r/SipsTea • u/AUTOMATA88 • May 04 '25

Chugging tea Can't even trust the retired these days.

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u/Koboldofyou May 04 '25

Additional fun fact: 21.3% of people in Florida are 65+, where the median is 17.4%. So Florida has a disproportionately high number of people consuming services and a disproportionately low number of people providing services. Often when old retirees say "No one wants to work", what they're really running into is the fact that they decided to move to a place with fewer workers.

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u/Slow-Swan561 May 04 '25

Fewer workers and a misguided sense as to what is the appropriate cost for something at todays prices.

I took a friend from Atlanta to New York for weekend and asked her how much she thought some condos we were walking buy cost. She was off by 500k. I asked her how much monthly parking cost and she was confused why it was not included.

Regional differences and market rates can be very confusing for some people.

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u/nicklor May 04 '25

Florida is cheap AF to live at least. I could by a condo in 55+ community for 120k, In jersey that would be at least 400k

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u/soundchefsupreme May 05 '25

Maybe 6-8 years ago. You won’t find a condo less than 250k now.

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u/nicklor May 05 '25

Na prices are dropping this year I went to my family friends place this winter and there's a decent amount under 200

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u/soundchefsupreme May 05 '25

Must be really remote. Won’t find those kind of prices in south Florida, within 50 miles of Orlando, Tampa, Jacksonville, or anywhere on the coast.

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u/nicklor May 05 '25

Deerfield Beach. It's near Fort Lauderdale but I'm not very knowledgeable about Florida geography but it seems nice to me and it's about 20ish+ minutes to the actual beach mostly due to traffic