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You got in just before the prices shot up here. We got into our home here at the end of '99. The prices have tripled since then.

How'd you make out with the hurricanes last year? Hope you didn't have Poe. We just finished our repairs in time for the season. Here's to hoping it's a waste of time.

Florida is a slice of paradise where I'm concerned. Beautiful weather year round and time enough to enjoy it. I don't see the demand for this lifestyle dying off any time too soon. Even with the insurance increases, Florida is still going to be a fiscally attractive place to live.

We got into our home here at the end of '99. The prices have tripled since then. ... Even with the insurance increases, Florida is still going to be a fiscally attractive place to live. Yeah, now that you've got your slice of the pie. *rolls eyes* (jealously) ;) What about the rest of us still in school? Ha! I'm green.

We had some damage from Wilma, but it is hard to describe the magnitude of the disaster. It was only a Cat 2 when it hit here. I am not ever going to stay for a 3 or above, I really respect those storms now.

Property taxes are reasonable, as is the sales tax. But a 3 bedroom 2 bath ranch house built out of cheap materials with no attic or basement will cost over 600 k in many places here. Good houses in good areas (and I am not even thinking about water views) over a million.

It still amazes me that around the 4th of July you can go into the grocery store and walk past a huge display of fireworks on sale. Kids don't even bother because it is nothing. I am sure that the ACLU types would have a fit if that occurred in NY.

The most horrific disaster that could happen here is not the weather, or immigration but the thought that democrats from the north will come here in numbers and get in power again and "bless us" with all of the "fairness" and "opportunity" that is making NJ and NY home to the very wealthy and very poor and bankrupting everyone else.