Relocating

[Paul Precht]

Originally Posted by FINESPLINE

Good luck, Frank. Had enough of the winters and the taxes and everything else the northeast has to offer ? I will be leaving Long Island within the next 3 to 4 months. Had enough of the Vampire State. My girlfriend landed a nice job in Sarasota and we will be looking in that area at the end of the summer. Putting in my papers with the union and will look to see what the area has to offer. Taxes going up every year. HOA fees on the town home have doubled
in the last 3 years. Done and finished. Been quite a ride but got to go. Hope to be settled in by Christmas. lol

I'd move back to Long Island in a heartbeat if they had even an 1/8th mile dragstrip and the taxes were a little more down to earth. I grew up in West Islip after moving out from Brooklyn as a kid and love that area so much but a small 1,000 sq ft home is about 12,000 a year in prop taxes and I'm looking to do a semi retirement in 7 months when I turn 60 so it wouldn't be a wise choice. PA is a decent compromise if you can deal with the corruption and lack of the ocean. I'm in the process of buying a house in Elysburg which is the PA equivalent of West Islip minus the ocean and it's 11 miles from Numidia Dragway, 1.5 acres and 1,400 taxes for the year and just 200 miles from West Islip.