For those who have left Florida and came back (Tampa: sales, houses)

Floridabound09 · 07-22-2007, 12:55 AM

For those who left Florida and came back to Florida, why did you come back and were did you move from and were did you move back to in Florida please?
Also if you don't mind were did you live in Fla before you left.

For instance, a business friend of mine lived in Stuart, Florida, took a job in Holland, Michigan for 125k as a plant manager, he lasted 1 winter and took a 50k job back in Tampa as a sales rep. He hated the cold and missed the Florida weather. I warned him before he took the job but he insisted the
125k salary would make up for it, it didnt. He is what prompted this question.

kswen · 07-22-2007, 12:32 PM

Good question. I grew up in Chicago, then we moved to Parkland, Florida (south florida) in 2000, for my husbands job. We lived in South florida for 6 years. When we first moved the houses were much cheaper than chicago. Our house in south Florida tripled in 6 years. It wa getting very crowded in south florida , and my husbands commute took an hour each way to go roughly 15 miles. Anyhow, we sold our house at the top of the market and moved to colorado near family. We hated living there. We had always loved to visit Colorado and ski there, but it was not the same living there. WE completely missed the florida weather, the ocean, laid back lifestyle etc... and our children missed swimming in the pool everyday and playing outside everyday. So, we moved back to Central Florida,(less crowded than south florida and Brevard county has great schools) just 3 blocks from the ocean. We love it and we will never leave Florida again.

Floridabound09 · 07-22-2007, 12:42 PM

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Originally Posted by kswen

Good question. I grew up in Chicago, then we moved to Parkland, Florida (south florida) in 2000, for my husbands job. We lived in South florida for 6 years. When we first moved the houses were much cheaper than chicago. Our house in south Florida tripled in 6 years. It wa getting very crowded in south florida , and my husbands commute took an hour each way to go roughly 15 miles. Anyhow, we sold our house at the top of the market and moved to colorado near family. We hated living there. We had always loved to visit Colorado and ski there, but it was not the same living there. WE completely missed the florida weather, the ocean, laid back lifestyle etc... and our children missed swimming in the pool everyday and playing outside everyday. So, we moved back to Central Florida,(less crowded than south florida and Brevard county has great schools) just 3 blocks from the ocean. We love it and we will never leave Florida again.

Wow..... love that story !!

What town are you in please?

backtofla · 07-22-2007, 04:02 PM

i was born and raised in fla, moved to nc, now i'm back in fla. i live in orlando now, but i would like to move to n fla.

firemed · 07-22-2007, 04:06 PM

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Originally Posted by backtofla

i was born and raised in fla, moved to nc, now i'm back in fla. i live in orlando now, but i would like to move to n fla.

What part of NC did you live ?

MrTudo · 07-22-2007, 06:08 PM

I left the United States for quasi-retirement and lived in SE Asia for almost 3 years. When I came back , since I already sold my house while overseas and essentially had no home to come back to, I rented a chalet in a place called "The Hideout" in Pennsylvania. Turned out to be the worst winter in a quarter century and we had 60 inches of snow in a 5 day period

It was beautiful. Absolutely incredible.

Then it got colder and colder and colder. Everything looked dirty. It became an incredible drag and the day I left to move back to Fla it was MINUS 18 degrees.

Thought about leaving Fla again after losing the use of our house in Port Charlotte because of Hurricane Charley. Went to Western NC 9 times. Loved the scenery. High speed CABLE internet was real tough to find, particularly in the more mountaneous areas like Black Mountain and as such we found ourselves traveling further into the foothills, where it sorta kinda exists albeit the quality isn't very good. Further, the more we got to know the areas the more we started to realize how backward much of it is, and how racist many parts of it is as well and after several REAL CLOSE calls with some very ignorant people in the Hendersonville thru Tryon areas we decided it just wasn't for us.

Went to Ga too and while it was "ok", the only areas we really would have liked would have been northern Ga and the same issues exist there. Perhaps even more so.

Fla is tough to beat despite the problems I don't need to repeat as they've been discussed here ad nauseum.

Notice how many people who HAVE left can't seem to stay away from the Fla section of this forum? Lonely? Bored? Certainly if they found nirvana they'd have better things to do than to whine and complain here about the place they claim to have left. Other places are a hoot to visit and I LOVE NYC, but I wouldn't want to live there.

It's a big state. Now it we only had good pizza and bagels. Dang

Floridabound09 · 07-22-2007, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by MrTudo

I left the United States for quasi-retirement and lived in SE Asia for almost 3 years. When I came back , since I already sold my house while overseas and essentially had no home to come back to, I rented a chalet in a place called "The Hideout" in Pennsylvania. Turned out to be the worst winter in a quarter century and we had 60 inches of snow in a 5 day period

It was beautiful. Absolutely incredible.

Then it got colder and colder and colder. Everything looked dirty. It became an incredible drag and the day I left to move back to Fla it was MINUS 18 degrees.

Thought about leaving Fla again after losing the use of our house in Port Charlotte because of Hurricane Charley. Went to Western NC 9 times. Loved the scenery. High speed CABLE internet was real tough to find, particularly in the more mountaneous areas like Black Mountain and as such we found ourselves traveling further into the foothills, where it sorta kinda exists albeit the quality isn't very good. Further, the more we got to know the areas the more we started to realize how backward much of it is, and how racist many parts of it is as well and after several REAL CLOSE calls with some very ignorant people in the Hendersonville thru Tryon areas we decided it just wasn't for us.

Went to Ga too and while it was "ok", the only areas we really would have liked would have been northern Ga and the same issues exist there. Perhaps even more so.

Fla is tough to beat despite the problems I don't need to repeat as they've been discussed here ad nauseum.

Notice how many people who HAVE left can't seem to stay away from the Fla section of this forum? Lonely? Bored? Certainly if they found nirvana they'd have better things to do than to whine and complain here about the place they claim to have left. Other places are a hoot to visit and I LOVE NYC, but I wouldn't want to live there.

It's a big state. Now it we only had good pizza and bagels. Dang

Me too, I love Pizza and cannot find it anywhere whenI am down.

Thanks for your response.

backtofla · 07-22-2007, 09:48 PM

firemed, i lived in the asheville area

Floridabound09 · 07-23-2007, 08:44 PM

I also wondered if there are posters here who left a certain area of Florida for another area in the state, but wanted to see how many left Florida and came back.

INeedAChange · 07-23-2007, 09:14 PM

I agree, snow is beautiful--while it's falling. afterwards its just a PITA

Quote:

Originally Posted by MrTudo

I left the United States for quasi-retirement and lived in SE Asia for almost 3 years. When I came back , since I already sold my house while overseas and essentially had no home to come back to, I rented a chalet in a place called "The Hideout" in Pennsylvania. Turned out to be the worst winter in a quarter century and we had 60 inches of snow in a 5 day period

It was beautiful. Absolutely incredible.

Then it got colder and colder and colder. Everything looked dirty. It became an incredible drag and the day I left to move back to Fla it was MINUS 18 degrees.

Thought about leaving Fla again after losing the use of our house in Port Charlotte because of Hurricane Charley. Went to Western NC 9 times. Loved the scenery. High speed CABLE internet was real tough to find, particularly in the more mountaneous areas like Black Mountain and as such we found ourselves traveling further into the foothills, where it sorta kinda exists albeit the quality isn't very good. Further, the more we got to know the areas the more we started to realize how backward much of it is, and how racist many parts of it is as well and after several REAL CLOSE calls with some very ignorant people in the Hendersonville thru Tryon areas we decided it just wasn't for us.

Went to Ga too and while it was "ok", the only areas we really would have liked would have been northern Ga and the same issues exist there. Perhaps even more so.

Fla is tough to beat despite the problems I don't need to repeat as they've been discussed here ad nauseum.

Notice how many people who HAVE left can't seem to stay away from the Fla section of this forum? Lonely? Bored? Certainly if they found nirvana they'd have better things to do than to whine and complain here about the place they claim to have left. Other places are a hoot to visit and I LOVE NYC, but I wouldn't want to live there.

It's a big state. Now it we only had good pizza and bagels. Dang