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Post by auntieannie on Mar 31, 2024 21:24:40 GMT 2
I think we need a report from our own local source, Voy I've been reading conflicting articles about whether people are still keen to move to florida or people are now leaving florida to go back to where they came from. What's your take on the situation? |
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Post by Voy on Apr 1, 2024 1:56:57 GMT 2
well - they are building tons and tons of apartments and townhouses down here near me - and they sell/rent v v fast. BUT at the same time big houses are selling slowly at reduced prices... so both. And I think the sellers who are leaving are making the right choice - because quite soon Florida will not have enough water to drink - much less flush. The aquifer is being depleted quicker than it is being refreshed, and with ocean levels rising - it may well become brackish.. I'm glad that my investment down here is minimal and that I'm an old fart !
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Post by tzarine on Apr 1, 2024 3:27:45 GMT 2
our fam friend is moving there from rio
he's working @ a hotel
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Post by Voy on Apr 1, 2024 14:24:47 GMT 2
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Post by slowcoach on Apr 1, 2024 14:55:53 GMT 2
BTB
There is/was a TV documentary on American Railways that features the story of Henry (build it and they will come) Flagler.
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 1, 2024 16:55:06 GMT 2
that's one of the articles I saw, Voy.
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Post by Netsuke on Apr 5, 2024 2:53:01 GMT 2
All I know about Florida is what I have learned from television. It’s down south on the way to Mexico, is blessed with magnificent sunshine and weather and has lots of palm trees. Plus oranges are grown there and old men play golf.
Then I watched “In Her Shoes” with Toni Collette, Cameron Diaz and Shirley MacLaine set in…….Florida. Beautiful places, happy oldies, the old age pensioners place called Abbey Delray South was really lovely and everybody seemed so happy. The filming was in Boca Raton and a place called Briny Breezes.
I loved the old peoples’ home so much I thought I wouldn’t mind having to end my days there or similar. Then I found out it’s neither free nor cheap…Goodbye dream. Netsuke, better you should stay healthy!
Florida does seem to be a very nice place and as is the way so often (correct me here Voy in case I am wrong), once word gets around, the place is over run with thousands and thousands of people of different ages and family dynamics and soon the place is spoiled. A little like travelling some undiscovered little place in (for example) in SEA which has become so popular with tourists the ambience and attraction is gone. Capitalism and Westerners.
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Post by Voy on Apr 5, 2024 14:18:38 GMT 2
Nets - all the places you mention are very close to me - Boca's rep is wealthy and Jewish, Del Ray not as, but still wealthy, and Briny Breezes is amazing - it's basically a very very large trailer park, right on the ocean, that managed to turn itself into a legal town, and has fought off the developers! Long may they wave !
The people are still pouring in - apartments and condos going up all over the place - many of them on now under-used golf courses - as the players are dying out - and it is basically an old people's game.
South Florida - which is what you saw, and where I have my place is truly tropical..we are well within the Tropic of Cancer, for Oz think North of Brisbane....
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 5, 2024 22:06:38 GMT 2
would you move out/further north/ to another state for the winter now that the weather doesn't seem to be as it used to in winter? are you at risk of seeing the property tax, etc on your property reach the kind of figures discussed in the article you linked ?
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Post by Voy on Apr 6, 2024 2:19:28 GMT 2
nope. my condo is still inexpensive = monthly charges as well as property tax - I will learn to use the aircon if I have to ( so far I'm making out ok with open windows and ceiling fans ) - but basically the whole reason I'm here anyway is the polo... so that's a tie to here for me.
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Post by auntieannie on Apr 6, 2024 19:32:30 GMT 2
makes sense.
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Post by Netsuke on May 4, 2024 8:12:08 GMT 2
but basically the whole reason I'm here anyway is the polo... so that's a tie to here for me. Playing or watching? It is very popular with the Royal family. Or was. |
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Post by Voy on May 4, 2024 13:28:21 GMT 2
heheheh at the thought of playing !! Aside from I'm too old now, I have always been too old - it was only legal for women to play in 1976 ( when I was already 32 and hadn't been on a horse in over 10 years ( I did use to fox hunt ).
But the reason I'm there is that I used to run the PTF - Polo Training Foundation - where we teach kids to play and have tournaments for them - 2 1/2 to 16 -- and then a separate set of tournaments for the 16-20s.
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