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If you just go along our southern coasts it seems like the prices are really surging.
Southern California been high for a long time now.
Possible the southern Texas coast, although southern Texas seems more of a Mexican rather than American culture. Maybe that's what your going for.
Maybe Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coasts in the Gulf are still affordable. Not states people seem to be running to just yet though.
Florida is becoming like California price wise. Maybe northern Florida but even that's changing quick. Go up the coast, Georgia and the Carolinas are booming with cash on hand northern retirees, it is not a cheap in many of those cities anymore.
Not to mention it is spring break time, and it should be noted that in many places you have to evacuate these places during spring break. Biolxi, Pensacola, Panama City beach, Certainly the Miami area and absolutely Myrtle Beach get really dangerous.
Will we soon start seeing a different way of thinking how a stereo typical retirement look like due to some of these changes? Beg to differ?
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As usual, desirable places will increase in cost and population, and popularity.
There is more money, and more people, thus the cycle churns. (and you find more remote and desirable places away from USA. With the security problems elsewhere, the nice places in the USA are fewer AND more expensive.
For surfing.... Central and South America would be my target. Much of Asia has pretty calm waters, and little tidal change (Except during typhoons). Philippines and indonesia has thousands of islands each! Malaysia has a program to resettle there. (and some really great, affordable beaches. https://www.mm2h.com/ (As in Tioman where they filmed South Pacific). Trade surfing for diving. https://www.laidbacktrip.com/posts/t...20great%20time.
......Will we soon start seeing a different way of thinking how a stereo typical retirement look like due to some of these changes? Beg to differ?
Probably should.....but not for the reasons stated.
The primary reason why I don't live on the Texas coast is that, having a marine biology degree, I know the coastal environment is too fragile for heavy human development. So I do my part by not contributing to it.
There are cheap and warm coastal areas all along the coasts of Southeast Asia. Not necessarily good for surfing, but certainly cheap and warm. Mexico/ Central America too if you are ok with crime and/or political instability.
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There are plenty of inexpensive coastal cities to live in here in our state, they just are not warm, and are wet. Naturally as the formerly biggest generation is retiring there is more demand, but wait until the currently biggest generation, the millennials start to retire. People looking for inexpensive, warm coastal are going to be limited to Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana. Fortunately for me, we like the rain and cooler summer weather here in the northwest.
I'm in agreement with T.S. not only because of the fragile environment preservation, but because there are these big things that go round and round real fast called hurricanes. Having lived in south Florida and experienced a number of them - anything with an mile or two of the coast is fair game for mother nature handing out Darwin awards. Enjoying a beach or surfing or whatever? Great. Having salt water air ruin an AC in a couple years, disturbing sea turtles with light, smelling rotting Sargasso seaweed, dealing with sand fleas and the remains of jellyfish, all on an ongoing basis while paying through the nose for property taxes, insurance, and constant maintenance? No. Just no.
I prefer cold coastal environments...they may or may not be cheap, but fewer obnoxious people and the problems they drag along with them tend to congregate there. Remember what Sartre wrote: "Hell is other people."
Personally, I don't need to dabble a single toe in that frigid water to enjoy it's presence.
You would expect high prices along the coast in Southern California, thanks to the CA Coastal Commission that won't allow any high rises along the California coastline. The ones that are there pre-dated the ruling of the Coastal Commission.
If they ever repealed the CA Coastal Commission, and allowed high rises along the CA coastline, you'd see cranes up in the sky all along the coast. Malibu has 25 miles of coastline, just think how many high rises they could crowd into those 25 miles alone. And Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, Santa Monica and Seal Beach.
If you just go along our southern coasts it seems like the prices are really surging.
Southern California been high for a long time now.
Possible the southern Texas coast, although southern Texas seems more of a Mexican rather than American culture. Maybe that's what your going for.
Maybe Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coasts in the Gulf are still affordable. Not states people seem to be running to just yet though.
Florida is becoming like California price wise. Maybe northern Florida but even that's changing quick. Go up the coast, Georgia and the Carolinas are booming with cash on hand northern retirees, it is not a cheap in many of those cities anymore.
Not to mention it is spring break time, and it should be noted that in many places you have to evacuate these places during spring break. Biolxi, Pensacola, Panama City beach, Certainly the Miami area and absolutely Myrtle Beach get really dangerous.
Will we soon start seeing a different way of thinking how a stereo typical retirement look like due to some of these changes? Beg to differ?
Why anyone else would want to live in the coastal regions is beyond me. There are hurricanes every year. Plus in Florida there are too many lunatic citizens and in government. I think the heat gets to them.
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