Top 10 cities: Where to buy now; #1 Panama City, FL

[goofer]

Capt. Williams


You obviously don't know Bobby !! He does not feel that way at all. He was just making an observation that may be materializing. From his perch as one of the area's most successful real estate agents, he certainly has his hand on the pulse, We all hope the big developers will make allowances for affordable housing. It would be awfully boring living in a homogenous neighborhood !!

 

[Bobby J]

You obviously are looking forward to this but if you were a working person that grew up in the south end then you would resent this statement and the people who are pushing for it to be that way. Unfortunatly it is almost like that already. The only working people still in the south end are either roomateing, living in trailers, or have family help.

Both my sisters and I have already been pushed out of south walton{not South Walton County (for SJ)} along with many of my friends.
Ohhwell one day we will make our millions or well by then it will need to be billions and be able to own something where we were raised.

Thanks goofer. If I was looking forward to this we got big problems. My entire family including myself will have to move. I merely am noting what goofer says... I like the variety on 30A. I am seeing it turn into a Naples. Some will like this, some will not. I am just a red neck trying to make a buck.... We are also holding onto the horse by its tail.

 

[SHELLY]

Both my sisters and I have already been pushed out of south walton{not South Walton County (for SJ)} along with many of my friends.
Ohhwell one day we will make our millions or well by then it will need to be billions and be able to own something where we were raised.

Capt Bill,

Take heart in the fact that you and your family will always have wonderful memories of how incredibly beautiful the towering dunes; long pristine and empty stretches of white beach; abundant sea life and fowl; and nature's skyline of sea oats and live oaks used to be. That place is gone forever now...but the bliss in having lived and played in such a place, unequalled by none other on earth, is an experience that their money will never, ever be able to buy.

(I also believe Mother Nature is never going to just stand by and let them continue the destruction without fighting back. They're fools if they think their money is a match for her might.)

 

[Capt. William]

If you are one of the areas most succesful real estate agents as goofer said I highly doubt you will have to move although I do retract my statment of you looking forward to the inevitable. I just got that feeling from you in your statement (everyone reads things differently).

Shelly I have always known I was blessed to grow up there when it was still old florida and I agree with you that mother nature will take its natural course and the bay will become the gulf eventually. Its one more of those inevitable things. Mother Nature is more powerful and more sinical than lawyers (please dont take offense if you are a lawyer its a generalization)

 

[SHELLY]

Goofer,

When you mentioned that both you and Bobby are veiwing the housing market from your respective "perches," I have to admit, the image that popped into my head was this:

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Will it replace the 'Building Crane' as Florida's State Bird?
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[Capt. William]

Goofer,

When you mentioned that both you and Bobby are veiwing the housing market from your respective "perches," I have to admit, the image that popped into my head was this:

:rofl: :funn: :funn: mine was very similiar

 

[Bobby J]

Captain W,

On a positive note.... If Shelly is correct on her doom predictions, you and your sisters should be able to buy back in very soon ;-) .

Shelly, you gotta admit that I am right on this one....

BTW, I waited at Starbucks for you the other day and you never showed up. What up ?

 

[full time]

"That place is gone forever now...but the bliss in having lived and played in such a place, unequalled by none other on earth, is an experience that their money will never, ever be able to buy."

Will you soon be picketing with the farmers and truckers in France? I think you should unload all of your evil money and buy the Captain his dream home here in SoWal. I hope the Captain will reciprocate by offering free charters. Oh, glory be, wouldn't the world be perfect?

 

[goofer]

I think everyone really needs to LIGHTEN UP. I was born in the South Bronx 58 years ago. I have incredible memories of growing up in the Bronx. It became the stomping grounds of drug dealers, addicts, prostitutes and the worst of the worst of the lowlifes. I am sure that everyone saw Fort Apache with Paul Newman. When I was growing up it was a paradise. It is making a turnaround now. But my point is , you can't go home anymore....things change sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. If you think South Walton is changing for the worse, I have a hard time following that logic because it is an oasis. There is no going home again but we are truly in a paradise here...it doesn't get any better. Let's enjoy it and preserve it for those that come after us but let's not be so melodramatic.

 

[Bobby J]

I think everyone really needs to LIGHTEN UP. I was born in the South Bronx 58 years ago. I have incredible memories of growing up in the Bronx. It became the stomping grounds of drug dealers, addicts, prostitutes and the worst of the worst of the lowlifes. I am sure that everyone saw Fort Apache with Paul Newman. When I was growing up it was a paradise. It is making a turnaround now. But my point is , you can't go home anymore....things change sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. If you think South Walton is changing for the worse, I have a hard time following that logic because it is an oasis. There is no going home again but we are truly in a paradise here...it doesn't get any better. Let's enjoy it and preserve it for those that come after us but let's not be so melodramatic.

Well put Goofer. I love it here and have been here for a long time... :clap_1: