Naples FL MONEY? Where's the money in this town? ft.myers, bonita, marco, sw (Astor: apartment, day care)

[kroeran]

Originally Posted by tommy-105

What an astute observation. I can think of several wealthy former business owners whom I've met that have done just that. I would imagine that it would be hard to compete with someone with that much capital and free time on their hands. Someone needing to put bread on the table might run up against some wealthy retiree that needed a hobby. I'm sure this is common place in Florida retirement towns.

to continue this freakonomic thought...

in my FM neighbourhood, I feel like, no I know, I am an actor playing a part on a bored billionaire's stage set. (for which I am very very grateful)...did I say already that I am grateful?

getting back to wide margins....this is the Korean model for success in the northern cities. Set up corner markets in bad neighbourhoods where the locals don't have the chutzpa to open and run a store, yet too scary for the traditionally entrepreneurial ethnic groups to enter (or who have moved on to bigger fish).

the absolutely worst place to open a corner market would be in a Korean neighbourhood!

I guess this points to a business opportunity in SWF....figure out the most crime ridden dangerous part of town, then put a store that meets an essential need smack in the middle of it....with metal detectors at the doors, cameras and lights everywhere, inside and out, mean sons of Bs working the cash, patrolling the parking.

[kroeran]

Originally Posted by 167878

Here's the thing, I'm not looking to invest/spend/start money in a brick n mortar shop/business, there're ways around it. I just want to know where the people who have money spend it locally, and on what.
- As were my guesses, hotel resorts, downtown shops, and restaurants. I'd like to hear what anyone has to say.

I wonder if the big money has any need to step out from the big gates...in house chefs, bundled golf and country club, with serious shopping being done from their Manhattan flats. 95% of outlay must be the house and variable costs, the club fees, maintenance contracts or directly hired kitchen, cleaning, yard staff and maybe driver, though most probably bring staff down from northern house. This is just speculation on my part.

International design Centre on Corkscrew is an eye opener telling you "we are not in Kansas anymore" ...VERY high end household furnishings

Imagine a mid size mall with about 100 small stores, staff in each store, a reception desk at the front of the mall where you sign in, and maybe one or two customers in the place at a time.

[kroeran]

Originally Posted by 167878

Jesus, incase I'm losing you... 'If' ,of course, that is your belief..

his rantings are more or less in line with my rantings

I think it is more or less about an exchange of diplomatic recognition between the brains left and right hemispheres, stimulating the right through conventional and not so conventional means, listening to it, carefully acting on it - as one piece of the terrestrial puzzle

can't figure out how to PM on this site...didnt try very hard

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by kroeran

sorry for being crabby...I am recovering from H1 and trying to milk it for all its worth. ; - )

It takes awhile for people to "get" me on this forum. It's easier in "real" life! I'm usually trying to help someone or make them laugh.

I hope you feel better. My nine-year-old daughter had H1N1 for nine days. It wasn't pleasant and I would imagine it would be worse for an adult. They say that most have built up an immunity.

Quite frankly, your recent posts are so different than all of your others that I thought it might be someone in your household using your screen name.

167878 as Hunter S. Thompson, perhaps? I guess, but he has also written prose such as this:

http://www.city-data.com/forum/9640676-post3.html

Still, your take on business is fascinating and definitely worth reading. I wonder how difficult it is to open a business in Lee/Collier Counties when the demographic may be changing.

[tommy-105]

Originally Posted by kroeran

As a general comment, I think you would be "brave" (crazy?) to think about opening a business somewhere where you don't know the local terrain and culture.

I may be wrong, but for some reason I think 167878 is living in Naples (or close by)

Originally Posted by kroeran

as I said earlier, I am stuck on the couch on sick leave...so my thoughts wander

Hope you're up and about soon.

Originally Posted by kroeran

now I get it...you are researching a book

Sounds like you might be on to something there!

Originally Posted by kroeran

I wonder if the big money has any need to step out from the big gates...in house chefs, bundled golf and country club, with serious shopping being done from their Manhattan flats. 95% of outlay must be the house and variable costs, the club fees, maintenance contracts or directly hired kitchen, cleaning, yard staff and maybe driver, though most probably bring staff down from northern house.

House managers, cleaning staff, less fancy cars stay here. Cooks seem to go back up North with the family. Don't know about drivers, never met one.

Originally Posted by kroeran

can't figure out how to PM on this site...didnt try very hard

Left click on a posters name up in the corner of the post. Select "direct message" from the drop down.

[TANaples]

Naples can be summed up in 3 words; phony, artificial town (not a CITY).

[167878]

Originally Posted by kroeran

gosh, you are a strange man...I love that! It would not surprise me to learn that you were a pro writer. Is this just a stream of consciousness download or are you reporting a dream or something..stranger.

reminds me of John D MacDonald prose for some reason.

now I get it...you are researching a book

You see, it is spontaneous improvisation, not to be confused with combustion, though similar in a neurological sense. All creation in fact is from an initial spark (life, spirit, intangible, soul, anti-matter(not matter- such as air/water, or space - that is nothing [though nothing is something, yet there is no emptiness, only that which surrounds, and that which is inside, it is the separation between matter and anti-matter, an infinite realm of vacuum between universal dimensions, existent yet not there, now my closest perception to this outer dimension(anti-matter{if you will}, surrounding the universe), is pure light shining, radiating, emitting translucent luminescence, there is no word, explaining this concept is as explaining to a blind man the color blue. there is no beginning nor end to this energy it is infinite in all ways, this is the energy in every seed, every 'spark'... it is heaven...God.) ,. .....I say that ignites its resources (potential energy) consuming energy the product of which is creation. Nothing comes from nothing. Something comes from something.

Originally Posted by kroeran

to continue this freakonomic thought...

in my FM neighbourhood, I feel like, no I know, I am an actor playing a part on a bored billionaire's stage set. (for which I am very very grateful)...did I say already that I am grateful?

FM neighborhood as a bored billionaire's stage set, hmmm, If I had billions I'd create something far and beyond any before. Something new, original, though inspired by the past, leading the way of the future. Something, dare I say?, good.

I guess this points to a business opportunity in SWF....figure out the most crime ridden dangerous part of town, then put a store that meets an essential need smack in the middle of it....with metal detectors at the doors, cameras and lights everywhere, inside and out, mean sons of Bs working the cash, patrolling the parking.

You have logical ideas that put into application should work successfully. Keep 'em comin, haven't found one that 'clicks'.

Originally Posted by kroeran

I wonder if the big money has any need to step out from the big gates...
International design Centre on Corkscrew is an eye opener telling you "we are not in Kansas anymore" ...VERY high end household furnishings

You have a point - what about the 'lesser' wealthy people? - you can't forget them, some will definitely whine."What about meeeEeeEeEeEEE!?" Only 1-2 people are allowed admittance at once to shop the entire mall themselves? Or am I reading that wrong.

Originally Posted by kroeran

I think it is more or less about an exchange of diplomatic recognition between the brains left and right hemispheres, stimulating the right through conventional and not so conventional means, listening to it, carefully acting on it - as one piece of the terrestrial puzzle

can't figure out how to PM on this site...didnt try very hard

I'll help you out, when I asked, no one answered, just click the persons username. Oh, just saw Tommy's post, thumbs up to tommy.

Well, my problem is I have s'park', lots of 'spark' (for lack of a better term, imagination perhaps? creativity?), so much so that if caught, would burn with an in-quenchable flame (well of-course, myself limited to the laws of life of which were bound upon us.) Though, my resources have been burned-out, not entirely, just smoldering, waiting for precious fuel.
Others, have entirely too many resources comparable to they're 'spark', or, vise versa, to each his own varying degree.

Originally Posted by hiknapster

It takes awhile for people to "get" me on this forum. It's easier in "real" life! I'm usually trying to help someone or make them laugh.

Yea, I have felt the same, and mostly will continue to, it's impossible to communicate through the internet the same as reality. Keep up the good work

Quite frankly, your recent posts are so different than all of your others that I thought it might be someone in your household using your screen name. :
167878 as Hunter S. Thompson, perhaps? I guess, but he has also written prose such as this:

I know, see, recently, I've been going through series of 'episodes' and as I am beginning to see reality as no one understands, where reality is unreal, and in sanity you find insanity. -You are left with an incomplete thought.
The above is childish temperament, stress pushing against you, anger/confusion coming from within pushing outwardly [we've all been there]. Coupled with a polluted tongue and lack of knowing. Though I assure you, it is I the same as I the other, even which there is another, in one of my past personalities, becoming new. Please, forgive me of my past ways. [Well we'll just snip that little grammatical error outta there and you'll never know my secrets mehehmuahaha!]

Originally Posted by tommy-105

I may be wrong, but for some reason I think 167878 is living in Naples (or close by)

In all actuality, I live in a figment of your imagination.What? Who said that?

House managers, cleaning staff, less fancy cars stay here. Cooks seem to go back up North with the family. Don't know about drivers, never met one.

Yea, do you know any 'stable' work that's decent? It'd be good as a business to be stable and provide stable jobs.

Originally Posted by TANaples

Naples can be summed up in 3 words; phony, artificial town (not a CITY).

You forgot plastic.

[hiknapster]

Originally Posted by 167878

Though I assure you, it is I the same, in one of my past personalities', becoming new. Please, forgive me of my past ways. (Is the ' after the s grammatically correct? I'm a bit confuzled with that one. Can't remember if s' is possessive plural or not.)

No. "Personalities" is not possessing anything so you don't need it. Not that it really matters. I only mention it because you asked.

Carry on...

Oh. And I'm down with the plastic. But it is nouveau riche plastic.

[kroeran]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

Quite frankly, your recent posts are so different than all of your others that I thought it might be someone in your household using your screen name. .

I think part of mental health is to have different personas for the office, the home, with friends

not being at the office for a few days has permitted my kooky right-brain hemisphere to take over the house, that I only usually let out on spiritual forums...back to the orifice tomorrow....I should be back to normal by tomorrow evening

[167878]

Originally Posted by hiknapster

Oh. And I'm down with the plastic. But it is nouveau riche plastic.

Thanks for the tip, and its "plastique" (with that little dash over the 'e' to add a little gold plating to the chromed synthetic lettering, you can also substitute the 'qu' for 'ch' or 'qghy' or any other silent phonetic functionally useless lettering if you intend to open up the same store on a different block but instead, ''You have to be [i]this[i] tall to enter'' is written in blue ink instead of black. You can also substitute tall for any synonym of superficial.) just so when you answer a survey asking what Armand Lepore is mostly comprised of (you'd think water, but no, sorry, guess again) you know they'll accept your answer.