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was in the gym today. boomers in locker room were just back from Florida ... as always. my retired neighbor spends half the year in Florida ( in winter ). all these NJ boomers are always in Florida.

what i don't understand is - why don't they just stay there ? why do they TRAVEL there and back ?

somebody please explain this shit before i permanently move to Tampa bay.

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Prince Aleph 1y ago

I'm not sure why they do this either - I could understand doing it if you had, for example, a lake home or cabin in a resort area or something like that, which you would use as a getaway during the summer months and also skip the hottest months in Florida (unless you live south of Lake Okeechobee, where it is always hot). Boomers in this region sometimes do that. But I don't understand having suburban houses in two locations. Maybe they kept those houses because of family living in the area and they want to be close to them for part of the year. Other than the getaway home thing, I can't see another good reason to maintain two homes. Seems like a major pain in the ass and expense.

Dissident Sound 1y ago

yes and they keep the lights on here in NJ when they are in Florida so that potential thieves think somebody is home. so they keep two homes and also have lights in in both of them all year. and apparently in Florida you run the AC in home in summer even if you're not there to avoid the home becoming moldy and shit. insane.

perhaps old people aren't good at making new friends so they can't completely let go of their original location ( in this case NJ )

at the same time old people don't handle poor weather well so they avoid it by going to Florida.

i'm just mad because everybody on reddit says Florida job market is trash and i even used to talk to a guy on Twitter who went to Florida to stay with his mom but wanted to come back to NYC because he says the jobs are in NYC ...

everybody on Reddit says the only way to survive in Florida is to have remote job for a company that is not Florida based ... because in Florida apparently jobs pay 20% less ...

what i don't understand is why don't companies move to Florida since people are moving there anyway ...

or maybe their logic is that it is HEDONISTS who are moving to Florida while they want to hire MASOCHISTS.

they want you to work 100 hour weeks like a Chinese guy only to live in a closet apartment in Manhattan / Boston ... how is that a life worth living ?

i want to live by the beach in permanent summer, do nothing and still get paid like the Chinese guy who is bleeding from the eyeballs from working 24/7 and never sleeping LOL

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anyway i'm out to sleep

good night everybody