Posted on 09/03/2022 10:05:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I lived in Florida for 33 years before moving to be closer to my wife’s family.
There’s a lot of inaccuracies and distortions in that story.
Read the Serge Storms novels by Tim Dorsey for background research before going.
Orlando sucks
it even snows there
We retired in 2019 and became Florida residents, but, weren’t planning on staying in the state much as we are cruising in our Sailboat. There is a service available for cruisers and RVers that will give you a permanent address without having to have to actually BE in the state.
Of course Covid changed all our plans and we’ve stayed down here in South Florida for the last few years. Good thing too as we found some issues in the rigging and had to repair them.
Hoping soon to finally get going and head to the Bahamas and beyond.
Your hubby and I share the same feelings and experiences. I’ve never seen snow despite being born up north many years ago. I can t leave the warmth and the water. Wifey wants to relocate to Tennessee, but I’m really not an inlander.
We bought acreage far from a city, but the area around us has exploded in growth in the last 5 years. It just keeps growing, but we enjoy our slice of Earth.
We have cousins on both sides, who have retired to Florida year round or at least in the winter time to escape the snow.
A good friend,like a younger brother, now lives in the St. Augustine area. He is a fly fishing addict,even worse than I was at his age.
One of my cousins, who was like a brother, retired in a little city on the SW coast. He was a collegiate golfer and places golf everyday with his wife unless a hurricane is coming through. His older brother was also a collegiate golfer and went there to try it. He couldn’t stand the humidity.
One of our California DNA pools will probably pull the plug and leave California after his youngest is graduated from college this year. He can do 95% of his current job or on his own via a good home office. He and his wife went to Key West this past winter to scout out that area. The traffic was terrible, and they removed Key West from their list.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on their option list.
Much of the article is quite accurate, particularly the references to the crowds and traffic. We definitely limit our time on the road, and use delivery serves quite often to avoid the 24/7 traffic jams.
A personal anecdote: before we retired, we’d vacation for 10 days-two weeks every winter in the Naples/Bonita Springs area on the gulf. Typically, lodging would run a little over $100/night.
That was ten years ago.
You can triple that now, which is why we moved inland.
I’ve lived on the Space Coast many years!
One of my wife’s sibling and his wife love that area and until Covid spent Jan~Feb there as SnowBirds from the mid west.
A younger sibling and his wife didn’t like that area and spent Jan/Feb on the West Coast as SnowBirds.
About every 2~3 weeks, they would met in the middle for brunch. Which they do when they are back home in the Midwest!
We’ve been living full time on our boat for five years. Spend time in Florida the Bahamas and the Chesapeake. This year we stayed in Florida all summer. It was hot. Usually we head north in May. We spend a lot of time in Vero Beach and Palm Beach. We’re thinking about selling our boat and living on land somewhere. Probably the west coast of Florida.
Flood insurance is real too... I suppositly live 12 feet above sea level - my back yard ends at a small salt water creek and When I stand on the bank my home's more like 7 or 8 feet above sea level. That said, in over 40 years the house has never flooded. Buy a house that's never flooded and you have a good chance it won't flood. It's almost always the same neighborhoods that flood. If you like feeling free AND safe Florida's the place for conservatives.
Velcro Beach hasn’t been that hot this year. Lots of on shore breezes, and, the Cap’n broke down and let us have an A/C on board.
We’ve lived aboard for 7 years now, all in the South, and NOW she goes for it.
Way too many Florida Men and Women in Florida.
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