A 100$ will buy you:

a$$hole?
I thought it was whale vag?

 

Truer words rarely spoken ^^

The taxes are the deal breaker for me. I considered purchasing 6 new service vans for my biz from one of those mega-online-dealerships in Socal several yrs back. Talking to the sales guy on the phone, lining it up, I say new car tax in Virginny is 3%, what is it there? He literally gasps, says wow, you have to pay 9% per vehicle in California. Think it's 'down' to 7.5% now but still, painful.

That was the end of that deal. And Cali looks at people who make a certain level of revenue as geese for the plucking. It's a mentality I can't stand: punish American citizens for their success. Sorry. I digress!

Great place to visit, and to hang with Gaff-shreddah.

Residency in re financial purposes....? Florida here I come.

 

I can actually afford to buy a house for that price, if not only because my own house is worth, I gotta figure around $600K with the upgrades after I moved in. The knotty pine living room and kitchen from 1960 has been redone, by me and a few friends when I bought this place and moved in back in 2010! I got it for $535K, but I only needed a loan of around $200K because I inherited a bit from my dad after he split the sale of his childhood family Summer home in Ormond Beach before he died and after his brother died and they sold it. And then I had a house years and years ago and had the profit from it sitting in the bank. I was also fortunate to take only a 15 year mortgage, which will be paid off (barring no extra payments) in a little over 8 years.

As far as living there though, I'd only do it for the surf and if I was able to get a job there, but I'm loving what I do now and I'll be staying doing what I do now unless I'm let go. And as I've said, I'd LOVE to go to Oahu if I'm relocating. It's pretty much there or stay here in Jersey! Which has similar cost of living issues and taxes and BS that California does.

When it comes to big cities though, San Diego area is probably the only one I'd really like to live in, not counting Honolulu.

I'd be down for Florida too, only somewhere near Sebastian, Cocoa Beach, even Ormond Beach maybe. Somewhere in Volusia, St Lucie, Space Coast or in between. New Smyrna and swimming with the sharks would be pretty sweet too. A lot of my family and a few friends live in Treasure Island and around St Pete on the Gulf Coast. Got family down the Gulf Coast in Venice too. I wouldn't wanna live on the Gulf though. East Coast Florida or GTFO. Gulf Coast is lovely, but not for consistent surfing.

 

right on eatswell, way to make the most of your family's efforts
fyi, honolulu kinda sucks
I imagine if you're single and like asian mix chics, youd be rather content
but if you hate traffic, then no dice

the overall tax burden for someone in the medium income range is comparable between NJ Cali and HI, that is to say, a kick in the nuts, however property taxes are stupid low, I pay about 1k a year

 

Definetly lol.

 

Asian mix chicks are fine with me. Never been with one before, but I'd be down to try one or maybe a few. At 46 (next weekend), I'd be down for that!

The traffic here in Jersey is awful sometimes, but I continuously luck out with my morning commute from Monmouth County up to North Jersey. I also travel for work, so I'm not home all the time. Heading out for almost a week long business trip to a few non-surfing region's tomorrow! Watch me get stuck in two hours of standstill traffic on the Parkway or Turnpike now and miss my flight this afternoon, just for saying it!

My best friend and I looked at a couple condo's on Oahu just this morning. Just for fun on real estate sites. He says he's got over $170K in the bank that he's saved for years and years. He says he can use $170K for a down payment on something and we can do spend the 4.5-5 months a year that we don't work out on Oahu. And then he'll maybe see about using it as a vacation rental the rest of the year. Not sure if this will ever come to fruition, but we're talking more and more about it every year. Somethings gotta give sooner or later! I've pretty much coming to the conclusion that I probably won't be buying anything there, at least not until my house is paid off in 8 years and that's at the very earliest. He has no other home's he owns and no mortgage commitment, so we'll see if he bites. It would be nice just to get out there for a week or two this Spring/Summer. Haven't been in over 3 years now and that's too long!

As far as property taxes go, mine are like $8500 or so a year approximately. Manasquan has cheaper property taxes than some of the other towns, because of all the money they make from beach badges in the Summer. As much as people not from Jersey are gonna think ''$8500 dollars is cheap for property tax? WAT?!'' haha. I know people in towns up in Bergen County that are paying more per year in property tax for homes that are $100K-$200K less than mine.

 

Montezumas revenge for the building of a wall.........

 

I've heard some pretty nasty stories from some friends about surfing Imperial beach when they lived there a few years back. Like about the Tijuana and all that. Sounded pretty gross. Probably wouldn't keep me from going in there though.

 

That's a steal! It's a funboard for here! I found this in a pawn shop for 100!!

 

that board for sure wasn't brought there to fund addiction. fur sure

 

Never! I hope the dude it was stolen from was able to buy something else haha

 

Damn that's a deal son

 

The kid who sold it to pawn shop saw it on my instagram. Said he was moving to Costa and didn't need it? I thought it was strange.

 

I talked to the guy who sold it. He bought it in Jersey. Saw pics on his Instagram of it. I felt bad for him cause he prob got 40 bucks for a Lost board worth at least 300! I've eaten it in a Lost I bought brand new that was too small and skatey. Anyway score one for me and everyone else who gets ripped off from pawn shop.

 

by moving to costa he means he needed a few percocets?