Lately my hubby and I have been talking more often about moving to Florida. A big reason for that is as the years go by, his fibromyalgia and arthritis seems to be bothering him more and more during the wintry months up here where we live. To be perfectly honest, I’m a little bit worried that the barometric pressure might be too low for him to be comfortable anywhere on the East Coast.

His sister Lillian has been living in Florida in Hobe Sound for the past couple of years and she has been trying to get us to come down and visit her for a couple of days. To be perfectly honest I think that maybe we should consider renting a place for the winter months for a year or two before we make the commitment to actually sell our house up here and invest in one of the homes in Hobe Sound Florida.

One of my concerns is that I keep remembering a former neighbor of ours that moved to a place on the east coast of Florida near Miami and then they were really sorry that they moved to that particular community. I remember that they were really excited because it was a gated community and they felt safer in a place like that, but after only one year of being down there they relocated because they said crime was too high where they were.

Another concern is the fact that we can’t get our money out of this house right now – we payed about $365,000 for this place back in 2006 and the real estate market tumbled and it is now only worth about $200,000 – which is what we owe on it! If we sold the house we live in right now we wouldn’t have any money to put down on a new place!  One thing that I’ve noticed about gated communities around here where we live right now is that even though they all have guard houses, the guard houses are never occupied by a guard. So what is the point, exactly? I know one thing is for sure, I’m going to do a ton of research before I move anywhere in the future – I don’t want any unpleasant surprises waiting for me!

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