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Got the Contributing Memberships stuff finally worked out and made up a thread as a sort of "How-To" to help people figure out how to participate. So if you need help figuring it out, here's the thread you need to take a look at -> http://www.corvetteflorida.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3581 Thank you, everyone! Rich Z.
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What kind of work do you do?
It is like a roller coaster. Inflation is surely going to push prices way out of reach of most buyers, and the real estate business cannot survive without sales commissions. And sellers normally have a reason for selling, often one that is non-negotiable. Divorce, lost job for one or both wage earners, etc. Often they just NEED to unload that mortgage on their shoulders, even if it means just walking away from the house they are paying on.
The Biden (and democrat friends) brain dead guidance to the economy is sinking this country pretty quickly. The country just cannot survive with the amount of debt it has and is adding to every year. Government IOUs (money) will become worthless, as has happened to other countries in the past. You just cannot just keep on printing up money to pay the bills like there is no tomorrow. Any country that converts from a gold to fiat economy is writing it's own obituary on their gravestone. It is great for the government to be able to print money at will, but terrible for the citizens of that country because they are the ones who ultimately have the check left on their side of the table as the government exits the table.
When will people learn that the only way the democrats can run a country is into the ground?
85vette
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We bought an RV and lived in it for a few years until we found what we were looking for. That might be an option worth looking into. That way you could get a good price for your house while the market is hot.
I remember reading not that long ago that RVs were VERY hot commodities because of COVID. People wanted to travel but didn't want to be staying in motels and hotels where who knows who was staying in that same room just the night before. People were saying that even though sellers had RVs on the lots, they were all pre-sold, just waiting for owners to pick them up.
Of course, things might have cooled down by now, but I would guess that eventually the used RV market is going to be flooded.
As for rain, we got 0.65" here today.
Yellow flies seem to be on the way out. But I think skeeters may be on the way in.
CHASZ51
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Contract work for myself. Would love to live up where you do or anyplace out of the way with little people or traffic. I knew it was gonna be another dry summer for me.
Seems to me that with that sort of work, you really could live where ever you want to. Unless that contract work needs supplies that are hard to come by, or something else about it limits the area you need to live in or near.
When I decided to move down to Florida, I had the reptile breeding business. I needed to have access to shipping so I could deliver what I sold to remote buyers. I also had to start up my own mouse breeding colony because the person that was breeding mice in Maryland that I used as a source, wasn't moving with me. That in itself was a major headache. Then I needed all sorts of supplies that were pretty specific in nature. I moved down here by myself while Connie remained up in Maryland so we would have one income while I tried to get things established down here. I had to have a full time job, since the reptile business was nowhere near close to being able to earn enough income. Eventually, yeah, but it took a while.
I guess my point is that you can probably move where ever you really want to. Might be a struggle, but if it's what you REALLY want to do, you can probably make it work.
CHASZ51
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This area never gets much rain anymore. Now that we have a west flow most of the summer anyone living 2 miles from the gulf almost never gets anything as showers build up east of us and move away toward the east coast. Our winters see less and less rain as we don't get as many fronts anymore and i would plan on it being 80-s 90's year round within 30 years at the rate of the heating.
I hate our weather most of the year. I want my cold winters back like we saw in the 1980's.
Heck when Connie and I first moved down here we would sometimes get lows in the low 20s and even into the teens. Not any more. And this whole area was under a severe drought condition. Which was kind of cool, because all the swampy areas were high and dry with really cool looking cypress trees and their knees sticking out of the sand. That has changed, too.
So for me, right here, things seem to be getting better, weather wise. Warmer winters, and wetter years, all in all. Of course, skeeters can be a problem, but even they haven't been as bad as we saw here 15 or so years ago. I remember having mosquito magnets out and filling up a 5 gallon bucket three quarters full with dead mosquitoes caught in those traps. There would be clouds of mosquitoes completely surrounding all of those traps. We don't see that any more, neither (thank God!).
So maybe just the little niche Connie and I live in, but all in all, this area seems to be improving. Of course, other people might be seeing that too, as there is development going on throughout the county. Our 50 acres can only shield us from so much, I guess.
So for me, right here, things seem to be getting better, weather wise. Warmer winters, and wetter years, all in all. Of course, skeeters can be a problem, but even they haven't been as bad as we saw here 15 or so years ago. I remember having mosquito magnets out and filling up a 5 gallon bucket three quarters full with dead mosquitoes caught in those traps. There would be clouds of mosquitoes completely surrounding all of those traps. We don't see that any more, neither (thank God!).
So maybe just the little niche Connie and I live in, but all in all, this area seems to be improving. Of course, other people might be seeing that too, as there is development going on throughout the county. Our 50 acres can only shield us from so much, I guess.
CHASZ51
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Tampa saw lows of 19f to 24f year after year in the 1980's.
85vette
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Yeah, we needed that. Pretty crispy up here. The airport in Tallahassee got over 3 inches in one hour!
This area of Wakulla County I live in used to be farmland, according to some locals we talked to. I think the lack of rain here in the Spring, when farmers need it the most, is what chased them out of here.
Then tropical storms would bring it in by the buckets full.
Getting 10 inches of rain a month looks good on paper until you find out that it came all in one day.
Then tropical storms would bring it in by the buckets full.
Getting 10 inches of rain a month looks good on paper until you find out that it came all in one day.