If you don’t, come down to Costa Rica.
None of this hurricane nonsense. They all swing way north. Pura vida. Don’t buy, rent and you’re golden.
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I’ve got a sweet modern all-equipped airbnb here all in for $500. Lots of expats/buy here but life calls them home. Lots of supply. Just have to know how to find them. No biggy.
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Yeah, I had a place in Jaco picked out to move ti, no shit. Met Mah Sweetie. Better plan
But my friend moved to Tamarindo, rehabbed an old mission outside of town, lived there 5 years, loved it.
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Yeah, as I recall we chatted a bit about this several years ago.
Congrats on making the right call with your lady.
Tamarindo is now, along with Nosara and other beach towns up in Guanacaste, prohibitively expensive for normal people. Unless you don’t mind living a half hour out.
Jaco has grown up and gotten less sleazy. Always had its charm, but being the closest beach to the airport also attracted the party crowd, which brings the crime along with it. Drugs and prostitution, etc.
I’m living in the mountains near Chirropo, the highest peak here. I can walk out my door and a) do a 10k rainforest hike, and b) walk 500 meters to a sweet farmer’s market to buy almost everything I need. And ogle all the hot hippy chicks who live in these parts. I have a hippie chick so it’s just fun.
I just pay rent. No bills. No upkeep or headaches of any kind. No need even for a car. Can rent one privately for cheap if I want. One step from off the grid and hunting wild pigs in the forest. Yes, there are wild pigs up there. No snakes, though. Not the dangerous kind anyway.
And I can get a pirate link to watch the Lions without fail.
Edit: just a bit more annoying brag here, I’m in the rainforest below Chirripo, so I can be among the waterfalls, rivers and streams in my immediate hood, or drive down the cordillera 40 minutes to the beaches on the Pacific. It’s astonishing. There’s a city of about 25,000 twenty minutes away and San Jose is about three hours. I can’t think of a better spot.
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I live 125 steps away from the back door of a bar/restaurant. Interesting that it takes 135 steps to get home. One of these days I’m going to commission myself to find out why it’s further walking home. Yep, one of these days I’m going to do that.
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Milton… sounds dangerous. 
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A buddy of mine lives in the Tampa area.
He’s stayed for the last two.
He bugged out today.
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Friend of mine has his flight to DTW in the morning. He’s taking no chances.
I lived through Andrew in 92, got married that weekend, boys left at 8:30 last night to come home(GA). Daughter and Soninlaw staying in Lakeland. Other family in FL are 50/50 on leaving and staying.
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social media is full of people saying there has never been a hurricane this powerful that formed in the gulf of mexico, or that they never headed east, when there have been multiple hurricanes that have done exactly that. Or that there are weather machines that make them. Sigh.
we live in the stupidest timeline.
My daughter got lucky with helene, her living south of atlanta, and it pushed east of her so she only got a lot of rain. I’m hoping this doesn’t turn north very much, for her sake, but I feel for floridians and the poorer people of the carolinas.
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This is…badddd for me. I am all prepped. Now I just got to ride it out.
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Was thinking about you and meant to ask if you were riding it out.
You’re down in the Sarasota or Ft Myers area right?
Sarasota. Yeah, I’m guarding my castle. Just got a new roof. We were headed toward getting hurricane rated windows next but didn’t get it together in time… Sandbagged best I could. Not in an evac zone and on pretty high ground. relatively speaking to the rest of the area. This one looks nuts. Every other one has pretty much missed us, except the storm surge on Siesta and Lido Key last week. Still trying to get that cleaned up and now its all projectiles if they didn’t get it. Everything has been closed since mid day yesterday. Last I looked it was basically a direct hit for my house. But who knows for sure where it will land yet.
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I saw Tornados hitting ft Myers already, I have two large projects in Sarasota that we are monitoring.
Let me know when you may look at windows I have connections with a few mfrs.
I’m in Orlando - Fingers crossed. Could be extremely rough.
My human will be okay, but I could legit lose everything I own.
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Same. Document everything now with cell pictures of your stuff, then email it to yourself so its time stamped. Take a picture, or look up, your insurance carrier phone number. Then if things get damaged document all that too. You probably already know this, but just in case you haven’t thought of it…
I’m about 3-4 miles from the coast approx. Winds will be bad here. Even with the new roof, I expect damage sadly. Just want the power to last until the Tigers finish:)
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Priorities…and then back on in time for game 4.
Stay safe my friend.
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Thoughts and prayers to the both of you and all of your friends and family in the effected area.
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This thing is spawning multiple large tornadoes that have significantly damaged populated areas like Fort Myers. You don’t see that with a hurricane very often and it hasn’t even made landfall yet, frightening stuff down there.
Storm surge will be the biggest story when all is said and done but this tornado outbreak is pretty unprecedented.
Stay safe @farmerted and @BigNatty
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