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TheSheep avatar
TheSheepBeach Fanatic
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Holy`Shmoley, my SheepGod, I couldn't believe it.

It had been since the early 90s when I and Mrs. TheSheep escorted the rams to play baseball in nearby P.C. We left those wooly ballplayers and wandered off to the Grayton/Seaside/Etc. area. We found this quaint little fourplex and settled into the fourth of it. Off 30, back roads made of shelltails and cocklepuppies :idontno:, few neighbors, wide beaches, paradise found.

What the focken happened?

We recently turned off the Monster Highway to Rosemary Beach to be granted by stacked housing stacked on stacks of housing. TheSheep is a developer of barns, mainly commercial sheep centers, but I had no idea what those empty, "overpriced" lots of the early 90s were going to turn out looking like.

Before you get your knickers in a knot, ThisTheSheep is not criticizing in terms of "nonny nonny boo-boo, what the hell are you thinking about", your choice of stable, each to his own.

I can positively comment that the architectural diversity is rather eye-catching; WaterMark (sp??) is iris-candy, Alys Beach is supreme in its abstractness and that boat house thing, what Conspicuous Consumption Cooglehead is building that retina burner?

Seaside (square) looks like it got boxed in like Central Park (hey, why not build a few more and higher whatevers off the Square too..or, you are, my baaaaaaaaaaaaad).

It was a really dizzying experience for TheSheep; the Missus simply projectile vomited to perform her displeasure. 😱

What a mix, a sense of community, crampness, beauty, distortion, investment value, serious $ to value outofunk ratios, luxury, cheepy (cheepy?), quaintness, soon-to-be-dead bicyclers, pedestrian friendliness, dogs n cats sleeping together........

I feel like I missed something and nothing all at the same time. :confused:

What I am trying to understand is the composite mentality of this living style. That is, what draws shee, er people to live on top of each other (careful........) and pay such inordinate sums for the privilidge?

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Bob avatar
BobSoWal Insider
#102
Where can you look at azure seas, relax and let the world go by? You seriously asking this question, for one-tenth, hell I can think of hundreds of places you can do this for free.

But at the price of $2M+ for beachfront developed, I can do the same for well under a million in many coastal places in Florida alone.

So is being in SoWal worth over $21M, not to me sheep sheckles. YbeachMV
No, of course not, but 5 years ago, the western stretch of 30A was Sheep cheap. It was a pure bargain.
Allifunn avatar
AllifunnFunnChef - AlisonCooks.com
#103
Ahhh... TheSheep is a mere kid when it comes to humor - compared to 30A-Gay! 😀

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this is true

I know there is some humor in there Sheep...but, frankly reading your posts gives me a headache.
massive

anyone who loves this place knows that as soon as you get your feet in the sand and look out over the gulf...there is nothing else...it all goes away...
love of a place is in the mind and heart...not in the negative places and recesses of the psyche...call me crazy...but beauty can still be found in SoWal...and much of that beauty is right here on this board...like it or not sheepy with the high heels on
TheSheep avatar
TheSheepBeach FanaticAuthor
#104
No, of course not, but 5 years ago, the western stretch of 30A was Sheep cheap. It was a pure bargain.
Bargains are relative and I assume you mean relative to today's present dollars for SoWal properties.

With this, I agree, twas a "bargain".
Bob avatar
BobSoWal Insider
#105
Sheepster, Your Cape San Blas play is solid, as the development will eventually come to you. The PC airport to be built is the catalyst, and the beauty and relative isolation will be the draw. SoWal has the slight edge on beach visuals, but yes, Gordon Gecko set up shop here a few years ago, and will not be leaving.
TheSheep avatar
TheSheepBeach FanaticAuthor
#106
love of a place is in the mind and heart...not in the negative places and recesses of the psyche...call me crazy...but beauty can still be found in SoWal...and much of that beauty is right here on this board...like it or not sheepy with the high heels on
I love sprinkles on two-colored ice cream and warm, fuzzy nights by the neverending fire with a tome that reads like cream spreading across a heated stone table. Kittens bound at my feet, I fill my mind only with the surreal never once parting my energies to the things of life that so bore me and cloud my pumpernickel fantasies of love and swelltides. Beauty, you say, Eye of The Beholder, you say? Aye, your eye beholds as the mosquito who lives on top of the waters and never in them.

In short, grab your crotch and wake up. "This is a forum and does not in any fish-eyed view of reality press the compliment of beauty upon it."

~Sheepspeare circa six seconds ago.
Jdarg avatar
JdargSoWal Expert
#107
Did you edit your off topic post to make sure you caught the missspellings or because you are too st00pid to copy and paste?

Just "curus". :nono1:

Yes, I am too st00pid to copy and paste. :floor: Thanks for teaching me a new funn way to spell st00pid!!
audie avatar
audiefartblossom
#108
i think calling jdarg stupid constitutes a personal attack and the sheep should be forever banned from this board...

and no sheep - i most definitely am not stupid....
John R avatar
John Rneeds to get out more
#109
the less a troll is fed, the sooner they go away...
TripleB avatar
TripleBBeach Fanatic
#110
Assess as you wish, I have a posting history that would run in the face of your claims and, in the end, any poster is what his history says of sheeps.

For your enlightenment, I develop real estate (as purported in my first post here) and developers of real properties are also purveyors of the buying intellect.

The fact that stacked housing and carbon dense developments are successful is a moot point. I can read the development history, and have, of Manhattan Island if coastal properties followed the same psychological buying and living profiles. They simply do not.

If posters get their noses out of joint, or over joints, due to this enquiry of mine, so wal be it. As I have learned long ago, the bees fly only when the nest is rattled.

Oterwise, I shall retire to my library of inane tomes, staid and boring novellettes of Russian authors and jack off, thank you. :blush:
Is Boris Jackov the Russian author you read?
Mermaidpicky
#111
"40. Are You Picky About Spelling And Grammar?"

Mermy, the only folks I see that pick at your spllings nad gremmar are the ones that can't keep up with the debate that is swirling all around them but, of which, they lost the context of days ago.

1. It's "Mermaid" to you, please. I do not count you among my friends.
2. My signature line is a joke, one you do not understand, as evidenced by the way you commented on it. And no, I do not wish to explain it to you.
3. "Who" not "that," please. People are not inanimate objects and should never be referred to as such. (If we are to comment on grammar...)

As for the rest of your comment: I do not see any debate swirling around except that of your own creating. You indicated in your first post that you do not understand the hype about SoWal. All but one or two of us stated that we considered SoWal's beauty/atmosphere/attributes pleasing enough to us that we either wished to visit as often as possible or, better yet, live in SoWal. This must not be what you want to hear, since you quoted so many posts and argued back at them, some very rudely and immaturely.

I think it is you who have lost the context, and you who cannot keep up. You stated very clearly that you wanted help in understanding. We told you what our understanding was. You pointed out all the flaws in SoWal. We pointed out that we are aware of the flaws but they are not significant enough or daunting enough to make us throw in the towel and abandon SoWal. In response, you tell us "to grab our crotches and wake up." Wake yourself up, Sheep. The overwhelming sentiment on this board is that we like our beach community. It suits us, it makes us happy, and it fulfils something in us that it obviously does not in you.

Oviously our understanding does not mesh with your understanding. Maybe it's time to agree to disagree?
Jdarg avatar
JdargSoWal Expert
#112
Wow Mermy. You are on your game this a.m.!:clap_1:
Mermaidpicky
#113
Wow Mermy. You are on your game this a.m.!:clap_1:

Thank you but I think it has more to falling for the bait. Again. I'm going to have to emblazon JohnR's post on my brain for future reference. :lol:
Bob avatar
BobSoWal Insider
#114
Hey everyone, it's interesting to hear different opinions. It's how we challenge our own closely held beliefs. If the Sheep wants to graze on San Blase, that's ok. The Cape, barring a major hurricane, is a good place to invest. The Sheep can visit SoWal when he's needing his density fix.
ozbeachmomBeach Lover
#115
We have been coming down each summer for 20 years. I have been to a lot of different beaches, and you can't beat SOWAL! We love the people, beaches! My children do not like to vacation anywhere else. We have taken them to many places with beaches ect and they always say the same thing, it's nice, but it isn't "Blue Mountain" or "Grayton"!

When it came to buy a second home, it was a no brainer where we would purchase! Kansas is our main home, but truth be told, our hearts and flip flops are in SOWAL!!

We are counting the days until we get to put our toes in the sand and build those family memories that last a lifetime!

Mr. Sheep, look past the condos, beautiful homes and take a look at the real picture!
It is a beautiful shade of blue and the sand is a white like you would not believe!! That is how my children describe there home away from home!

SO BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA to you our wooly little friend,:razz:

OZ
Rita avatar
Ritamargarita brocolia
#116
the less a troll is fed, the sooner they go away...

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As for the rest of your comment: I do not see any debate swirling around except that of your own creating. You indicated in your first post that you do not understand the hype about SoWal. ......................
I think it is you who have lost the context, and you who cannot keep up. You stated very clearly that you wanted help in understanding. .................
:idontno: Mermaid..?.. TheSheep states very little clearly!

"the less a troll is fed, the sooner they go away..." - John R
CHOMP!....

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Mermaidpicky
#117
:idontno: Mermaid..?.. TheSheep states very little clearly!

"the less a troll is fed, the sooner they go away..." - John R
CHOMP!....

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I'll agree that the pseudo-academic, eggheaddy, overly flowerly, imprisoned-in-an-ivory tower prattle and prose seems designed to do nothing more than confuse the reader, but TheSheep's very clear in his distaste of SoWal. "I" think little of his opinion but heck, that's only "my" opinion, and I've lost interest in trying to convert him. I don't think he's sincere. ;-)
Jdarg avatar
JdargSoWal Expert
#118
:idontno: Mermaid..?.. TheSheep states very little clearly!

"the less a troll is fed, the sooner they go away..." - John R
CHOMP!....

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Where did you find a sheep on fire?:idontno:

Yum....lamb chops.
Mango avatar
MangoSoWal Insider
#119
the less a troll is fed, the sooner they go away...

Where's Miss Kitty? :wub: :idontno: That is the Gem of the Day!
Jdarg avatar
JdargSoWal Expert
#120
Where's Miss Kitty? :wub: :idontno: That is the Gem of the Day!


Yes, and it is one I need to heed. But I am pulling an SJ and goofing off instead of cleaning my house. :lol: I will resort to messing around with a sheep before laundry it seems.

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