Why would the place you live in have any baring on your knowledge of the effects of sea levels rising? You aren't handed a geotechtonics degree when you move there.
The idea that Miami will be gone in 20 years and not 200 is a ridiculous one. I live here on an island by the sea, I guess that doesn't make me a geotechtonista but it gives me some perspective other people in their basements in middle America might not have.
