Luca Brasi
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I'm getting ready to move to Florida, if you could live anywhere in the state as a diver where would it be?
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Right. Spearing, photography, will you work, are you retired? Can you stand the isolation of the Keys after living in New York, or do you live up near Glens Falls, so are used to not having services when you want them. Shore diving sucks in Florida.Would like to do both shore and boat diving. Probably in a one or two bedroom condo
Would like to do both shore and boat diving. Probably in a one or two bedroom condo
For the price of round trip tickets and cheap airbnb's IMHO living down here isn't for everyone.Hi @martin burke
After diving from Key Largo to Jupiter for over a decade, I bought a townhouse just north of Boynton Beach. I do all my diving in Boynton Beach, West Palm, including the BHB, and Jupiter. I'm a couple of minutes from the Boynton Harbor Marina, 15 miles from West Palm and the BHB, and 30 miles from Jupiter. Pompano Beach is 25 miles south and Ft Lauderdale is 35 miles. It's 120 miles to Key Largo if I feel like diving the Spiegel Grove, Duane, and Bibb. The airport in West Palm is very convenient and only 10 miles from my home. I have also used Ft Lauderdale a few times.
It's not inexpensive doing a lot of boat diving. When I can't dive, I ride my bike quite a bit. @letterboy makes a good point above, I'm not sure I would want to be in Florida full time. My wife is not as avid a diver as I am and we have other things to do now that we are both retired.
Nearly 1200 dives later, I enjoy the diving in Florida very much, and find it comparable and complimentary to the better diving in the Caribbean.
Best of luck in your quest
I'm getting ready to move to Florida, if you could live anywhere in the state as a diver where would it be?