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04-06-2023, 08:26 PM
#51
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Originally Posted by TommyJ1026
Can someone tell me what a LC month looks like for a new FO in MIA? Is it typically 18 on with 3-6 day blocks?
I had LC in February and had 19 off (not used on many days)
04-07-2023, 03:46 AM
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Originally Posted by HELOWING
So does A.A. reimburse parking or is there an area that is designated for A.A. employees? I’ve been seeing that the MIA airport parking has been full. Thanks for any info.
04-10-2023, 04:03 AM
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Originally Posted by HELOWING
So does A.A. reimburse parking or is there an area that is designated for A.A. employees? I’ve been seeing that the MIA airport parking has been full. Thanks for any info.
05-19-2023, 11:10 AM
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Relocating to Miami area
Currently have CJO (no class date yet). I am hoping to get MIA and relocate the family to South Florida from Boise. We are looking to move to a more laid back beach town type area that is good for raising kids (if that still exists) . I have kinda been looking in the Naples/Ft. Meyers area, but open to other places within driving distance that people with a young family are living and loving it... I'd appreciate any advice that anyone has! Also I'll take any advice or tips from anyone who has recently relocated across the entire freakin country. Feel free to PM me with any details. Thanks!!
05-21-2023, 10:25 AM
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Originally Posted by Wisc40
Currently have CJO (no class date yet). I am hoping to get MIA and relocate the family to South Florida from Boise. We are looking to move to a more laid back beach town type area that is good for raising kids (if that still exists) . I have kinda been looking in the Naples/Ft. Meyers area, but open to other places within driving distance that people with a young family are living and loving it... I'd appreciate any advice that anyone has! Also I'll take any advice or tips from anyone who has recently relocated across the entire freakin country. Feel free to PM me with any details. Thanks!!
05-21-2023, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Wisc40
Currently have CJO (no class date yet). I am hoping to get MIA and relocate the family to South Florida from Boise. We are looking to move to a more laid back beach town type area that is good for raising kids (if that still exists) . I have kinda been looking in the Naples/Ft. Meyers area, but open to other places within driving distance that people with a young family are living and loving it... I'd appreciate any advice that anyone has! Also I'll take any advice or tips from anyone who has recently relocated across the entire freakin country. Feel free to PM me with any details. Thanks!!
As far as South Florida, it is one great big slab of concrete from Homestead to North Palm Beach, and has been that way for at least 10 years.
Naples, Bonita, Marco, Ft Meyers is getting the same way, and the vultures have moved in after the hurricane last year.
The last laid back “beach town” on the east side within driving distance is probably Vero Beach, and even that is building up quick, with pressure from both Palm Beach and Melbourne. On the west side, probably something like Venice, but now you’re talking about an ugly drive. If you are looking for a quiet beach town, South Florida is not the droid you’re looking for, and only still exists in Jimmy Buffet songs.
If you can forgo the beach, and want to settle for quiet burbs, you might check out Martin county, north of Jupiter. That’s probably a 2 hour drive to the parking lot at MIA.
The population pressure on Florida has been insane, and it only accelerated during the COVID episode. Prices on everything are stupid, stupid high. A million bucks is pretty much the starting point, and that’s not on the water.
If you want to have anything within a 90 minute drive to MIA, you need to go into it these days like you’re moving to NYC. Everything is already built, and you take what there is. Figure out your max price, a neighborhood or two you can tolerate, and start looking. Right now, it’s a rugby scrum for anything that comes on the market.
05-21-2023, 04:39 PM
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Originally Posted by NuGuy
That’s going to be a tall order unless you got a Time Machine and go back to 1980.
As far as South Florida, it is one great big slab of concrete from Homestead to North Palm Beach, and has been that way for at least 10 years.
Naples, Bonita, Marco, Ft Meyers is getting the same way, and the vultures have moved in after the hurricane last year.
The last laid back “beach town” on the east side within driving distance is probably Vero Beach, and even that is building up quick, with pressure from both Palm Beach and Melbourne. On the west side, probably something like Venice, but now you’re talking about an ugly drive. If you are looking for a quiet beach town, South Florida is not the droid you’re looking for, and only still exists in Jimmy Buffet songs.
If you can forgo the beach, and want to settle for quiet burbs, you might check out Martin county, north of Jupiter. That’s probably a 2 hour drive to the parking lot at MIA.
The population pressure on Florida has been insane, and it only accelerated during the COVID episode. Prices on everything are stupid, stupid high. A million bucks is pretty much the starting point, and that’s not on the water.
If you want to have anything within a 90 minute drive to MIA, you need to go into it these days like you’re moving to NYC. Everything is already built, and you take what there is. Figure out your max price, a neighborhood or two you can tolerate, and start looking. Right now, it’s a rugby scrum for anything that comes on the market.
As far as South Florida, it is one great big slab of concrete from Homestead to North Palm Beach, and has been that way for at least 10 years.
Naples, Bonita, Marco, Ft Meyers is getting the same way, and the vultures have moved in after the hurricane last year.
The last laid back “beach town” on the east side within driving distance is probably Vero Beach, and even that is building up quick, with pressure from both Palm Beach and Melbourne. On the west side, probably something like Venice, but now you’re talking about an ugly drive. If you are looking for a quiet beach town, South Florida is not the droid you’re looking for, and only still exists in Jimmy Buffet songs.
If you can forgo the beach, and want to settle for quiet burbs, you might check out Martin county, north of Jupiter. That’s probably a 2 hour drive to the parking lot at MIA.
The population pressure on Florida has been insane, and it only accelerated during the COVID episode. Prices on everything are stupid, stupid high. A million bucks is pretty much the starting point, and that’s not on the water.
If you want to have anything within a 90 minute drive to MIA, you need to go into it these days like you’re moving to NYC. Everything is already built, and you take what there is. Figure out your max price, a neighborhood or two you can tolerate, and start looking. Right now, it’s a rugby scrum for anything that comes on the market.
05-22-2023, 05:38 AM
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Originally Posted by NuGuy
That’s going to be a tall order unless you got a Time Machine and go back to 1980.
As far as South Florida, it is one great big slab of concrete from Homestead to North Palm Beach, and has been that way for at least 10 years.
Naples, Bonita, Marco, Ft Meyers is getting the same way, and the vultures have moved in after the hurricane last year.
The last laid back “beach town” on the east side within driving distance is probably Vero Beach, and even that is building up quick, with pressure from both Palm Beach and Melbourne. On the west side, probably something like Venice, but now you’re talking about an ugly drive. If you are looking for a quiet beach town, South Florida is not the droid you’re looking for, and only still exists in Jimmy Buffet songs.
If you can forgo the beach, and want to settle for quiet burbs, you might check out Martin county, north of Jupiter. That’s probably a 2 hour drive to the parking lot at MIA.
The population pressure on Florida has been insane, and it only accelerated during the COVID episode. Prices on everything are stupid, stupid high. A million bucks is pretty much the starting point, and that’s not on the water.
If you want to have anything within a 90 minute drive to MIA, you need to go into it these days like you’re moving to NYC. Everything is already built, and you take what there is. Figure out your max price, a neighborhood or two you can tolerate, and start looking. Right now, it’s a rugby scrum for anything that comes on the market.
As far as South Florida, it is one great big slab of concrete from Homestead to North Palm Beach, and has been that way for at least 10 years.
Naples, Bonita, Marco, Ft Meyers is getting the same way, and the vultures have moved in after the hurricane last year.
The last laid back “beach town” on the east side within driving distance is probably Vero Beach, and even that is building up quick, with pressure from both Palm Beach and Melbourne. On the west side, probably something like Venice, but now you’re talking about an ugly drive. If you are looking for a quiet beach town, South Florida is not the droid you’re looking for, and only still exists in Jimmy Buffet songs.
If you can forgo the beach, and want to settle for quiet burbs, you might check out Martin county, north of Jupiter. That’s probably a 2 hour drive to the parking lot at MIA.
The population pressure on Florida has been insane, and it only accelerated during the COVID episode. Prices on everything are stupid, stupid high. A million bucks is pretty much the starting point, and that’s not on the water.
If you want to have anything within a 90 minute drive to MIA, you need to go into it these days like you’re moving to NYC. Everything is already built, and you take what there is. Figure out your max price, a neighborhood or two you can tolerate, and start looking. Right now, it’s a rugby scrum for anything that comes on the market.
Accurate. My family and I moved last year to Vero Beach from St. Louis for NK (MCO). It is a great little beach town, we love it. But, we are already in the early stages of where are we moving next. It “works” for AA and Miami, but I can’t imagine doing this for the next 32 years. The drive is painful, it ranges anywhere from 2:15-3:45 depending, so you always have to leave pretty early and end up sitting around waiting. On LC I can’t really touch PBI because I am LT qualed, so it’s usually 2 day BOG for me. I have my second line next month and already miss LC looking at it. I have a stretch of 6 on (3/3) 2 off, 5 on (3/2). So even not being a “commuter”, that’s going to end up being a lot of time away from home not being able to go home between sequences.
We have looked further south into the Jupiter/PBI area, but that’s just unrealistic. For a simple 3/2 1,800 sqft you’re looking at around a million. Any further south than that really doesn’t seem appealing to us, you really lose that Florida beach town charm.
If that length of drive doesn’t bother you, then I would look over on the SW coast. It’s about the same time, but not traveling the Indy 95 regularly might make it better. Good luck!
05-22-2023, 09:01 AM
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Originally Posted by AXNKAA
Accurate. My family and I moved last year to Vero Beach from St. Louis for NK (MCO). It is a great little beach town, we love it. But, we are already in the early stages of where are we moving next. It “works” for AA and Miami, but I can’t imagine doing this for the next 32 years. The drive is painful, it ranges anywhere from 2:15-3:45 depending, so you always have to leave pretty early and end up sitting around waiting. On LC I can’t really touch PBI because I am LT qualed, so it’s usually 2 day BOG for me. I have my second line next month and already miss LC looking at it. I have a stretch of 6 on (3/3) 2 off, 5 on (3/2). So even not being a “commuter”, that’s going to end up being a lot of time away from home not being able to go home between sequences.
We have looked further south into the Jupiter/PBI area, but that’s just unrealistic. For a simple 3/2 1,800 sqft you’re looking at around a million. Any further south than that really doesn’t seem appealing to us, you really lose that Florida beach town charm.
If that length of drive doesn’t bother you, then I would look over on the SW coast. It’s about the same time, but not traveling the Indy 95 regularly might make it better. Good luck!
We have looked further south into the Jupiter/PBI area, but that’s just unrealistic. For a simple 3/2 1,800 sqft you’re looking at around a million. Any further south than that really doesn’t seem appealing to us, you really lose that Florida beach town charm.
If that length of drive doesn’t bother you, then I would look over on the SW coast. It’s about the same time, but not traveling the Indy 95 regularly might make it better. Good luck!
It’s almost to the point like LAX, SFO or NYC….to have any hope of living affordably, you really need to be “born into it”, like that great aunt in Manhattan that left you that rent controlled apartment or your folks lived down there and maybe let you buy their place at a discount.
Otherwise it’s just nuts.
Another word of warning. Going east/west in Dade, Broward or Palm Beach counties is absolutely an exercise in frustration. If you do have do an E/W drive, make sure you’re on a major artery, otherwise it takes forever. The roads just aren’t set up well.
Be sure to check the status of the Turnpike and I-95. A meltdown on one spreads to the other petty quickly, and the whole thing turns into a parking lot when one of the very frequent accidents happens.
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