Floridians - will you relocate?

wolffeeder · #61 Postby **wolffeeder** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:03 am

I'm always considering relocating away from Florida. One of the several factors that keeps me here is I might miss a hurricane. Now, after two, I am satiated with them big storms for a while.

Twister29 · #62 Postby **Twister29** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 4:12 pm

Florida is a nice place to visit, but i would never live there. The year long hot humid weather, along with tropical systems, would make it unbearable to me. I've seen more women walk around florida with more plywood than purses!!! Besides i love waking up christmas morning smelling crisp cool air. I guess if i was a native floridian, my opinion would be different. I just hope you guys don't get hit with any hurricanes this year. We all agree you've had more than enough.

wxwatcher2 · #63 Postby **wxwatcher2** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 5:44 pm

Lived in Fla since I was a about a year old,
The thing that would eventually force me to move is not the weather, it's that this state is becoming more and more crowded and the roads are horrible.
Sure, it's nice to have amusment parks and tons of entertainment and sandy beaches but if you can't get to them, what good is it.

Truthfully, I'm ready for more of a fall and winter season. The Carolina's would be nice.
Again, if and when I move it won't be because of the storms.

Guest · #64 Postby **Guest** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 6:20 pm

wxwatcher2 wrote:Lived in Fla since I was a about a year old,
The thing that would eventually force me to move is not the weather,it's that this state is becoming more and more crowded and the roads are horrible.
Sure, it's nice to have amusment parks and tons of entertainment and sandy beaches but if you can't get to them, what good is it.

Truthfully, I'm ready for more of a fall and winter season. The Carolina's would be nice.
Again, if and when I move it won't be because of the storms.

Yep & its for that reason I hope lots of people do relocate outta here.

Hopefully some snowbirds will trade their plywood for snowshoes & head back north.

I think a few more landfalls next season will help alleviate this congestion.

Guest · #65 Postby **Guest** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 6:38 pm

Sanibel wrote:I'll relocate only if it is further into the tropics into a more hurricane-prone area...

There's a small rock outcrop south of the Cayman's in the Caribbean I'd love to fill with rock and make an island right in the middle of the Carribean alley...

Why would you do that???I am a lurker @ TWC & I saw that you evacuated to Miami when Charley came a callin..If you really love hurricanes so much why didnt you stay in SW Fla..Maybe you had to leave your home if it was in a evac zone but I still would have stayed in the area..

FloridaGirl · #66 Postby **FloridaGirl** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:15 pm

I have lived here for about 35 years and would really like to leave, not because of the storms, but because I want something different. Would like to experience the different seasons other than being hot or being cold. I yearn for the mountains of Tennessee or north Georgia or Alabama.

JenyEliza · #67 Postby **JenyEliza** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:25 pm

FloridaGirl wrote:I have lived here for about 35 years and would really like to leave, not because of the storms, but because I want something different. Would like to experience the different seasons other than being hot or being cold. I yearn for the mountains of Tennessee or north Georgia or Alabama.

Just FYI...the N. GA mountains can be down right chilly even at the height of summer. They're also known to catch the worst of our winters (think lots of ice storms)....but they can't be beat for fall foliage, great views, nice lakeside vacation homes, good fishing and water skiing.

Unfortunately, if you want to live there year round, you'll have to go as far south as Atlanta to find a job that pays what you would need to make in order buy/rent even the most modest of mountain abodes. The real estate market up there is HOT, HOT, HOT.

Which makes me wish my grandmother had not sold our family's lake house in Blairsville after my grandfather died in 1974. DAARNN...if we still had that place (house on the lake, private dock, 10 acres), it would be worth a couple of million now. Not kidding.

{sigh} Oh well....them's the breaks.

Jeny

hibiscushouse · #68 Postby **hibiscushouse** » Fri Oct 01, 2004 9:54 pm

Lived in Fla since I was a about a year old,
The thing that would eventually force me to move is not the weather, it's that this state is becoming more and more crowded and the roads are horrible.

Don't leave. We need more of the like to stay then leave. Those that remember what Gulf to Bay blvd used to be like before it became a 20 mph in a 40 mph speed zone (was more like a highway years ago). Those that appreciate the Mom and Pop's and little beach towns before they became for profit only. I watch the development and, at times, it breaks my heart to think it'll never be like it was when I was young. That is unless we have a few more tropical years like we've had this year.

Scoot'em on out.....!!!!
I love the mountains too. Such a different world than here. It's a heck of a lot less expensive to pay for a week in the mountains than it would be to pay for a vacation rental on a yearly basis up there......is what I keep telling myself.
And about the heat.........in all these years.........I still ain't used to it. That's why God invented air conditioning!!! At least in my little world he did.

But I've never been so dang burn hot as I was when I was 6 months pregnant and visiting New Jersey in the summer when it was over 100 degrees and people were dying all over Philly. Thank goodness my husband's grandfather believed in a wall unit, or I'd been in a hotel in a heart beat. It took my dang breath away. At least at home, I've got a Gulf breeze too bring it on with.

NativeGirlShaun · #69 Postby **NativeGirlShaun** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 4:48 pm

Been here all my life - not going anywhere. Besides, I'd miss all the frogs and mosquitos.

#70 Postby **fci** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 5:54 pm

Ask the question in the winter when it is 75 in the afternoon and 60 at night.
Ask when there is an ice storm up north, rain all day up north and you have to bundle up just to get your morning paper.
THEN, you will realize why we do not relocate.
Here in South Florida, we did get two landfalling hurricanes in the past 3 weeks.
That was after 5 in the past 44 years; Donna, Betsy, Cleo, David and Andrew......

CharleySurvivor · #71 Postby **CharleySurvivor** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 6:04 pm

I was thinking of relocating but after much thinking, I might move somehwere where there are other types od natural disaster so...I will stay right here.

Afterall, I am ready for the next cane/season, I've gotten use to them and know what to expect

CFL · #72 Postby **CFL** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 7:41 pm

Well after some lengthy discussion with my husband, we have decided to stay. I have aging parents here, and my kids are their only grandkids. He did promise me a trip to Dollywood in eastern Tennessee next fall break so I can experience some of that fall foilage and mountains I long for. I probably do get more of a taste of winter here in the northwestern panhandle than most of yall, so I can't complain too bad on that account.

Troi · #73 Postby **Troi** » Sat Oct 02, 2004 10:32 pm

I've lived here in Florida since I was 4 years old. I'm not moving, unless my husband gets transferred for work. I do have to admit though, the idea of hauling butt has crossed my mind. It entered my mind sometime during the Jeanne when the tree came crashing toward the house. (It missed, Thank God).

#74 Postby **alicia-w** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:43 am

We've been dreaming of moving back to Arizona since April 1st, 1998. We moved here on March 14, 1998. That's how long it took for the allure to wear off. We were transferred here, so it wasnt like we had a lot of choices, but now I've had enough. It isnt just the storms either. But by this time next year, I expect to be sitting in my pool in SE AZ.

JoanFlorida · #75 Postby **JoanFlorida** » Sun Oct 03, 2004 11:29 pm

Funny you mention Arizona...I doubt many true Floridians will consider moving, but I was kinda hoping the current and future snowbirds would be scared off and head for Arizona! Sunshine and no real weather, right? Well, maybe the occasional dust storm, but big deal.

I'm stayin' put...50+ years and counting! 8-)

Those who don't protect their property is a big "soap box" issue for me. I believe also those who do protect get an insurance discount AND a tax break for money spent...Just for the materials to cover windows was $500.

By the way, Persepone, there are very strict hurricane codes for building new construction in Florida that went into place after Andrew. It's the older homes and FREQUENTLY mobile homes, or "manufactured homes" that suffer the most damage. That's my other soap box issue...Either demand stricter building codes for mobile homes or just outlaw them in Florida! So dangerous and many retirees don't realize what they are getting into when they move into one...they think it's just inexpensive housing and don't consider the consequences...we have a great deal of thunderstorms and tornadoes that just rip these homes apart. Not only do I feel for the poor families who are affected, but it really does hurt the rest of us who opt for more secure dwellings.

#76 Postby **alicia-w** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:10 am

No real weather in AZ? OUCH! It has more ecosystems in one state than any other. It isnt all desert. I went to NAU (go lumberjacks) and there were days we had to snowshoe to class because of all the snow!!

There are monsoons, hellatious thunderstorms, fog,rain, hail, snow, tornadoes. Heck, some parts even get affected by hurricanes.

But it sure is a lot prettier to live in than flat ole Florida covered in those nasty stick pine trees. UGH!

JoanFlorida · #77 Postby **JoanFlorida** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 9:16 am

Wow...I had no idea about the diversity of Arizona's weather! Thanks for enlightening me...I even have a brother in Phoenix and he never tells me about any of these things...only dust storms!

I figured thunderstorms are a given everywhere, some more vocal than others. Didn't even think about snow though!

I suppose this is another place for the old addage, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." I don't know anything about Niceville (west coast??) but where I live has a beautiful ocean, swaying palms, huge oaks and stately pine trees...yes, it is flat, but there is a bit of diversity in north Florida and the panhandle with hills and more varied foliage.

Everyone feels at home in different places and will stick it out through thick and thin. Personally, I love the dry climate and the creative, adventurous feeling I get when visiting friends in California. I would love to live there but no way would I even consider it as long as earthquakes and fires were a possibility. Other people feel the same about Florida and hurricanes.

Truthfully tho'...the way politics are going in this country, I have joked about moving to Canada. My husband even suggested we vacation in Edmonton this winter to see what it's like. We have friends in Toronto who love it, but winter in Fla. We could become the snowbirds we love so much!!! 8-)

#78 Postby **BocaGirl** » Mon Oct 04, 2004 4:23 pm

Relocate? Not a chance. Florida is my home.

BocaGirl
Barbara

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