Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote
Rod Speed wrote
Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote
Brian Reay wrote
Tough Guy no. 1265 wrote
buying a house in the wrong place is entirely your own fault.

Huge areas have been flooded in recent years, not just the odd place.

Such floods do happen from time to time, eg in the 50s when
part of the east coast was flooded and a number of people
died. This eventually led to the building of the Thames barrier.

It's not rocket surgery to pick a place that's impossible to flood.

Yes, but there is a tad of a shortage of those.

You don't just buy something because it's never flooded
before, you look at the surrounding land and water and
think, "Could that end up on my house?"

Pity that there is a tad of a shortage of that sort of place.

I didn't have a problem.

But got to wear the dismal employment prospects that came with it.

Anyway, have they never heard of house insurance?

You have previously proclaimed that it's a complete waste of money.

Unless you think a flood etc is likely.

In which case most insurance companys will just make
an obscene gesture in your general direction and tell
you to bugger off if you try to insure it against flood.

If you've been flooded before, flood insurance
is very expensive, assuming it is even available.

If you're in a house which has flooded before, you're a prize idiot.

Depends on whether there has been extensive
antiflood systems put in place since then.

I would never trust such a thing.

More fool you.

You cannot stop the forces of nature.

Holland did that fine.

The Chinese did that fine with the new airport for HongKong too.

Intelligent people learn from their mistakes.

You didn't with what you were silly enough to get qualified in.

I wasn't exactly going to get another degree was I?

Yes, you actually are that stupid. It was a complete
waste of time and money to get that one.