Posted on 06/30/2023 2:12:50 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
From immigration reform and tax breaks to loosened gun restrictions and stricter school policies, more than 200 new Florida laws are coming into effect on July 1
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Big Mad??
...why must we intentionally sound ghetto just to appear unique??
You can thank your fellow northerners for those prices. People that were born and raised in the state can now not afford to live there. When you flee the failed states of New York, California, New England, Illinois and Michigan and move to Florida, in your haste, you get into bidding wars over Florida property and have driven rental and home prices to gold rush boom town levels. In small towns where apartments were less than 1000 a month, the prices are now 2500 to 3500 a month. I had to change apartments because my apartment went from 1800 to 3400 a month in my second year at the apartments. the company changed their business model from long term tenants with 1 yr leases with high credit score requirements for luxury apartments to short term 3 month leases for people who were moving from out of state and where looking for homes in Florida. The local realtors get a piece of the action for referring clients to them while they search for a home. If you like New York, you’ll love the new Sarasota County. The apartments were bought by a California based apartment holding company, so Florida is going the way of California now, economically speaking. At some point the sudden influx of outside cash will die down, but the people with the values that built the state will be driven out by then, Welcome to the new Florida DeSantis is building. One that the average working Floridian can’t afford a home for his family. BTW in 2018 the average 1600 sq ft home in a working class neighborhood was selling for around 150,000. building costs wee under 100 per sq foot ( that was in Clearwater. And Okeechobee was considered cattle country in the sticks. You went to Okeechobee to fish and fight mosquitoes.
Do you think it prudent to display such ignorance?
The new Florida election security statute is meant to reduce even the small chance of significant election irregularity in Florida. Think of it as being like when your bank puts in a new vault, new security system, and adds more guards. That is all to the good for security -- but it does not mean that the old system was defective with your bank looted on a frequent basis.
So is the way to go for less governance relaxed immigration laws. Less local/parental control of schools. Allowing sexually explicit materials in grade schools. Tightening gun laws. and applying more taxes?
You can go owner-builder. One way is to live on the property in a mobile home while the house is being built. And yes contractors are way backed up now and it can take that long for the house to be completed. The other solution may be to see about a modular home.
You also went to Okeechobee for the rodeo.
I have a good friend who lives there. Just north of the lake and a few miles west of town. It’s really beautiful and we can see the Milky Way from his place. Look up the hurricane of 1928
So yeah, times do change and we have to be ready to stop the evil ones from doing their evil.
(Once these folks are 18 I don't care what they do - but before that time it's wrong to sexually mutilate a minor.. Plain wrong. Same as allowing a child to sign a contract when they're eight years old that they can't get out of... just wrong.)
Shirley I am not the only person on this Forum who has noticed that the cheaters are Democrats! /S
PS My Beezer is stuned!
Every day I thank whatever gods there be that I live and have lived in Florida for the last fifty-odd years; perhaps the last refuge of sanity. And I am grateful for our wise governor and state legislature; shields in a time of grave danger.
we got 10 acres in Okeeochobee just off Rt. 70 east of downtown. Bought it 8 years ago. Yup, cattle country it is. Supper quiet, no one around, just like we like it.
But even back in 2018 the house prices were highter then here in New Hampshire. Been saving like mad for 5 years and now inflation is outstripping our (and everyones) saving like no tomorrow.
I can tell you the building regulation have been tightened up quite a bit and add quite a bit now to a new home since we first planned on building. That is one of the other factors about the huge price increases. We just want to raise some animals, grow a nice small farm.
yep. the allies of the Demon rats are the woke corporations, the local media and the bureaucracy in DC.
Biden was vile during COVID, taking away treatments from the state because his bosses hate DeSantis.
It is a really nice place, not really exciting (which is what we like). Our 10 acres are east of the town near one of the large Dairy farms.
Don’t want to deal with any more snow and ice 5-6 months of the year. Okeechobee has a few good private Christian schools for our daughter to go to ... so we need to pull the trigger and sign contract this fall to start building. Nothing big, 1600 sqft min. I just need a small barn build some time after the house.
The “No Income Tax” is just like NH, but there is a Sales Tax (Unlike NH), but that is not too bad.
You still won’t be able to converse with your builders in English. The “legal” floodgates have been opened for decades.
“We’re tired of the endless winters here in NH”.
Next, you’ll be complaining about this Spring’s weather!
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“The other solution may be to see about a modular home.”
Modular homes are stronger than “stick-built” homes. Check WINDSTORM insurance rates, or “go bare”.
Coastal Florida is hurricane/no-see-um territory: Inland is tornado/mosquito territory.
(I have a place in each type of Florida locale).
Also state approved ones are also exempt from local plan review except for site done construction and erection, etc. That can save money and time.
We get plenty of both no-see-ums and skeeters here on the coast. Have the orange headed lizards reached inland yet?
When he was much younger my late hubs had a job which required he drive around the lake every Wednesday to make deliveries. The bonus was he brought back bushels of Silver Queen corn for the family and friends.
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