Back home in Florida

[SEAICE]

That is a gorgeous gt. And yes, having lived in both Florida and Seattle there's no comparison. Florida for the win!

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[Hidalgo]

Love that area, Have great friends right on the beach in Flagler.
West coast for me, Port Charlotte.

 

[Polski]

I’ll stay in Delray Beach thank you, Philly was my hometown but now being in Fl for 2 years I’m never going back even with the mineshaft fall Atco Raceway Air

Heading down to FL from Philly area (Plymouth Meeting) in early 2024. Was supposed to move this year but we have so many weddings and bridal showers, and bachelor parties etc. The Mrs. convinced me and now I am so pissed... But, I guess one more year won't kill me. Or will it?

 

[LDHunter]

After 40+ years living in central Florida, last November I relocated to east Tennessee. I was tired of 6 months of Africa Hot summers and ready for 4 seasons.

You should have checked out NW Florida... It's more like Georgia or Alabama weather-wise and yet still the best state to live in. Also the Panhandle isn't nearly as crowded as the rest of the state.

There's a lot of good reasons that Florida is getting a tremendous immigration from the rest of the country.

 

[Onewolf]

You should have checked out NW Florida... It's more like Georgia or Alabama weather-wise and yet still the best state to live in. Also the Panhandle isn't nearly as crowded as the rest of the state.

There's a lot of good reasons that Florida is getting a tremendous immigration from the rest of the country.

I did check out the panhandle area and I decided that the summer is just as hot and almost as long as central Florida. And Hurricanes. Where I am building in east TN property insurance and property taxes will be 1/3 what they were in Florida.

Edit to add: And no mountains in Florida.

 

[LDHunter]

I did check out the panhandle area and I decided that the summer is just as hot and almost as long as central Florida. And Hurricanes. Where I am building in east TN property insurance and property taxes will be 1/3 what they were in Florida.

Edit to add: And no mountains in Florida.

Actually out summers are only 3-4 months but we sure do NOT have mountains and that's the main thing that would convince me to leave Florida again. I lived in the mountains in Colorado for 5 years and I certainly DO miss the mountains.

 

[rxryanm]

How is Myrtle Beach in the mountains? : )

This is so incredibly fitting for Pigeon Forge.

 

[Onewolf]

This is so incredibly fitting for Pigeon Forge.

The first time I drove through Pigeon Forge I was thinking how much it reminded me of International Drive in Orlando. But with a lot more Go-kart tracks.

 

[Stymee]

To cold up that far in the winter
SARASOTA IS BEAUTIFUL

However the west side get Hurricanes, no thanks

 

[TEAsGrabber]

Seattle the city has a reputation of people not being friendly, but we did not find that so. Maybe they're more insular and not outgoing, but friendly once you engage. Being a Floridian and an east-coaster, I found Seattle to be too gray and too cool for too long. Doesn't really rain that much, but it's overcast, drizzly (but not rainy) and in the 40s about 9 months out of the year, and the water, whether ocean, Puget sound or lakes, is very deep, very dark, and freezing cold all year long. There are two, maybe 3 good months of beautiful San Diego-like summer weather. The politics and cost of living are what really drove us away though.

Reading your post really saddens me. Beautiful car and great re-location! I'll keep my reply vanilla so I don't get banned or ????
I was born 1964 and raised in the Seattle area. Other than my 4 years I lived in OKC, Oklahoma while serving in the USAF, the Seattle area was home until 2012 for me. I raised my 2 sons and worked 25 years there for Boeing. Great job, company that paid well enough to live an upper middle class life. My Grandfather and Grandmother were evacuated there during WWII from the Aleutian islands of Alsaka with their 4 sons, my father and uncles. Neither of them were US citizens my Grandfather was Norwegian and my Grandmother was Eskimo (Aleut). They settled in a little house in the north Seattle area of Greenlake. My Grandfather was a ship builder and went to work at Todd Shipyard.... where I got my name from. My dad and uncles went to school in north Seattle and all eventually went into the Salmon/Crab fishing industry. I have pictures of me running around the docks as a kid @ Fisherman Terminal with 3/4 of the Captains of the T.V. show The Deadliest Catch. Seattle in the 60's and 70's was a hard-working blue collar city of airplane/ship builders, fisherman and lumberjacks. Those industries fueled the economy.
My father married a "Farm Girl" in 1960. My mothers side of the family owned and worked a farm with livestock etc. in what you may know as Tukwilla. The farm now is the site of the Boeing Employees Credit Union and various office parks etc. My father had left the fishing industry and was the sales manager for Frank Kinney Toyota. The 1st Toytota dealership in the U.S. In 1961 he became partners with a High School friend Jamie Pierre and co-owned Pierre Ford in Lake City north of Seattle. Swimming in the "BIG $$$" now he, my pregnant with me mom and older sister moved to the suburbs of the future (Mountlake Terrace)! I-5 was expanded and now connected King County to Snohomish County! Everett was a smelly pulp mill town that was developing the largest airplane manufacturing site in the world.
I lived in that house until I graduated high school in 1982. My father sold his interest in the dealership, divorced and moved to San Mateo, California in the early 70's and open up a Fiat/Lancia/Ferrari dealership along with a Pirelli tire distribution center.
Seattle was safe....sane and a amazing place to grow up. Before my teens I hung out and rode my bike and skateboard around Greenlake while I was staying with my grandparents. My Grandfather taught my sister and I how to ride the Metro buses and now downtown Seattle and The Seattle Center/Space Needle and Fun Forest were our weekend hangouts without parental supervision. We rode the Monorail
and walked around downtown Seattle without hesitation. My sister always wanted to go to the department stores and I would ditch her and run up to The Guitar Center. This was an every other weekend tradition, since our father lived in California and this was how we spent time with our grandparents and our fathers side of the family. That's the Seattle I remember and it saddens me to what it has become today!!!
Yes summer still starts July 5th and ends September 1st. Real Washingtonians don't own umbrellas! The mountains, lakes and Pacific Coast are beautiful, but since the .Com gold rush in the 80's the Washington/PNW I used to call home is dying! Downtown Seattle is no longer the area to have fun....pay a joint $10 cover and have entry into 30 plus nightclubs/music venues. Yes....$10 cover to see Pearl Jam....Nirvanna and other acts cut their teeth before hitting the bigtime! It's now a Pioneer Square that the city has created by choice a drug infested homeless concentration camp. Yes this was by design to keep those unfortunate to be on the streets in one central area. That genius idea has now spread statewide. Crime.....taxes and the cost of living caused me to make one of the hardest decisions of my life in 2012.
Boeing had made me an offer to re-locate to Huntsville, Alabama. They flew me down to Bama and wined and dined me for a month. Flew me to see my areas of responsibility in California, Alaska and the Florida Space Coast. The $$$ was stupid compared to the cost of living in Bama was and they were giving me a decent raise. I spent my month long job shadow really accessing the "Quality of Life" in the preconceived land of rednecks and KKK. There is no graffiti gang tagged businesses or freeway overpasses. No city streets lined with 70's Winnebago's cooking meth. Panhandlers are few and far between, if the police see it they cite the individuals donating the handout. No Walking Dead zombies strung out and sleeping in city parks or using alleys or sidewalks as toilets! Perry Como's hit song "The Bluest Skies You've Ever Seen are in Seattle" is a F'n LIE! I can go on and on.... Ya Bama has it's quirks and negatives, but they pale in comparison to the city and state I was born and raised in. 11 years have past since that decision.....I don't regret it! Again.....it's just sad to see another unhappy customer have a bad taste of hometown. Good luck in Florida! I need to visit the Fountain of Youth again soon! Beautiful area you moved to!!!!!

 

[SEAICE]

Reading your post really saddens me. Beautiful car and great re-location! I'll keep my reply vanilla so I don't get banned or ????
I was born 1964 and raised in the Seattle area. Other than my 4 years I lived in OKC, Oklahoma while serving in the USAF, the Seattle area was home until 2012 for me. I raised my 2 sons and worked 25 years there for Boeing. Great job, company that paid well enough to live an upper middle class life. My Grandfather and Grandmother were evacuated there during WWII from the Aleutian islands of Alsaka with their 4 sons, my father and uncles. Neither of them were US citizens my Grandfather was Norwegian and my Grandmother was Eskimo (Aleut). They settled in a little house in the north Seattle area of Greenlake. My Grandfather was a ship builder and went to work at Todd Shipyard.... where I got my name from. My dad and uncles went to school in north Seattle and all eventually went into the Salmon/Crab fishing industry. I have pictures of me running around the docks as a kid @ Fisherman Terminal with 3/4 of the Captains of the T.V. show The Deadliest Catch. Seattle in the 60's and 70's was a hard-working blue collar city of airplane/ship builders, fisherman and lumberjacks. Those industries fueled the economy.
My father married a "Farm Girl" in 1960. My mothers side of the family owned and worked a farm with livestock etc. in what you may know as Tukwilla. The farm now is the site of the Boeing Employees Credit Union and various office parks etc. My father had left the fishing industry and was the sales manager for Frank Kinney Toyota. The 1st Toytota dealership in the U.S. In 1961 he became partners with a High School friend Jamie Pierre and co-owned Pierre Ford in Lake City north of Seattle. Swimming in the "BIG $$$" now he, my pregnant with me mom and older sister moved to the suburbs of the future (Mountlake Terrace)! I-5 was expanded and now connected King County to Snohomish County! Everett was a smelly pulp mill town that was developing the largest airplane manufacturing site in the world.
I lived in that house until I graduated high school in 1982. My father sold his interest in the dealership, divorced and moved to San Mateo, California in the early 70's and open up a Fiat/Lancia/Ferrari dealership along with a Pirelli tire distribution center.
Seattle was safe....sane and a amazing place to grow up. Before my teens I hung out and rode my bike and skateboard around Greenlake while I was staying with my grandparents. My Grandfather taught my sister and I how to ride the Metro buses and now downtown Seattle and The Seattle Center/Space Needle and Fun Forest were our weekend hangouts without parental supervision. We rode the Monorail
and walked around downtown Seattle without hesitation. My sister always wanted to go to the department stores and I would ditch her and run up to The Guitar Center. This was an every other weekend tradition, since our father lived in California and this was how we spent time with our grandparents and our fathers side of the family. That's the Seattle I remember and it saddens me to what it has become today!!!
Yes summer still starts July 5th and ends September 1st. Real Washingtonians don't own umbrellas! The mountains, lakes and Pacific Coast are beautiful, but since the .Com gold rush in the 80's the Washington/PNW I used to call home is dying! Downtown Seattle is no longer the area to have fun....pay a joint $10 cover and have entry into 30 plus nightclubs/music venues. Yes....$10 cover to see Pearl Jam....Nirvanna and other acts cut their teeth before hitting the bigtime! It's now a Pioneer Square that the city has created by choice a drug infested homeless concentration camp. Yes this was by design to keep those unfortunate to be on the streets in one central area. That genius idea has now spread statewide. Crime.....taxes and the cost of living caused me to make one of the hardest decisions of my life in 2012.
Boeing had made me an offer to re-locate to Huntsville, Alabama. They flew me down to Bama and wined and dined me for a month. Flew me to see my areas of responsibility in California, Alaska and the Florida Space Coast. The $$$ was stupid compared to the cost of living in Bama was and they were giving me a decent raise. I spent my month long job shadow really accessing the "Quality of Life" in the preconceived land of rednecks and KKK. There is no graffiti gang tagged businesses or freeway overpasses. No city streets lined with 70's Winnebago's cooking meth. Panhandlers are few and far between, if the police see it they cite the individuals donating the handout. No Walking Dead zombies strung out and sleeping in city parks or using alleys or sidewalks as toilets! Perry Como's hit song "The Bluest Skies You've Ever Seen are in Seattle" is a F'n LIE! I can go on and on.... Ya Bama has it's quirks and negatives, but they pale in comparison to the city and state I was born and raised in. 11 years have past since that decision.....I don't regret it! Again.....it's just sad to see another unhappy customer have a bad taste of hometown. Good luck in Florida! I need to visit the Fountain of Youth again soon! Beautiful area you moved to!!!!!

Thanks! Yes, Seattle is a beautiful city and Washington state has some amazing geography... Its a tragedy what has become of it today. A lot of my friends and neighbors were locals and had the same life experience you did... We lived there for 17 years (actually Kent). I always pined-away for my native Florida, but my Korean wife (initially) loved it there... Very Pan-Asian, and our son effectively grew to adulthood there. But the decades of transplant Californians ruined Washington (and Oregon), at least along the I-5 corridor of power... Coincidentally, you moved to my original neck of the woods... The panhandle. I'm from Pensacola/Gulf Breeze. Glad to see a Pac Northwesterner realize that the south (and Alabama) are not the terrible place they thought they were. Hope your fishing!

 

[Offshoregames]

I grew up in Lauderdale. Moved to TX 3 years ago and absolutely love the openness and long open country roads. I had to leave SOFLA when it became a foreign country. I do miss the fishing though, world class fishing year round’.

 

[IPOGT]

After 40+ years living in central Florida, last November I relocated to east Tennessee. I was tired of 6 months of Africa Hot summers and ready for 4 seasons.

Can’t live there. Beautiful place but the food sucks.

 

[cerbomark]

I did check out the panhandle area and I decided that the summer is just as hot and almost as long as central Florida. And Hurricanes. Where I am building in east TN property insurance and property taxes will be 1/3 what they were in Florida.

Edit to add: And no mountains in Florida.

Moving to East TN for lots of the reasons you stated. Got the house already. A few more months left in the northeast. The Oper s car looks great! Love the wheels and stripe!

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