Few yrs back this monster EF-4 missed me by a 1/2 mile it was over a mile wide at the base

Well once again another hurricane approaching from the west with Florida in its path , hurricane Milton by Thursday .

I didn’t mean to offend anyone but I just don’t understand the appeal of Florida with all hurricanes and the heat and humidity.

It used to be nice in Naples when I moved here 40 years ago.

Summers would heat up around June but the thunderstorms would form in the east like clockwork in the afternoons and bring the temp down after an hour of deluge.

Than the hot air over the land would rise and the cool air off the Gulf would rush in and fill that void with a nice brisk sea breeze .

Than you would get a cold front that would come in mid to late September and welcome in fall temps.

Beautifully dry moderate temp weather from early October until mid May .

Than Covid hit and everyone moved to Florida and Naples. The summers have been long from early April until mid November for almost 6 years now with not real cool temperatures over the winter months

We are done with Fl but can’t think of anywhere we could affordably live as we have no city , county, or state income taxes. Our $300 thousand dollar condo is Homesteaded with the taxes being only $600 a year . Naples is Pristine and your not going to see any Shenanigans by any group because they have a police force that is Jonny on the Spot here.

We don’t have homeless and junkies begging for money as we have the police chief from Rambo who runs are town.

We were thinking of moving up to the panhandle to get closer to the rest of the United States for vehicle travel but that just got ruled out .

But I’m betting there is going to be a mass exodus of people that recently moved here after this Brutal summer and these hurricanes.

Yeah. Nothing beats New Jersey.

I’m not saying anything wrong with the people or state it’s just not for me,I just can’t take the hot humid weather.I can’t wait to get out of NJ couple more years and I’m out. This coming from a guy that doesn’t even live in the country.

I agree, FL is tempting to live there, but I could not run my business while trying to dodge hurricanes and just not worth putting the family at risk. I mean every Florida resident must be on pins and needs during hurricane season watching for when the next hurricane is going to form and head north. We have tornadoes and hail storms, but those can be avoided. You can buy a storm shelter for a reasonable amount of money, but they don't make hurricane shelters.

I’ll put up the storm shutters and hope for the best, I’ve been here six years and that’s my strategy. When the pain gets great enough maybe I’ll make a change, until that time I will keep on enjoying Southwest Florida.

I love working for Morgan & Morgan here in FL, I don’t plan on going anywhere!

so your saying you don’t miss Pitman and the NJ taxes 😀

Were you heading after Jersey ? I wanted to move to Hood River Oregon from Sw Florida 25 years ago but most of that area has turned into a Liberal ran schithole

We have an interest in a home 60 miles south of Traverse city that my mother in law lives in but I can’t do an hour to get to civilization and I hate dreary winters .

Also that Witch Gretchen Witless triggers my PTSD when she appears on the TV screen