where would you relocate?????

We know someone that had all AC units split in Morehead NC still not warm enough for us we swim in dec in the gulf.
 
We purchased a 2nd house in Southport NC. Our development has a marina and the plan is hopefully to bring the boat down next winter once I am done working up here on Long Island
 
My family came to western NY in the 1890's. I'm the 5th generation NY born.

My whole working career was spent traveling around the world following engineering projects in many many factories. I had chances to move up time after time but it either wasn't the right time (kids in school, Mom & Dad sick, etc.) or the place they wanted to promote me to was awful. Both my boys established themselves locally and even built their dream homes on my very street. My DIL used to call us Frank & Marie...LOL.

I always looked around wherever I traveled to see if we might relocate there after retirement. Unbearable heat, bugs, hurricanes, tornadoes, unbearable cold seemed to follow me everywhere. After a few buddies moved south and found that the salt water nearly destroyed their boats after a few years, I decided that I would never go anywhere without freshwater boating.

Yeah, we got taxes and idiot politicians, but when I look around at the waters we ply and the scenery around the mountains next to our cabin, it just makes sense to us that we made the right decision to stay HOME.

Its always greener, as they say. Taxes be damned, you get what you pay for. Our home and the real estate we own would cost double in many other places. So, its either a mortgage or taxes. You pay just the same.

The things I want to do, and the places I want to go, are all right here. I realize that I'm a oddity these days, in that I'm SATISFIED with how things are. If we all just counted our blessings and sat back and smelled the flowers, life would be a lot better.
 
My wife wants to live on the water overlooking a large body of water. She really wants to live on the east coast but I don't want to be in hurricane areas. I rally want to live on Lake Erie because I love the great lakes so my wife said as long as we are on the water she is willing to compromise.
 
Havana Shamrock said:
May not get waterfront for your budget but were building a house near Sarasota and the boat is 35 mins away and mins from the Gulf. We also wanted the boat in the backyard but for the money we built a brand new home the way we wanted it
30-40 min drive isn’t so bad.
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Ah, Lakewood Ranch, no doubt. or, way South around Venice Inlet. Having grown up on the bay front of Sarasota (Palm Avenue), we went East for many years, berthing at MJ, or the Hyatt. Now, we have small condos with lots of docks, but near the airport. Good enough, and I didn't have to rob a bank to get there. Still dock to bay in 3 minutes or so.
 
We relocated from NH. You know, where you live free or die. Now in NC. The problem with relocating from states with lots of taxes and "amenities" is they want that way of life where they more too. If you move from a tax state to NC, leave your New York State of mind in New York. Not trying to be disrespectful in any means, but when towns are being called Cary= Containment Area of Relocating Yankees. It's for a reason.
 
liv2ryde100 said:
i currently live and boat on south shore of long island in new york. my house is on a canal and i have 50ft of bulkhead in my backyard. i definitely consider myself lucky, but new york is just getting so out of control with taxes and politics that im considering a relocation. up here we have may through october to boat, and we take advantage of that by spending as many weekends as possible sleeping on our boat in different marinas. we can easily get to a bunch of different marinas, and we have also ventured to montauk, block island, atlantic city etc. we are currently running a 2005 340 sundancer with plans to move up in the future. sometimes i open a bottle of wine at night and search up and down the east coast looking for waterfront property in other parts of the country. usually from key largo up through north carolina as this would extend the season for us. i cant seem to find any areas where i can get a house for under 700k on the water with boat in backyard and have various boating destinations to choose from. maybe someone can recommend a place that this exists??? ive even read in boat us about top boating places to live and didnt seem to walk away from the articles with much to show for it. food for thought...
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I'm with you. I'm on the North shore. Boat is coming out Monday, so sad. We can stay in till Nov1, but I keep my boat at my house and when the leaves fall it's a nightmare. I have to get it covered before that. I also live right across the street from the water and since we moved here the wife and I couldn't live inland ever again. lol. I'm going to do the snowbird thing though. Half my family live in Florida near the Tampa Clearwater area West Coast Gulf). I have friends that live in Stewart Florida ( East coast). After going to the East coast the last 2 years I like that much better. It's a little cooler and there is a breeze off the ocean most of the time. You also have the intercoastal. I think this may be a good place. Take a look.
 
Not a huge fan of extreme heat and humidity so Florida is out of the question for me.
Have a bunch of relatives down there and have tried to wrap my head around the idea of living there, but the climate is not for me.
We briefly talked about a move to Delaware not long ago because it would still give us the four seasons, plenty of good boating, lots of places to live that are within a short distance of marinas, and keep us within a reasonable driving distance back here for visits.
I love three of the four seasons up in the northeast and really only hate the January and February weather here. A move a few hours south would take enough of the edge off to make them more bearable.
That idea crashed a burned when my daughter said that she would not consider a move. She’s very early in her career here in NY and doing very well for someone her age. She isn’t willing to walk away from that.
Keeping my fingers crossed that things will change, or the future will bring better opportunities for her elsewhere, but that doesn’t seem to be a possibility anytime soon.
My wife won’t even consider a move unless the kids go too, so I guess I’m stuck here.
Not happy about it at all, but it is what it is.
 
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JVM225 said:
Not a huge fan of extreme heat and humidity so Florida is out of the question for me.
Have a bunch of relatives down there and have tried to wrap my head around the idea of living there, but the climate is not for me.
We briefly talked about a move to Delaware not long ago because it would still give us the four seasons, plenty of good boating, lots of places to live that are within a short distance of marinas, and keep us within a reasonable driving distance back here for visits.
I love three of the four seasons up in the northeast and really only hate the January and February weather here. A move a few hours south would take enough of the edge off to make them more bearable.
That idea crashed a burned when my daughter said that she would not consider a move. She’s very early in her career here in NY and doing very well for someone her age. She isn’t willing to walk away from that.
Keeping my fingers crossed that things will change, or the future will bring better opportunities for her elsewhere, but that doesn’t seem to be a possibility anytime soon.
My wife won’t even consider a move unless the kids go too, so I guess I’m stuck here.
Not happy about it at all, but it is what it is.
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PM me before you move to Delaware. My parents relocated from northern NJ to the Lewes DE area.
 
GypsmJim said:
My family came to western NY in the 1890's. I'm the 5th generation NY born.

My whole working career was spent traveling around the world following engineering projects in many many factories. I had chances to move up time after time but it either wasn't the right time (kids in school, Mom & Dad sick, etc.) or the place they wanted to promote me to was awful. Both my boys established themselves locally and even built their dream homes on my very street. My DIL used to call us Frank & Marie...LOL.

I always looked around wherever I traveled to see if we might relocate there after retirement. Unbearable heat, bugs, hurricanes, tornadoes, unbearable cold seemed to follow me everywhere. After a few buddies moved south and found that the salt water nearly destroyed their boats after a few years, I decided that I would never go anywhere without freshwater boating.

Yeah, we got taxes and idiot politicians, but when I look around at the waters we ply and the scenery around the mountains next to our cabin, it just makes sense to us that we made the right decision to stay HOME.

Its always greener, as they say. Taxes be damned, you get what you pay for. Our home and the real estate we own would cost double in many other places. So, its either a mortgage or taxes. You pay just the same.

The things I want to do, and the places I want to go, are all right here. I realize that I'm a oddity these days, in that I'm SATISFIED with how things are. If we all just counted our blessings and sat back and smelled the flowers, life would be a lot better.
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We pretty much follow the same profile but from Maine and Mass and have reached the same conclusions. The family plot in Maine in the town where my parents were from has family headstones going back to the 1700s. I also worked extensively overseas most of my career and its easier to list the places we haven't been. Before turning to boating seriously we rented vacation homes in Italy, and considered buying a seasonal home a number of times. When I retired we considered moving considering all of the places we had been, but realized we had far too many ties to the region. Additionally my health history had already brought home the point that I was still around to retire because in large part we had easy access to world class medical facilities. So rather than buying a second home, we put the money into the house with new windows and doors, upgraded high efficiency heating system, and a full time standby generator. And oh yeah, we bought a much bigger boat.
 
If you amazing, rugged NY’ers are going to bring those idiot government policies with you down here, please stay up north. If you leave that crap there, the fishing and weather is great in south Louisiana! Love to have you. :)
 
DWABoat said:
If you amazing, rugged NY’ers are going to bring those idiot government policies with you down here, please stay up north. If you leave that crap there, the fishing and weather is great in south Louisiana! Love to have you. :)
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I was General Manager of a semi-trailer and logging equipment manufacturer that had a plant near Shreveport for a couple years. If South LA is anything like Northern LA, I'd rather set what little hair I have left on fire.:confused:
 
Most people leave NY BECAUSE of the politicians. I have known a few that came back after retirement, because southern hospitality isn't always what its cracked up to be. Rumor has it that if Yankees are all cooped up in their own gated community, they are then tolerated much more.

It used to be that you couldn't get good people to move to WNY because of the snow and cold. The real problem is that once they got here, they didn't want to leave. As cited above, schools and the medical community are big draws. And then one realizes that the snow and cold are much worse in Minnesota, Colorado, Dakotas, et al.

Its not where you live, its where your home is.
 
Henry Boyd said:
I was General Manager of a semi-trailer and logging equipment manufacturer that had a plant near Shreveport for a couple years. If South LA is anything like Northern LA, I'd rather set what little hair I have left on fire.:confused:
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Agree. Shreveport-Bossier area culture is more like NE Texas/DFW than south SE Louisiana.
 
I love the Annapolis area....boating is great... food is insane.. nothing beats blue crab

My son just had some crab flown in from the Kent narrows this weekend for a crab fest at his house.... he saved me 8.... can’t wait to get back to the house

He was teasing me this weekend sending me pics

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Ya I know he will fly in crab but drinks Busch :)

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So we became SW FL residents 5 years ago - I wish we'd have done it 30 years ago! We are there October - May and the weather is perfect - we love it - I wear long pants one day per winter. During the miserable months of heat/humidity (June- September) we are in Atlanta and keep cool in the waters of Lake Chickamauga/TN River. Couldn't ask for much better. FL Panhandle is probably better in June-Sept, but there is still the hurricane threat - and Dec - Feb is cold. When we give up our Atlanta home in a few years, we will have to solve the question of June - September...Montana/Idaho? Who knows. We are still trying to work through June - September in FL with the heat/humidity/thunderstorm/hurricane threats...

But we couldn't be happier than we are in Ft. Myers. We are looking at Sailfish Point in Stuart - lots of lifelong Nashville friends there - but I gave up golf 40 years ago for the time required to work full time and be in the Navy Reserves, and I'm too old to pick it back up, so who knows. But we love Florida...
 
My friends that are snow birds say the cruisers in Florida are far and in between center counsel are all you see. Maybe it's the area they are in near Tampa. Sounds like the type of boating we do here on the Great Lake isn't that common.
 
JVM225 said:
Not a huge fan of extreme heat and humidity so Florida is out of the question for me.
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We moved to NE FL from Iowa going on 8 years ago. It is less hot here than in Iowa. Peak heat in Iowa is hotter than peak heat here. But the warmth here does extend over more of the year. We have a few days, maybe, in the 20s. February.

Humidity is sometimes more here, sometimes more in Iowa. The key is the sea breeze. Iowa is either brutal prairie winds in winter or dead calm stifling heat and humidity in the summer.

Happier here in NE FL. Some parts of the Gulf Coast, and South Florida are hotter and more humid than here, granted.
 
When my youngest leaves for college in 7 years I will be in the truck right behind him headed to the SC coast. Somewhere between Charleston and HHI.
 
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