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Default The grim reaper

On 12/30/13, 5:28 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 16:03:19 -0500, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 12/30/13, 11:59 AM,
wrote:

Cost of living is certainly a big factor for people who are retired.

I wouldn't choose to live in MS, AL or SC but I chose not to live in
MD too.
Factors like crumbling roads, polluted water, urban sprawl, high
taxes, intrusive laws and crime made where I live now far more
attractive than where I lived in Maryland.
If I put my stuff on a truck, I am not moving 20 miles down the road
and hoping the problems will not catch up with me ... again..



I'm not familiar with your roads or sprawl. I've only been to your part
of Florida twice. I thought some of the beaches were nice.


... and add lots of unique boating opportunities with areas where you
can go for hours without seeing a soul. You will see endangered and
threatened species, living in a natural habitat. I don't fish but I
watch fish and if I ever decide to go get them, I know where they are.


We don't happen to have problems where we live with crumbling roads,
polluted water, urban sprawl, intrusive laws, or crime. I would guess
our county's crime rate is lower than the rate in your county.


As Hank Jr says, "You only get mugged when you go downtown"

I was up there last year and the roads were full of potholes, the
people who rate bridges say Maryland has about 15% in serious danger
and you can't deny the sprawl. It just hasn't swallowed you yet. Give
it a few years.

Chesapeake Bay is the sewer for towns from Binghampton Ny to Norfolk
Va.
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation says the issues are

Nutrient and sediment pollution from agriculture, stormwater
runoff, air pollution and wastewater treatment plants
Development and population growth
Low populations of many fish and shellfish species, including
shad, oysters and menhaden

We have some of those issues here but I will swap water quality data
with you any time.

Oh and the bay is virtually useless as a swimming hole for most of the
summer because of the sea nettles.

Then you have winter. Sleet, gray slush and freezing rain

No thanks.


Hehehe. I wouldn't live on your side of Florida and your latitude, but I
do like to visit south Florida, on the other side.

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