with the increased prices of homes these days... why do you live where you do when you can probably find a comarable job elsewhere and buy a much much nice home?

something that costs $250,000 here in south florida is a crap hole. It makes buying a home not even worth the effort or struggle paycheck to paycheck to be able to say you have something to show for it.

I was looking at Jacksonville to compare home prices, and what I found was depressing. For the same price range, you can have a VERY VERY nice house. not only that, it seems like jobs for sean and myself are about at the same salary range.

Here's something from a party not heard from in a while:

We just bought a house in Palm Coast. It's about 30 minutes north of Daytona. 1930 sq ft and four bedrooms and two baths. We bought it in January for less than 200,000. We're at the end of a cauldesac(sp?). It's a quite neighborhood. It's a brick house and if I had some pics I would post them, but I'm just too lazy to get the damn camera out.

We bought here because I've got the career here. That and the fact that we're so close to Bike Week stuff and I can go ride the Harley whenever I want. But, it's a nice place to be, kind of reminds me of Vero just before Vero blew up.

We're kind of central to everything. An hour south of Jax, 30 minutes north of Daytona, and an hour away from Orlando, so it's not too bad.

Just wanted to share my input.

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I bought my house for 125k. It is approx 1400sqft. It has 3 bedrooms, 2 baths and a 1 car garage. I bought here because the cost of living is relatively low, the schools are good and my family is here.

women are like mustangs, there's plenty of them, a few are nice, the rest of them are unreliable, cost money, and make noise.

My answer is going to be super short....

I live in Vero Beach and this place is way over priced!!!! The only reason I live here, is because this is where I was born and raised, and i'm still here because i can't leave this county with my oldest daughter without the permission of her dad, which he won't allow me to move anywhere, although we had discussed going to Georgia and live in separate towns so we can still communicate.....

I honestly don't know anything about costs around here other than the fact that it's ridicously high around here.

It's definitely not easy for a single person to live here.

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just the facts please:

1600 ft. 3 bedroom 2 car garage (1/2 was converted in to a den/office.)

pool w/ huge screen in lanai ... nice piece of land ... 103k (yes only 103... got in right before the prices skyrocketed!!)

My reasons :

i moved here to be close to my family (my mother was sick)...

because it was a small country town ...

the schools: the high school has dual enrollment and a IB programme. the elementary school mia is in has been an A+ school 5 years in a roll ... great programs for the kids to get involved with ...

... my inlaws ended up moving right down the street.

the future:


Now that Mikel has to start job hunting he is looking into going out of state. Colorado has come up more then once...

I ended up moving back for my family ...

i am someday moving away for me... someday.

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I live in Arkansas mainly because it's where my roots are and where my family is and has been for generations.

However...

I also live here and will probably stay here because I love it. The cost of living is MUCH cheaper although salaries can be smaller, the pace of life is slower, I don't have to stand in enormous lines to do ANYTHING (It takes about 10 minutes to get your tags renewed, a few minutes at the doctors office, in and out at E.R., etc.) , people know you and care about you, schools are good, and folks are polite. I wouldn't trade it for the world. It's a great place to raise children. The town I live in is small - only about 9k people on a good day. But, it's only about a 45 minute drive to a major city and a 20 minute drive to a moderately sized one. Sure, there isn't a Best Buy or Kinko's down the road and we have to drive 20 minutes to go to a 'fancy' place to eat but it's a small price to pay for loving your lifestyle.

As far as homes go, we bought our 2000 sq. ft, three bedroom, 2 ba., home that has a double tier deck, LARGE lanai (we call 'em screened in porches here, folks.. haha) and a large fenced in back yard in a great neighborhood for $80k. It's not a fancy house but it's a nice one. In Sarasota it would have cost us well over $175k. You can buy a brand new, very fancy house with all the bells and whistles for about $100 - $125.

Having lived in Florida before I wouldn't move back there to live if you paid me.

My two cents.

I live here because I am an idiot.

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