I've had a 2nd home there since 1984 but your advice is good for someone who hasn't been to Florida.
OT: Where in FL????
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Yes there are more criminals running around in Florida, because there are many more poor than rich.
Lived in Fl for 6 years and had property in a HOA there for another 10, so I’m speaking from experience. The criminal industry has an echosystem all its own from bail bondsmen to attorneys.
The biggest reason taxes are less is because the school system expenses are a lot less. But on that note, you get what you pay for.
Without an HOA your new next door neighbor can park his boat, RV, trailer and BBQ smoker right next to your property line and you can’t do a thing about it. The HOA may restrict your rights in some areas but they provide protection in other ways. Ymmv.
Yes the total income MFJ needs to be under $150000, but retirement income (excluding Social Security) needs to be $100000 or less, if it is $100001 the retirement income exclusion is reduced to 50%. Also, if your total income is $150001 your loose all exclusions entirely, so you pay tax on all income.
Those are the people that live in NC now. They call them halfbacks. They move to FL from NJ/NY and can't stand the heat so they move halfway back.
Oh, that explains why you think of Florida as high-crime.
Yes the Tenderloin is awful, just like Skid Row but smaller. Also just like all of Mississippi, Alabama, etc. If you go to those 6 square blocks, it’s gonna suck. I choose to go to the rest of this vibrant, beautiful city bc I’m not looking to write a hit piece. NY Post is almost as obsessed with SF as you are.
SanTranzShitHole
A WOKETOPIA demise of a city
A WOKETOPIA demise of a city
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You constantly bring up trans…I think we all know what your pornhub history looks like at this point…just for “research” I’m sure.
please tell me you do not buy that nonsense you linked. who are you gonna believe, FAIR or your lying eyes?
check these live webcams of The Streets of San Francisco (
)It is a ghost town (comparatively)!
I do wonder sometimes if this is all some kind of sinister power move by real estate corporations. Dive down values.. snap up a bunch of key properties.. then help some law and order types take over and drive values back up. maybe even break up the area into separate governmental units.. like Atlanta's Buckhead wants to do.
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This is similar to the conservative attacks on the increase in crime in New York City, especially by DeSantis. Crime in all of Florida's largest cities is still far higher than in NYC. I'm all for highlighting problems and failures but I'm not for giving voters a wrong impression of the relative conditions between states and cities as a way to "prove" your way of doing things is better. Crime is much higher generally in red states, especially if you take out rural states with tiny, dispersed populations like the Dakotas, Idaho, etc. Despair, poverty, shorter lives all much worse in red states, especially the south. That's just facts.
Or like in Texas when power goes out when the temperature falls below 32 degrees.
Transgenderism has people on the right in an almost frenzied state. It would be hilarious if it didn't come attached with so much hostility and talk about how such people are in danger of destroying your society. You are always veering into Nazi territory when you say that a tiny, long-abused minority is an existential threat to the majority that has always abused them. It just makes me shake my head.
Most of Florida already is intolerable most of the year.
Texas, too, of course.
I live here. I don’t need to listen to any media on the subject. Downtown is empty. I went there maybe 5 times in my decade plus of living here. Tenderloin is a ********. Rest of the city is great. My neighborhood is clean and safe. My home value has increased exponentially.please tell me you do not buy that nonsense you linked. who are you gonna believe, FAIR or your lying eyes?
check these live webcams of The Streets of San Francisco (
It is a ghost town (comparatively)!
I do wonder sometimes if this is all some kind of sinister power move by real estate corporations. Dive down values.. snap up a bunch of key properties.. then help some law and order types take over and drive values back up. maybe even break up the area into separate governmental units.. like Atlanta's Buckhead wants to do.
Since when is SF in Florida?
Someone attempted to derail the thread. The Redneck Riviera will have that impact on weak-minded folks.
Someone attempted to derail the thread. The Redneck Riviera will have that impact on weak-minded folks.
It's pure bigotry. A beer company uses a transgendered person to hawk their product and they boycott. Imagine if they had used a Jewish personality for that and the right freaked. You would say Nazism. How is it different? They complain that people on the left call them bigots at the drop of a hat--yet they say and do bigoted things at the drop of a hat.
The idiot just parrots his political gods’ talking points
He never speaks from experience or truth
I am not going to suggest SWAIN is wrong.. he lives there. But another way to look at this is like a timeline. I certainly wish him luck. Been a long time since I've been there but I loved that city.
**you know what.. a couple of friends made it out there last year.. as a vacation trip spot.. and they were worried but pretty much came back saying it was overblown.. the criticisms. A retired cop and his wife,, so maybe his view is a little different.. and she might be used to feeling safer than most. But I trust their opinion.
But.. at what point was the problem much smaller.. limited to a couple of streets.. but it has grown, right? And then look to the future.. has the tipping point already occurred?
And lastly, was the real problem with SF the Covid quarantine coupled with permissive homelessness and tent squatting, and drug use?
Did that result in remote workers and empty office buildings and empty streets that just made fewer people complain about the conditions that led to that slippery slope to where it is now and where it is going?
While I did not introduce the off-shoot.. I think we are quite capable of holding more than one thought in a thread.
I quoted a Florida statistic, you brought up San Francisco. So you’re a liar. And RUTex, you’re not much better if you can’t scroll up to see who the first person to mention it was - hint - it wasn’t me.
ProudTransLover is a liar and a wimp. You gonna call your lawyers on me again swamp trash?
I thought your "All?" meant all of SF.. I did not think you were responding merely to object his characterization of AL and MS... but you are correct, of course.
Says the guy who brought up SF and then said I did. You’re a liar who lives on the political board of a school you didn’t attend nor are a fan of. What a loser. Now send me some more drunk racist DMs at midnight since I live rent free in your doublewide.
Experience? I live here you moron. That’s my experience. And I quoted statistics and that got you mad because you worship your governor. Everything you say is a lie or stupid, but is always projection. Lying loser who sleeps alone every night.
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So.. are you attacking Florida just because the GOP top candidates hail from there? I have noticed the media are dumping on Florida 24x7x365 these days.
Are you just acting the good culture warrior in a thread where the OP is looking for advice?
I never attacked Florida - I posted crime stats about Bradenton in response to someone saying Bradenton was safe - with no negative commentary. Then ProudBoy got defensive for some reason and brought up SF. So I made fun of where he lived in Florida - a crappy swamp next to Alabama. I never mentioned politics, but you feel the need to assume that’s what I was talking about? Weird .
Lol Naacp declared Fla unsafe for blacks as soon as desantis announced candidacy