[Maddie104]

Originally Posted by sinatras

I dunno if this has already been asked, but why don't you move back to your community in Lake Mary?

Originally Posted by gypsychic

I was also wondering the same....

He stated he didn't like the regional airport ten miles from his home so I assume that might be the reason.

[wp169]

Originally Posted by Charlie&Rose

The elderly women was on the edge of a lagoon in her back yard, slipped and fell, into the water. No one is afraid to walk around the grounds. Could also happen in FL.

Nobody saw what really happened to that elderly woman.

Sun City residents complain about too many gators walking around their neighborhood:

https://www.wjcl.com/article/sun-cit...ttack/40919754

[FloridaRetired2020]

Originally Posted by Maddie104

He stated he didn't like the regional airport ten miles from his home so I assume that might be the reason.

Lol Maddie, you got it. Now I remember too that OP also stated “flights had increased at the Sanford Airport” - near to where they were living.

[Charlie&Rose]

Originally Posted by wp169

Nobody saw what really happened to that elderly woman.

Sun City residents complain about too many gators walking around their neighborhood:

https://www.wjcl.com/article/sun-cit...ttack/40919754

Who gardens on the edge of a pond, where there is a known gator. He had been there for years.....even had a name......especially an 88 year old. As I said, happens in Florida too.
Sun City residents complain about everything.

[wp169]

Originally Posted by Charlie&Rose

Who gardens on the edge of a pond, where there is a known gator. He had been there for years.....even had a name......especially an 88 year old. As I said, happens in Florida too.
Sun City residents complain about everything.

You're poo-pooing the residents complaints about numerous gators roaming around Sun City even though a death occurred making their complaints warranted? Apparently the residents didn't complain enough, otherwise the gator would have been out of there and she might still be alive today. RIP

Are both of you sales reps for Sun City?

[flamadiddle]

Can't help you with your Florida question but you're not alone, I lost an easy million dollars by moving 6 years ago. Like the great philosopher Forrest Gump once said, life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.

[wp169]

My friend was in the same boat as you, about the same age, alone, owning a house with a pool in a county next to Orlando she wanted to get rid of. She thought about going near the beach to Melbourne but she moved into a townhouse near Windermere instead. Did you think about going into a townhouse or condo? You could have moved to Wekiva in Longwood or similar and stayed in your area of Lake Mary. I was always impressed with Wekiva years ago, don't know if it changed, I liked how some of the town homes had the master bedroom downstairs and how well kept the grounds are.

[Maddie104]

Originally Posted by flamadiddle

Can't help you with your Florida question but you're not alone, I lost an easy million dollars by moving 6 years ago. Like the great philosopher Forrest Gump once said, life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.

Life is a series of good and not so good decisions. We tend not to focus on all the good ones. The OP sold his house for a good price and had made good decisions up to that point -- rarely renting.

I have made decisions that resulted in selling a home for a gain, selling a home for a loss, renting a home for what was initially to be one year for three years while waiting for my new construction home as buying dried up and the builder put things on hold, sold a home in the 08 housing recession, etc.

When you make so many good ones or ones where you luck out, you think you are immune to bad ones or where you aren't so lucky.


Focus on the good ones you made vs. one poor one with the confidence you will make good ones again in the future.

[Charlie&Rose]

Originally Posted by wp169

You're poo-pooing the residents complaints about numerous gators roaming around Sun City even though a death occurred making their complaints warranted? Apparently the residents didn't complain enough, otherwise the gator would have been out of there and she might still be alive today. RIP

Are both of you sales reps for Sun City?

No one complained until after the fact. Gators are found in every single pond or lagoon. Are they all supposed to be taken out and killed.....no they can not be relocated....against the law.People need to use common sense....stay away from the edge of the lagoon. This lady was right on the edge, when she slipped into the water.
There have been attacks in Florida.....a few years ago a child was killed because his parents allowed him to play near a lagoon in Disney.
People can either learn to live with wildlife in the south, including copperheads, which can be deadly......or move back up north.

[wp169]

Originally Posted by Charlie&Rose

No one complained until after the fact. Gators are found in every single pond or lagoon. Are they all supposed to be taken out and killed.....no they can not be relocated....against the law.People need to use common sense....stay away from the edge of the lagoon. This lady was right on the edge, when she slipped into the water.
There have been attacks in Florida.....a few years ago a child was killed because his parents allowed him to play near a lagoon in Disney.
People can either learn to live with wildlife in the south, including copperheads, which can be deadly......or move back up north.

That's not what the headline on the article I posted says, but anyway, you are "blaming the victims" (the child and parents) in the Disney incident when there were no gator warning signs at the lagoon. Florida tourists don't know about all the dangers present in the parks, lakes, etc. I lived in Orlando for ten years and I hate to tell you how many times I was near that lagoon walking around or in the water on boats, etc., having no idea I wasn't safe. Although I knew any body of water in Florida can have a gator, I stupidly had the mindset that Disney wouldn't allow access to the lagoon if it wasn't safe. Boy, was I wrong!

There are photos on-line of a gator being in water near the Splash Mountain ride and a Disney worker trying to shoo it away! If that gator close to the rides hurt a child in the park there would be no excuse to blame his parents for letting their child get too close to the lagoon!

When it comes to paying higher taxes up north or being afraid to see a copperhead whenever I leave my home at HH, i'll choose living with the higher taxes any day, lol.