[psouth]

Just don't move without a job lined up. Even the state universities are laying off in the hundreds. Not to mention the cities and counties. Things are not good.

[jojajn]

Originally Posted by Sunny-Days90

Heck Minnesota is still counting votes on their fingers from last years elections, what does that tell you!!

Some people would give up a better quality of life and live in states that are boring as heck just to save a buck. Money is not everything and lower your standards to live cheaper tells me you are not a person who enjoys being outside and around nature.

Reminds me of one of my brother in laws.

Lived in a beautiful 400k home with it all, a huge boat, swimming pools, hot tubs etc and decided one day he wanted to live cheaper. He sold his house and bought a 100 year old farm house and said he could live off the land with the 100 acres he bought with it.

All because he hit 50 years old and decided he had better save more money for retirement. He stopped boating, stopped all vacations, grew his own veggies, raised his own meat and worked like a dog for 2 years, worked his normal day jobs and ran a farm all is waking hours just so he could save a buck.

What he forgot was his wife and kids hated the farm, they hated the house, hated his new way of being a cheap a--, hated they never went to the beach with us again, never did anything but save that ole mighty dollar.

Now 53 and having heart problems caused by the stress of saving money and living cheap. He worked harder to try to save money then he did not being a cheap a--.

The farm is now for sale and they bought a home right down the street from where they used to live.

He spent 2 years of his life being cheap and living with lower standards of life, lower quality of life and it hurt them in the long run.

So with that said, if you are moving from Florida because you want to be cheap, 9 out of 10 of you wont get ahead a bit by doing what he did and being a cheap butt.

And by the way, he is out looking for another boat too!

He learned his lesson. Giving up something you enjoy just to be a cheap a-- does not always mean better. In fact in his case it was worse.

I wont lower my standards and I wont lower my quality of life, therefore we are moving to Florida to up the standards and have a better quality of life in Florida.

Now I know why so many leave Florida and find out the grass is not greener on the other side and run back to Florida as fast as they can because they found it was a better life where they were in Florida then where they went to.

Your joking right?

Mississippi river in MN




Florida:

[jojajn]

Originally Posted by beachmouse

We pay about $70/month for water, sewer, and mind-blowingly comprehensive trash service (two general garbage, one recycling, one yard waste and one oversized/bulk waste pick-up every week. Every other place I've lived has been one consolidated general trash and yard, one recycling if you were lucky enough to get recycling at all, and you either had to call and reserve bulk waste or they only did it every quarter)

That is high!

[KathyA11]

Your second photo doesn't look much different than the highways near the Jersey Shore in the summer.

And at least Florida isn't a deep freeze much of the year -- unlike Minnesota. You couldn't pay me enough to get me to move to Minnesota.

And God help those Twins fans when they have to watch their team play in a stadium without a dome in the spring.

[jojajn]

Originally Posted by verobeach

Pardon me but which of the 49 other states do you recommend someone move to without a solid job and/or long-term funds? It's the same everywhere. At least Florida HAS the sunshine and the beaches!

Should the other 49 send their unemployed your way?

[jojajn]

Florida families are struggling to make ends
meet, a statewide cost-of-living study
released Tuesday said.

The standard is derived by calculating the
cost of housing, child care, food,
transportation, health care, miscellaneous
items (clothing, household items, telephone,
etc.) and federal, state and local taxes. Tax
credits for which low-income families are
eligible also are considered.

The study also revealed a wide disparity in
the cost of living throughout Florida. In
Hamilton County in the Panhandle, which
has the cheapest cost of living, a single
parent with an infant, preschooler and
school-age child could get by on $35,920, or
an hourly wage of $17.01, the study
showed.
Palm Beach County is the most expensive.
The same single-parent/three-children
household would need an annual income of
$70,242, or an hourly wage of $33.26, to get
by.

From a 2007 study:

http://www.wowonline.org/ourprograms...FL11-21-07.pdf

Are things better in florida since 2007?

[annerk]

Originally Posted by jojajn

Your joking right?

Mississippi river in MN




Florida:

Minnesota:

Florida:

[bdpop]

Originally Posted by annerk

Minnesota:

Florida:

I think you could do the picture thing with any state. All have their good and bad.

[OrlandoRE_Miracle]

good one annerk

jojajn's definitely got the "finding photos on the web" thing down but so far I haven't seen anything convincing from him/her

Originally Posted by annerk

Minnesota:

Florida:

[Huckleberry3911948]

when you are freezing in chicago a 20 ft snake does not seem like much of a threat?