i may be a bit premature but.....

[charlie_the_tuna]

well, that went fast! i'm now only 4 years from pulling the pin on my career. i'll be 60. my wife wants me to stay a bit longer but man!! I just want to get started on the next chapter of my life already. still focused on pine island. Sanibel. naples. cape coral. never really spent a lot of time on the west coast but I feel it calling me.

[randlemanboater]

Good to hear from you CTT!

As a retired guy, I can tell you that the closer you get to the day, the faster the time goes.

And once you retire, time accelerates again, it seems like I just retired the other day, May 31st will be 3 years.

[THEFERMANATOR]

There's alot of places for sale on the water down there from everybody getting out. Our new governor is working on trying to clean up the water, but he's being fought tooth and nail at every turn. Myself, you couldn't gete to move down there right now. Too much development, way to many deed restricted communities with nazi HOA's, and the fishing has gone down hill. My brother in law just finished selling his boat and closing down his charter business because the area is basically dead right now. I want to go to the nature coast, but the developers are trying to get going destroying up there as well.

[charlie_the_tuna]

thing is Ferm, right now we have a place in delray beach. bought and paid for so it owes me nothing. I feel like that area is more to my wife's liking, what with the yuppy atlantic ave and the artsy bars and sh!t. me, I don't set foot in a bar. i'd rather sit on a seawall somewhere and just cast a little tin and smoke some weed and find a nice shade tree to eat my lunch. maybe ride my scooter to a canal somewhere and sip on my coffee while I look for some fishy water. snorkeling gear in my basket in case I see a nice rubble pile to swim over. i'm just looking for the laid back, island time kind of life.