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Originally Posted by jimmemac
yeah and everybody thinks Publix is so great-the prices for food here suck big time-give me a WaWa for my gas and a Wegman's for my groceries and I will show Floridians heaven!!!
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I lived across the street from the Abingdon, Maryland WaWa and this is what the prices were when I moved to Florida in 2011. That's an actual 2011 photo of the Abingdon WaWa. The prices are about the same as they are here, except WaWa you had to drive around in circles to find a pump or get in line because they were so busy. So I never went there, the Abingdon Giant was better. They had gas pumps in the parking lot and you got money off the price per gallon for every dollar you spent in the store. They had the same price per gallon as WaWa and then you got money off that on the spot. Publix and Giant are about the same, price, looks, service.
Wegmans opened right behind the WaWa, in fact the manager bought my house. The Wegmans manager said she couldn't believe how much house she got in Abingdon compared to Rochester, NY where she moved from. Which proves everyone has it better somewhere else. The Wegmans was nice, but prices were no cheaper than Walmart. In fact Walmart was looking to close their Abingdon store across the highway and open a new Walmart with groceries to compete with Wegmans. The Abingdon Walmart did not have groceries.
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What you will pay for your air conditioning and water for your lawn will make up for it
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I can't agree on that one either. My biggest electric bill this past summer was in August at $90.36 for our 2BR masonry CYV. In Maryland ever since they deregulated electric rates in 2006 to bring in competition my bills tripled. My 2011 summer BG&E bills were about $280 and my winter bill was $395 for an all electric home built in 1998. In fact SECO was quoted in the paper yesterday that they are rebating profits to us customers and a 1000 KW should go down $7. Our drinking and irrigation water and garbage bills runs about $220 per month, and $136 is the amenity fee. So that leaves $85 for water and garbage, about the same as in Abingdon, Maryland.