Yes, usually FP is a medium to coarse grind
I know but i like it better with a finer grind. 
Not a fan of the French press, given the amount of grounds that always seems to be left behnd.
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You sound like a Fox News chyron.
Why anyone would live east of the Mississippi is a much more valid question.
And I notice taste didn’t enter your equation for coffee.
My father in law was a hydraulics engineer who worked for Corp of Engineers so I understand this mode of thinking 
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You are too funny.
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Did you lose the manuals??
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I do tend to tick off points. A common characteristic among engineers. Independent of politics, of which mine are quite orthogonal to what is commonly considered a political spectrum.
As for where to live that is very multivariate. For me the sailing needs to be good. That generally means large estuaries like Chesapeake Bay, Long Island Sound, and Puget Sound. Florida can only lay claim to good sailing due to proximity to the Bahamas. You can talk me into coastal Maine for good sailing if you have a solution to black flies. My point was much more geographically specific to repeated natural disasters: drought and wildfires in portions of California and hurricanes in Florida and along the Gulf Coast. Russian roulette. How many times must we pay to rebuild? The self-generated cost of living in California should also weigh in the balance. The results of poorly engineered policy in my view.
On topic, I think I did post although not in the post you quoted that on top of its other benefits, the coffee from a percolator is the best of the options.
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The Keurig is sufficient for me. Those machines were for my former wife. Neither were used more than a couple times.
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Growing up in tornado alley makes natural disasters pretty commonplace.
Most disasters here in sunny Southern Oregon are not life threatening.
No hurricanes or tornados.
We had our fire last September so I figure we’re good.
My former BIL Is a sailor. He’s got SF bay as his playground. He also graduated from the Naval Academy- right up your alley.
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For the Keurig crowd:
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=environmental+impact+of+keurig+cups
Who really takes their K-cups apart for recycling? Jeepers. Link above, at least the first few pages, doesn’t account for the vampire consumption.
Fortunately, more and more companies are making fully compostable K-cups.
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Yes, even with a coarse grind, you often wind up with muddiness. Sieving the fine residue takes more effort than it’s worth. With the right coffee/roast, it can still be great, but I couldn’t figure out how to select the right beans consistently, so I gave my french press away.
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Ecofreek (credibility of source unknown) reports:
" The compostable k - cups are single serve but cannot be chucked on the compost pile, instead they must be disposed by commercially compostable means usually at a composting facility. The single serve biodegradable coffee pods are great for a delicious and convenient good coffee ."
We don’t have municipal food waste composting here in Annapolis MD. Some restaurants contract for it. Some Google searches turned up a number of cities that have it but explicitly do not allow K-cups of any sort.
For single serve a kettle and a pour-over dripper certainly seems more environmental. You can even compost the debris yourself if there is no municipal service. They nestle nicely with egg shells grin and the coffee makes you plants happy.
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Oh, I totally agree with you on that. Before I really started getting into coffee and learning how to do pour-overs, I used to have to resort to my work’s K-cup machine (I had to get up too early to brew at home) or buy coffee. I had a holder that I could fill with my own coffee, but I never got the grind size quite right.
Now that I’ve been using a Chemex for all of these months, when I finally go back to the office I’ll have several individual pourover options to choose from: a cheap plastic Melitta cone, a Funnex, the Tornado Duo dripper from Brewista, and an all-glass, no-filter option called Pure Over.
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Been involved with a green coffee buying group for years
Home roasting on a Gene coffee roaster these days. Started with a heat gun many years ago
The thought of Maxwell house or Folgers in the morning is a downer
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I guess Folgers in your cup isn’t the best part of waking up then. 
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I switched from a basic blade grinder to a conical burr grinder recently and I am amazed at the difference it makes in the quality and consistency of my coffee (I use a Technivorm Moccamaster drip machine). Perfect results every day, no matter how tired I am when I make it!
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Yes, a burr grinder is a great investment, especially since you can easily dial into any grind you’ll need, from espresso to French press. I have an entry-level Baratza Encore.
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We don’t drink enough coffee these days to justify even having a grinder, but when we did, we found the burr grinder far superior to any blade grinder – also much more consistent. At that time (dating myself here), my ex and I had a Krups burr grinder, which in the mid-80s was also known as “Mr. Fusion” in the Back to the Future movie series. As in, “Hey, that’s our coffee grinder!”
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Picked up a Mini Mazzer like this ~ 30 yrs ago in a cigar trade when I was into espresso. It’s a heavy beast and will last a life time and beyond. Just recently ground a pound of beans to take to my cousins beach condo for the weekend 4th of July holiday. We will drink the last of this batch before we head back home today
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