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The Florida Exodus has begun!

I spent 10 years in West Virginia,I loved living there but it was really hard to find a good job,so now I am in Minnesota.

From here it's on to Alaska in 2012 or so,my advantage is I don't care to own property so no school or property taxes for me.And no car payments or kids or expensive wives.......:guinness:
 
FAC257 said:
Navy Chief

Most of the ones your seeing move into that area are probably not real Floridians. They are what we call "half-backs". These are the folks who originally moved from up north to retire here in Fla and then because of the very reasons stated in this thread they move back out. But because they don't want to go all the way back up to where they came from they only go part way to the Tenn, NC, SC and the north Georgia area. Thus the name "half-backs". FAC
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Exactly. Most of them are from either NY or NJ. Easy to tell once they start talking.......And I must add that they often have somewhat of an "attitude".

NC
 
WELL, I'd have to say I'm one of those "Transplants" from up north!!! I'm not a true Floridian - I still don't wear a sweater / jacket below 70 degrees!!!!!!! lol

Moved down here to Florida from New Hampshire almost 6 years ago - got tired of shoveling the white stuff!!! I too drink bottled water - don't like the taste of the local stuff!!

I do have to say that I do have a good job which I've had since 2 months after moving here however I've come to the conclusion that it's not any cheaper to live down here than it was up north!! Along with that, I also find that the pay scales are insulting!!!! After 5 years I'm still not near what I made up north - just have to work more hours!!

It's sad when you work most of your life to reach a certain plateau - and you decide to move thinking it's for the better - and you apply for jobs and the only response you get is "your over qualified and this is all we can pay you" - kinda of makes you second guess why the hell you moved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

One of my brothers has been trying to get me to move up to North Carolina however with the current state of affairs (that we're all experiencing), I can't even afford to think about that!!!! lol

On the plus side, I don't miss the extreme cold, I don't miss the white stuff, I like the fact that I can go outside in November / December / January / February / March and mow the grass or wash the car, and I'm still a Patriots / Red Socks / Celtics / Bruins fan!!!!

Bill
 
I lived on Pensacola beach in the 70's for about 4 years. I never got over the Labor day exodus. Sunday before the day, people would be all over, in the parking lots, the stores, on the beach just all over ......
Monday morning, Labor Day ........ Not a car in sight, no body in the parking lots, stores deserted..... only the residents were there...... Everybody just vanished overnight!
 
JoeW said:
I lived on Pensacola beach in the 70's for about 4 years. I never got over the Labor day exodus. Sunday before the day, people would be all over, in the parking lots, the stores, on the beach just all over ......
Monday morning, Labor Day ........ Not a car in sight, no body in the parking lots, stores deserted..... only the residents were there...... Everybody just vanished overnight!
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I loved living in Pensacola from 1990-1993. Nice place. Changed a lot since then; or at least NAS has, due to the influx from when BRAC shut down the aviation maintenance training at Millington. But I will say they did a nice job of constructing the schools at Pensacola.

And I drive down to NAS Pensacola just to see the museum at least once a year.

NC
 
Detroit could probably use some people ... apparently no housing shortages up there, anyway.:wiggle:

Brian
 
I've lived in Pensacola twice. 1976-78 and 1983-85. Went back for a visit in 91 and it had changed a bunch. I probably wouldn't recognize it now.
 
P'Cola had considerable hurricane damage a couple years back. The down turn in the economy didn't help one bit.

NC
 
I am concerned about this carbon tax Obama is about to lay on the coal fired plants vs. our electric bills. He said that these carbon fines will bankrupt the coal fired electrical industry! Is this guy out of his mind?

And property taxes here in NY are ridiculous, $9,000+ last year. I lived in NC for 25 years and my last property tax bill was less than $1,000. And excellent well water too come to think of it.

Maybe we can all find an island somewhere with our own electrical grid and the only property owners association rule would be you must own a flight simulator pc and use it regularly!
 
p14u2nv said:
I am concerned about this carbon tax Obama is about to lay on the coal fired plants vs. our electric bills. He said that these carbon fines will bankrupt the coal fired electrical industry! Is this guy out of his mind?
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For me to reply on this would force Willy to close the thread, so I shall not. Let's just say peed off and leave it at that.

Caz
 
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