I'm considering a relocation to Florida.

I'm over the fucking cold and the snow.


or maybe Arizona.

Well Shock,I can show you around Times are still tough here so have a job lined up, if you have a job you can buy so much home. My home up north would be a half a million, down here it's under 100,000

cravnravn wrote:Well Shock,I can show you around Times are still tough here so have a job lined up, if you have a job you can buy so much home. My home up north would be a half a million, down here it's under 100,000

I wouldn't be buying anything to start out with Cravn, My parents do have a condo there and I might be able to convince them to let me stay there until I can find a place.


Hell it's just me, I could buy a flipping sailboat and live on that.


The easy life Mon...


After the surgery the cold just destroyed me this winter.... Might be time to roll out of here.

So what are the crappy areas to avoid?

LOL I could Soooo see myself doing this...
http://www.bwss.com/courses.html

We are heading to the beach now, bow'crazy is that the first weekend in April?

So Cravn, how about 77th and 9th street? is that a crappy area?


I did some online searches today, and if I decide to do it I don't think I would have a problem finding gainful employment there.   

dblshockpwr wrote:So Cravn, how about 77th and 9th street? is that a crappy area?


I did some online searches today, and if I decide to do it I don't think I would have a problem finding gainful employment there.    

What town 9 th in Daytona I'd say no, 9th in New Smyrna yes.

cravnravn wrote:

dblshockpwr wrote:So Cravn, how about 77th and 9th street? is that a crappy area?


I did some online searches today, and if I decide to do it I don't think I would have a problem finding gainful employment there.    

What town 9 th in Daytona I'd say no, 9th in New Smyrna yes.

Tampa

I am thinking I could do it after the 4rth of July really...

dblshockpwr wrote:

cravnravn wrote:

dblshockpwr wrote:So Cravn, how about 77th and 9th street? is that a crappy area?


I did some online searches today, and if I decide to do it I don't think I would have a problem finding gainful employment there.    

What town 9 th in Daytona I'd say no, 9th in New Smyrna yes.

Tampa

Mr Norm will be better suited to inform you about the Gulf side, Im an Atlantic dude myself..

Depends on what type of weather you want all year IndyStar

If I was going south it would be AZ or Texas and of course you can live by lakes or the ocean down there and they don't have the wind storms like Florida and a few other southern States.

If money fell from the sky and landed in my yard I would go check several places down in AZ and Texas and I know a guy that lives in south Texas close to those islands in the gulf and he says it is the best and they rarely have any wind storms and he said if he wants to see snow he has to head up to north Texas.

And of course lots of famous places are a fairly close drive down there like the Grand Canyon and all those parts of Monument Valley.

I will let Cravn take care of Florida   

I am not a *boat* person but the wife likes looking at the ocean so I guess I would buy some waterfront down on the Gulf.

Nice pictures!!!!

And just to set the record straight, as a crow flies I'm 9 miles off the Atlantic my home was built in 1989, it has suffered no reportable damage from any hurricane or tropical storm. I would wager to say more tropical storms and hurricanes hit in the gulf then the east coast of Florida. I mean they built a Joe's crab shack in the Atlantic ocean. We don't pay billions for beach replenishment like they do up north because of the lands curviture down here, hell they spend too much dredging for the cruise ships coming and going out of Cape Canaveral.

All in all the east coast of Florida is probably the safest when it comes to storm areas, storms prefer the warmer gulf and once they form in the gulf, Texas is a huge bullseye, I recall the Texans/Ravens game getting postponed because of a hurricane, the nfl screwed Baltimore over again and forced us into a bye week the second week of the season.

Charlie in 2006 did the most damage to eastern Florida since Andrew, hell there are still neighborhoods that have blue tarps on their roofs because allstate pulled out claiming they were out of money.


When our time comes it's time where exactly is a safe zone in this country? I'm not going to let weather dictate where I live. And I95 is so close to the Atlantic from Florida to Maine it's senseless to even make a run for it, if a storm decides to come ashore on the eastern side.

Ah the hell with it, if the Yellowstone Caldera lets loose we all screwed anyway.

I was researching live aboard sailboats and found more than a few in my price range and there are slips I can rent that are around 250 a month right there in Bradenton.

With the speed of todays mobile networks I could be perfectly happy and content living that way. Flat screen TV, a laptop cell phone and a tablet and I am content. I already have a Jeep and it will be paid off soon as well.

LOL I've got ways and means to do this.

Very, very tempting at this point because it is very, very doable.

Bradenton works. My sister lives there and it's inland from Anna Maria Iskand where I go in March. The intercoastal waterways along the gulf coast make for some nice boating options. I'd buy a place and move there now if I were 10 years younger.

dblshockpwr wrote:Ah the hell with it, if the Yellowstone Caldera lets loose we all screwed anyway.

I was researching live aboard sailboats and found more than a few in my price range and there are slips I can rent that are around 250 a month right there in Bradenton.

With the speed of todays mobile networks I could be perfectly happy and content living that way. Flat screen TV, a laptop cell phone and a tablet and I am content. I already have a Jeep and it will be paid off soon as well.

LOL I've got ways and means to do this.

Very, very tempting at this point because it is very, very doable.

I have a retired man who runs trucks for us on Fridays, he has his 68 ft sail boat for sale. He's a retired navy guy getting up there in age. He tells me he takes 6 weeks a year and sails the Caribbean. He's been doing this for the past 20 years. The man is 78 and works 1 day a week for his "pirates brew"

Hell a boat that size is probably over $250,000

My Mrs made them for about 20 years and I remember just a 52ft was over $250,000 last I checked.


If somebody gave me one I would sell it asap   

cravnravn wrote:

dblshockpwr wrote:Ah the hell with it, if the Yellowstone Caldera lets loose we all screwed anyway.

I was researching live aboard sailboats and found more than a few in my price range and there are slips I can rent that are around 250 a month right there in Bradenton.

With the speed of todays mobile networks I could be perfectly happy and content living that way. Flat screen TV, a laptop cell phone and a tablet and I am content. I already have a Jeep and it will be paid off soon as well.

LOL I've got ways and means to do this.

Very, very tempting at this point because it is very, very doable.

I have a retired man who runs trucks for us on Fridays, he has his 68 ft sail boat for sale. He's a retired navy guy getting up there in age. He tells me he takes 6 weeks a year and sails the Caribbean. He's been doing this for the past 20 years. The man is 78 and works 1 day a week for his "pirates brew"

Holy crap, I could never afford a 68 footer, let alone be able to sail the damn thing I'm thinking a 28-32' would be all I could handle.

a 32' live aboard would be about the size of a big studio apartment,

I was thinking more like this one. http://panamacity.craigslist.org/boa/4421892124.html

dblshockpwr wrote:I was thinking more like this one. http://panamacity.craigslist.org/boa/4421892124.html

Better get yourself the luxury dinghy...

Drew and his fiancee(shhhhhhh it's still a secret) will be down for a visit in June, I'm renting a 24ft 12 person pontoon boat, if my Mrs doesn't puke, that will be my signal to and start looking to buy   

I've decided that I am going to wait until next year.  Save all the money I can and head out next spring.

So I can buy a bigger boat... LOL

dblshockpwr wrote:I've decided that I am going to wait until next year.  Save all the money I can and head out next spring.

So I can buy a bigger boat... LOL

good choice, never make a life changing decision without pondering it over for atleast a year. We thought about this move for 2 years..