Sylvester Stallone’s wife on Florida move

Cypress said:
You have to calculate the total financial risk, not just the part you despise

Global warming is a real thing, and Florida is going to be hit particularly hard. You have to factor in 600 dollar a month air conditioning bills nine months out of the year, expensive hurricane insurance if you can even get it. Then there's the intangibles of living on topography flat as a pancake and giving up a lot of outdoor recreation because it's deadly hot and humid.

Life isn't just about money, chap.
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I like Texas and my house in North Texas has a lot that is very beautiful. Yes I realize some areas of California have a much prettier scenery. And East Texas is beautiful we also have a 300 acre family farm there which is less than one of the largest and best fishing lakes in Texas. I fish Toledo Bend a lot. It's fantastic. My son skis and wake boards. The winters are generally mild. There are lots of rolling hills and pine trees in East Texas.. We raise water melons and cantilopes and a small herd of cattle. I spend a lot of my time there. Yes we have to use AC but our electricity is about half the price of electricity in California.

California had an average utility rate of 29.84 cents per kWh in August 2023. 22% higher than the national average.

https://www.solar.com/learn/how-muc...rnia is $170 per month,per kWh in August 2023.


As of December 2023, the average cost of electricity in Texas is 14.58 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh). This is 10% lower than the national average.

https://www.ecowatch.com/electricity/rates/tx
 
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Cypress said:
There's assholes here to, but I've lived all over the country, and on average the weather and the people here are more calm and mellow.

Coastal California has some of the best weather and scenery on the planet. The humid swamps of Florida can't really compare.

You only live once. Is anyone willing to say on their deathbed it was all worth it because they got a good deal on a house in Orlando?
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In another discussion re. Ca./Fla. I mentioned the horrid climate in Florida vs. the great climate in Ca.
 
ExpressLane said:
There is no doubt that California is beautiful it is a shame that Democrats have ran it so badly maybe they will wake up some day.
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You know what the shame is? It's that ignoramuses who for some reason seen especially attracted to Right wing politics think political outlook is the driving force in life. I suppose it is for them, poor fools.
 
Althea said:
In another discussion re. Ca./Fla. I mentioned the horrid climate in Florida vs. the great climate in Ca.
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There are so many intangibles in the choice of where to live. Getting a good deal on a house in Jacksonville or Tallahassee is not what I want to look back on as having made my life worthwhile.
 
ExpressLane said:
I like Texas and my house in North Texas has a lot that is very beautiful. Yes I realize some areas of California have a much prettier scenery. And East Texas is beautiful we also have a 300 acre family farm there which is less than one of the largest and best fishing lakes in Texas. I fish Toledo Bend a lot. It's fantastic. My son skis and wake boards. The winters are generally mild. There are lots of rolling hills and pine trees in East Texas.. We raise water melons and cantilopes and a small herd of cattle. I spend a lot of my time there. Yes we have to use AC but our electricity is about half the price of electricity in California.

California had an average utility rate of 29.84 cents per kWh in August 2023. 22% higher than the national average.

https://www.solar.com/learn/how-muc...rnia is $170 per month,per kWh in August 2023.


As of December 2023, the average cost of electricity in Texas is 14.58 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh). This is 10% lower than the national average.

https://www.ecowatch.com/electricity/rates/tx
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To each their own. Everyone has their own taste.

I don't even need air conditioning here.

I lived in Texas for four years, and couldn't wait to get back to the Pacific Ocean and the mountains.

When I am 85 years old, I don't want to look back and think it was all worthwhile because I got a good deal on a house in Lubbock Texas, and my taxes didn't include a state income tax. My life has to be about more than that.
 
Cypress said:
There are so many intangibles in the choice of where to live. Getting a good deal on a house in Jacksonville or Tallahassee is not what I want to look back on as having made my life worthwhile.
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Especially when a hurricane blows your home away and you can't get insurance.
 
Cypress said:
To each their own. Everyone has their own taste.

I don't even need air conditioning here.

I lived in Texas for four years, and couldn't wait to get back to the Pacific Ocean and the mountains.

When I am 85 years old, I don't want to look back and think it was all worthwhile because I got a good deal on a house in Lubbock Texas, and my taxes didn't include a state income tax. My life has to be about more than that.
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What is your neighborhood like. I wouldn't like living in Lubbock either nor would I like to live in some areas in San Francisco.
 
ExpressLane said:
What is your neighborhood like. I wouldn't like living in Lubbock either nor would I like to live in some areas in San Francisco.
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Where I live, there are no traffic jams, the air is clean, the weather temperate, the scenery beautiful, and the crime low. It's not as cheap as Fort Worth Texas, and it's not for everyone, but it's perfect for me.
 
Althea said:
Especially when a hurricane blows your home away and you can't get insurance.
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I've never thought it was a good idea to invest my happiness and purpose in life in a house. Which is why I never found cheap houses in Tallahassee Florida or Tulsa Oklahoma a convincing reason to move.
 
Cypress said:
Jennifer Flavin: “I think California is probably the most beautiful state in the United States. I absolutely love it, but I just needed a change,” she said. “I felt like I've been there long enough, and life is short, so I wanted to make a change and not just be sitting in one house the rest of my life.”
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In Florida, she thinks she can buy TWO houses and appear even more wealthy? lol
 
Cypress said:
Where I live, there are no traffic jams, the air is clean, the weather temperate, the scenery beautiful, and the crime low. It's not as cheap as Fort Worth Texas, and it's not for everyone, but it's perfect for me.
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But your neighborhood specifically. Lot size native trees view? I don't live in Fort Worth either. I live in Southlake.
 
Althea said:
In another discussion re. Ca./Fla. I mentioned the horrid climate in Florida vs. the great climate in Ca.
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Granted, it's hot in the summers, but the rest of the year it's mild and you are in shorts mostly.

This month it's in the 60s and 70s every day and has been that way since around Sept.
 
My countryman Stallone never struck me as a formidable intellect,

and his moving to Florida reinforces that view.
 
NiftyNiblick said:
My countryman Stallone never struck me as a formidable intellect, and his moving to Florida reinforces that view.
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Yet Mensa wouldn't agree with you!!

Sylvester Stallone - 160 IQ

When one thinks of Sylvester Stallone one probably imagines Rocky getting beat senseless in a boxing ring while mumbling and uttering almost illiterately “Adrian!”. When you think about said character bleeding and screaming random hyperbole, it’s likely that one thinks of someone who isn't very smart; well think again.

Sylvester Stallone has boasted that he wrote the Rocky script in just 3 days, which is impressive in its own right, but it’s not hard to imagine someone who is as smart as Albert Einstein could conjure up such a script in such a short amount of time.

We imagine you will likely never look at Sylvester Stallone the same way ever again, we know that we sure won't! Sylvester Stallone might be getting old and falling out of his usually incredible shape, but we bet his sharp brain is just as sharp as ever

https://www.therichest.com/world-en...n-level-geniuses/#sylvester-stallone---160-iq
 
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