I live in Malibu, where we have those all-too-famous wildfires on a regular basis. Several of my neighbors have quietly told me that they really wouldn't care if their house burned down - yeah, they will lose some nice stuff, but they will also find themselves in a position where they don't have to think about the house, and taking care of it, and paying for the people who take care of it, and so on. Sometimes it is nice to just cut everything out and start over.

After all, isn't this how modern-day America came about? Lots of people cutting out everything from their former lives in Europe/Asia/etc and making a decision to come to America to see if they can make it work?