Honestly uscit...we would stay in Maine forever if it were up to us....we love it here...
but my parents are going to be needing help, soon enough and we have to plan for this and figure out how to get down there and be in position to help...
I have tried to see if my sister could keep them in the winter, since she lives in florida, and we could take them in the summer and bring them up here....my parents are standing firm and balking on coming up here...the whole thing is a dysfunctional, family mess....and this horrible housing market is not making decisions any easier....
Yes, with the housing in florida, hurt more than us up here, i could probably buy a home fairly cheap down there at this point...
Ideally matt and I would like to keep this home AND have another home or condo in Florida...live winters there and summers here...
the FL winters are nice, but the summers suck. I lived in Tampa for 7 years.
I lived there 8 years, the hubby was born and bread there....before that I was in Miami for a near decade.
It is WAYYYYYYYYYYY TOO HOT THERE IN THE SUMMER, i AGREE!
When we moved from St Pete up to Massachusetts in september ...the Gulf water was 87 degrees....we have not seen the ocean water above 60 degrees since we have been up here in new england! OK, well maybe it did get in to the high 60's by end of summer...BUT STILL! Only my TOES have experienced it.
I also lived in Orygun for 5 years. the ocean there is beautiful blue and clear, but cold cold cold.