Where to retire?

[RawNYTop]

Has the Florida condo market cooled down at all? Prices were high but came down due to the 30 year inspection fiasco.

Is the time up where they have to have the engineer reports in? I want to start looking, but don't want to be hit with the heavy assessments. I want to know they were already completed.

All the fingers keep pointing to Florida so that is where I will probably end up.

[Leather69]

I have a very close friend in Brisbane Australia.. he has moved to Thailand full time. Gets his Brisbane pension but his living expenses over there are 30% of here in Brisbane. He came back recently for medial checkups and to get his medications and today he's back over there and the picis of the boys that he plays with are ++++++++

[hntnhole]

22 hours ago, RawNYTop said:

Has the Florida condo market cooled down at all?

NO.  Real estate is really off the rails, at least in Ft. L.   I get scam calls all damn day long from realtors wanting to "represent" my house.  According to these realtors, my house is worth 4 times what I paid for it (and that's with zero improvements in the city infrastructure / services).  Tons of places on the market.  I actually saw one of these "tiny houses" being dragged into the back yard of a house in the next block.  

[wonderfulwoof]

san diego

been looking for two years

price hikes slowing n as economy gets worse i think, for me, i w get a deal

pool in backyard, walkable neighborhood, no more than 30 min to beach

[wonderfulwoof]

On 4/23/2025 at 1:07 PM, hntnhole said:

NO.  Real estate is really off the rails, at least in Ft. L.   I get scam calls all damn day long from realtors wanting to "represent" my house.  According to these realtors, my house is worth 4 times what I paid for it (and that's with zero improvements in the city infrastructure / services).  Tons of places on the market.  I actually saw one of these "tiny houses" being dragged into the back yard of a house in the next block.  

i have had a home for sale near gainesville for 8 months n now no canadians coming down

fl is a place to stay away from

[hntnhole]

1 hour ago, wonderfulwoof said:

fl is a place to stay away from

Well, there are good reasons not to relocate here ("f"l meaning Florida, or "fl" meaning Fort Lauderdale),  mostly related to weather issues.  It's true that we (collectively) have fucked our home (Mother Earth) to the point that she'd fucking us back, but there's no (habitable) place that isn't experiencing some level of M.E.'s wrath.  

There are a number of reasons to at least visit here, depending on your tastes.  There's no winter, which is a big one for me.  For example, "planting season" begins in October !!!  For folks that enjoy gardening/horticulture, Florida is paradise.  For folks that hate the cold, dark winters, it's paradise all over again.  Then there's the "No State Income Tax" thing.  

Interestingly, I just read an article about how the land-levels are sinking, all over the world.  Apparently, we (humanity) has been pumping so much ground water out (irrigation of crops, etc) that what land used to be held in place by large concentrations of subterranean water (apparently very, very deep, but now depleted) is allowing huge tracts of surface earth to be slowly sinking. 

No place is everyone's cup of shit, Florida included, but it's alright for some of us.