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Originally Posted by Plmtrz_plz
Even more snow for 7 months a year, Ice, heating bills, bulky winter clothes, slush, no power when its -20 out, ugh!!! Have you forgotten all of that. I know its easy to do when you move back to Fla. I've forgoten how bad the weather is and I just came back to Fla 3 weeks ago. It snowed the day I left and all I remember is being miserable that day and wet and freezing... Yuck.. There weren't any jobs up there when I left in Mass or NH.. The paper had 4 jobs for the town. I would check every day.. Do you have a job lined up or are you winging it?
Think about what you were saying a couple months ago
I'm not trying to critize but you're sounding now very similar to how you did then. That might be a bad thing. The economy might be bad down here but that will change and get better, the weather however will not change up north. It will still be as crappy and nasty as when you left.
I really think you moved to the wrong place, Cape Coral while nice is still sparsley populated. Estero, Bonita and Naples are much better, plus they're not expensive like they used to be. My husband and I tomorrow are looking at a condo in the gated community we used to live in its 3 bed with two masterbedrooms and two baths for $140,000. The best thing, is unlike NE the place isn't 100 years old and its fully upgraded so I don't have to worry about all of that. Even better, I'll never have to heat it. The taxes are around a grand a year. That same condo in NE (we looked at a similar one however it didn't come with A/C) had taxes that were $3,800 a year.
Either way good luck, but remember how miserable you were up in NE and when that winter hit you were desperate to get out. Nothing is going to change when you go back up
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For the record I was not miserable. I was not used to cold...
I lived in Naples once, and it is for sure the LAST place I want to live I FL, well I can name a few places I will not live in, Orlando, Miami, Jax, Tampa, places where there are jobs, but no way am I living there. No offense, but I REALLY dislike Naples a lot. Estero is in the middle of nothing, and Fort Myers, unless you live in South Fort myers and want to pay dearly for rent, it is full of bad areas and crime ridden now. Bonita, not cheap for rent, and I won't comment on what it looks like in the areas that are affordable. Cape Coral is not sparsely populated... How do you get that? I also like sparsely populated areas, I like small towns not crowded cities loaded with crime and traffic.
I'll also tell you that where I lived in Mass. makes the difference in how I felt about the cold. I lived in a town of 300 people, at the foot of the Berkshires, although Beautiful, it is about 10 degrees colder than other surrounding towns(Northampton). Instead of leaving the good job I had there to come back to this god forsaken state, I should have moved off the mountain to the valley area where they also get 6+ inches less snow than where I was.
3 1/2 months later, I have applied to positions all over, a few callbacks, and that's it. It's hard to compete for one job when there are 100 people applying for it. I am in apartment management, I do the maintenance part, HVAC, electrical, etc. There are NO positions in that in the paper, careerbuilder, monster... When there is one that pops up(maybe on every 2 months), they have a flood of resumes... I am even applying to Walmart, and what have you, but guess what? They are having hiring freezes. Great economy.
There are jobs up there where I am going, I look all the time in my town newspaper, and a few surrounding towns I'm not winging it. Last time I want there I had a job in 2 weeks... Unlike Fl. where I am just making it by with a job my stepfather gave me at his restaurant so I would have some sort of money. I was also a machine operator up north, and there are a lot of jobs in that up there. Here NO. What town were you in that had 4 jobs?
I was cold up there, but I now realize I was settled there, with a good job, HEALTH INSURANCE, my daughter was in a good school... Another reason for the move was my mother in law has arthritis, so that was another factor in the move. She has since moved to NJ. If she left for NJ back then I would NEVER have left Mass. and came here.
I forgot the cold there, but I am every day reminded about the rediculous heat here... What's worse??? COLD or sweltering heat??? If I could live where it's 78 degrees all year I would, but I don't like California... Yes I know what I said in the past, but I have never been more discouraged in my life than now. Nearly 4 months and nothing is better... I know I never should have left there.
There are positives here and there, negatives here and there, but I find myself there, not here...
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05-27-2008, 08:58 AM
But really, its popularity and beauty is from word of mouth for me. 
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