From there you can easily trade your accumulated equity for small ownership shares of companies or bonds in a sensible split and use a tool like cFIREsim to precisely model the behavior of your portfolio for hundreds of periods with different economic climates.  

At the end of the day all someone really needs is a bed, electricity, heat/cool (depending on climate), water, toilet, and a locking door.

Read Moore's law, the loss of hardware manufacturing is still being felt (semiconductor shortages etc)The diversity of cultures, ideology, economics, climate, topography etc.is immense.

Humidifiers are not super common here, but due to cold climate some people install them.

Also, Puget Sound weather means vegetation grows like crazy relative to dryer climates like SD, for example.

Had it with WA's anti-landlord climate.

Will there be other catastrophic events like impact of climate change, large financial disasters, yes likely. 

Property taxes are too high, it's not investor friendly and doesn't have a business friendly climate, especially compared to your neighbors in MO, IN and IA, We are active in all 3.

Good economic climates as well.

I like the outdoors, scenery and warm climates.