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Posted: November 18, 2003 10:09 pm
by brettsky
Cubbie Bear wrote:Back when I had my real job, my wife and I had a late honeymoon there. While down there, we found a restaurant for sale right on Duval, but down the street from the real touristy sh*t. The guy was retiring and just wanted enough money to live out his life in his home country, I think Paraguay.
Anyway, this was when my boss was still cool and I mentioned it to him. Besides owning professional sports team, he was a psychologist. He offered to front some money, "If thats what you really want". Then he gave me this caution....
"Don't ever move to your favorite place in the world. First of all... It will never live up yo your expectations when you are there full time. Secondly, you'll find you never have the time for the things you moved there for".
Remembering the horrid days I put in when I had my first restaurant, I decided he was right. I wouldn't have seen any more of the Keys then I do in my semi-decade visits.
My advice, keep the Keys your special place
Good advice CB.
Posted: November 18, 2003 10:34 pm
by livingstonbob
I agree with Cubbie Bear. I'm going to keep Key West as one of my special places.
I grew up within 60 miles of Yellowstone Park, but was always and am still too busy to go see it. You just take the great fishing and great scenery for granted. I think it would be the same if I lived in Key West.
Bob
Originally from Livingston Sat. Night Montana
Posted: November 18, 2003 11:12 pm
by JBfan'03
kenny chesney doesn't live in Key West but down in the Carribean.. I dont want to give it away..
but he seems to be doing a good job of getting away from it all when he needs and wants to
I haven't read this book..
my special place is probably the bahamas
I went there for a week this past summer with my family and hada really good time! I'd go there again.. so if I skip out on ya'll you'll know where to find me!
god and peace,
Vanessa
Posted: November 18, 2003 11:28 pm
by Key Lime Lee
JBfan'03 wrote:kenny chesney doesn't live in Key West but down in the Carribean..
Doesn't he have a place on St. Croix?
Posted: November 18, 2003 11:49 pm
by JBfan'03
i dont know where St. Croix is.. I know he lives in the Virgin Islands.. does that help?
god and peace,
Vanessa
Posted: November 18, 2003 11:52 pm
by SMLCHNG
JBfan'03 wrote:i dont know where St. Croix is.. I know he lives in the Virgin Islands.. does that help?
Ahem.. geography lesson.
Posted: November 19, 2003 12:05 am
by Air M'Ville Cap'n
I heard he has a place on St Thomas
Posted: November 19, 2003 7:04 am
by chalksoperations
I, too, lived there courtesy of the Navy in the 80's. I resettled to South Florida and currently reside in Homestead, out in the Redlands. I get "down the road" for day trips here and there and bought my place for a small chunk of what it would have cost in the upper keys.
Many professionals are moving to South Dade and commuting on account they just can't afford anything in the town they work.
Posted: November 19, 2003 7:13 am
by phjrsaunt
It's a nice dream to have, but I don't know of many big companies down there that offer retirement, benefits, and all the vacation I have from being where I am for so long. I'll take "stability with a side portion of a groovy getaway place" for $1,000, Alex.
Posted: November 19, 2003 7:17 am
by JBfan'03
I just heard on the radio this mrning that kenny chesney will spend new years in st. bardes (sp?)
god and peace,
Vanessa
chiming in on this one
Posted: November 19, 2003 7:24 am
by fins26
when i was getting out of college in cold CT i tried my damnest to get to key west, its tough to get "real" jobs down there (unless your an immigration attorney) but i ended up landing in orlando, no regrets, its a nice 6-7 hour drive to key west and i still make it a couple times a year but i think orlando really ended up fitting the bill for me....on the subject of get up and move books, read "discovering paradise" ( ithink that was its name) its a bout a couple from new england who pick up and move to st. john in the caribbean also a very good and eye opening read.
otherwise i wish everyone luck in making the move to the keys i think my window of opportunity is closing fast on something like that
Posted: November 19, 2003 8:29 am
by Crazy Navy Flyer
I lived in Key West back in the 70's for 3 years, courtesy of the Navy. I fell in love with the town when it wasn't so "touristy" and have planned on going back since then. Jimmy's song "I Have Found Me a Home" says it all for me. KW will always be my home and when I pay my bills I'm gonna leave these Georgia hills and take my lady to the Keys. I will retire in about 7 years and plan to live on my sailboat in the Keys. I can't wait! Its different when you don't have to earn a living down there, low wages and high cost of living prohibit most from living the dream.
Posted: November 19, 2003 8:36 am
by SMLCHNG
JBfan'03 wrote:I just heard on the radio this mrning that kenny chesney will spend new years in st. bardes (sp?)
That is St. Barts. Or the other version, St. Barths.
Posted: November 19, 2003 9:03 am
by Cubbie Bear
When we have Kenny's money we can move where ever we want and have the ways and means to enjoy it. Meanwhile, us working grunts would- like mentioned before- have to work three jobs just to make ends meet.
I was looking at the KW Citizen, $1200, $2000, $3000 a month apartments are not uncommon. Do that on the $10.00 an hour jobs in the want ads
Posted: November 19, 2003 9:40 am
by bubba phan
Love Key West....always will. Hubby and I will be retiring in about 4 years and talked lots about it. We decided to stay in coastal North Carolina and we will take the boat down to the keys for occasional long trips in the winter. We honeymooned in Key West.....twice....and, like the ol' saying goes, "It's a nice place to visit but.....". We would rather be retired living along the coast somewhere else than living in Key West but having to work. For those that were just down at MOTM for at least a week, admit it.....you were ready to come home!
Posted: November 19, 2003 10:40 am
by 2fla
bubba phan wrote: For those that were just down at MOTM for at least a week, admit it.....you were ready to come home!
I was
NOT ready to come home (we were there 8 days). I cried when we left our cottage.
I cried when the plane left the ground.
Coastal NC is BEAUTIFUL. We drive down to the OBX quite often. Waiting until they open it back up to visitors before we go back down there. They just re-opened the road they had to rebuild on Hwy 12 which was washed away by Hurricane Izzy.
Posted: November 19, 2003 11:58 am
by LaTda
I was just down in the Sanibel/Captiva islands for my 10th anniv.
Never been to KW, yet but we loved where we were except the Gulf side of FLA is very different than VA Beach. We have several more years to "test out the area" but it will most likely be South FL somewhere=)
Posted: November 19, 2003 12:22 pm
by Passed-out on Duval
I think anyone who has been there has probably thought about Key West, I know I have...
Im a teacher and that is something that is obviously there, you have Key West High School and also a community college in the Keys...which I think would be great because the community college teaching schedule would be better than the High School...
But how does a guy from CA get hired to teach in Key West? If I were the guy doing the hiring, I would be a little skeptical...so I have never really thought of it as a real possibility...
But...if for some reason I won the lottery, a place to go for months in Key WEst would probably be my first purchase...
Posted: November 19, 2003 12:44 pm
by citcat
Air M'Ville Cap'n wrote:I heard he has a place on St Thomas
Yep I think that it's in St. Thomas, has a house away from the main tourist place (Charlotte Amalie).
Posted: November 19, 2003 1:03 pm
by Cubbie Bear
I was kinda b*tchy at a 7:45am central today.
What I mean to say, is only be sure and be careful, everything isn't always as great as it looks on a weeks vacation. AND, if anybody has the means to pull this off (especially if you are of the female persuasion) I cook, I clean hell, I'll do windows. I can be a cabin boy, pool boy, towel boy, cabana boy, boy toy. Sign me up