Post #680464 by seafoamer on Sun, Jun 2, 2013 1:06 PM

I lived in the Northeast FAR too long!!! Can't Stand The Cold!!!
I really love warm & hot weather, and Florida does seem to have very decent real estate prices too.

i'd like to buy a small but nice house on a little bit of land (1/4 acre), and want to garden the entire land, compost, line dry, meditate, play guitar in the backyard, etc....
I'm thinking somewhere on the east coast near but not right on the beach would be great. I'm a musician and I'll have a little over 300k to make this move. I'd love it if the house didn't cost too much over 100K, so I could have 200k left in the bank. I'm 40 years old, but would like to live a semi-retired life of teaching private music lessons, substitute teaching when I need to, and hopefully gigging a little.
I like being green, vegetarian except seafood (which I love!), love to cycle everywhere, love art & culture etc...

So pleeze tell me what you might think I should know about livin' in Florida... Mahalo!!!