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Originally Posted by Laker14 (Post 2056084)

Hey, it's true. The same house would cost less outside of TV. The fact that you aren't happy here doesn't change the facts.

We specifically bought here because it was about the lifestyle. In my case, I wanted it to be easy to get to a variety of golf courses, and a ready-made abundance of pickleball courts and players with a huge variety of skill levels. It has worked out beautifully for us.
We can't imagine ourselves being happier if we'd bought elsewhere. We've made fast friends on the courts and on the courses, and our activities with those friends goes beyond golf and pickle, to cards, dinners, and just hanging out.

Hearing you complain all the time, and express your sour grapes is like listening to someone who paid a premium to be on the beach, and finds he doesn't like sand in his shoes, and is constantly trying to convince others they should also be unhappy, because he is.

Very well said.

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Originally Posted by Garywt (Post 2055540)

Went looking at open houses yesterday just for the fun of it. We bought 3 years ago and looked at our same model, over twice the price. Also the house we looked at was on a swamp. We did see a house we liked but not enough to do anything as we love our house.

I know house prices are crazy but to live on a swamp the prices should be discounted.

We absolutely love the wildlife preserve (glorified swamp) in our back yard. Our birdcage/pool abuts the swamp and with the podocarpus privacy hedges on either side of the birdcage and the preserve behind us we have total privacy. Other benefits include the incredibly diverse wildlife we see, the sounds of the birds chirping by day and the frogs (peepers) by night, and absolutely beautiful sunsets. The mosquitoes are only an issue around dusk if we are not in our birdcage, so we simply avoid late evening yard work. The homes across the street from us, with kissing lanai’s in their back yards, sell for much less all other things being equal.