Saint Augustine Florida.
Came down for a couple of weeks to rest, relax and decide our future. We are going to look at houses in Georgia, but Saint Augustine is our 2nd choice. We ruled out Alabama. We just spent time there in Guntersville. We loved Alabama, but decided it just wasn't the place for us. Seriously contemplating retirement in the next 3 to 6 months. We shall see . Oak
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I would think long and hard before you decide to land in Florida. It may seem good on vacation, but no place to live. I HATE it!! SE Georgia would be a way better bet. Check out Saint Mary’s.
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what are you looking for in a new place to retire? If low taxes and milder winters are at the top, you should look at areas between Greenwood SC and north Augusta sc. Places on lake Greenwood are not too expensive. Property taxes are a lot lower than FL or GA. TN. has no income tax but the sales tax will kill you. State sales tax is 6%.
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Frogdog: 32607500921627/comments/32607478265243
I would think long and hard before you decide to land in Florida. It may seem good on vacation, but no place to live. I HATE it!! SE Georgia would be a way better bet. Check out Saint Mary’s.
I would tend to disagree, I have lived in Florida for just shy of 70 years and it's a great place to live. The weather is no worse than anywhere else (better than many other places) ….. just different, some deal with a few hundred inches of snow, some with tornadoes, fires, extreme cold the list goes on.
I love Florida and wouldn't dream of living anywhere else.
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bullshot: 32607500921627/comments/32607457410331
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I would tend to disagree, I have lived in Florida for just shy of 70 years and it's a great place to live. The weather is no worse than anywhere else (better than many other places) ….. just different, some deal with a few hundred inches of snow, some with tornadoes, fires, extreme cold the list goes on.
I love Florida and wouldn't dream of living anywhere else.
I guess it depends where you live in Florida. My experiences have been Miami and now Tampa, the two biggest urban areas. Terrible.
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Frogdog: 32607500921627/comments/32607478265243
I would think long and hard before you decide to land in Florida. It may seem good on vacation, but no place to live. I HATE it!! SE Georgia would be a way better bet. Check out Saint Mary’s.
Frogdog: 32607500921627/comments/32607478265243
I would think long and hard before you decide to land in Florida. It may seem good on vacation, but no place to live. I HATE it!! SE Georgia would be a way better bet. Check out Saint Mary’s.
we are looking at Saint Simons Island, just outside of St Mary's. My good friend lives in St Mary's for the last 30 years. That is the exact area we are looking at, I like the Athens area and would move there in a heartbeat, but the wife doesn't want to live in the mountains. We both like the shore and want a boat again.
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Our first year in Florida was in Ft Lauderdale (my father's last Navy cruise to Japan) the next year, we moved to Daytona where my dad was Exec Officer of the Naval Reserve training command there. In 2001 I moved to Palm Harbor (about 10 miles west of Tampa) and yes, I agree that south Florida and Tampa are nightmares, the congestion is just unbelievable, however, we now live in north Ormond beach which is actually closer to Flagler beach than it is to Ormond Beach, we are 15 miles north of Daytona and about 40 miles south of St Augustine.
I wouldn't live in south Florida if you had a gun to my head (except Key Largo and south to Key West), Tampa is a great city if you are into traffic jams and are a young mover and shaker but the pace is too fast for my old butt.
Being a Navy brat, I have never lived more than 5 miles from an ocean my entire life and that salt air gets into your blood I guess, plus, Florida is an absolutely beautiful state with great fishing, hunting and just about anything aquatic, beautiful sun rises and sets and some wildlife you can't find in many places on earth. North Florida has large rolling hills with giant oaks and magnolias and does not even resemble south Florida.
Like anything else, it's a matter of taste and preference. If you don't like where you live, living won't be very rewarding I think.
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loknlode: 32607500921627/comments/32607478735899
what are you looking for in a new place to retire? If low taxes and milder winters are at the top, you should look at areas between Greenwood SC and north Augusta sc. Places on lake Greenwood are not too expensive. Property taxes are a lot lower than FL or GA. TN. has no income tax but the sales tax will kill you. State sales tax is 6%.
Where I live the Income Tax is high and the sales tax is 8.25 %. In Minneapolis it is 9.00%
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Tell your wife Athens, Ga isn't in the mountains (hills maybe but not mountains), I'd recommend Florida, it would be a retirees best bet with no state income tax and it might offset your cost of retiring plus you'd still be among your many fellow Northerners 😊 but be warned they have heartless inheritance taxes, they are gonna get what you worked all your life for. Sales tax and property taxes are/will be high no matter which state you settle down in so that shouldn't be a big adjustment to you, it's the little things people don't think about that will eat you alive, that's why I'm staying put and I'm happy staying put 😀. Good luck to you !
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stop in John while you’re down here and we can catch up and I can show you a few toys.
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One thing to keep in mind, Florida does not have a state income tax and I believe seniors get healthy property tax break.
St Augustine is a very nice place, but if you are right in the city it is very touristy.
When I retire it will be on the gulf coast, Tampa/Clearwater or Pensacola/Destin area.
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Thank you junkballer, Athens is not in the mountains. You gotta head north for an hour to get to the mountains.
I've been to St. Simons Island a half dozen times on vacation, I love that place.
ps For what its worth, St. Simons was the favorite vacation spot for Jimmy Carter.
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Tell your wife Athens, Ga isn't in the mountains (hills maybe but not mountains), I'd recommend Florida, it would be a retirees best bet with no state income tax and it might offset your cost of retiring plus you'd still be among your many fellow Northerners 😊 but be warned they have heartless inheritance taxes, they are gonna get what you worked all your life for. Sales tax and property taxes are/will be high no matter which state you settle down in so that shouldn't be a big adjustment to you, it's the little things people don't think about that will eat you alive, that's why I'm staying put and I'm happy staying put 😀. Good luck to you !
That is what I told her!!! Helen GA is the mountains. We have traveled and stayed all over the state. She thinks that any place other than the shore area, is mountains and nothing but rednecks. LOL. She married a Redneck. We live at the shore now, and I hate it, and she loves it. I hate the tourist. My financial advisor said we should look at GA, and Tennessee. We love Tenn. but it is too far from the beach for her. Shake my head.
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stop in John while you’re down here and we can catch up and I can show you a few toys.
I would love to Gary, but we have our son and his family with us and just don't have the time this trip. I will be back soon, and we can get together. I usually come to Florida and GA three times a years.
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Helen is a bunch of rednecks. I used to work for Mike Adams Balloon Loft in Atlanta. We were an FAA licensed aircraft manufacturer, we made hot air balloons. We worked in a big hangar at PDK Airport in Atlanta.
In about 1970, Helen decided to become a "Swiss Village." They remodeled all building in town, so that they looked like a village in Switzerland. This was supposed to attract tourists. And, they bought a big balloon from us, and on it we made an image of the Flag of Switzerland, a red balloon with a big white cross on it.
The deal is, you fly the balloon for an hour, and then you fold it up and pack it in the big canvas bag, and put that in the gondola, and store it in the garage until it is time to fly again.
Helen hillbillies got tired of packing up the balloon, so they just left it setting out in the hayfield for a week or two, until they flew it again. Over 3 or 4 months, setting out in the sun 12 hours a day, the UV light degraded the nylon of the balloon. Three mountain boys climbed aboard one day, hit the propane burner, got about sixty feet up, and the balloon envelope started to tear apart and they crashed. It was a great attempt for the Darwin Award but they didn't make it, they lived but spent a few weeks in the hospital.
ps Helen is a hop, skip and a jump from the Chattooga River, where Deliverance was filmed.
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ST. Marys is a sweet spot in Fl. your friend I am sure has or will fill you in on all you need to know. good luck with you moving plans.. from central Florida just a few miles from the theme parks, 22 years here, still enjoying the weather and overall LOW taxes compared to the north east. don't forget this here is a RED state, and etc., etc.
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I usually don't do this as wr are overwhelmed with damnyankees already. Come on down to coastal NC. Good weather, fishing and hunting . Reasonable cost of living. Check out the Wilmington area or for a slower pace Topsail Island area .
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I did some work many years ago in farm country about 50 miles from the NC coast and I thought it was the best place ever.Great river fishing and more deer and turkeys than I had ever seen.
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We are known as the variety vacation land. Easy access to the Gulf stream for fishing. Hundreds of miles of beaches and the smokey mountains .
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pulsarnc: 32607500921627/comments/32607526415387
I usually don't do this as wr are overwhelmed with damnyankees already. Come on down to coastal NC. Good weather, fishing and hunting . Reasonable cost of living. Check out the Wilmington area or for a slower pace Topsail Island area .
My next door neighbor growing up, lives there. You might know him. His name is Dr. David Reed. After trump won, he stood on the main road there in a red, white and blue shirt, waving a Trump flag for 2 days. Super MAGA guy. I will be stopping to see him on the way home to Communist NJ.
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I live in Orlando. There are too many "wild and crazy" people that have decided to come this town." I can't wait till I am able to move to another state. Hopefully within a year. My thinking, any city that caters to tourist isn't worth living in. Visiting maybe. I have been here since 1959, except 2 years in Kentucky. My opinion.
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bs233jl: 32607500921627/comments/32607528854299
I live in Orlando. There are too many "wild and crazy" people that have decided to come this town." I can't wait till I am able to move to another state. Hopefully within a year. My thinking, any city that caters to tourist isn't worth living in. Visiting maybe. I have been here since 1959, except 2 years in Kentucky. My opinion.
Was a good place 30 years ago it has gotten way to crowded and liberal
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savage170: 32607500921627/comments/32607529488283
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Was a good place 30 years ago it has gotten way to crowded and liberal
That has happened to a lot of places. Even places that completely surprised me such as Texas metros with all the blue state people leaving their places, then moving there and wanting to change the laws so it mirrors where they left. I don't get it but I see the winds blowing that way (P.S. I am north of the TX border) so that is my perception and also from what I hear from friends, family, and coworkers there.
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Oakley, remember the news story but have never met the gentleman .
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pulsarnc: 32607500921627/comments/32607514638619
Oakley, remember the news story but have never met the gentleman .
He is a great guy. Very pro Gun, pro Trump, and a God-fearing man. He also has a place somewhere in Fllorida.
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John, when you come back in town make room on your calendar for a wild hog hunt or a offshore fishing trip,
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