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Post by conchydong on Aug 14, 2024 16:00:54 GMT -5
Palm Beach county turned red now if Broward would follow suit we will be alright.
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Post by bswiv on Aug 14, 2024 16:02:03 GMT -5
I live in South Alabama. There are really not that many "good" paying jobs. Us, Michelin, 2 hospitals and that's about it. Yet nobody is building a house for a dime under 250k. And most are North of 300k. I ask myself all the time who the hell is buying them? There can't be that many people selling drugs and or on daddy money. Some of the houses cops live in really has me scratching my head. The math ain't mathing. One town in the Suburban area is building 600 houses in the year. Who's buying them? A lot of these people that you see with a $400k + house , with the wife in a $80k Suburban and the husband in a $80k 3/4 ton diesel truck are in way over their heads, most have to have a family meeting just to see if they can super size at McDonalds. This is true......... There will be deals for those with cash........ We've been dragging our feet on replacing the two old Honda 4X4s we use for fire and other work because we think it'll soon be dump time for folks that bought when times were flush. Though.......the darn things still work every time and if there is a glitch either I or the son-in-law can fix it.....so maybe sit pat....
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Post by One Man Gang on Aug 14, 2024 17:10:04 GMT -5
The math does not add up in PB County unless my idea of a good paying job is completely wrong, which is possible.
What's considered a "good" paying job these days? Anyone? I figger $100k would buy a lot of happiness but it seems a man needs to be in the $300-400k range to coast easy.
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Post by PolarsStepdad on Aug 14, 2024 19:27:52 GMT -5
A lot of these people that you see with a $400k + house , with the wife in a $80k Suburban and the husband in a $80k 3/4 ton diesel truck are in way over their heads, most have to have a family meeting just to see if they can super size at McDonalds. This is true......... There will be deals for those with cash........ We've been dragging our feet on replacing the two old Honda 4X4s we use for fire and other work because we think it'll soon be dump time for folks that bought when times were flush. Though.......the darn things still work every time and if there is a glitch either I or the son-in-law can fix it.....so maybe sit pat.... I definitely feel like October is gonna surprise a lot of folks.
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Post by illinoisfisherman on Aug 15, 2024 1:03:13 GMT -5
I get 3 calls a day from companies trying to buy rental properties from me.
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Post by 6thgen on Aug 15, 2024 9:01:27 GMT -5
I get those calls daily as well... Nothing is for sale. All my stuff will go to my daughter when I leave here. Alachua County taxes are way higher than other surrounding counties. I own property in both Alachua and Columbia County, Orange and Polk. Alachua is twice what the others are, no matter who on here tries to tell you otherwise. Full of libertards as well. I agree BF, that has to be a timacuan word. I went to UF and am now not really proud of it anymore. Hogtown is not what it used to be by any resemblance. Anyone remember Captain L? Riding his bike in his yellow cape with a big L on it? Remember what you would say to him and what he would answer back?
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Post by anumber1 on Aug 15, 2024 9:42:52 GMT -5
My Dad and I fished long pond many years back Looks like they have been cutting a road around it for the last 12 months. There are two homes that sit between the pond and us19 I pass to and from my farm. I had been wondering what was going on there but now it's clear. No pun intended. there was two nice brick homes there, one was empty for last 20 years
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Post by JS84 on Aug 15, 2024 9:49:50 GMT -5
We're likely talking about the same two homes. If I recall correctly, the one that sits to the north has a green metal roof and the southern home is two stories with a nice front yard.
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Post by johngalt on Aug 15, 2024 9:54:38 GMT -5
As I posted in another thread, what the hell do these people do for a living to be able to buy these homes where there are not many good paying jobs, be able to have their toys and lifestyle and do it all by moving from another state or expensive area of Florida? The same is going on here in Bay county and the majority are not retirees. They are in their 30’s-50’s with families. There are some good paying jobs but not enough to support this growth. It's them damn boomers . That should make luapnor happy. Problem is that they are not boomers. 30-50 years old. Some with kids.
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Post by johngalt on Aug 15, 2024 9:56:41 GMT -5
I live in South Alabama. There are really not that many "good" paying jobs. Us, Michelin, 2 hospitals and that's about it. Yet nobody is building a house for a dime under 250k. And most are North of 300k. I ask myself all the time who the hell is buying them? There can't be that many people selling drugs and or on daddy money. Some of the houses cops live in really has me scratching my head. The math ain't mathing. One town in the Suburban area is building 600 houses in the year. Who's buying them? A lot of these people that you see with a $400k + house , with the wife in a $80k Suburban and the husband in a $80k 3/4 ton diesel truck are in way over their heads, most have to have a family meeting just to see if they can super size at McDonalds. This. ^ I know of a few that are that way. And no money in savings. Living paycheck to paycheck and making minimal payments on credit cards.
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Post by TRTerror on Aug 15, 2024 10:02:07 GMT -5
Good to see that Development map . Taylor County is still in the clear. When they first proposed extending that new highway our Taylor County Prop. appraiser was all smiles...till they held some Town meetings, and everybody said Hell No. We're very Rural and we like it that way. I know it's coming but we're kinda saved cause of no Beaches. When we are overran I will be long gone...
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Post by madm002 on Aug 15, 2024 10:04:42 GMT -5
I’d bet my bottom dollar “hamaca” is actually a Timucuan word the Spanish adopted. Actually that word means hammock in general spanish. It could very well be a locally adopted word, it happens.
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Post by bullfrog on Aug 15, 2024 10:40:06 GMT -5
I’d bet my bottom dollar “hamaca” is actually a Timucuan word the Spanish adopted. Actually that word means hammock in general spanish. It could very well be a locally adopted word, it happens. sparkfiles.net/“The word "hammock" is generally thought to have been derived from the Taino Indians of Central America (now Puerto Rico), who used the word "hamaca" to describe nets made from rope fibers that hung between trees. “Confusingly, there is also another definition for the word "hammock" that actually has nothing at all to do with a hanging hammock! It means a fertile piece of land that is raised above the surrounding land - so a land hammock of sorts. This word "hammock" is derived from the word "hummock," which may have early American or English origins, although historians are not sure of its origins. Interestingly, some anecdotal evidence suggests that the word hammock was one of the first words to become a part of common language shared by indigenous and immigrant peoples in Central America, pointing once again to the hammock's potential for universal appeal.” naples.floridaweekly.com/articles/a-newcomers-guide-to-the-meaning-of-floridas-native-lingo/“‘Hammock’ was the first word that confused me. I always knew a hammock was a net bed strung between trees, but in Florida it’s also something else. Derived from the Native American word “hamaca,” it originally meant “a shady place.” Settlers later used the word “hummock” to mean a slightly higher elevation. Today it describes a dense, tropical hardwood canopied forest that often contains cabbage palms and gumbo limbo and sea grape trees.” english.stackexchange.com/questions/590843/why-is-hammock-spelled-the-way-it-is“The word hammock comes from Arawakan hamaca and Taíno amaca. type of hanging bed, 1650s, alteration of hamack, hamaca (1550s), from Spanish hamaca, from Arawakan (Haiti) word apparently meaning "fish nets" (compare Yukuna hamaca, Taino amaca). - Etymonline” It seems to me that the original term has two sources that has been conflated. One was a native word from one language that meant “fertile/shady place” (hamaca) and a similar word from another language that meant “fish-net bed” (amaca). The terms got conflated because they went hand in hand. Indians lived in hardwood hammocks because those were the fertile places to farm. And they strung their beds up between the hardwood trees. So the bed became synonymous with the habitat. A hammock was a good place hang a hammock. Something similar happened with “panther.” Historically, “panthers” were leopards. That’s the Greek word for them. The entire classical world knew leopards as “panthers.” Pumas are not leopards of course. In the Eastern US they were often called “painter-cats.” Say “painter-cat” fast with a southern accent and it starts sounding like “panther.” And “panther” makes sense if the term is used in English for any non-lion or tiger big cat and where “leopard” has become the common term to describe actual leopards instead of “panther.” “Panther” also sounds similar to Puma, which is the Spanish word for the cats adopted from Indians in South America. Therefore eastern Pumas became “panthers.”
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Post by richm on Aug 15, 2024 14:48:50 GMT -5
There aren't many $300k houses left down here anymore. I own one but aint selling for a while, not paying off my mortgage either, it's less than groceries some months...
The whole thing about not owning anything but being happy keeps coming to mind. Great "re-set".
Lotsa private and corporate owners renting and taking what little folks got left. Dragging the next generation down. The only thing will save them is their inheritances if mom and dad had money.
And yes, FL will get overly developed as will the rest of the country as the population continues to rise.
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Post by toldya on Aug 15, 2024 15:11:49 GMT -5
The math does not add up in PB County unless my idea of a good paying job is completely wrong, which is possible. What's considered a "good" paying job these days? Anyone? I figger $100k would buy a lot of happiness but it seems a man needs to be in the $300-400k range to coast easy. I wonder how the homeless in San Francisco and NYC are ever going to be able to afford a home. Seems like they should be out in the sticks.
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