Owning Water Frontage

[Michael G.]

Why would you own water frontage in Florida with chance of it getting blowen away?

[Toymeister]

If this seriously lowers prices, absolutely! Rent it out for two years, SELL = PROFIT

[Mortal1]

Water frontage doesn't get 'blown" away.

[asianthree]

Family condo on Tampa Bay 6th floor. Parking on ground level 3 times the garage and first floor had water damage. No idea what happened last night. Our friends just south of Tampa 2 blocks from ocean, evacuated Tuesday, so their insurance is under $10,000. No idea about damage. Rest of family is on Miami Beach, just wind issues, and No not one would never move, away from water

[MartinSE]

Why would you own water frontage in Florida with chance of it getting blowen away?

I dunno, but probably for the same reasons peel keep rebuilding home in CA that skid down the side of a cliff. Or the people outside Denver that keep building their homes on the mountain ridge and having it burned down year after year...

I think most people are not very smart or at least not very practical.

[Stu from NYC]

Why would you own water frontage in Florida with chance of it getting blowen away?

Your friends will be jealous and want to keep up with the Jones?

[blueash]

Why do people buy an RV knowing it is super expensive, costs a fortune to drive, and will be worth next to nothing in a few years? Why do people by a telescope when they can go online and see Hubble images so much better than anything they will see in person?

Why would anyone spend money on a fancy meal or a vacation when it is perfectly fine eating at home and having a staycation?

Because they get joy from the experience, whether it is hearing the waves or seeing the sunset or having the sand nearby, or a new taste or a new smell or walking where Henry VIII walked. It is worth the cost to the buyer.

[Kenswing]

Why do people cross the street when they know they could get hit by a car?

[Stu from NYC]

Why do people cross the street when they know they could get hit by a car?

To get to the other side?:bigbow:

[coffeebean]

Rebuilding a home several times due to storm damage is like the definition of insanity. I can enjoy the view of the ocean on a cruise ship, not from my back yard but that's just me. I prefer to know my home will be standing after a major storm like Ian. No need for me to be so close to the shore. I could not sleep at night wondering if my home would be match sticks after a major hurricane.

[jebartle]

Water frontage in Florida, one way or the other thanks to Ian.

[Susan1717]

Everyone has their passions and priorities! If their’s is water, and they can afford it, they will live on it. My passion is water and boating which is why I can’t live full time in the Villages, even tho it’s a lovely place. My other home is right on the intercoastal where I can watch the boats go by day and night, and we have our boat that we can go out on all day to anchor at the sand bar, or go with friends just to lunch or dinner. Sometimes we all head to Key West or Bahamas on one of our boats. It’s a great lifestyle; just obviously not yours. Everyone is different.

[Worldseries27]

why do people buy an rv knowing it is super expensive, costs a fortune to drive, and will be worth next to nothing in a few years? Why do people by a telescope when they can go online and see hubble images so much better than anything they will see in person?

Why would anyone spend money on a fancy meal or a vacation when it is perfectly fine eating at home and having a staycation?

Because they get joy from the experience, whether it is hearing the waves or seeing the sunset or having the sand nearby, or a new taste or a new smell or walking where henry viii walked. It is worth the cost to the buyer.
all i see is crying, desolate people whether they choose to live near the beach or in the forests when the inevitable fire destroys their homes.
Joy?

[Stu from NYC]

Rebuilding a home several times due to storm damage is like the definition of insanity. I can enjoy the view of the ocean on a cruise ship, not from my back yard but that's just me. I prefer to know my home will be standing after a major storm like Ian. No need for me to be so close to the shore. I could not sleep at night wondering if my home would be match sticks after a major hurricane.

If the govt makes insurance companies cover your loss rebuilding becomes easier when others peoples money is paying for it

[allsport]

Why would you own water frontage in Florida with chance of it getting blowen away?

There are many non climate change deniers who think nothing will happen. I know some staunch deniers who are missing their winter home in Ft. Myers as of yesterday. If you don't believe something needs to be done, then you will lose in the end.

[B-flat]

There are many non climate change deniers who think nothing will happen. I know some staunch deniers who are missing their winter home in Ft. Myers as of yesterday. If you don't believe something needs to be done, then you will lose in the end.

The climate has been and continues to be in constant change for many thousands of years. Lose in the end? Most of us here will be dead. Can't buy into this climate being shoved down our throats there's an agenda behind all this.

[RickyLee]

Everyone has their passions and priorities! If their’s is water, and they can afford it, they will live on it. My passion is water and boating which is why I can’t live full time in the Villages, even tho it’s a lovely place. My other home is right on the intercoastal where I can watch the boats go by day and night, and we have our boat that we can go out on all day to anchor at the sand bar, or go with friends just to lunch or dinner. Sometimes we all head to Key West or Bahamas on one of our boats. It’s a great lifestyle; just obviously not yours. Everyone is different.

Can I hang with you? (& your friends)??

[twoplanekid]

Everyone has their passions and priorities! If their’s is water, and they can afford it, they will live on it. My passion is water and boating which is why I can’t live full time in the Villages, even tho it’s a lovely place. My other home is right on the intercoastal where I can watch the boats go by day and night, and we have our boat that we can go out on all day to anchor at the sand bar, or go with friends just to lunch or dinner. Sometimes we all head to Key West or Bahamas on one of our boats. It’s a great lifestyle; just obviously not yours. Everyone is different.

I could have moved across the street in Lake Deaton to have a good view of a golf course or go in with my brother to have a good view of the gulf waters. I chose to continue to stay where I am and purchase a top floor condo unit with Ted in Hudson for less than moving with these views. Everyone is different and can make their own choices in life.

[Worldseries27]

can i hang with you? (& your friends)??
flat leaver

[Worldseries27]

i could have moved across the street in lake deaton to have a good view of a golf course or go in with my brother to have a good view of the gulf waters. I chose to continue to stay where i am and purchase a top floor condo unit with ted in hudson for less than moving with these views. everyone is different and can make their own choices in life.
deja vu all over again

[fdpaq0580]

Why would you own water frontage in Florida with chance of it getting blowen away?

Might as well ask why get up in the morning when you know all the horrible things that could happen to you. Why? We're gamblers. Every moment of our lives something could or might happen. We gamble that it won't, but sometimes we lose. Then, again, sometimes, we win, and life is good.

[Ktygrett]

Beautiful views!

[rustyp]

Why would you own water frontage in Florida with chance of it getting blowen away?

The odds of gitten blowen away are worse four the Golf coast Vs the Eats coast.

[joelfmi]

Its best not to live in a city run by climate change radical scholars. weather is an act of nature and whatever we do it will never change the weather.

[fdpaq0580]

The odds of gitten blowen away are worse four the Golf coast Vs the Eats coast.

😂 Thanks for my first big laugh of the day.

[airstreamingypsy]

I lived on the coast in Connecticut, not even the ocean, the Long Island Sound. I sold and moved away...... the next time I saw my house it made the NY Times during hurricane Sandy..... front page second section. Waves crashing through the glass front...... seawall gone. Knowing the power of Mother Nature, it's a nope for me.

[GmaLisaG]

Personal choices

[PJackpot]

Why would you own water frontage in Florida with chance of it getting blowen away?

..because they can afford it.

[charlieo1126@gmail.com]

I was on the water in Miami Beach but I was out of the country so much it wasn’t worth it so I sold it , in Boston I can see it but not on it . Before Covid came along I used to alternate winters ,Jan, Feb and March between being on the water in Miami,Hawaii and Thailand , I expect to start that again this winter. Why do people want to live on the water , because they can, and there’s nothing better then getting up and having that first cup of coffee looking at water

[Villages Kahuna]

Because the chances of getting hit with a hurricane is very low. The last time Tampa got hit was in 1921, a Cat 3. Since 1873, there have been over 50 tropical cyclones passing within 100 nautical miles of the Fort Myers area. Twenty of these storms have been hurricanes passing within 75 miles of Sanibel Island and Ft. Myers, each of which posed a threat to property and lives on the Island. However none hit the barrier island or the city that it fronts directly. In fact many of those hurricanes passed well out in the Gulf, making landfall in the Florida panhandle or Alabama or Louisiana.

As it’s been described, Hurricane Ian was a 500-year storm.

[jjombrello]

Are you serious? Whether you are a non-climate change believer or a climate change believer, hurricanes have been happening for thousands of years and will continue to occur regardless of what humans do. There have been high intensity hurricanes, low intensity hurricanes, and everything in between. These will continue and that is a fact. Do you seriously think that by reducing carbon emissions, going all electric, eliminating fossil fuels is going to alter what is happening hurricane-wise? These are forces of nature and there is only one being who has control of that.

[TNLAKEPANDA]

Too each their own… everyone has a different reason why they would and why they would not.

[Vermilion Villager]

Why would you own water frontage in Florida with chance of it getting blowen away?
The real question should be: Will you be able to have a home on water frontage in Florida?

I have no doubt after this catastrophic damage is totaled from Ian a lot of insurance companies will no longer ensure water front properties, or will have such exorbitant rates the average or above average person will not be able to afford them.

[csue925@gmail.com]

My idea is to buy a lot about 5 rows back in a flexible zoned beach area. Park my RV on it. May be build a deck above it as shade and a view. The lots will have access to utilities, too. I can live at the beach or spend a lot of time there with friends and family. When a big blow is predicted, I just drive my RV away to my house or to a safer location. Have my cake and eat it, too.

[Michael G.]

My idea is to buy a lot about 5 rows back in a flexible zoned beach area. Park my RV on it. May be build a deck above it as shade and a view. The lots will have access to utilities, too. I can live at the beach or spend a lot of time there with friends and family. When a big blow is predicted, I just drive my RV away to my house or to a safer location. Have my cake and eat it, too.

I have a friend that sells RV lots in Ft Myers between $95,000 and $180,000.
Yep, those prices are correct.
I actually laughed out loud in disbelief when he told me what a lot sold for at the time.
And those lots are 1/2 hour from the beach.

I haven't heard from him since Ian, maybe he's out of a job by now.

[BlueStarAirlines]

Can't buy into this climate being shoved down our throats there's an agenda behind all this.

Follow the money and watch those who are the vocal proponents. There is a lot of money being made by a small minority of people.

Likewise the high visibility proponents of climate chain are mostly hypocrites. Obama buys a beach house in Martha's Vinyard. John Kerry and DiCaprio live in their private aircraft flying everywhere selling the impending doom.

Electric cars save the planet yet the electricity to power them is not a consideration. The batteries that make the electric cars are destroying the earth but they are not using fossil fuels. The mental gymnastics required to think one is better for the environment than the other is beyond comprehension.

I do believe in taking care of the earth, conserving our natural resources and recycling where beneficial. All that being said, if one honestly things man can change the natural climate cycles they are more gullible and simplistic than there is help for them.

[fdpaq0580]

Follow the money and watch those who are the vocal proponents. There is a lot of money being made by a small minority of people.

Likewise the high visibility proponents of climate chain are mostly hypocrites. Obama buys a beach house in Martha's Vinyard. John Kerry and DiCaprio live in their private aircraft flying everywhere selling the impending doom.

Electric cars save the planet yet the electricity to power them is not a consideration. The batteries that make the electric cars are destroying the earth but they are not using fossil fuels. The mental gymnastics required to think one is better for the environment than the other is beyond comprehension.

I do believe in taking care of the earth, conserving our natural resources and recycling where beneficial. All that being said, if one honestly things man can change the natural climate cycles they are more gullible and simplistic than there is help for them.

My only comment is in regard to your last sentence. 1, 100 or even a million humans living in harmony with nature would likely have no effect on climate. But humans have multiplied exponentially into billions not living in harmony with nature, polluting the lands and seas with non-biodegradable poisons and plastics, destroyed much of the natural world and terra formed the planet for industry and profit. Although I like my lifestyle and the luxuries of my current existence, it doesn't blind me to the realities of the destruction that billions of humans scrubbing the planet can do and have already done. Personally, I think it naive to think humanity has not affected climate in at least some small way.