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10 Things You Must Know About Retiring to Florida
Kiplinger's Retirement Report ^ | Bob Niedt

Posted on 09/03/2022 10:05:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 09/03/2022 10:05:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

fla aint all that


2 posted on 09/03/2022 10:12:05 PM PDT by mylife (And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for you meddling kids...)
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To: mylife

RE: fla aint all that

Which State is?


3 posted on 09/03/2022 10:14:45 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

If a place were perfect, everyone would live there - and it wouldn’t be perfect, anymore...


4 posted on 09/03/2022 10:17:28 PM PDT by decal (They won't stop, so they'll have to be stopped)
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To: decal

It’s a red state now. Only one Dem serves the state govt and school boards across the state voted out the Karen Dems. DEsantis keeps it red.


5 posted on 09/03/2022 10:32:22 PM PDT by max americana (Fired leftards at work since 2008 at every election just to see them cry. I hate them all.)
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To: SeekAndFind

#11 Do not go for a swim..... CHOMP!
or CRUSHED! by a boa.


6 posted on 09/03/2022 10:37:36 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: mylife

Since i lived in Florida for 45 years before moving for family reasons to western slope Colorado, Florida will always be home, even though it’s changing and getting crowded.


7 posted on 09/03/2022 10:43:14 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable STILL)
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To: SeekAndFind; Chode

Soon Florida will be this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIT73ixWpUI


8 posted on 09/03/2022 11:03:42 PM PDT by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor. )
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s too much like Houston which I already escaped


9 posted on 09/03/2022 11:56:51 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: drSteve78

Born and raised in Fort Lauderdale and was even in a street scene of Where The Boys Are.

Wouldn’t change my growing up there for any other place, not only in the US but also in the world!


10 posted on 09/04/2022 1:09:47 AM PDT by justme4now (Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it)
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To: SeekAndFind

We went down to Florida for 10 or 12 years vacationing, with relatives. Observed many things there, compared, evaluated, local knowledge and in general got then lay of the land...my takeaway... I needed a slower paced retirement area. Plus it always felt like there was this undercurrent of felony everywhere, and the weather doesn’t suit me.

As I’ve aged, there’s three things about living in beachy areas that I don’t like salt, sand, and sunburn... it’s sort of an inside joke but there’s a lot of personal truth in that. Besides I can get that same feeling in the Carolina’s, and it’s closer.


11 posted on 09/04/2022 2:24:02 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: drSteve78

Left in ‘97. At that time there were only three known panters in the state. Worse than the gators and pythons are the tourists. Particularly the snowbirds. Tourist season traffic is abominable. I wasn’t a retiree but I am now. Wouldn’t go back. Prefer Western North Carolina, Lake Lure area. It’s getting as bad as Florida though.


12 posted on 09/04/2022 2:24:55 AM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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To: corlorde

bookmark


13 posted on 09/04/2022 2:27:15 AM PDT by corlorde
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To: SeekAndFind

If you’re a lib... KEEP OUT


14 posted on 09/04/2022 2:35:55 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: SeekAndFind

Thanks for posting.


15 posted on 09/04/2022 2:45:51 AM PDT by sjm_888
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To: decal

Agreed. The article has good points and is designed for the idiot who thinks florida is perfect.

I would move to the western panhandle and inland (above route 10) where it is just empty land mostly.


16 posted on 09/04/2022 2:53:46 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Oklahoma as the lightning capital of the U.S. Oklahoma averages 83.4 flashes per square kilometer, with Florida close behind at 82.8 flashes per square mile.”

Which is it mile² or Km²?


17 posted on 09/04/2022 3:02:16 AM PDT by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: SeekAndFind

Nary a mention of sinkholes! Non natives be warned, like California earthquakes, a house is there one day and gone the next. Oh, it’s pieces are all there, it is just that they are disassociated and multiple feet underground.


18 posted on 09/04/2022 3:22:28 AM PDT by SES1066 (More & more it looks like Brandon's best decision was Kamala! UGH!)
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To: justme4now
Yeah, I went to high school in Sunrise and college in Gainesville. They were just paving Oakland Park Blvd past University Drive when I lived there, and everything stopped at Pine Island Rd.

I haven't been back much since graduating college.

-PJ

19 posted on 09/04/2022 3:29:47 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: SeekAndFind

Just left Florida after living there 40 years. Retired to TN.

Why? Insurance and traffic jams.

We really loved it there and it will always be “home” to me but the traffic is a nightmare - everywhere.


20 posted on 09/04/2022 3:39:35 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (Super, Duper, Ultra Maga, subject of the Ultra Maga King Donald)
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