[Ian_Lee]

Originally Posted by chopchop0

Hawaii unsurprisingly has the highest per capita homeless rate in the country

https://www.google.com/amp/s/mobile....g-ban.amp.html

Not surprisingly at all. There is no winter. Homeless can camp on beach to share million dollar view with tourists who paid $500/night for ocean view hotel rooms. Some people from the other 49 states buy one way air ticket to Hawaii to become homeless. Rumored that their one way tickets are bought by their States.

http://www.hawaiiaffairsmagazine.com...land-homeless/

[gypsychic]

Originally Posted by Ian_Lee

Not surprisingly at all. There is no winter. Homeless can camp on beach to share million dollar view with tourists who paid $500/night for ocean view hotel rooms. Some people from the other 49 states buy one way air ticket to Hawaii to become homeless. Rumored that their one way tickets are bought by their States.

Is Hawaii the dumping ground for mainland homeless? | Hawaii Affairs Magazine

We also have a huge homeless problem right here in Sarasota where I live. People love these warm paradise type places. It is disgusting, annoying and irritating, because many of these people could work but they don't want to, they just want to be lazy bums living off handouts.

[Scrat335]

Smolensk Russia. It's a beautiful old city and they have seasons there. I'd just buy a condo up the main street from the big Church. I'd give cheap english lessons to kids to pay the bills.

[chopchop0]

Originally Posted by gypsychic

We also have a huge homeless problem right here in Sarasota where I live. People love these warm paradise type places. It is disgusting, annoying and irritating, because many of these people could work but they don't want to, they just want to be lazy bums living off handouts.

I bet fl ca ny have to be up there for a high homeless population after Hawaii

[ByeByeLW]

Originally Posted by Scrat335

Smolensk Russia. It's a beautiful old city and they have seasons there. I'd just buy a condo up the main street from the big Church. I'd give cheap english lessons to kids to pay the bills.

I fell in love with a town outside of Prague (and Prague too). Kind of neat having a castle or some other grand old building on every corner instead of a bank, strip mall etc.

[ByeByeLW]

Originally Posted by Brando is Alive

If you had to stay put in Florida? Where would you go?

I'd buy as many contiguous acres as possible , build a house there and leave the rest for preservation.

Or , just buy whatever land I could and keep it for parks, natural areas, etc.

[Brando is Alive]

Originally Posted by ByeByeLW

I'd buy as many contiguous acres as possible, build a house there and leave the rest for preservation.

Where? What part of Florida?

[ByeByeLW]

Originally Posted by Brando is Alive

Where? What part of Florida?

Probably somewhere in what is called the wildlife corridor.

See Carlton Ward's photos!

Plenty of big oaks and pines; a dose of scrub for the jays etc.

And lots of "worthless swamp" and gorgeous cypress.

[Brando is Alive]

Originally Posted by ByeByeLW

Probably somewhere in what is called the wildlife corridor.

See Carlton Ward's photos!

Plenty of big oaks and pines; a dose of scrub for the jays etc.

And lots of "worthless swamp" and gorgeous cypress.

Super dumb move. Buy swampland alright yea sure lol.

[ByeByeLW]

Originally Posted by Brando is Alive

Super dumb move. Buy swampland alright yea sure lol.

To preserve it- that's not dumb!

Swamps are gorgeous. And draining our wetlands and screwing with our environment are part of why we have so many environmental/water supply issues in Florida, especially South Florida.

Heck they have created wetlands down here in an effort to right some of the wrongs that Everglades and swamp drainage has done.

Where are you from? Have you ever studied any of the history of Florida? Are you aware that millions of dollars are being spent to restore the Everglades watershed?

Speaking of swamps, a good place to start is a book called "The Swamp."