[westender]

Originally Posted by SAE72

Florida has some of the worse drinking water in the country. A high amount of violations of the Safe Water Drinking Act and it pretty much tastes horrible. If I can’t have a glass of quality drinking water from the tap in my kitchen , I don’t have any interest in living there. That’s one of the most important factors for quality of life in my opinion. This time of year, the “ city water “ from my faucet is cold and tastes absolutely terrific.

Just buy one of those drip devices, and keep the pitcher in the fridge.

In my Florida place, I have a water filter system under the sink that filters the kitchen faucet and the icemaker feed. Then, for drinking, faucet water gets purified again by the Britta and chilled.

Easy Peasy

[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by westender

Just buy one of those drip devices, and keep the pitcher in the fridge.

In my Florida place, I have a water filter system under the sink that filters the kitchen faucet and the icemaker feed. Then, for drinking, faucet water gets purified again by the Britta and chilled.

Easy Peasy

Exactly. FL tap water isn’t great but it’s a very easy and affordable fix. Hardly a quality of life issue.

My well water in Shelton was horrible, but my well water in Ridgefield was amazing. That said, I do not miss having a well.

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

Florida Keys certainly are very expensive, however, and close to very overcrowded portions of SE Florida along the I-95 corridor.

Especially Key Largo, which is one of the closest keys to those overcrowded areas (a little over 60 miles from Miami)

[Poseidon3290]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

Florida Keys certainly are very expensive, however, and close to very overcrowded portions of SE Florida along the I-95 corridor.

Never any traffic when I drive that area (I do avoid miami at rush hour though)

[Poseidon3290]

Originally Posted by 7 Wishes

Especially Key Largo, which is one of the closest keys to those overcrowded areas (a little over 60 miles from Miami)

I honestly don't know what you mean. Driving from Greenwich to Norwalk is much worse than anything I've ever seen in Key Largo.. Could be 11am on a Sunday and 95 in Stamford is stopped. Have also been on the merrit parkway at 10am on a Saturday and stopped. Have never experienced that ever in the keys.. sure there's traffic, but it isn't like our quality of life up here in Fairfield county (ie. both highways always jammed to capacity!)

[JayCT]

Originally Posted by kidyankee764

The vast majority of the US population lives in urbanized areas, and that includes the southern cities that have top hospitals which were previously knocked as not having good healthcare. But even so, people aren’t driving 80-120 miles to go to the hospital. A person living in Derby will go to Griffin and a person in Meriden would likely go to Midstate or New Britain. They won’t be going to a Boston or New York hospital.

Anyway, yes, CT has great health care. I don’t disagree there. But so do many other areas of the nation, including the south.

You minimized the health care in our state because we did not have a Top 20 hospital. Only three of them are in the south, Duke in NC, Vanderbilt in Nashville and Mayo in Phenoix. None are in Florida or Georgia or Virginia or Louisiana or Texas yet we have five within a two hour drive of our state.

I will strongly disagree with you about how far people will travel for treatments. Sure someone from Derby will go to Griffin for common treatments but are you telling me that they won’t travel to Yale in New Haven for more difficult conditions?

Funny you mention Meriden. My best friends brother-in-law lived in Meriden and had congentitive heart failure. He went to Yale for his treatment. As I said I also know of people that have gone to Brigham and Mass General for treatment. My sisters neighbor went to Mount Sinai in New York for his digestive desease treatments. So yeah, people do travel for healthcare. Jay

[jane_sm1th73]

I'm just glad I'm out of the CT sh*tstorm.

Twelve years in Virginia. After seven weeks of networking, got a better job than I left in CT (after bumping into a former IBM Director stocking shelves at Home Depot). Got laid off once in VA. I walked across the street to the competition and had a better job, which I could have started within a month. What with planned vacation and a desired break, I started after that. Have contributed 2x more per year to my retirement accounts. The difference is attributable to higher salary, lower COL in general, and specifically to lower taxes. Non-monetary advantages include the comparative absence of government intrusion. Until you've experienced it, you can't know the difference in quality of life.

Although I have not needed health care writ large, I have three USNEWS-ranked best in class hospitals within ten miles of where I live.

In retrospect, I am satisfied with my move; trust the numbers; my gut tells me every day that the relative absence of government intrusion makes an enormous difference in my quality of life.

[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by JayCT

You minimized the health care in our state because we did not have a Top 20 hospital. Only three of them are in the south, Duke in NC, Vanderbilt in Nashville and Mayo in Phenoix. None are in Florida or Georgia or Virginia or Louisiana or Texas yet we have five within a two hour drive of our state.

I will strongly disagree with you about how far people will travel for treatments. Sure someone from Derby will go to Griffin for common treatments but are you telling me that they won’t travel to Yale in New Haven for more difficult conditions?

Funny you mention Meriden. My best friends brother-in-law lived in Meriden and had congentitive heart failure. He went to Yale for his treatment. As I said I also know of people that have gone to Brigham and Mass General for treatment. My sisters neighbor went to Mount Sinai in New York for his digestive desease treatments. So yeah, people do travel for healthcare. Jay

I think it’s time to agree to disagree!

[cttransplant85]

Originally Posted by jane_sm1th73

I'm just glad I'm out of the CT sh*tstorm.

Twelve years in Virginia. After seven weeks of networking, got a better job than I left in CT (after bumping into a former IBM Director stocking shelves at Home Depot). Got laid off once in VA. I walked across the street to the competition and had a better job, which I could have started within a month. What with planned vacation and a desired break, I started after that. Have contributed 2x more per year to my retirement accounts. The difference is attributable to higher salary, lower COL in general, and specifically to lower taxes. Non-monetary advantages include the comparative absence of government intrusion. Until you've experienced it, you can't know the difference in quality of life.

Although I have not needed health care writ large, I have three USNEWS-ranked best in class hospitals within ten miles of where I live.

In retrospect, I am satisfied with my move; trust the numbers; my gut tells me every day that the relative absence of government intrusion makes an enormous difference in my quality of life.

Be careful, VA is one state senator away from giving Democrats complete control to implement the tax, spend, bond, regulate unsustainable garbage they are doing in CT. Some of the NoVa politicians are even more radical than the ones that are in CT.

[SAE72]

Originally Posted by westender

Just buy one of those drip devices, and keep the pitcher in the fridge.

In my Florida place, I have a water filter system under the sink that filters the kitchen faucet and the icemaker feed. Then, for drinking, faucet water gets purified again by the Britta and chilled.

Easy Peasy

Not so easy. Florida has , and will have continued problems in the future providing clean fresh water for its ever growing population. In addition, there are constant violations of safety regulations regarding the quality. Once great areas for fishing are now abandoned. Sewage treatment is a huge problem, and the dumping of effluent close to drinking water sources is troubling. Your filter systems are absolutely worthless considering what can be in the water. Your filters do not " purify " water, they filter it.