[kwick release]

We (wife, myself and 2 kids) are heading to Brevard in a couple of months and now we found out my wife's sister, husband and their child are coming with us as well! Additionally, my wife's parents and then eventually my parents are coming down. Hopefully there is still room

[121804]

Originally Posted by kwick release

We (wife, myself and 2 kids) are heading to Brevard in a couple of months and now we found out my wife's sister, husband and their child are coming with us as well! Additionally, my wife's parents and then eventually my parents are coming down. Hopefully there is still room

There will be plenty of houses, that is for sure!

[Karry]

Originally Posted by 121804

If I was a business owner, I'd probably hire someone for less money than someone for more money; especially when it is manual labor.

Everyone is always saying how it is b/c no one wants the jobs. At the same time, it's not like the buisness owners are paying the migrant workers an even livable wage. Finger needs to be pointed at them, also. They don't have to pay workers comp, health insurance, paid holidays/vacations...they can just dangle a $10 bill over their heads & get a day of work out of them & never have to report it.

In my one reply the $10.00 an hour is what my one neighbor makes at the big Wal-Mart retail store. And then drives to Toy R Us Not what the migrants make. Just average people who balance time schedules around the two jobs so they can have that wonderful 40 hrs. a week. Not to mention the seniors who take on jobs and then go home to brag about that "Free Vacation." If I remember correctly the business farmers checked, Green Cards." My one friend who was an RN at one of the camps was paid for services rendered.

[kwick release]

Originally Posted by 121804

There will be plenty of houses, that is for sure!

It is definitely a buyers market out there!



Prodromos Borboroglu

[BeechCruzer]

I have heard all you "snowbirds" complain about Florida taxes, insurance prices, real estate cost, poor roads, lousy shopping, crowded beaches, and the list goes own. You need to get out of the Florida mindset and look elsewhere. For just one moment take off the blinders and listen. I live here and I know a better bargain of a place to live. I go there weekly. If you would like much cheaper real estate, wide open clean beaches with mega room for building homes then try coastal Texas. Let me give you a few things to think about. Houston, Corpus Christi and Brownsville. All near the coast or on the coast. Big housing lots with monster sized homes. Compared to Florida they are fire sale priced. Did you know that Key West, Fl. and Brownsville,Tx are at almost the same latitude? There is about 470 miles of lightly populated coastline. Just the other day I asked a store owner in a small town about 10 miles east of Galveston what the beach side home lots were running in her town. Try 25 to 40 thousand on the beach. It gets cheaper the farther south you get away from Galveston. Galveston is about the same latitude as Daytona Beach and even looks like Daytona's beach. Corpus Christi and Vero Beach, Fl are at almost the same latitude and have comparable climates. There are many miles of Texas beaches that are virtualy empty. Most good sized cities and towns are a short drive away. Just take my advice and give coastal Texas a look. You have same beaches with almost give away prices on real estate. Before you commit to moving to Florida have a good look at Texas. If you are planning an rv trip or road trip, the coast of Texas is about the same length as the east coast of Florida and is an easy, open, scenic and enjoyable drive. Pick up some real estate mags or go to the Prudential Real Estate site to surf Texas real estate. You will be blown away at the large size of the home lots and houses for sale and all at unbelievably prices per square foot. I could not believe how cheap it was.The beaches are so clean and beautiful. And not overrun with condos and developement. My advice to you is to go check it out and see you can get at least 10 times the bang for the buck right now even in this inflated real estate market. Like big cities? Try Houston. Spread out and modern. It has underground walkways to access all downtown shopping free from road traffic and weather. It has a huge airport with direct flights to NYC. Before you spend your bucks to move to Fl. or if you want to move away from there to a more Gilligan's Island kind of atmosphere, sell and move to coastal Texas before the word gets around. You won't believe what you'll discover.

[121804]

Originally Posted by BeechCruzer

I have heard all you "snowbirds" complain about Florida taxes, insurance prices, real estate cost, poor roads, lousy shopping, crowded beaches, and the list goes own. You need to get out of the Florida mindset and look elsewhere. For just one moment take off the blinders and listen. I live here and I know a better bargain of a place to live. I go there weekly. If you would like much cheaper real estate, wide open clean beaches with mega room for building homes then try coastal Texas. Let me give you a few things to think about. Houston, Corpus Christi and Brownsville. All near the coast or on the coast. Big housing lots with monster sized homes. Compared to Florida they are fire sale priced. Did you know that Key West, Fl. and Brownsville,Tx are at almost the same latitude? There is about 470 miles of lightly populated coastline. Just the other day I asked a store owner in a small town about 10 miles east of Galveston what the beach side home lots were running in her town. Try 25 to 40 thousand on the beach. It gets cheaper the farther south you get away from Galveston. Galveston is about the same latitude as Daytona Beach and even looks like Daytona's beach. Corpus Christi and Vero Beach, Fl are at almost the same latitude and have comparable climates. There are many miles of Texas beaches that are virtualy empty. Most good sized cities and towns are a short drive away. Just take my advice and give coastal Texas a look. You have same beaches with almost give away prices on real estate. Before you commit to moving to Florida have a good look at Texas. If you are planning an rv trip or road trip, the coast of Texas is about the same length as the east coast of Florida and is an easy, open, scenic and enjoyable drive. Pick up some real estate mags or go to the Prudential Real Estate site to surf Texas real estate. You will be blown away at the large size of the home lots and houses for sale and all at unbelievably prices per square foot. I could not believe how cheap it was.The beaches are so clean and beautiful. And not overrun with condos and developement. My advice to you is to go check it out and see you can get at least 10 times the bang for the buck right now even in this inflated real estate market. Like big cities? Try Houston. Spread out and modern. It has underground walkways to access all downtown shopping free from road traffic and weather. It has a huge airport with direct flights to NYC. Before you spend your bucks to move to Fl. or if you want to move away from there to a more Gilligan's Island kind of atmosphere, sell and move to coastal Texas before the word gets around. You won't believe what you'll discover.

Brownsville, TX? Gimme a break. There is nothing in Brownsville, TX & it has more than a horrific share of immigration problems.

Are you needing someone to look at your website for homes you are trying to sell in TX?

[Karry]

[quote=BeechCruzer;1821341]I have heard all you "snowbirds" complain about Florida taxes, insurance prices, real estate cost, poor roads, lousy shopping, crowded beaches, and the list goes own. You need to get out of the Florida mindset and look elsewhere. For just one moment take off the blinders and listen. I live here and I know a better bargain of a place to live. I go there weekly. If you would like much cheaper real estate, wide open clean beaches with mega room for building homes then try coastal Texas. Let me give you a few things to think about. Houston, Corpus Christi and Brownsville. All near the coast or on the coast. Big housing lots with monster sized homes. Compared to Florida they are fire sale priced. Did you know that Key West, Fl. and Brownsville,Tx are at almost the same latitude? There is about 470 miles of lightly populated coastline. Just the other day I asked a store owner in a small town about 10 miles east of Galveston what the beach side home lots were running in her town. Try 25 to 40 thousand on the beach. It gets cheaper the farther south you get away from Galveston. Galveston is about the same latitude as Daytona Beach and even looks like Daytona's beach. Corpus Christi and Vero Beach, Fl are at almost the same latitude and have comparable climates. There are many miles of Texas beaches that are virtualy empty. Most good sized cities and towns are a short drive away. Just take my advice and give coastal Texas a look. You have same beaches with almost give away prices on real estate. Before you commit to moving to Florida have a good look at Texas. If you are planning an rv trip or road trip, the coast of Texas is about the same length as the east coast of Florida and is an easy, open, scenic and enjoyable drive. Pick up some real estate mags or go to the Prudential Real Estate site to surf Texas real estate. You will be blown away at the large size of the home lots and houses for sale and all at unbelievably prices per square foot. I could not believe how cheap it was.The beaches are so clean and beautiful. And not overrun with condos and developement. My advice to you is to go check it out and see you can get at least 10 times the bang for the buck right now even in this inflated real estate market. Like big cities? Try Houston. Spread out and modern. It has underground walkways to access all downtown shopping free from road traffic and weather. It has a huge airport with direct flights to NYC. Before you spend your bucks to move to Fl. or if you want to move away from there to a more Gilligan's Island kind of atmosphere, sell and move to coastal Texas before the word gets around. You won't believe what you'll discover.

I lived in Harlengen Texas around 1984. Believe me I would have stayed there. but the S&L's bellied up and they had armed guards around the bank I did business with. People couldn't get money. That really spooked me. I loved Corpus Cristi. My youngest son was 3yrs. old at the time and I would take him down to the harbor and we would watch the shrimp boats go out at night. the food was wonderful. Harlengen had the Confederate Air Show that we watched from the bed of my truck. The whole street we lived on would have a picnic. Good Memories indeed. Now the youngest is on his way to New Mexico. He took the bus rather then buy a car in Naples or fly because he is so disgusted with this place. Not bad $81.00 for a one way bus ticket and 17 hundred miles. Right now he is between Houston and Buffalo Texas.

[Floridabound09]

If you think Florida is bad, move to Texas and you will wish you were in Florida again. Texas is one of my least favorite states I travel to.

Sure it is a buyers market in Fla, prices are starting to drop back to the REAL values instead of the fake values people borrowed money on.

Texas is the one of the last places I would move.

[szyys23]

The Texas coast can't compare to the Florida coast. Their weather is more extreme, plus they get all the effluent from the Mississippi River and Galveston Bay pollution swept along their shore from the Gulf currents (it's pushed AWAY from Florida coast). That's why their beaches and water is brown and muddy, definitely not like Florida's.

The retires with money still move to Florida. Florida has the best beaches, best golfing, best boating, best winter weather. They want all that and can pay for it. Not everyone has to settle for a retirement of Waffle Houses and horseshoeing and whatever else your pension/SS affords. The monied ones surely won't be retiring to some hillbilly heaven in Tennessee or inland Georgia, where they gonna dock their yacht? Who's gonna repair the Benz in HeeHaw? The Wall Streeters are flocking to Naples, Vero, and Sarasota with bonuses in hand. What's changing is the KIND of retiree coming to Florida, not "nobody's retiring to Florida anymore".

[hiknapster]

Water quality at southwest Florida's beaches? Ewww!

There's plenty of Mercedes-certified technicians in Hee Haw, as you so graciously put it. There are also plenty of Waffle Houses in Florida.

C'mon, now, Florida has a lot of nouveau riche. The truly affluent are in the Hamptons or the Vineyard.

Oh, and my Mercedes-owning Dad, who is on a 19-day European cruise, right now, can't wait to sell his condo and get out of Florida.