Friends moving again...

[**NoodLes**]

Originally Posted by mojow

Good point! I remember how much of a hit we took in loss of revenue after 9/11. If I remember right it took a couple years to bounce back.

Yeah, me too.... starting over wouldn't be that bad though because there'd be progression. Unlike down here where you feel like you're spinning wheels and getting nowhere.

Home Owners Associations.... My son was at a friend's house house and he spent the night and had nowhere to park so he parked across the street (not in front of any houses, evidently it was an empty lot or land not developed yet right next to his friend's house), and anyway, he got towed.

So we went to pick up the car the next day ($110.00), and the attendent got to talking about his situation. He's from NY and said that if things don't change in 6 mo's, he's moving back up. He said he got paid $30 an hour in NY to drive a dump truck and down here for the same job, they want to pay him 12 or 13 an hour.

Also up north he was in the union, and if the job they sent him on for the day happened to be union, his boss had to put an extra 195 into one of his benefits package. He said that he always had an emergency savings amount of about $3,000 to $5,000 but that down here he doesn't make enough to save a dime.

He's glad he didn't buy a home down here and as far as HOA's go, they don't have them where he's from. You own your home, and don't have a HOA making all these nit picky rules for you, telling you what you can do on your property.

He said women would come in crying because they rent a home with 2 or 3 other people and have more than 2 cars but the HOA only allows 2 cars in the drive way, and there they are, picking up their towed vehicle, crying because they don't make enough money as it is, that's why they have to have 3 roommates, and then to have to spit out an extra 100 bucks to pick up a towed car...

After 9/11 that was terrible, I was one of the lucky ones helping people get their car to drive back home since the flights were grounded. Some people were driving cross country, normally the drop fees would be a few hundred dollars easy, but since the country was in dissaray the car rental companies decided not to charge anybody, boy that was hectic!

But thats what happens when most of your jobs are based on tourism, its so easy to make it crumble so fast.

The other problem is the taxes and insurance here. A few years ago you could make it here, but the prices are too high and the cost of living now a days is way out of proportion. To top it off we have the worst city planning and the elected officials seem to be living in LaLA land. I just heard that Save Our Homes could be terminated. Its amazing how they just have to have all this money now, especially since a few years ago they seemed to be getting more done with less money.

[bdpop]

I would like to leave myself, the only thing is, I can't afford it. Every penny I make goes to pay bills and there is nothing left to save for my move. It is a catch 22 type of situation.

[mojow]

Originally Posted by bdpop

I would like to leave myself, the only thing is, I can't afford it. Every penny I make goes to pay bills and there is nothing left to save for my move. It is a catch 22 type of situation.

That's where I'm at too. I'm working on ideas, hoping for something to change by the end of 5 years.

[Songbird42]

Thats been a gripe of mine for the last 15 yrs. the house next door has been sold or rents at least 20 times every time I make friends, they either die or move "back home". I am now the only "original" one on my block, everyone else is gone. Same thing at church, make friends and before you can exchange Christmas cards their either dead or moving. Right now I have a house in back of me empty, house next door, rednecks are in the process of moving in, and I doubt if they'll last till summer, so yes, it is a problem not just in Orlando but everywhere.