters, perhaps. That region doesn't have a great record in terms of political stability, and often has the bad luck of being in the middle of a warzone though.
  - oblio 9y ago
    This a humongous generalization. There's about 1/10th of the region that was in a war zone in the last 70 years (Yugoslavia, Eastern Ukraine), and those wars didn't really concern neighboring countries. Regarding political stability, I'd argue that a huge part of the region was very stable for 40 years, under the Communist yoke :p
    - nl 9y ago
      There's about 1/10th of the region that was in a war zone in the last 70 years (Yugoslavia, Eastern Ukraine), and those wars didn't really concern neighboring countries. That 70 years (which is debatable!) maybe the longest period of peace in the area in recorded history. Possibly the peace of 1871 to 1914 is the only other alternative. Here's a list of conflicts in Europe since 1945[1]. Even before the fall of the Soviet Union there were some conflicts. For example, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia was in 1968 and was a reasonable major conflict. (Note that I'm not claiming that Eastern/Central Europe is unique in this! Mostly densely populated areas are similar, and Western Europe scores only slightly better if you don't count revolutionary movements within the counties). Regarding political stability, I'd argue that a huge part of the region was very stable for 40 years, under the Communist yoke Yes, indeed this is true. As I note above the 1945-1990 period was very stable except for Czechoslovakia invasion of course. They were pretty lucky in Poland in the 1980s too. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Europaea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Europaea
      - oblio 9y ago
        After '90, if you discount all the Russia-provoked conflicts, there's basically only ex-Yugoslavia as far as conflicts are concerned. Every other event on that list would basically count as a normal day in Baltimore :) You can never predict the future but I'm willing to bet that the following countries will be peaceful for at least the next 20 years: - Czech Republic - Slovakia - Poland - Hungary - Slovenia - Croatia - Romania - Albania Places like the Czech Republic will probably be among the safest places on Earth, both regarding economic, political stability and possible outside aggression, for the next half a century, in my opinion. On the other hand, people were saying similar things before WW1 :D
- ciupicri 9y ago
  Romanian villages and small cities have problems with flooding almost yearly. And there's also the risk of earthquakes.
  - oblio 9y ago
    If you're in Transylvania in a non-flood zone you should be in one of the safest regions on Earth, as far as natural disasters are concerned.
    - vixen99 9y ago
      While, that is, the pretty regular small earthquakes in the Vrancea county that borders Transylvania, release the pressure! At least, I assume that's better than a long period of ominous silence - I'm not a geologist!

viraptor 9y ago

Central/eastern Europe is pretty good as far as disasters go. The most likely thing to happen is flooding from the local river and majority of them have designated flood areas. After that it's just heat waves and occasional freezing days. (Mostly affects elderly) No wildlife to worry about. Snow is common enough that a lot of people know to switch to winter tyres and roads are salted and cleared.

kaybe 9y ago
Some storms too that break trees and take down shingles. I think the most common death by nature might be getting hit by a tree during or after a storm.
fweespeech 9y ago
To be honest, the legal environment in Central/Eastern Europe in regards to speech would be a greater threat to me than the environment.
nl 9y ago
Central/eastern Europe is pretty good as far as disasters go. Natural disasters, perhaps. That region doesn't have a great record in terms of political stability, and often has the bad luck of being in the middle of a warzone though.
- oblio 9y ago
  This a humongous generalization. There's about 1/10th of the region that was in a war zone in the last 70 years (Yugoslavia, Eastern Ukraine), and those wars didn't really concern neighboring countries. Regarding political stability, I'd argue that a huge part of the region was very stable for 40 years, under the Communist yoke :p
  - nl 9y ago
    There's about 1/10th of the region that was in a war zone in the last 70 years (Yugoslavia, Eastern Ukraine), and those wars didn't really concern neighboring countries. That 70 years (which is debatable!) maybe the longest period of peace in the area in recorded history. Possibly the peace of 1871 to 1914 is the only other alternative. Here's a list of conflicts in Europe since 1945[1]. Even before the fall of the Soviet Union there were some conflicts. For example, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia was in 1968 and was a reasonable major conflict. (Note that I'm not claiming that Eastern/Central Europe is unique in this! Mostly densely populated areas are similar, and Western Europe scores only slightly better if you don't count revolutionary movements within the counties). Regarding political stability, I'd argue that a huge part of the region was very stable for 40 years, under the Communist yoke Yes, indeed this is true. As I note above the 1945-1990 period was very stable except for Czechoslovakia invasion of course. They were pretty lucky in Poland in the 1980s too. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Europaea https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Europaea
    - oblio 9y ago
      After '90, if you discount all the Russia-provoked conflicts, there's basically only ex-Yugoslavia as far as conflicts are concerned. Every other event on that list would basically count as a normal day in Baltimore :) You can never predict the future but I'm willing to bet that the following countries will be peaceful for at least the next 20 years: - Czech Republic - Slovakia - Poland - Hungary - Slovenia - Croatia - Romania - Albania Places like the Czech Republic will probably be among the safest places on Earth, both regarding economic, political stability and possible outside aggression, for the next half a century, in my opinion. On the other hand, people were saying similar things before WW1 :D
ciupicri 9y ago
Romanian villages and small cities have problems with flooding almost yearly. And there's also the risk of earthquakes.
- oblio 9y ago
  If you're in Transylvania in a non-flood zone you should be in one of the safest regions on Earth, as far as natural disasters are concerned.
  - vixen99 9y ago
    While, that is, the pretty regular small earthquakes in the Vrancea county that borders Transylvania, release the pressure! At least, I assume that's better than a long period of ominous silence - I'm not a geologist!