Why Would Anybody With a BRAIN Live There? (place, history, South)

[FLBob]

Originally Posted by alikat1205

we did "up and leave" after katrina. not by choice. my husband's job was gone, my business was wiped out. every day we are devastated not to be home. our family is there. we are alone. our children are no longer around their grandparents. this is not the life we wanted. we miss the food, the culture, the music and our family. also, prior to the summer before katrina, we had never evacuated before. it hurts our heart every day not to be there. how do you quantify that?

Unless someone has gone through it they can't begin to understand. You didn't do anything wrong and your world crumbles around you. Even after time goes by a tear will come to your eye. The world tells you to buck up and look at the bright side. My demon's name was Charlie...

[alikat1205]

thank you for understanding, some of the things people say are so heartless. one person actually told me i was "lucky" because i got to buy all new furniture. ????

[FLBob]

Can't replace the memories that went with the things you had.

[AliceT]

Originally Posted by NCN

Some places should be maintained for vacations only.

And then you have those who run the place for the vacationers - the lifeguards, police, clinics, nurses, utility workers, homes for those workers, buildings for motels, hotels, restaurants. With such things come libraries, grocery stores, car rental agencies, an airport, taxis, recreational opportunities for the employees who run the place and then come the furniture stores, pet shops, malls, car dealers, pawn shops. Aw heck... before ya know it, ya got a whole city geared toward taking care of the vacation property. That's pretty much what happened to Florida.

Then folks don't want to be in the big city so they look for rural property, and that's what happened to Lake and Osceola counties. People migrated there because there were jobs to take care of all the tourists and more money to be made on those tourists by offering other things to them. It's a snowball effect. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

[jfre81]

Nobody would go to Florida if they had to make their hotel beds and dress up in a Mickey Mouse costume for the kids themselves. Ghost towns may have a niche in the tourism sector, but it's not a very big one.

[neotextist]

Yeah, we should also get rid of Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, and the rest of the Caribbean while we're at it. I mean, who needs those countries anyway? They're just playgrounds for the rich. Who cares about the people who actually live there full-time outside of snowbird season?

[Wizard Of Oz]

Living my entire life in Minnesota, I've wasted literally 6 months of every year... sitting indoors, running to and from my car hoping it heats up quicker than last time, shoveling snow, driving on ice... and I can honestly tell you - I'd rather have an occasional hurricane wipe out whatever apartment I would be renting (can't say I'd buy real estate in Florida) than deal with another minute of this crap.

There are reasons people put themselves in harms way other than being born there and having family ties... and as beautiful as georgia may be (if I was drunk, and looking at a screensaver of florida I suppose) I can't imagine living that far from the ocean. Like the rest of the post's say... cat 1, or 2 - enjoy the pretty thunderstorms, cat 3, 4, or 5 - hop on the next flight out.

[Wizard Of Oz]

LOL, although - considering I have a "snub nosed" dog, I can't take him on flights unless the weather is under 72 degrees or so, so it looks like IF I do move to florida, and a big one comes around - I'll be sending the girlfriend on a plane, and taking the pup for a "lets get the hell out of here" joyride with a trunk full of water/gas.

The things I do for my pup. eh.

[texdav]

My guess is that its like living in a arae which the experts say will on eday suufer a massive earth quake but at least a hurricane you can runway from before it strikes. In the end alot of poe are unaware of teh dangers of where they live since many have never really had a disaster. In some way those are the worse areas because they are so unprepared.I mean looking at the areas that have time after tiem of flooding makes me wander more really.

[Nomadicus]

One reason why they don't live in a hurricane alley is the price of real estate. A lot of those that live in hurricane land are here only in the off season. They go home in time to check out the tornadoes in their home states.