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Damn it costs too much to live here
18 years ago
Damn work in the area is slow. I work construction. Therefore my job is affected by the housing market in thi area. Right now the real estate market is in a real slump. in other words it is freaking slow. I blame the damn Greedy Investors for it. The market was on a strong incline a few years ago, and buying property was a good investment cause after a year or 2 you could make a little money off it. which is fine, but these fuckers were really pushing up the market way too fast. they pushed the price of a singe lot site 80'x100' from around $25,000-$50,000 for an average lot to $450,000(just the property) in a matter of about 2 years all because people were trying to buy property for homes in this area. What that did was pushed out all the middle working class from the market. Only the retired rich could afford homes. During this time work was great because houses were going up like crazy. BUT, the investors pushed the market value of the home up too high too fast. and it crashed, all the people that bought these homes while the work was there, now are loosing their homes because the market crashed. It got too expensive to buy houses in this area. who wants to pay $750,000 for a house on a 80'x100' piece of property.
Well the market crashed the housing market is now bing flooded with surplus houses and home repo's are at an all time high right now in this area.
There are a few places still selling homes, but the work has virtually dried up. No work=no money= cant pay bills = home repo's. Luckily for me i own my pathetic little tin can of a house. it is the only reason i have not been forced to move in with a relative just to get by.
the company i work for used to have 45 workers in the field; now we are down to 12 workers in the field. luckily for me i survived the layoffs. but, if things geep going as they are who knows how much longer i will be at this job.
The lack of work would not hurt me so bad; normally; but, I just baught a new vehicle 8 months ago ( while work was still good) and now I am having troubles making the payments.
I may have to take on a second job just for a little extra cash.
All this re-inforced my desire to Move OUT of Florida. Lately i have been looking into going to Kentucky. Why Kentucky? well i can get land there at a relatively cheap price. I Don't like cities, i prefer to have some space around me. I cant stand Nosy neibors. I would like to get a 5 acre piece of property but i would really like to have a 20 acre piece. The bigger the better. and i have found a few places in KY that are about $15,000 for a 20 acre site. A one acre site here is going for over a million dollars. that is just not worth it to me and i simple cant afford that. If i was looking for massive amount of property i could just move to Alaska. I really do think it is a beautifull state. and i could get used to the cold i think. But property is not the only reason i chose KY.
Kentucky is fairly central to the conventions i like to goto. Living there will save me a lot of travel time in that regards. The gun laws in Kentucky are also similar to Florida's. They are among the least restrictive if the surrounding states. Again, if I was going based solely on gun laws then I'd have to move to Alaska, that state has the least restrictive gun laws of all the USA.
My hands are tired of typing
I will post again at some random day again in the future.
laters
Misha
Well the market crashed the housing market is now bing flooded with surplus houses and home repo's are at an all time high right now in this area.
There are a few places still selling homes, but the work has virtually dried up. No work=no money= cant pay bills = home repo's. Luckily for me i own my pathetic little tin can of a house. it is the only reason i have not been forced to move in with a relative just to get by.
the company i work for used to have 45 workers in the field; now we are down to 12 workers in the field. luckily for me i survived the layoffs. but, if things geep going as they are who knows how much longer i will be at this job.
The lack of work would not hurt me so bad; normally; but, I just baught a new vehicle 8 months ago ( while work was still good) and now I am having troubles making the payments.
I may have to take on a second job just for a little extra cash.
All this re-inforced my desire to Move OUT of Florida. Lately i have been looking into going to Kentucky. Why Kentucky? well i can get land there at a relatively cheap price. I Don't like cities, i prefer to have some space around me. I cant stand Nosy neibors. I would like to get a 5 acre piece of property but i would really like to have a 20 acre piece. The bigger the better. and i have found a few places in KY that are about $15,000 for a 20 acre site. A one acre site here is going for over a million dollars. that is just not worth it to me and i simple cant afford that. If i was looking for massive amount of property i could just move to Alaska. I really do think it is a beautifull state. and i could get used to the cold i think. But property is not the only reason i chose KY.
Kentucky is fairly central to the conventions i like to goto. Living there will save me a lot of travel time in that regards. The gun laws in Kentucky are also similar to Florida's. They are among the least restrictive if the surrounding states. Again, if I was going based solely on gun laws then I'd have to move to Alaska, that state has the least restrictive gun laws of all the USA.
My hands are tired of typing
I will post again at some random day again in the future.
laters
Misha
