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Posted: 5/21/2018 4:08:18 PM EDT
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Posted: 5/22/2018 8:51:09 AM EDT
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Four things.
Buy real estate in the tail end of the monsoon season. Cypress trees in the yard are a bad thing. When you enter any natural body of water, salt, brackish or fresh you enter the food chain. Driving in the rain with your fukn emergency flashers on is illegal dumb ass. You will have to budget in a generator and window shaker A/C in the master for the days/weeks after a hurricane with no power. You will not be able to sleep with the windows open at night because all your neighbors will have their POS contractor grade genny's running all night long. It will sound like the feature at the riding lawn mower races. |
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Posted: 5/22/2018 1:46:27 PM EDT
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I'll jump in...
No-See-ums are a real thing. We aren't screwing with you about why you're getting eaten alive at dusk. It's called a palmetto bug, not a cockroach. Just throw a saddle on it and ride it out the front door. If you don't like the weather, wait 10 minutes or cross the street. It's going to change. Love bugs have been proven by NASA to dissolve the paint on your vehicle. You've been warned! 
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Posted: 5/22/2018 3:54:56 PM EDT
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Four things. You will have to budget in a generator and window shaker A/C in the master for the days/weeks after a hurricane with no power. You will not be able to sleep with the windows open at night because all your neighbors will have their POS contractor grade genny's running all night long. It will sound like the feature at the riding lawn mower races. You also have to learn how many hours a day and when to run the frig and freezer to get the job done. Elec = gas money. Has to be a budget in their somewhere. Irma was probably $100 gas money for us poor rednecks, plus bills, plus car gas etc. Had to get gas from Ft. Myers and truck to Naples. |
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Posted: 5/22/2018 3:59:28 PM EDT
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all your neighbors will have their POS contractor grade genny's running all night long. It will sound like the feature at the riding lawn mower races. |
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Posted: 5/22/2018 4:02:22 PM EDT
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Back some years ago we went 3 weeks in August without electric and never took a direct hit.
Oak trees felt like air conditioners in the afternoon. |
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Posted: 5/22/2018 5:15:18 PM EDT
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Collier County millage rates:
County 3.5938 School-State 2.8940 School-Local 2.2280 Dependent .8069 Water Mgmnt .2545 Independent 1.6832 Garbage $414.78 Collier County Traffic: Congested 7 months of tourist season. Ghost like otherwise. Naples, cops ticket for 1 mile over. County will give 5 or more mph. Schools: Cops present during ingress and egress. They don't take any sh!t. |
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Posted: 5/24/2018 4:40:08 PM EDT
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Awesome stuff. I'm looking to relocate.
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Posted: 5/30/2018 2:21:08 PM EDT
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Good stuff OP. I’ll forward the thread to my wife. We will be in Naples looking at houses next month.
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Posted: 5/30/2018 3:36:09 PM EDT
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What options in the Pensacola area for internet service?
Highest speed possible please. |
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Posted: 5/30/2018 3:43:11 PM EDT
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Subscribed. We're looking to move to Tampa this fall. Wife's a nurse, I currently work for Amazon doing robotics repairs but may not look to transfer, as I'd have to go from third party to first party employment.
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Posted: 5/31/2018 10:23:42 AM EDT
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What options in the Pensacola area for internet service? Highest speed possible please. |
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Posted: 5/31/2018 10:50:16 AM EDT
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What options in the Pensacola area for internet service? Highest speed possible please. |
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Posted: 6/1/2018 10:15:58 AM EDT
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Good luck getting 3 hours sleep at night before you play lumberjack the next day if you do your own work. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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all your neighbors will have their POS contractor grade genny's running all night long. It will sound like the feature at the riding lawn mower races. Or Buy enough land
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Posted: 6/2/2018 10:14:41 AM EDT
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If you live on the beach, you only own to the Mean High Tide Line. That is sometimes called the “wet foot” rule. Anybody / everybody can walk along the beach as long as their feet are in the water.
But, getting your feet wet can be an issue. If your neighbors will not let you walk through their yard, you might as well not be near the water. In my area, the houses on the south side of the road have beaches. The houses across the road have a ~10-15 mile drive to a Public Beach Access. |
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Posted: 7/9/2018 3:36:52 AM EDT
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This thread needs pinned, I had to go back three pages to find it.
There's a very good chance that I'll be reaching out about a job in the Orlando area, but the wife and I are wanting to live closer to Tampa. Are there any good areas to look for an apartment on the East of Tampa that would be easy to hit the highway? Maybe something around Plant City or Lakeland? I'm not at all familiar with the area, so if I don't want to live there then please say so, but from Plant City I'd be looking at about an hour commute which I can live with. I'd rather it not be worse than that. My wife is a nurse and would need to look for a job as well, but that shouldn't be too difficult. |
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Posted: 7/9/2018 4:07:19 PM EDT
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This thread needs pinned, I had to go back three pages to find it. There's a very good chance that I'll be reaching out about a job in the Orlando area, but the wife and I are wanting to live closer to Tampa. Are there any good areas to look for an apartment on the East of Tampa that would be easy to hit the highway? Maybe something around Plant City or Lakeland? I'm not at all familiar with the area, so if I don't want to live there then please say so, but from Plant City I'd be looking at about an hour commute which I can live with. I'd rather it not be worse than that. My wife is a nurse and would need to look for a job as well, but that shouldn't be too difficult. |
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Posted: 7/9/2018 7:44:43 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Florida is different south of Ocala... what kinda job you lookin for? You may be happier in the areas around Gainesville I'm also trying to stay reasonably close to my grandfather in fort Myers |
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Posted: 7/9/2018 8:12:18 PM EDT
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Four things. Buy real estate in the tail end of the monsoon season. Cypress trees in the yard are a bad thing. When you enter any natural body of water, salt, brackish or fresh you enter the food chain. Driving in the rain with your fukn emergency flashers on is illegal dumb ass. You will have to budget in a generator and window shaker A/C in the master for the days/weeks after a hurricane with no power. You will not be able to sleep with the windows open at night because all your neighbors will have their POS contractor grade genny's running all night long. It will sound like the feature at the riding lawn mower races. 
Worth it's weight in gold. |
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Posted: 7/11/2018 12:15:11 AM EDT
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OK, as a brand new resident that lives on 10 acres in the sticks, I'll chime in.
Bugs....BIG.FUCKING.BUGS. I've got a golden orb weaver spider outside my screened in porch that will roll you for your lunch money. No shit, almost as big as a beer can. We have an agreement. She stays in her web catching smaller bugs and I dont hit her with Wasp spray. We have named her "Molag Bal" (kids gave her that name from some video game reference to a demon or some shit). Fire ants.....fuck them and everything about them. Terminate with extreme prejudice. I think the wife is the only one that hasnt suffered a bite. Coming from the Seattle area to here we have had to learn to "slow down". Everything is "round to it". Everything moves much slower here. Wild life......LOL! Out here...EVERYWHERE. I just threw a couple rounds of .22 at a bob cat that set off the back yard flood lights. I love this place. |
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Posted: 7/11/2018 6:19:48 AM EDT
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Fire ants: You will learn soon when you step in a soft spongy spot that you just stepped in a mound of fire
ants. Had to shuck my britches twice down here. Second time was when a young bull was chasing me around a tree. 
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Posted: 7/11/2018 8:13:17 AM EDT
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OK, as a brand new resident that lives on 10 acres in the sticks, I'll chime in. Bugs....BIG.FUCKING.BUGS. I've got a golden orb weaver spider outside my screened in porch that will roll you for your lunch money. No shit, almost as big as a beer can. We have an agreement. She stays in her web catching smaller bugs and I dont hit her with Wasp spray. We have named her "Molag Bal" (kids gave her that name from some video game reference to a demon or some shit). Fire ants.....fuck them and everything about them. Terminate with extreme prejudice. I think the wife is the only one that hasnt suffered a bite. Coming from the Seattle area to here we have had to learn to "slow down". Everything is "round to it". Everything moves much slower here. Wild life......LOL! Out here...EVERYWHERE. I just threw a couple rounds of .22 at a bob cat that set off the back yard flood lights. I love this place. Always look where you.... Sit Step Grab Squat Shit Have outdoor buildings/sheds Always Watch what you Grab Move Open Touch Its a common theme..youll get used to it. Then again..i was drying off in the shower last night..pull the towel off my head and theres a 3 inch wood/wolf spider on the shower floor.. Heres 32oz of sauve coconut oil body wash you 8 legged devil spawn..crunch..
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Posted: 7/11/2018 11:24:58 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Then again..i was drying off in the shower last night..pull the towel off my head and theres a 3 inch wood/wolf spider on the shower floor.. Heres 32oz of sauve coconut oil body wash you 8 legged devil spawn..crunch.. |
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Posted: 7/11/2018 11:54:38 AM EDT
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Fire ants: You will learn soon when you step in a soft spongy spot that you just stepped in a mound of fire ants. 
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Posted: 7/11/2018 2:37:06 PM EDT
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I read that part aloud to my wife and she asked "who on ARFcom uses coconut oil body wash".....LOL! Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: Then again..i was drying off in the shower last night..pull the towel off my head and theres a 3 inch wood/wolf spider on the shower floor.. Heres 32oz of sauve coconut oil body wash you 8 legged devil spawn..crunch.. 
I swear... |
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Posted: 7/20/2018 6:46:27 PM EDT
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OK, as a brand new resident that lives on 10 acres in the sticks, I'll chime in. Coming from the Seattle area to here we have had to learn to "slow down". Everything is "round to it". Everything moves much slower here. |
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