Then you have to buy/rent a place to live, at the same market rates. You gain nothing. I get realtors calls almost daily wanting to buy or list my house, but where am I going to live that's cheaper (and still nice)?
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Then you have to buy/rent a place to live, at the same market rates. You gain nothing. I get realtors calls almost daily wanting to buy or list my house, but where am I going to live that's cheaper (and still nice)?
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I like your neighborhood, it looks spacious, the houses aren't piled up on top of each other and you get along with other people on your street, right? There's always a chance wherever you end up you won't like the people and the houses will be too close together. She knows that the housing market is starting to slow down, right? It was a seller's market and not so much anymore...but I thought you two were thinking of moving to PA?
Agreed.
Babies and diapers…that occupies no part of my world or thought process.
We’d be doing some serious downsizing, so we should still come out ahead.
We’re not doing anything fast, though. I’m just riding the wave of MrsT’s excitement in order to get some things done. When we painted the kitchen, she was moaning about having to buy four gallons of paint. Paint is about the cheapest home improvement thing you can do.
Now, she’s ready to pony up money for paint, blinds, and carpet in the living room and hallway. I’m striking while the bank is open!
The one we talk to, more or less yes. That’s the best thing about our neighborhood - we all keep to ourselves.
It changes daily between PA and FL.
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Trust me, you don't want to live in Florida. All my friends back home complain about the cost of hurricane and flood insurance, along with everything else, and with global warming, the storms are going to become more and more frequent, so there's a good chance that much of the coastal areas will be underwater in the next decade. Oh, and it's very red there. Not just rednecks, but lots of republicans. People in my town not so much (I lived in a beach resort town with lots of democrats) but in many other parts, yes. Just as bad as Ohio in that respect. Oh, and the mosquitos and no-seeums. UGH. The palmetto bugs (almost the length of my little finger), which people often mistake for cockroaches, are everywhere and even the tidiest people can't keep them out of their houses. And the temperatures in the summer, OMG yeah so hot and humid, absolutely miserable. Worse if you live inland as there is a bit of a breeze in the coastal communities (I lived in NW Florida so not as bad as say Miami or Key West). I could go on and on and on...Babies and diapers…that occupies no part of my world or thought process.
We’d be doing some serious downsizing, so we should still come out ahead.
We’re not doing anything fast, though. I’m just riding the wave of MrsT’s excitement in order to get some things done. When we painted the kitchen, she was moaning about having to buy four gallons of paint. Paint is about the cheapest home improvement thing you can do.
Now, she’s ready to pony up money for paint, blinds, and carpet in the living room and hallway. I’m striking while the bank is open!
The one we talk to, more or less yes. That’s the best thing about our neighborhood - we all keep to ourselves.
It changes daily between PA and FL.
Oh, and what I do love about it that you would absolutely detest? The huge number of seafood restaurants! Sure, there are steaks, burgers, pizza and chicken on some of the menus, but seafood is prevalent and you would have to smell it cooking while eating your land animals, which I imagine you would not like.
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Oh, I’m quite familiar with Florida, I’ve got a good bit of family spread around the state, and it’s the state I’ve spent the most time in without actually haven’t lived in it.
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Me too, my oldest brother lives in MacClenney (30 minutes inland from Jacksonville), my nephews are in Fernindina Beach, Panama City, and Orlando, one sister lives in Tallahassee, my husband's cousins are in Tampa, and then I have friends all over the state, but primarily in Destin.
I have spent a lot of time in Texas without ever having lived there. One sister and her son in Austin, my brother and his wife in Houson, and cousins/aunts (and deceased uncles, aunts, grandmothers and grandfathers buried) in Port Arthur and towns close by.
Florida, my aunt lives on St. George Island (uncle too, but he’s dead now) and has done since I was a kid, and all their kids have lived there full or part-time for the last few decades.
I have another uncle and his family in Tallahassee, and MrsT’s BFF has lived in Tampa since she graduated high school. Her folks retired to Winter Haven and lived there for about 10 years before he died and she had to relocate due to dementia. We have enough friends in their retirement park that when she/we go down to Florida to this day, we still visit them.
Matter of fact, now that I think of it, MrsT was in the process of moving to Florida when we met and I talked her out of that nonsense. Little did I know I was just delaying it 35 years.
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Be as quiet as possible (back still very bad) but mandatory for today is
Be as quiet as possible (back still very bad) but mandatory for today is
- Wood chopping and bringing into house otherwise no heat and it's a cloudy 2°C here so no solar warmth.
- Shower (still no heating in bathroom, it hasn't been fixed yet)
- Take hubby to doctors 45 minutes away.
- Ignore the chooks. They have to have a day in today (which just means an area bigger than most UK sized backyards, rather than being able to free range. The electric fence fences in about 250m² not iincluding their roost.)
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When you get to our age downsizing is probable. My wife wants to sell our home and go smaller. I'm fighting and winning at this stage.
We have spent 20k on it to make it desirable. Just the 2 of us in a house that can sleep 6 to 8 people.
I'll stay here as long as I can climb the stairs.
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We have spent 20k on it to make it desirable. Just the 2 of us in a house that can sleep 6 to 8 people.
I'll stay here as long as I can climb the stairs.
Russ
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I love St. George. When I was going to school in Tallahassee we used to go there. It's lovely. I imagine it's grown quite a bit since I lived there 40 years ago, LOL, but fond memories.Florida, my aunt lives on St. George Island (uncle too, but he’s dead now) and has done since I was a kid, and all their kids have lived there full or part-time for the last few decades.
I have another uncle and his family in Tallahassee, and MrsT’s BFF has lived in Tampa since she graduated high school. Her folks retired to Winter Haven and lived there for about 10 years before he died and she had to relocate due to dementia. We have enough friends in their retirement park that when she/we go down to Florida to this day, we still visit them.
Matter of fact, now that I think of it, MrsT was in the process of moving to Florida when we met and I talked her out of that nonsense. Little did I know I was just delaying it 35 years.
Florida is a great place to visit, but we both know it's not a great place to live (anymore). It was actually a great place to grow up in the 60s and 70s and still fun throughout the 80s, but that ship has sailed...good think you talked your wife out of it the 1st time. Hopefully she will vacillate more towards the PA move. PA is gorgeous and the people are quite nice!
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That's what we did with this house, downsize. We really didn't need an 1800+ square foot home, but the best that we could find was a about 1500 square. The homes around us are selling for TWICE what we paid 7 years ago and my DH is hot to trot to sell.
Yeah, but like caseydog said, then what?
I really do not want to live in an apartment again, like we did when we were young and renting.
I like my outdoor space for a nice patio furniture set, my gorgeous SS gas grill/bbq and a small plot of land that is ours.
We had a hard enough time finding this place, I don't want to give it up, and I can't see a big profit once we find another place.
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Yeah, and moving is a PITA. Making it into your home, all those lovely finishing personal touches...if you sell it chances are whoever buys it is going to undo what you did, just knowing that would be disappointing!
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Buying my current home almost cost out marriage. She didn't like this place but I could see what I could do with it.
In the end I said I'm buying and moving. Come or dont come. She came and I did the changes.
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Glad she came to her senses!
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Agreed!
The larger home that we sold in Southern Arizona was a show-stopper! I put alot of time, effort and thought into making that home how I wanted it for a change. For most of our married life, we scrimped and saved and had just enough to be comfortable in our home in Hawaii (it's uber expensive there!).
When I started the renovations in that previous home in S.AZ , neighbors would just drop by to see what I had done.
We sold that house for 3x's what we paid for it and the gal that bought it tore everything out !!!!!!
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