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The Power Five => Big Ten => Topic started by: 847badgerfan on February 27, 2024, 03:18:37 PM
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Ok, Florida folks.
We know none of us are actually from here (I think Fro is, but he's in AZ now).
Where did you come from, and when?
Me: NW Chicago Suburb of Palatine. Bought in February 2020. Moved in April 2020.
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We're looking at moving down there within the next five years. I just can't do these months of cold, gray weather anymore. It seriously just depresses me.
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over 20 years, from Michigan. would never live anywhere else.
I implore any people thinking of moving to Florida to move to Texas. Especially those from California or New York. :)
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over 20 years, from Michigan. would never live anywhere else.
I implore any people thinking of moving to Florida to move to Texas. Especially those from California or New York. :)
Nope. Y'all are doomed. More folks moving to Florida than Texas, as evidenced by this very topic on this very message board. :)
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From Columbus, OH. Been down here 2 years now.
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Oh, that makes it +4 now. Running away with it... :)
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HB and some of the Purdue guys too.
Nobody is from here.
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over 20 years, from Michigan. would never live anywhere else.
I implore any people thinking of moving to Florida to move to Texas. Especially those from California or New York. :)
There are exceptions to the NY and Cali people. Same with Chicago (me).
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I lived there from age 3 - 27 or 28. Born in TX. Univ of Florida, class of '05. Moved out around 16-17 years ago maybe.
I miss the humidity. I keeps away random nosebleeds and makes your feet look pretty. Apparently, dew and flip-flops and rain and sweat keep your feet looking nice. The desert does not.
I also miss the noise of the night - crickets/frogs/what have you making a loud racket. Dead silent in the desert.
It was also very nice to never be more than 90 min from the beach.
No state taxes.
No fall break, at least when I was growing up. Never head of it until moving out west.
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Moved here in January of 16-mostly for a job upgrade but also because of the nasty, long Michigan winters. Lived there ( Michigan) my whole adult life. Born in Ohio- Cleveland burbs until age 12.
I do like Florida but it is exponentially more crowded than it was just five years ago.
I do miss Northern Michigan, which is absolutely beautiful in the summer and fall. I am approaching retirement within a year or two and will likely buy a summer cabin on a lake somewhere up there. Nothing fancy just a two or 3 Bedroom where I can fish and enjoy the weather instead of the humidity here in Florida.
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Moved here in January of 16-mostly for a job upgrade but also because of the nasty, long Michigan winters. Lived there ( Michigan) my whole adult life. Born in Ohio- Cleveland burbs until age 12.
I do like Florida but it is exponentially more crowded than it was just five years ago.
I do miss Northern Michigan, which is absolutely beautiful in the summer and fall. I am approaching retirement within a year or two and will likely buy a summer cabin on a lake somewhere up there. Nothing fancy just a two or 3 Bedroom where I can fish and enjoy the weather instead of the humidity here in Florida.
That what my uncle did. Rather than be a snowbird, he lives I. Florida, and has a hunting cabin in Northern MI for essentially Memorial Day through Halloween. 7 months in Florida/5 in Northern MI
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I do not live, and never have lived, in Florida
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me either
probably never will
I've visited for a couple Orange bowls in the 90s and a couple vacation trips to the beach with my daughters
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My sister lived in Pensacola for about 8 years and then in Cocoa Beach for another 8 or so. I visited many times and enjoyed both places plus some trips down to Miami.
But I do not have any plans to move to Florida.
You're Welcome For My Support.
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I go to North Port each January (south of Sarasota) and it's obvious how many new subdivisions are going in there with cookie cutter houses behind walls with no yard to speak of. I can see the allure, you probably have a golf course in there somewhere and a club house. It seems a bit unvaried and sterile to me personally. No income tax is nice.
The prices seem to have gone up a lot also.
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I go to North Port each January (south of Sarasota) and it's obvious how many new subdivisions are going in there with cookie cutter houses behind walls with no yard to speak of. I can see the allure, you probably have a golf course in there somewhere and a club house. It seems a bit unvaried and sterile to me personally. No income tax is nice.
The prices seem to have gone up a lot also.
Most do not.
Punta Gorda has a lot of courses within developments. Mine included.
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We have our week ending banquet at some development that has a golf course and country club setting. The food is, well, mediocre, but they're serving about 100 folks.
So, yeah, probably only a few have a GC. Maybe they have a club house and pool. The signs out front advertise things like $400s or $600s, they aren't exactly cheap.
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There is no "cheap" here, unless you want to live in the middle. The coasts are where the money is - East in particular, in the 3 counties.
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I'd live in the middle with a mediocre golf course and a clubhouse with a decent bar and OK food
cause it would have to be "cheap"
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I'd live in the middle with a mediocre golf course and a clubhouse with a decent bar and OK food
cause it would have to be "cheap"
You just paid more $ for a freaking car than what a house in the "middle" costs down here.
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yup, financial advisor said to get the car OR the house
I decided to stay in my humble current house and splurge on the car
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We've been going to Anna Maria Island for 10 years.
I always thought we'd buy eventually but I'm kind of shifting to explore mode. We tried Aruba this winter and got a few more spots we want to see.
Five more years until the kids are gone so who knows how we'll feel at that time. Might be priced out of AMI by then.
Ideal scenario would be residence on the gulf side of Florida and a cabin in the Driftless, most likely Wisconsin side.
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Florida is a great state to move to
course there is that annual Hurricane sometimes more
but what the heck every place has bad weather now and then
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but what the heck every place has bad weather now and then
Ahem.
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Ahem.
yes even forest fires
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I don't cornsider a fire to be weather
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I don't cornsider a fire to be weather
by product
lightning
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Georgia has some tornados of course, but that's about it, even the coast rarely gets hurricanes. We get some pretty serious thunderstorms at times. This last front populated the news with a lot of trees down, several hitting homes, one hitting a condo building (not ours, though it got me thinking). We have two large trees just outside our unit, which is nice, but they could come down and could come into our unit. One is a tulip poplar.
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I don't cornsider a fire to be weather
Same with earthquakes.
But then there's mudslides and stuff. Drought sometimes. Maybe a post-tropical storm.
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Tornados here are often spun off of hurricanes.
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I've heard Florida has the most lightning strikes by a large margin
Texas can't hold a candle
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We've been going to Anna Maria Island for 10 years.
I always thought we'd buy eventually but I'm kind of shifting to explore mode. We tried Aruba this winter and got a few more spots we want to see.
Five more years until the kids are gone so who knows how we'll feel at that time. Might be priced out of AMI by then.
Ideal scenario would be residence on the gulf side of Florida and a cabin in the Driftless, most likely Wisconsin side.
You can more bang for your buck if you head more South. AMI is not cheap by any stretch (at least a Mil for a fixer-upper), and you're sorta captive. Not as captive as Captiva, but still.
The other thing is that Sarasota is kinda like the "winter" line. It gets much colder up there than down here, even though it's only an hour away.
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I've heard Florida has the most lightning strikes by a large margin
Texas can't hold a candle
Lots of trees get hit here.
When my roof is done, I'm installing lightning rods.
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I've heard Florida has the most lightning strikes by a large margin
Texas can't hold a candle
Indeed, Florida is always winning.
Move to Florida, see the beautiful thunderstorms.
Pay no mind to Texas.
Thank You For Your Support
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To be impacted by forest fires or mudslides, you have to live near trees or hills.
Pfft. Like I've got that kind of money.
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Same with earthquakes.
But then there's mudslides and stuff. Drought sometimes. Maybe a post-tropical storm.
Drought isn't bad weather. I can't remember a single time I've heard a fellow SoCal resident on a nice warm sunny summer day say "oh, this is terrible--you know what would make this weather better? Rain."
Hell, if they had a little more drought, maybe Seattleites wouldn't be so gloomy...
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Atlanta gets more rain that Seattle, quite a bit more, in inches. It's raining now.
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I do not live, and never have lived, in Florida
Of course, you have designs on Austin
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Of course, you have designs on Austin
I do. In-laws are in San Antonio, so being closer to them (while being in a major tech hub for my career) makes sense.
And UT is one of the schools we're already expecting to visit with my son. While I'm not sure how likely we'd be to move while he was there if he attended UT (due to his younger siblings), it of course increases the likelihood that he'll stay in TX after college which would be another reason to move.
But, I hear everyone's leaving California, so rents & house prices should start dropping like a rock any day now, which changes the calculus...
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Drought isn't bad weather. I can't remember a single time I've heard a fellow SoCal resident on a nice warm sunny summer day say "oh, this is terrible--you know what would make this weather better? Rain."
Of course you don't hear them they're running from the fire....or the cost of living
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bwar doesn't want to move here. He'd absolutely hate the weather.
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bwar doesn't want to move here. He'd absolutely hate the weather.
Admittedly I'd be moving despite the weather... I agree I would hate it during the summer.
But it's still MILES better than what I grew up with in Chicago... I hated that weather roughly 10 months of the year.
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But, I hear everyone's leaving California, so rents & house prices should start dropping like a rock any day now, which changes the calculus...
Hope you're right but those legislative lampshades will find a way to violate the constitution further and take everything not nailed down or the IRS beat them to
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bwar doesn't want to move here. He'd absolutely hate the weather.
That you Stevie Ray?
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I have a friend originally from Detroit, he lives here now. He visited there recently and said the recovery was amazing. Apparently there is a point where prices drop so far that it attracts people to move in and rehab the homes. We see this around here with areas "gentrifying" of course.
Those places aren't cheap now.
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Need some … some kind of birds who bounce between Florida and the Austin area. Preferably from northeast and west coast states.
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There is not much in the way of cheap in any desirable place to live.
I was shocked about a month when a realtor knocked on my door and gave me an offer. The amount almost made me fall over, and then she upped it significantly more when she saw what we've done to the place.
We could sell it, sure, but where they hell are we gonna go?
I image @Honestbuckeye (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=37) and @Mdot21 (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=1595) are in even better shape as they have been here longer.
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Need some … some kind of birds who bounce between Florida and the Austin area. Preferably from northeast and west coast states.
No, we don't. About 2 more months of this crap before they go home.
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There is not much in the way of cheap in any desirable place to live.
I was shocked about a month when a realtor knocked on my door and gave me an offer. The amount almost made me fall over, and then she upped it significantly more when she saw what we've done to the place.
We could sell it, sure, but where they hell are we gonna go?
I image @Honestbuckeye (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=37) and @Mdot21 (https://www.cfb51.com/index.php?action=profile;u=1595) are in even better shape as they have been here longer.
Funny you mention that. I had that happen to me a couple times back during the pandemic. One time was actually a guy from New York who just wanted to buy the house he knocked on the door and introduced himself and offered me a great deal of money over what I think the house is worth. Same dilemma. Yes, the money would be great but where the hell would I go?
Probably like
most of you I still get those automated sales texts that say click here for an offer on your house.
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I get the occasional letter from somebody claiming they want to buy this place and will make an offer. As noted above, I'd have to buy something else somewhere and probably come out worse for the wear.
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If I win Powerball I've already picked out the house I'd like to make an outlandish offer on.
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I'd stay where I'm at, probably do a few upgrades.
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I'd see how long I could go without having anyone find out that I won.
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I'd see how long I could go without having anyone find out that I won.
I've always wondered the logistics of legally changing my name to something generic like John Smith, accepting the prize, and then legally changing my name back to my real name.
Could that make me less of a target?
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you can run, but you can't hide
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We'd stay in our house. We like it a lot.
Probably buy something in the Virgins or St. Barts.
Something in Lake Geneva, WI.
A yacht that could be a liveaboard.
Always wanted to fly, so I'd probably do that. There is a place nearby that trained many of the 911 assholes.
And this GLS 63:
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And This S 63
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And this SL 63.
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It's interesting how humans get into brand loyalty, not that it's inherently bad.
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That is a thing I don't care for in Florida, obviously there are a lot of old folks. It made me feel old when we were out and about. My wife made the same comment.
It's different here in the summer. It's younger for sure. All the old farts are back where they belong by May 1. Those people SUCK at driving.
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It's interesting how humans get into brand loyalty, not that it's inherently bad.
Best cars in the world, IMO, so I stick with them.
If I were I to change anything, I'd probably look at Volvo. They have hybrids.
But, if I had the coin to by 3 AMG cars, I wouldn't give a rat's ass about the price of gas.
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We've been in summer of course, a while back looking for a place to retire. One place was a "55 and up" community so of course it was older clientel. They had a truly fabulous large community center which I'm sure was an attraction, and golf course. But the homes were quite small on tiny lots. And pricey even then, and that was 2010 I think, I thought I might get something cheap.
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None of us have tried even every major car brand, nor much of any of the rest of the consumer items. We may have driven a variety ofrental cars but they generally are not the kind of car we'd buy. I like Hondas, broadly speaking, and have owned one in the past. I view them as well built decent values overall, not fancy of course, very common. For much of my life I'd only buy GM, mostly because my Dad only bought GM. The first nonGM vehicle I bought was that 1986 Chrysler minivan, because GM didn't make a minivan then. I put 155,000 miles on it, gave it away to a charity that put another 30 K on it. It was a stickshift 4 cylinder and slow as molasses in wintertime.
I can't recall buying a car I ended up disliking. I've had a few counting the ones my kids had.
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I'm obviously a chevy guy, but if I hit the powerball I'd have a Mercedes and a Porche in the garage
alongside the ZO6
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I've had too many friends with temperamental Mercedes vehicles that cost outrageous sums to repair, for me to believe they're the best cars in the world. They might be the highest performing sedans or something? I don't know, I don't really care about that stuff all that much.
Reliability is important to me so the best cars in the world would need to be highly reliable. From my experience, Hondas hold a significant lead in that category.
As far as Amercian cars, I've had Ford, GM, and Mopar. They're all about the same, and they're all pretty good.
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I took it to the sporty cars thread.
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Why? CD, FF & 94 aren't the types to hi jack a thread
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Speaking of Florida, Gators lost today
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For how it just juts out into the ocean, FL had amazingly few strong hurricane hits until a recent cluster.
From 1967-2003, there were only 2 hurricanes Cat 3 or stronger to really hit FL (others landed at land west of Key West or the edge of Pensacola).
There were 5 in 2004-5 alone, and 4 more since 2017, so there's your correction.
But growing up there, for all the hours of the weather channel and trips to Home Depot, surprisingly little made landfall and caused much damage until Andrew in 1992. We're lucky that didn't hit a more populated area, as it was basically a hurricane roleplaying as a kaiju tornado.
I've been in the eye of a hurricane, and it's trippy. Blue sky above you for 20-30 min. Dark, death skies all around, but eerily nice weather there in the hole in the middle.
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For how it just juts out into the ocean, FL had amazingly few strong hurricane hits until a recent cluster.
From 1967-2003, there were only 2 hurricanes Cat 3 or stronger to really hit FL (others landed at land west of Key West or the edge of Pensacola).
There were 5 in 2004-5 alone, and 4 more since 2017, so there's your correction.
But growing up there, for all the hours of the weather channel and trips to Home Depot, surprisingly little made landfall and caused much damage until Andrew in 1992. We're lucky that didn't hit a more populated area, as it was basically a hurricane roleplaying as a kaiju tornado.
I've been in the eye of a hurricane, and it's trippy. Blue sky above you for 20-30 min. Dark, death skies all around, but eerily nice weather there in the hole in the middle.
That was us during Ian. Took a walk around the 'hood. Sunny and no damage. It was probably 45 minutes.
That backside was a bitch. Lots of damage.
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One of the climate predictions was more and stronger hurricanes, by now, and that hasn't really happened (yet). The ACE numbers have not been trending up.
There is some indication they move slower and drop more rain, which of course isn't good.
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Ian took about 10 hours to get the F out of here. Maybe more.