Floridians - will you relocate?

#41 Postby **seaswing** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:07 pm

I am a native...tried living somewhere else, couldn't do it...this is my home!!!!

CFL · #42 Postby **CFL** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:20 pm

LOL - There are sure some die-hard Florida lovers on this forum!

I guess some of my desire to leave was already there before Ivan. I'd really like a climate where I could experience a wider variety of the four seasons. I'm not a beach person unless it's very late afternoon due to one too many sunburns in my lifetime. Also figuring in is my present living situation: we are living on a bare concrete pad surrounded by walls and half a roof. At this point I have yet to see a FEMA agent or my insurance adjuster because I'm one of the lucky ones who still has a home. I'm waiting for the Army Corp of Engineers to install a "blue roof" because we have been told we will have to wait 6 months to 1 year before a new shingle roof can be installed. At this point what we really need is a rental but have been unable to find one due to the current housing shortage created by Ivan. Normally hurricanes don't bother me that much. This one really has been different.

Josephine96 · #43 Postby **Josephine96** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:22 pm

I'd rather have to deal with a hurricane than a blizzard.. I'll stay right here..

rbaker · #44 Postby **rbaker** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:23 pm

no I've been here 48 yrs and don't have plans to move even if one knocked my house down. But I will not live on the coast with the gom as my back yard. Having said that we all know as polk county does (Lakeland area) that you don't have to be on coast to have extreme damage.
But this has been an highly unusal year as we all know. There our weather extremes every where you go in the us.
No, I would never move to California, earthquakes give no warning.

ladygatorslayer · #45 Postby **ladygatorslayer** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:42 pm

crazycajuncane wrote:That is really cool that almost everyone on these boards are going to stay.

I heard a lot of people talking about leaving. Is there a correlation between you storm watchers and the non storm watchers?

My Bestfriend is considering moving out of State. She was born and raised here. She lost everything in the "No Name Storm" while living close th the coast in Pasco County.

Now, she is in Polk County, and can't take it anymore. I really hope that she is not serious though.

opera ghost · #46 Postby **opera ghost** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 3:57 pm

CFL wrote:LOL - There are sure some die-hard Florida lovers on this forum! I guess some of my desire to leave was already there before Ivan. I'd really like a climate where I could experience a wider variety of the four seasons. I'm not a beach person unless it's very late afternoon due to one too many sunburns in my lifetime. Also figuring in is my present living situation: we are living on a bare concrete pad surrounded by walls and half a roof. At this point I have yet to see a FEMA agent or my insurance adjuster because I'm one of the lucky ones who still has a home. I'm waiting for the Army Corp of Engineers to install a "blue roof" because we have been told we will have to wait 6 months to 1 year before a new shingle roof can be installed. At this point what we really need is a rental but have been unable to find one due to the current housing shortage created by Ivan. Normally hurricanes don't bother me that much. This one really has been different.

You nailed it in one for me (although I'm not in florida) 4 seasons? Sure! Snow? Please! No hurricanes? Bonus! I've been living on the gulf coast for over half my life and I can hardly wait until my husband and I are in a good position to move (still working through college)

This hurricane season- even as far away form it as I have been- has convinced me that I really have no desire to live in a days drive from the beach.

ColdFront77 · #47 Postby **ColdFront77** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:09 pm

Not in the immediate future, I relocated to Florida from Massachusetts in June 2000.

st pete walt · #48 Postby **st pete walt** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:14 pm

Nope, 6 weeks of bad weather and now we have 46 weeks for the beach life, can't get any better than this. Just remember and make that call to our northern friends/family in January and remind them what it's like in Florida then! 8-)

yzerfan · #49 Postby **yzerfan** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:17 pm

We figure we're staying here for the next 25 years or so until retirement. After that, maybe move a bit further south to the Sarasota-Tampa area because it gets kind of cold here in the winter. Or maybe Palm Springs or Tuscon- sometimes I can feel the calling of the mountains and those places have sufficiently warm winters.

I just can't see going back tothe Midwest and its seven months of constant slush where so matter whatyou do, your socks keep getting all wet.

Anonymous · #50 Postby **Anonymous** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 4:34 pm

To all of you who want to live in Florida, I wish you the very best. I hope you enjoy your beaches and excellent weather, and that you never, ever get another hurricane. I hope your homes stay safe and that you have great lives.

I have visited Florida before - great place to visit - but I will never live there. I guess I just can't take the heat.

There are only 2 places I'd like to live. Northern Labrador where they easily get 30 feet of snow in a single winter season, or about 9500 feet up in the Rockies somewhere where snow falls by the meter in many, many storms each winter.

I LOVE to scrape ice and snow off my windshield. I'd have my driveway made 50 feet wide and about 500 yards long and painted white to reduce heat absorption as much as possible. I'd be shoveling that driveway free of snow after every blizzard!! I do not believe in snow blowers. I believe in construction-grade, square-edged, shovels that I can depend on!! I don't use salt either, I conduct jebwalks on solid ice with ease!

I love winter, the colder, the better. The more snow and ice the better.

Everyone else can enjoy Florida, more power to you

I'll enjoy the frozen white windswept North.

windwatcher · #51 Postby **windwatcher** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:04 pm

I have some friends who just moved to CFL, in May, from another country. They had no idea what a Hurricane really was. After getting 2 in 3 weeks, they think its like a common occurance in Florida, and they learned to deal with it. They currently have no plans to move back.

On the other hand, I had to say good by to several friends including one of my best friends after Hurricane Andrew. Most of them lost their homes and their jobs, and could not take the stress. I was amazed by how many people I knew left South Miami-Dade after the storm. Most of them went to Atlanta, and they said they were glad to get away from the Hurricane.

As for myself, I like it here, and no Hurricane will change that.

#52 Postby **SeaBrz_FL** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:32 pm

Never leaving. East coast FL native; five generations of my family currently live in the state, and I'm in the middle generation, so kinda responsible for many of them.

However, based on the number of "For Sale" signs going up daily in my area, many must be considering leaving.

Ripopgodazippa · #53 Postby **Ripopgodazippa** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:37 pm

Two homes, both in Florida...
Could never leave my home state.

Although Hawaii would be tempting.

birdwomn · #54 Postby **birdwomn** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 6:44 pm

I'll never say never, and I do understand why there are many people, and there are many who want to leave Florida now....but for me,
Florida is simply home.

It is not "paradise", although it has some GREAT features that we all know about, but it has nasty bugs and gets too hot and has hurricane season, but it is still home for me and my family and always has been.

#55 Postby **Downdraft** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:07 pm

HELL NO. I'm not going anywhere.

jor71 · #56 Postby **jor71** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:16 pm

We moved to South Florida about 6 Months after 9/11 (just couldn't bare to look at ground zero every day, anymore) and I love it here. I sometimes imagine what if I moved here when I was a teenager....man, would I have gotten in so much trouble. I plan on staying here and hopefully live a long and prosperous life as a Floridian.

Dee Bee · #57 Postby **Dee Bee** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:28 pm

Gosh, no. We moved to SE FL a little over 4 years ago (job opportunity) after spending our entire lives (50 yrs.) in the Midwest. Even after Frances and Jeanne, we still marvel that we actually live in such a great place!

Ixolib · #58 Postby **Ixolib** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 7:54 pm

We're still trying to figure out how to move IN!! Looking to relocate to SW Florida in the very near future... Anybody looking for a house in Biloxi?? :wink:

JenyEliza · #59 Postby **JenyEliza** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 8:00 pm

Dee Bee wrote:Gosh, no. We moved to SE FL a little over 4 years ago (job opportunity) after spending our entire lives (50 yrs.) in the Midwest. Even after Frances and Jeanne, we still marvel that we actually live in such a great place!

You sound just like my parents. They moved us to Atlanta from Northern Virginia in 1968 because of a job opportunity my Dad couldn't turn down. I was 5 at the time we came to Atlanta. They raised their 4 kids here, we vacationed in FL every summer, and they dreamt, saved and planned for the day when we were all on our own and they could finally move to FL. In 1999 they sold the house I grew up in, packed everything up and settled into their hard-earned dream home in Cent. FL (Volusia Cty).

I tease them that they can always come back home to Atlanta...but their answer is much the same as yours. Even with the Hurricanes, the bugs, the heat and all...they still marvel at the fact they finally made their dream come true. They live in FL and they're staying put!!

Jeny

Seadog · #60 Postby **Seadog** » Thu Sep 30, 2004 8:26 pm

If it bites, we got it !
I've done the Northeast, Northwest, Mid-West, and California.
Florida rules.

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