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This is why I'm moving....
- Thread starter nefertiti
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Unfortunetly, state and federal law prohibit this.
Within legal limits!
I am leaving behind a cushy paying job to make dirt money but live on the beach and dive every weekend. I've never been happier about my future.
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shrimp poboy
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That shit will get old quick TRUST ME I tried living in Key West with that same attitude after 3 mons i couldnt wait to leave.
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shrimp poboy
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BTW i have no idea what nef looks like could you please ad yourself to a photo?Kthanx
To each their own...I'll never get tired of diving...it's therapy for me. Where I am planning on going is a nice tourist destination may-october but it has a good year round population too, so it will never get too small the way islands can.
Awesome!!!! Good luck to you. I wish I could live at the beach. Everything here that's east of the ICW is out of my pay range. I'll settle for eight miles away
Untouched by development...a preserve of sorts...but locals take their boats there.
so there is no buildings or anything? just sand and sea shells?
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shrimp poboy
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Well i hope it works out for you i really do but Never say you will never tire of diving Try doing it for 300 days a year to put food on the table like i did Gets boring i dont give a fuck whats in the water
I actually didn't.
Well...you knew he and I were on rocky ground. I have almost zero faith that things will work out at this point.
what about butt nekkid mermaids?
Yep...that's it. A couple months out of the year the water there is as blue as the caribbean.
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shrimp poboy
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I think you just need a week away not a new life nef
my plan is coming together, I just now have to have jnevin taken out.
Trust me. I know myself. I took a week away and it convinced me I need a new life. I am fucking DONE with finance.
You were a commercial diver. My life will be different and I won't be diving 300 days a year. At best, 50 if I get on every sat/sun charter.
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shrimp poboy
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Dive boat operators cringe when i get on the boat Being a deep sea diver for over 10 years you feel you have your own set of rules.
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shrimp poboy
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Reason six, folks...
This is north carolina, guys
Thats a nice pic dolphins always make me happy
KillahBee
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Nef - best thing about surfing in southern california was the sea life out there. east coast, we have seaweed. out there i had fucking schools (correct term?) of dolphins swimming right up to me on my board, sometimes even surfing the waves. harmless sharks too. it was pretty sick.
Trust me, socal has been tempting. But the proximity to my family is hard to pass up.
I've often thought of what id't be like to live life like from the movie The Beach. Maybe New Zealand or something.
KillahBee
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I have said this many times and will follow thru if the opportunity should arise - I'd absolutely love to retire somewhat early, take the female love of my life (tee hee), and live in the Italian countryside. Grow most of my own food, make wine. Head into town once a month on special occasions and to pick up supplies. Pure bliss.
That's what I'm sayin! Take risks. Leap for that life.
Get in line, asshole.
Good job on the life change Nef. Ive made a few of those in my time...theres no point in doing something if you know something else will make you happier.
no need for name calling, bor.
Oooooohh you're goood. sneaky shit. You're pullin Shrimps lil shit now.
chris302001
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awesome nef!!! I really like the pic of the grass in the sand!
lol@you guys trying to pee on her dreams
Dolphins hate you.
I'm pretty sure that ship has sailed.
where's the screen cap when you need it.
I'm not allowed to post that.
cali>>>>florida .
that doesn't look like colorado.
very cool. enjoy it.
This is the view from my front door:
straitedge52
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I went to the beach in Florida with my mom and dad when I was 4 and said "When I grow up I am moving to Florida". That was 53 years ago...I have been here for 35 years. We have our ups and downs and occasional hurricanes but I can't think of living any where else...except temporarily.
javaguru
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Unfortunetly, state and federal law prohibit this.
Unfortunately my income prevents this.
The last is the sunset off the beach of where I am moving to.
Sunset off the beach? Something's wrong then. Looks like the sun is setting over land.
You must be on the wrong coast!
Looks like Ocracoke Island off Carolina. Either way, should be relaxing and an enjoyable life
Way past your bedtime!
lol, this is what time I get UP for the day.
My wife and I go to Duck in the summer, nice quiet area, good food, and decent beaches. I could tell in your picture it was east coast, the water and waves just look different.
Looks nice, wish I could do the same.
B0ARDIN087
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damn no longer neighbors?
I'd do it in a minute if it wasn't for a mortgage husband and I can't get out from under and almost $20k in credit card debt.
That's the problem with marrying and having kids young, it comes back to one thing: what do you do for a living? If you can find a way to live your dream, do it before you get saddled with material minutia and "stuff."
I truly envy you, Nef. Follow your bliss!
That's the problem with marrying and having kids young, it comes back to one thing: what do you do for a living? If you can find a way to live your dream, do it before you get saddled with material minutia and "stuff."
I truly envy you, Nef. Follow your bliss!
i've been to this area before, n.carolina is a great state.
cheers to you nerf...lol i wanted to do a "look at me..."
sentence but i thought you might get pissy
lol nahhh.
Agreed about NC...visiting family there has always felt like "going home." Especially the southern barrier islands. I've moved around a LOT in my life, but that area has always stayed constant for me.
Boardin, the plan is to head down there by may of next year so we'll be neighbors for a bit longer lol.
"look at me, my parents are wealthy enough so i can quit my job and pretend to live like a commoner!!!!@##"
billfred
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The first four pictures are from an untouched barrier island just a short boat ride from where I am moving to. The last is the sunset off the beach of where I am moving to. May of 2010. Live the life you want, folks.
Sigh....eight months.
Hey Nef... looks great and I hope it works out for you. Sorry about Scuba dood as well.
I have a little beach picked out where I plan on drinking G&T's when I am finished with work. Unfortunately, I have a long ways to go to get there both financially and in miles.
I will be here if anyone wants to look me up
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looks beautiful...
I'll still be working...just not behind a desk anymore. At least for a little while.
lololololloolollol
billfred
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Did you do a number on Scuba Steve??
jnevin
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a #2
digimon7068
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only one problem. . .no stress? no need for therapy. . .
Lambruh
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You stole my dream! And the location!
Seriously though I want to get up and just depart to Nags head but I really love the people I have back home. Being away for school for 5 years, then graduating and moving again for work, I made alot of new friends but it's just not like the people I grew up with. Maybe i'm just too family and friend oriented but being away from home it just gets lonely sometimes. Even away bartending I was around people and with diff groups alot, but when the going got tough I really had noone, who could I trust? who actually cared about me out here? It's like fuck you grab your sack, stick your chin up and that's it, but it got old. Sometimes you just need someone to lean on, not a hooker, not a 3 week gf, not a co-worker. Now i'm back home and realize nothing ever changes exept peoples weight and the hair on their head, so i'm back again trying to find my next settlement.
Seriously though I want to get up and just depart to Nags head but I really love the people I have back home. Being away for school for 5 years, then graduating and moving again for work, I made alot of new friends but it's just not like the people I grew up with. Maybe i'm just too family and friend oriented but being away from home it just gets lonely sometimes. Even away bartending I was around people and with diff groups alot, but when the going got tough I really had noone, who could I trust? who actually cared about me out here? It's like fuck you grab your sack, stick your chin up and that's it, but it got old. Sometimes you just need someone to lean on, not a hooker, not a 3 week gf, not a co-worker. Now i'm back home and realize nothing ever changes exept peoples weight and the hair on their head, so i'm back again trying to find my next settlement.
billfred
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I read a great quote one time that said "people who move back to their childhood home find out it was their childhood, not the home that they were looking for"
I moved back to my hometown a few years after graduation. It did not last long.
Lambruh
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^^ true story
The worst part is the people that you had who were hooked _______ when you left are still hooked on ______ when you come back. So you leave everything you know behind to make better of your life, completely do a 180, come back home after years to realize you can't even hang with alot of your old friends anymore. It's sad, you just want to say "wtf have you guys been doing in the last half decade? still doing this shit? Age check on isle 9 please?" But you don't, you just finish your drink and say "later bro, I gotta go home", then get all pissed off on the ride home knowing that nothing will ever help the only people you truly care about and somethings are just meant to be.
The worst part is the people that you had who were hooked _______ when you left are still hooked on ______ when you come back. So you leave everything you know behind to make better of your life, completely do a 180, come back home after years to realize you can't even hang with alot of your old friends anymore. It's sad, you just want to say "wtf have you guys been doing in the last half decade? still doing this shit? Age check on isle 9 please?" But you don't, you just finish your drink and say "later bro, I gotta go home", then get all pissed off on the ride home knowing that nothing will ever help the only people you truly care about and somethings are just meant to be.
billfred
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yeah it is like
Me: "Dude - you still working at the theater"
Friend "yeah man - but I am manager now"
Me "Nice - well I will have a medium coke and some popcorn"
Friend "Enjoy the show"
digimon7068
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been doing two weeks a year in hatteras (avon, buxton or frisco) for about 15 years now. . .LOVE the place. . .always make a couple of trips over to ocracoke each trip to hit howard's pub and do some clamming in the salt water flats. . .one thing that i noticed though that i found somewhat maddening. . .the wind NEVER STOPS BLOWING. . .EVER. . .wow. . .coming from a lifetime in northcentral pa (with a 12 year detour in pittsburgh), it was quite a shocking realization. i think i could probably get used to it, though
Lambruh
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been doing two weeks a year in hatteras (avon, buxton or frisco) for about 15 years now. . .LOVE the place. . .always make a couple of trips over to ocracoke each trip to hit howard's pub and do some clamming in the salt water flats. . .one thing that i noticed though that i found somewhat maddening. . .the wind NEVER STOPS BLOWING. . .EVER. . .wow. . .coming from a lifetime in northcentral pa (with a 12 year detour in pittsburgh), it was quite a shocking realization. i think i could probably get used to it, though
no shit, that's just more fuel for me. When my parents got married they bought a timeshare for the OBX beach club down there in KDH (I think on mile 10?) anyways, i've been going there almost every year for nearly three decades. It's just great people and atmosphere, memories, love it. One day
Well my location is a bit farther south (almost south carolina)...but the barrier islands are all similar. Wrightsville beach has Wilmington just over the bridge so it's much less lonely in the offseason than places like nags head.
But I'm VERY family oriented like you...which is another reason for me to relocate there. I'd be within an hour of both my brother and sister and their families, and my parents are down in that area four times a year.
Digi, I love hatteras island.
digimon7068
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i've been as far down the banks as emerald isle. . .but i love hatteras. . .it's just so DAMN relaxing
Yup, this has been my plan all along as well...minus living with guido's and sub in New Zealand. If everything goes along according to schedule, it should be feasable by my mid/early fifties. Look at me I'm better than you!
javaguru
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LOL...thanks bar guy trying to pick up a "spiritual" chick at the abr.
ok, asexual cynically scorned sci fi trekkie dork man boy
