> Western Europe, at least

Western European cities flood, most recently in 2021. The short list of low-risk high-GDP countries is limited to city states and the likes of Hungary, Czechia, Qatar, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Finland and Iceland [1]. Worldwide.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_natural...

With much lower risk and severity.

From that list:

4 Luxembourg 0.52%

13 Switzerland 1.03%

88 Germany 3.92%

110 United Kingdom 5.78%

131 Spain 9.68%

168 United States 22.73%

Though this does definitely tell me I was wrong about Australia, and that it only looks safe from a distance because the news isn't reporting on it:

164 Australia 21.36%

You can probably strike Hungary off that list.

https://economy-finance.ec.europa.eu/economic-surveillance-e...

Hungary is quite nice though. Also, I'll take the Balkans over Western Europe any day. Not Bosnia or Kosovo, but the other EU countries, maybe even North Macedonia or Serbia. Or Southern Italy if you also want to be sophisticated.

Western Europe is about to get so fucked by climate change. The area is basically unlivable without the North Atlantic Current - geographically the UK/France/Germany are at about the same latitude as Alberta and the Siberian Taiga, Scandinavia is the same latitude as Alaska and the Yukon. They would have similar climate if it weren't for warm Gulf water circulating in the Atlantic.

There's evidence that the current is already slowing [1], and the midpoint of estimates for when it might collapse is at 1.8C warming, something we seem pretty likely to blow past within a decade or two.

It'd be bad for Australia and the Southwest US as well, since collapse of the AMOC would bring permanent La Nina conditions.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/14/1041321/climate-...