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Le HockeyDad’s Return to Florida Journey
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HockeyDad Offline
#151 Posted: Sat, Jan 27 2024, 12:17 PM EST
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Heading to Florida for house inspection. Moving mid-February.

Gonna watch Barbie on the flight.
Ram27 Offline
#152 Posted: Sat, Jan 27 2024, 1:21 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
Heading to Florida for house inspection. Moving mid-February.

Gonna watch Barbie on the flight.
Argh! ^^^^

Safe travels & good luck with inspection.Cool
Gene363 Offline
#153 Posted: Sat, Jan 27 2024, 2:34 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
Heading to Florida for house inspection. Moving mid-February.

Gonna watch Barbie on the flight.



Applause Applause Applause

I hope all goes well, safe travels.
DrafterX Offline
#154 Posted: Sat, Jan 27 2024, 4:34 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:

Gonna watch Barbie on the flight.



She dies at the end... Mellow
HockeyDad Offline
#155 Posted: Sat, Jan 27 2024, 10:30 PM EST
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Barbie was actually pretty funny.
8trackdisco Offline
#156 Posted: Sat, Jan 27 2024, 10:45 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
Gonna watch Barbie on the flight.


Houston to Florida probably has quite a few of them.
HockeyDad Offline
#157 Posted: Fri, Feb 2 2024, 10:22 AM EST
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Walkthrough went fine. I added a few things for the punch list.

Passed final county inspection and we have the certificate of occupancy.

Final walkthrough on Feb 12
Close Feb 14
Packing day Feb 15
Truck load Feb 16
Drive to Florida Feb 17-18.
Stogie1020 Offline
#158 Posted: Fri, Feb 2 2024, 10:26 AM EST
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Damn, that must be exciting! Congrats!
HockeyDad Offline
#159 Posted: Fri, Feb 2 2024, 11:02 AM EST
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Exciting and exhausting. Never build a house brand new before. I’ve bought spec homes before but this time we started with a dirt lot ten months ago.

This will be my sixth cross county relocation. The plan is it is the last.
8trackdisco Offline
#160 Posted: Fri, Feb 2 2024, 11:16 AM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
Exciting and exhausting. Never build a house brand new before. I’ve bought spec homes before but this time we started with a dirt lot ten months ago.

This will be my sixth cross county relocation. The plan is it is the last.


Having everything the way you want it vs the time and stress of picking everything out.
Is the juice worth the squeeze?
HockeyDad Offline
#161 Posted: Fri, Feb 2 2024, 11:21 AM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Having everything the way you want it vs the time and stress of picking everything out.
Is the juice worth the squeeze?


We’ve been very pleased with the process but this is meant to be our final move.
Gene363 Offline
#162 Posted: Fri, Feb 2 2024, 12:22 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
We’ve been very pleased with the process but this is meant to be our final move.



Applause Applause Applause
deadeyedick Offline
#163 Posted: Fri, Feb 2 2024, 1:00 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
We’ve been very pleased with the process but this is meant to be our final move.


From all I have heard from others, I'm very surprised it has gone so well. Big congrats! Applause
frankj1 Offline
#164 Posted: Fri, Feb 2 2024, 9:48 PM EST
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yer late for Spring Training
deadeyedick Offline
#165 Posted: Sat, Feb 3 2024, 7:39 AM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
yer late for Spring Training


Cactus League Feb 22
Grapefruit League Feb 24
frankj1 Offline
#166 Posted: Sat, Feb 3 2024, 11:01 PM EST
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deadeyedick wrote:
Cactus League Feb 22
Grapefruit League Feb 24

I'm not so gud wif numbahs...
HockeyDad Offline
#167 Posted: Sun, Feb 4 2024, 10:15 AM EST
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Astros spring training location will be 1:45 south of us. I can see us getting down there a bit.
HockeyDad Offline
#168 Posted: Mon, Feb 12 2024, 4:41 PM EST
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We closed two days early. I now once again own a house in a Florida. The wife did the final walkthrough today and is now heading for the Orlando airport to fly back to Texas tonight.
Stogie1020 Offline
#169 Posted: Mon, Feb 12 2024, 4:43 PM EST
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Many Mazels!
DrMaddVibe Offline
#170 Posted: Mon, Feb 12 2024, 4:54 PM EST
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Welcome back home!
Ram27 Offline
#171 Posted: Mon, Feb 12 2024, 4:56 PM EST
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Applause Congratulations Applause
Gene363 Offline
#172 Posted: Mon, Feb 12 2024, 5:36 PM EST
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Congratulations! Applause Applause Applause
frankj1 Offline
#173 Posted: Mon, Feb 12 2024, 8:03 PM EST
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thought I'd never see the day...

congrats!
HockeyDad Offline
#174 Posted: Mon, Feb 12 2024, 8:13 PM EST
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Packers on Thursday, moving truck on a Friday. Road trip starts Saturday.

I’ve moved to California twice in my life and now Florida three times plus a few other places.
MACS Offline
#175 Posted: Tue, Feb 13 2024, 4:59 AM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
Packers on Thursday, moving truck on a Friday. Road trip starts Saturday.

I’ve moved to California twice in my life and now Florida three times plus a few other places.


I was in the Navy for 20 years. I moved from the Philippines to San Diego. San Diego to Temecula. Those were my 2 moves in 20 years. Third move was to this house. I hate moving. So I don't do it unless I really have to.
rfenst Offline
#176 Posted: Tue, Feb 13 2024, 10:11 AM EST
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MACS wrote:
I was in the Navy for 20 years. I moved from the Philippines to San Diego. San Diego to Temecula. Those were my 2 moves in 20 years. Third move was to this house. I hate moving. So I don't do it unless I really have to.

Probably 15x+ (including in and out of college dorms and apartments). Sucks. I hate it. Next time we move will be a downsize in South Florida. I am paying for someone to do all the packing and unloading. I'm getting to old for that chit.
HockeyDad Offline
#177 Posted: Tue, Feb 13 2024, 12:37 PM EST
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Let’s see…since finishing college….

Florida
San Diego California
Colorado
Florida
San Francisco California
Texas
And now back to Florida

All those were corporate/job moves except now. I gotta actually pay for this one myself.

Before college adds 4 more states and Italy.

We intend this to be the final move.
DrafterX Offline
#178 Posted: Tue, Feb 13 2024, 1:12 PM EST
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Do you have a fountain with a big globe in your living room..?? Huh
HockeyDad Offline
#179 Posted: Tue, Feb 13 2024, 1:13 PM EST
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I have a little spinning globe on my desk!
DrafterX Offline
#180 Posted: Tue, Feb 13 2024, 1:16 PM EST
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Do you have a fountain with a big globe in your living room..?? Huh
DrMaddVibe Offline
#181 Posted: Tue, Feb 13 2024, 4:31 PM EST
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DrafterX wrote:
Do you have a fountain with a big globe in your living room..?? Huh



C'mon that's crazy talk. Although he does have a blimp that flies over his house with the light up words "The World Is Yours", so there's that.
deadeyedick Offline
#182 Posted: Tue, Feb 13 2024, 5:03 PM EST
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And a big pile of white powder on the table?
delta1 Offline
#183 Posted: Tue, Feb 13 2024, 5:12 PM EST
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Congrats, LHD.
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#184 Posted: Tue, Feb 13 2024, 8:11 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
I have a little spinning globe on my desk!


Have you always prefered Florida residency and it was the job that made you move so frequently?

Edit: #177. Got it.
HockeyDad Offline
#185 Posted: Wed, Feb 14 2024, 9:34 AM EST
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8trackdisco wrote:
Have you always prefered Florida residency and it was the job that made you move so frequently?

Edit: #177. Got it.


I first moved to Florida when I was in the 3rd grade after my dad retired from the US Army. I’ve lived half my life in Florida, 1/4 in California, and 1/4 everywhere else including even Italy.

My mom and dad are buried in Florida.

My brother spent 30 years in DC working for the federal government and just retired and moved back to Florida.

My favorites are Florida and California. California will be great to still visit but ultimately it is ruined.

Three of our moves were me taking a new job.
One was me doing a corporate relocation.
The move to Texas was my wife doing a corporate relocation. (The relocation package was literally an offer we could not refuse because it was so large.)

This one we are doing all on our own and the wife got to retire.
MACS Offline
#186 Posted: Wed, Feb 14 2024, 12:17 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
My favorites are Florida and California. California will be great to still visit but ultimately it is ruined.


I liked California from 1991 until... I dunno, maybe early 2000's. It was a nice place to live, it was slightly expensive, but not prohibitively so, and then the place went bat-crap crazy.

The scenery is gorgeous, the beaches are nice, you can go to the mountains, the ocean and the desert in the same day, the weather is damn near perfect all the time. The fishing is great, the Pacific ocean is relatively predictable...

And then it went to shit. Taxes went nuts, gas went nuts, housing went nuts, crime and homelessness went nuts and despite it getting worse and worse, they're just doubling down.

It's a damn shame.
HockeyDad Offline
#187 Posted: Fri, Feb 16 2024, 5:16 PM EST
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House is packed and the truck is on the road to Florida.
Gene363 Offline
#188 Posted: Fri, Feb 16 2024, 6:03 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
House is packed and the truck is on the road to Florida.


On the Road Again... Applause Applause Applause
8trackdisco Offline
#189 Posted: Fri, Feb 16 2024, 10:36 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
House is packed and the truck is on the road to Florida.


Must be a small house.

Congrats, HD.
HockeyDad Offline
#190 Posted: Mon, Feb 19 2024, 1:49 PM EST
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Truck arrived. Everything dropped off. Cable install tomorrow and then we can be out of the hotel and officially moved in.
MACS Offline
#191 Posted: Mon, Feb 19 2024, 4:40 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
Truck arrived. Everything dropped off. Cable install tomorrow and then we can be out of the hotel and officially moved in.


Nice! Now get to unpacking, hanging pictures and curtains and stuff... you'll be needing a day off on the 29th. BigGrin
DrafterX Offline
#192 Posted: Mon, Feb 19 2024, 6:30 PM EST
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What's on the 29th..?? Huh
frankj1 Offline
#193 Posted: Mon, Feb 19 2024, 6:37 PM EST
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DrafterX wrote:
What's on the 29th..?? Huh

we aren't supposed to know...cuz we're Black.
delta1 Offline
#194 Posted: Mon, Feb 19 2024, 6:46 PM EST
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DrafterX wrote:
What's on the 29th..?? Huh



My niece's third birthday...she was born in February 2012...

She's half Chinese, one quarter Mexican and one quarter English...a bonafide SoCal mongrel, except for the absence of Black blood...which enabled her to be born on that day...
frankj1 Offline
#195 Posted: Mon, Feb 19 2024, 7:27 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
Truck arrived. Everything dropped off. Cable install tomorrow and then we can be out of the hotel and officially moved in.

it appears you forgot to hit "post" on your review of the Barbie movie...
HockeyDad Offline
#196 Posted: Mon, Feb 19 2024, 9:10 PM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
it appears you forgot to hit "post" on your review of the Barbie movie...



I actually thought it was really cute!
rfenst Offline
#197 Posted: Tue, Feb 20 2024, 1:26 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
Truck arrived. Everything dropped off. Cable install tomorrow and then we can be out of the hotel and officially moved in.

Congrats!
Get ready for the 29th.
Corona Cigar Sand Lake Rd.
Time TBD.
HockeyDad Offline
#198 Posted: Wed, Feb 21 2024, 2:22 PM EST
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Out of the hotel and moved in this morning. Got to see a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch yesterday while sitting in the back yard. Launch parties will be happening in the future.

OK, this thread is done. Who is next to move? It’s not gonna be me.
HockeyDad Offline
#199 Posted: Wed, Feb 21 2024, 2:22 PM EST
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rfenst wrote:
Congrats!
Get ready for the 29th.
Corona Cigar Sand Lake Rd.
Time TBD.


Seems perfectly workable.
Gene363 Offline
#200 Posted: Wed, Feb 21 2024, 2:31 PM EST
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Welcome home!

Got any spare cardboard? LOL
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