Portuguese Bend in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, rests on an active landslide. While some residents have fled, a few new homebuyers are choosing to take a risk and purchase anyway, seeing a rare opportunity to own a piece of Southern California coastal property.
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Palos Verdes? As a former Civil Engineer – and current architect – you couldn’t pay me to live there. I used to do soils testing as a CE. The soils in California are the worst in the US because they are the debris from the creation of the Rocky Mountains: Ie: No Friction! If you build on soils with no friction? your foundations won’t hold.
It may have been 1988 when I was driving through there and noticed a sign along the road saying – Warning Constant Land Movement . Everyone knows And THEY knew . $1.3 Million they could have had a nice house elsewhere .
It’s all going down. Stop fighting it.
You built on a landslide! Your issue is with Mother Nature.
Here’s a hint: You’re going to lose that argument.