Remind me to not move to Florida

[Barefootdog]

I accept Florida for what it is.
I like Florida...even in the summer months.
Just live near the beach.

August and September in the Willamette Valley have become unbearable.

But the Libtard cancer is growing in Florida as well.

Now, Georgia on the other hand is a different experience.
Georgia is a seriously inbred and committed to ignorance and openly proud of both.
The Atlanta metro area may be the real 7th Circle of Hell.

NZ seems pretty leftest.....or so it seems from media feeds.

I'd happily move to a couple of ocean front Florida areas.

 

[The Heretic]

And you live in or near PORTLAND? Please.

I live 30 miles WSW of Portland on 16 acres on a rural forested mountain. I rarely go into Portland proper - maybe 3-4 times a year, to buy a gun or ammo or something. Last time I went into downtown Portland was about 2 years ago.

I list PDX as my approx. location because most people know where that is, but the closest city to me is Newberg (on the other side of the mountain) - not many people know where Bald Peak or Chehalem is.

 

[The Heretic]

NZ seems pretty leftest.....or so it seems from media feeds.

It is, but the south island has more sheep than people, and they still hunt there (both islands) - feral farm animals (cows and pigs) and pests (possums/etc.) and wildlife (Red stag, etc.).

 

[robertvarner]

Fair enough. Does that have any correlation with Florida being a Red state? Or is it just the heat/humidity?

Personally I think that Florida is an absolutely wonderful state... and that all the Californians should move there (instead of here)!

Maybe it's the media again, concentrating on the worst possible news they can find to paint Florida as a worse state than the nirvana that exists on California. Eh?

 

[trevi]

Not really. The NZD == 0.63 USD. When you add it up, the costs in USD are about the same as here. For the cost of my mortgage ($1900 USD) I can rent a decent place in the countryside for $3000 NZD.

Okay, i was going by an article i read about specialised workers going there to fill in (medical field) and the travellers stated COL was spendy, among other factors. Anyhoo, i aim to hunt there some day.

I'd like to suggest South America too, Argentina, Uraguay, Chile and Paraguay. Also, Ecuador uses the US Dollar, fyi.

 

[The Heretic]

Okay, i was going by an article i read about specialised workers going there to fill in (medical field) and the travellers stated COL was spendy, among other factors. Anyhoo, i aim to hunt there some day.

I'd like to suggest South America too, Argentina, Uraguay, Chile and Paraguay. Also, Ecuador uses the US Dollar, fyi.

COL if you live in the main city in the north island is very high.

I don't live in cities and I don't travel to see them, or people or "culture" or architecture, etc. - I travel to see the countryside and mostly to go place where I can relax or explore in solitude. I am retired, and I don't need to work - I haven't really worked for three years (except one short 5 week stint about 2 years ago). I have enough SS income to live on for now, and two IRAs that I haven't touched since I retired.

I have never traveled overseas, so my first attempt at that would be to someplace where English is the main language spoken and culture not too different from the USA.

 

[edzz]

I don't know why. And I don't want to move there to find out why.

Besides, they have huge alligators and larger snakes that eat the alligators and swamps and stuff.

Spent the mid '70's serving in north Florida attached to the Flying Gators VMA-142 (should have stayed), good food and some decent people.

The alligators never worried me in Florida.

One thing I've always wondered though is if those gators in the new york sewers, ya know the ones people buy as pets than dump in the storm drain when they're no longer cute, do they taste the same as those in Florida?

 

[oremike]

I live 30 miles WSW of Portland on 16 acres on a rural forested mountain. I rarely go into Portland proper - maybe 3-4 times a year, to buy a gun or ammo or something. Last time I went into downtown Portland was about 2 years ago.

I list PDX as my approx. location because most people know where that is, but the closest city to me is Newberg (on the other side of the mountain) - not many people know where Bald Peak or Chehalem is.

I spent many a paycheck tipping the girls at the Midway Tavern close to 35 years ago. I'm sure that place doesn't exist anymore. Midway between Newburg and Hillsboro.

 

[trevi]

COL if you live in the main city in the north island is very high.

I don't live in cities and I don't travel to see them, or people or "culture" or architecture, etc. - I travel to see the countryside and mostly to go place where I can relax or explore in solitude. I am retired, and I don't need to work - I haven't really worked for three years (except one short 5 week stint about 2 years ago). I have enough SS income to live on for now, and two IRAs that I haven't touched since I retired.

I have never traveled overseas, so my first attempt at that would be to someplace where English is the main language spoken and culture not too different from the USA.

Well, since you have the means, please travel more. It is my first love!

 

[trevi]

Spent the mid '70's serving in north Florida attached to the Flying Gators VMA-142 (should have stayed), good food and some decent people.

The alligators never worried me in Florida.

One thing I've always wondered though is if those gators in the new york sewers, ya know the ones people buy as pets than dump in the storm drain when they're no longer cute, do they taste the same as those in Florida?

I would not hazard it.

 

[The Heretic]

I spent many a paycheck tipping the girls at the Midway Tavern close to 35 years ago. I'm sure that place doesn't exist anymore. Midway between Newburg and Hillsboro.

Midway Pizza next to the fire station?

I go by their occasionally if I am going into Hillsboro, otherwise I go thru Scholls to get into Beaverton. I grew up in Scholls (not the Scholls Road strip malls, the little farming community out near Midway).

 

[The Heretic]

Well, since you have the means, please travel more. It is my first love!

I intend to - as soon as I sell my property. Maybe sooner if I don't sell this year.

 

[oremike]

Midway Pizza next to the fire station?

I go by their occasionally if I am going into Hillsboro, otherwise I go thru Scholls to get into Beaverton. I grew up in Scholls (not the Scholls Road strip malls, the little farming community out near Midway).

It might be a pizza place now if it's even the same building but back in the day it was a Biker run Tittie bar. I used to buy Beer at the Petricks Market in Scholls. I used my Guam drivers license and they'd stare at the red license with a Palm tree on it and sell me the beer enthralled with it and forgetting to look at the date that said I was only 19.

 

[ma96782]

Aloha, Mark

 

[Stomper]

I miss Crockett & Tubs….

 

[The Heretic]

It might be a pizza place now if it's even the same building but back in the day it was a Biker run Tittie bar. I used to buy Beer at the Petricks Market in Scholls. I used my Guam drivers license and they'd stare at the red license with a Palm tree on it and sell me the beer enthralled with it and forgetting to look at the date that said I was only 19.

There is a pizza shop there on right on the corner next to the fire station.



When I was young I would ride my bicycle down to Petrich's store before it burned down and they replaced it what is there now. When it had the gas pumps out front almost touching the road. When the floors inside were so warped you had to be careful walking across it - they had a couple grocery carts that you could hardly move across the floor.

I grew up on the farm just above Groner's Elementary school. Three generations of my family farmed there. The big brick house and the white house - both built by the Groners until my grandparents inherited it.

 

[Old Dog]

As much as I dislike Florida (the wife grew up in Hialeah and Miami), and as much time as I've spent there, I have to say I am still considering the state as a possible retirement destination. I have family in Davie and like Southern college football.

The damn hurricane thing is a tad worrisome (one of the wife's BFFs has had to rebuild her beach house three times), but I can deal with humidity and mosquitoes, so long as my RKBA is being respected.

 

[L84Cabo]

I don't know why. And I don't want to move there to find out why.

Besides, they have huge alligators and larger snakes that eat the alligators and swamps and stuff.

Don't forget it's really hurricane-y down there too.

 

[Nosferatu]

Don't move to Florida.

When should the next reminder be set?

 

[gmerkt]

Florida consists of so many varied regions that you have quite a choice of what kind of place you might want to live in there.

There is zero chance I'd move to Florida. When I moved to Washington state 37 years ago, I was moving to a place I'd want to retire in. Even with all the change that has taken place during that time, I'm right where I want to be in retirement.