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chrizzy100
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Status: offline |  Posted - 15 Aug 2007 : 15:11:06  
| I do find fruit does not keep well here...so I buy to eat that day...
Its a big money maker shipping fruit around the country...and we end up with goods that are not as fresh as they could be... | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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anorak
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Status: offline | Posted - 15 Aug 2007 : 15:21:03
| Cruella, we are there 6 months a year so we don't eat out too much. We certainly enjoy eating out, we sometimes eat at the good restaurants at Busch theme parks as we get 30% off with employee family passes, or Smokey Bones while they are still in existence, no more Golden Corral or Ponderosa for us, too noisy for us oldies now.
We probably don't spend as much on food in Fl as we do in UK, our utility bills are less and our gas bill is about the same as we have to drive further and our cars are thirstier although gas is cheaper.
All in all its affordable although the property tax rise to 3 times what it was came as a big shock. And it can't be too bad as we are looking for a bigger home now they are coming down to a more sensible price. | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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Cruella DeVilla
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Status: offline | Posted - 15 Aug 2007 : 15:40:32
| Where are you thinking about purchasing Angela, obviously not in a STR area so what takes your fancy now that prices are coming down, I have seen some "bargains" whilst purusing myself?
(Ponderosa is a bad word on here I know not many folks will give it the time of day I am not a lover of the all you can eat unless it is somewhere like TDB or GLP)? |
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chrizzy100
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Status: offline | Posted - 15 Aug 2007 : 16:06:23
| Are you thinking of moving on CDV...
We looked around when I thought house prices were at their all time high...so we could sell at a high and buy low...but I could not find any place I liked better than I already had...it fits all our needs...
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anorak
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Status: offline | Posted - 15 Aug 2007 : 16:27:32
| Thing is Cruella if we bought in an STR area we might actually get better value for the sort of home we want with large sq footage,the 2 masters etc. Would we like the constant changeovers every week or two and the constant partying? I don't know if it would be too bad really if we also had no rear neighbours, backing onto woodland, and a reasonable space between us and the neighbours to the side. Many STR homes have nice lots and good upgrades.
In a residential area (non STR) these days its a help if you speak Spanish well if you want to interact with your neighbours and we are not fluent, but improving.
Anyway I would look at down US 27, not too keen on even the Kissimmee side of Poinciana, parts of Kissimmee OK but getting a bit touristy for us.
Then of course we could go rural and look around E Lake Toho around Narcoossee or even out to Kenansville but there just arent many of the sort of homes like we would like there although its delightfully rural.
We used to love Ponderosa near old town on 192, it was always good for us, never had a complaint at that location except it was often rather too full of noisy Brits! (LOL)
We quite liked the Golden Corral up on 535/I4 as well but definitely not the one nearer to us on 192, just plain wore out.
I guess we just got more affluent and outgrew them.
Cruising is our thing now, next one is Barcelona to Boston on the new NCL Gem, now if you like food that's the place to eat. | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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Cruella DeVilla
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Status: offline | Posted - 15 Aug 2007 : 16:39:49
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Originally posted by chrizzy100
Are you thinking of moving on CDV...
We looked around when I thought house prices were at their all time high...so we could sell at a high and buy low...but I could not find any place I liked better than I already had...it fits all our needs...
Probably in time but not yet I still have a love affair with our place but always intended to move to Naples but way down the line, it depends how things go in the next few years, who knows? |
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chrizzy100
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Status: offline | Posted - 15 Aug 2007 : 16:59:20
| | I like living in STR...well now its mostly locals...if I have partying neighbours its only for a few days...but so far we've only had one night of people being in the pool late... | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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chrizzy100
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Status: offline | Posted - 15 Aug 2007 : 19:10:12
| | Food in the USA is expensive to those of us living here...and not to people here from places like the UK...apart from my mum...who moans about her shopping bills here all the time... | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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flyrr100
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Status: offline | Posted - 16 Aug 2007 : 15:51:48
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if you holiday to FL from within the USA you should find Orlando a cheaper place to shop than most places up North...my food bill is half the cost..eating out can cost more...we have more offers up here...which I've yet to find in Orlando...
I have to disagree. We moved here from Ohio (Dayton) and found our grocery bill was significantly higher. Ever fresh produce was more expensive, including Florida Citrus!
Florida is not a cheap place to live when you take into account insurance, food, utility bills. |
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chrizzy100
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Status: offline | Posted - 16 Aug 2007 : 16:56:09
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Originally posted by chrizzy100
if you holiday to FL from within the USA you should find Orlando a cheaper place to shop than most places up North...my food bill is half the cost..eating out can cost more...we have more offers up here...which I've yet to find in Orlando...
I have to disagree. We moved here from Ohio (Dayton) and found our grocery bill was significantly higher. Ever fresh produce was more expensive, including Florida Citrus!
Florida is not a cheap place to live when you take into account insurance, food, utility bills.
Thats why I said you should find and not you will find..and most and not all... | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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anorak
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Status: offline | Posted - 16 Aug 2007 : 17:00:17
| Citrus varies hugely with regard to the season - by June its got very scarce. We actually found the Big Orange, although it looks like a tourist trap, on 192 sometimes have good prices on quantity of citrus.
Even then we found it costs twice as much to squeeze your own juice as it does to buy the Grove squeezed fresh juice in the 64oz cartons at around $2.50 or so.
And the juice you squeeze yourself doesn't always taste as good as the commercial product either, most disappointing.
We tried all sorts of juicers, first the expensive electric ones and found them disappointing in the quantity of juice they produced, much was wasted in wet pulp, and a long awkard cleaning time.
If you want to squeeze your own - like if you have citrus trees in your yard - then we found the old fashioned manual lever shiny cast metal citrus press was the best, at around $20 to $40 depending where you buy them. We bought ours on Ebay as we couldn't find one in a Fl store. We probably just didn't go the right store.
As fara s eating out is concerned the tourist area in Orlando is cheaper than locally for us, more offers and I guess more competition. | | Report this post to a moderator | goto top of page |
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