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TopJimmyCooks:
There's a million reasons why the TV news can always find some sad sack who's been flooded out 2 times in 5 years to interview.  Family owned land issues, complicated to sell land due to the river property line moving around due to floods, can't afford to move from the paid off land and home, barely scraping by and can't take the $5 to $10K real cost of relocation, family close by in the neighborhood giving free babysitting, ordinances preventing new trailer parks to be set up (seriously) or relocating trailer homes, the reasons go on and on. 

Even though America is still the land of opportunity, I can understand why some people don't want to move off the problem homestead.  Rich people buy houses on coastal points that have an 8 year remaining lifespan before they have to be condemned due to beach erosion.  I'm with Howard (reply 8, not reply 13) for my own purposes, you evaluate the risk and if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.  But I understand why a lot of people don't want to do the same.  Home is, well, Home, even if it sucks sometimes. 

Louis Tully:
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ark_ader:

--- Quote from: shmokes on March 09, 2012, 08:25:01 am ---
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on March 09, 2012, 05:12:36 am ---The beach is a horrible place to live.  Sure it's nice to vacation there, but the salt and sand gets in everything, it's hot all the time, you have to deal with idiot tourists.  No thank you. 

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After having spent 3.5 of the last 5 years in Miami, I think I'm qualified to say, "Nonsense." I mean . . . maybe if you literally lived on the beach. But typically you live by the beach and just visit it frequently. Sand does get everywhere when you visit. You shower most of it off when you're leaving the beach and then the rest when you take a real shower at home. The only place that gets any noticeable amount of unwanted sand is the car. Which you just vacuum every couple weeks. There are three months of the year in Miami where the weather is too hot. But even still we're talking low 90's. Where I worked in Southern Utah (St. George) has a few days per year that top 115 degrees, and pretty much the entire summer is over 100. Obviously there's the humid vs. dry heat issue, but that's chocolate and vanilla. I love the humidity. In any case, humid low 90's is unpleasantly warm, but not that bad. It doesn't touch 115. But that's just 3 months of the year. The rest of the year . . . like 8-9 months of the year is paradise. I'm talking 70-85 degrees 24-hours per day, 8-9 months of the year. You go out in shorts and flip-flops at 2 in the afternoon and you're perfectly comfortable. You go out in shorts and flip-flops at 2 in the morning and you're equally comfortable. And unless you're actually visiting the boardwalk or Lincoln Drive at South Beach or South Beach itself, you see no tourists ever. There are approximately 383473829 beaches in Florida, so South Beach isn't difficult to avoid.

The beach is a lovely place to live.

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The beach is quarter mile away from my house and you still get sand everywhere, and it does block up the drains if you are not keeping an eye on it.

Yep a beach is a nice place to exercise your dog, still the parks are cleaner because of it, so I cannot complain.  ;D

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