ttystikk
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Actually it sounds ideal. Neighbors make or break a place.
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cindysid
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Yes, they do, and I have some great ones...like family. My oldest daughter loved the neighborhood so much she bought a place about 1/4 mile away. It's pretty cheap living here too if you own your own place. Fishing is good too.
greg nr
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fishing all day and smoking all night sounds like heaven to me... just have to throw away the corporate cuffs..... as soon as kid'o is out of cullige.....
cindysid
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My oldest son is 42 and chained to corporate life also. I told him the other day he needs to invest in some property down here. For one thing you never know when the shit is going to hit the fan...best to have a home paid for, no matter how humble. At least I can grow most of what I eat and all of what I smoke right here.
ttystikk
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How high above sea level is your property? I was under the impression that a several foot sea level rise would be a catastrophic event for much of South Florida.
When I talked to my friends and family back in Colorado, my favorite joke about Deerfield Beach was that if I ever found myself more than ten feet above sea level I had to be on the second floor of SOMETHING!
A ten foot elevation change in Colorado is trivial. Down there it's significant, and rare.
BarnBuster
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so, you don't really worry too much about hurricanes/storm surge? just figure what happens, happens? that's the big reason i couldn't get myself to retire there.
ttystikk
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Those aren't a concern if you're far enough inland... Until the sea level itself rises, that is.
cindysid
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Hurricane Charley was the first hurricane to hit here since 1960, and we've had nothing since. Several family members still live in Arkansas where I'm from. My youngest brother and his wife were killed 6 years ago in a tornado there. At least with hurricanes, you have ample warning before it hits. I see the flooding, earthquakes, wildfires, drought, etc. all over the country. The weather here is great. During the Winter it's damn near perfect and even in the Summer, it's often cooler here than it is much further north.
ttystikk
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I lived in Little Rock, Arkansas for three years and on three different occasions tornadoes touched down and did damage within a mile of my house... Which of course was on a slab, as basements are rare there.
Fuck that place.
cindysid
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My property is 14 feet above sea level. Global warming does concern me, that's for sure, but I feel safer here than I would many other places. There has only been 2 major storms here in the last 60 years. My youngest daughter just moved back to Colorado. She sends me pics and begs me to consider moving there. I plan to make a visit, but I would never survive a Winter there. It's also cooler here here in the Summer than it is there in many cases. I'm in my 60's, so with any luck I'll be dead of old age before the big flood! lol
BarnBuster
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cool site for daily, worldwide weather "extremes". it's always worse somewhere else.
http://coolwx.com/extreme/
http://coolwx.com/extreme/
ttystikk
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Who knew the world's hottest measurement was in Hawaii??
sandhill larry
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June, July and August are my big three as far as rainfall. Over 7 inches a month. September is about 4.5 inches, then it drops to 3 for October and November. But last year we did not get a drop in October or November. I lost a good quarter of my plants in the Darwin Dope patches.
sandhill larry
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I made a passing remark to some of my Tampa cousins about them getting up here and buying land. I just said, "they ain't making no more dirt."
About a year later my cousin said her husband talks about that all the time. About how they have got to get out of the city and get their own piece of dirt. Yet they continue to live above their income, so I figure talk is all it will be for a while.
sandhill larry
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June, July and August are also my hottest months. With the average high/low of 91/69, 92/72 and 92/72.
cindysid
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I've always stressed the importance of home ownership to my kids. I'm not talking about saddling yourself with a 30 year mortgage either. I have never financed anything over 15 years, and I sold that and paid cash for my properties. Unless the Gulf of Mexico washes me away, I will always have a home, no matter how humble.
cindysid
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BRRRR! I would stay in bed!
sandhill larry
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It was a little cooler in Larry Land today. At 1620 it's partly cloudy, 85F with 39% humidity. Our high was 88F, and tonight's forecast calls for a low of 65F with 20% chance of rain.