If Your House Were Falling Off a Cliff, Would You Leave? – the New York Times

Chalet style cottages perched precariously on the North Sea cliff, south of the old Hornsea Road at Skipsea (© Paul Glazzard CC BY-SA 2.0 via Geograph).

On a stormy day in the spring of 2021, the sea defenses on the beach below Lucy Ansbro’s cliff-top home in Thorpeness, England, washed away. Then, the end of her garden collapsed into the North Sea…“We lost three and a half meters of land,” said Ms. Ansbro, a 54-year-old television producer, sitting in her kitchen on a recent morning. “Every time I went out, I didn’t know if the house would still be here when I came back…”