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We live full time in Florida in the Tampa area. We are not taking any trips away from home probably until late next year. We are concerned about getting exposed to the virus while we are traveling. The safest way to travel is by car, I believe, but you still get close to people at...

We have two sons, one who lives in Minnesota and the other in New Jersey. We live in Florida. We visited the older son for two weeks this year (he has all five of our grandchildren) and we paid for our younger son and his wife to fly to Minnesota at the same time. We plan to visit both of...

I retired at just the right time, May 9, 2009. I loved my work as a college teacher for 8 years after I retired at age 50 from a corporate job. But DW was having medical issued and she needed me home with her. She is better now so are traveling internationally frequently. My only source of...

I live Sun City Center which is a retirement community in the Tampa area. All most everyone here has come from the northern USA. In the last 8 years living none of my neighbors have moved due to the weather and not any of my community garden friends either. (I admit that I don't see many people...

I grew up in Wisconsin so I know what cold is. My wife grew up in Malaysia so she knows what hot and humid is. After marriage, we have lived in Texas, Colorado, Illinois, South Caroline, southern Argentina, and Gabon (west Africa). When it came time to retire in 2011, my wife needed to be...

Zero to primary care - annual physicals cause more harm than benefit. The cardiologist has me trapped by a pacemaker. 3 pacemaker checks by a technician and 1 visit to the cardiologist each year. I enjoy talking to the cardiologist though. We talk about music and travel. If we need medical...

Sweet Tomatoes - either their Brandon or Fort Myers, Florida restaurants. Great for vegans like dw and me.

BP retiree medical info I am a former BP (Amoco) employee who retired at age 50 a little over 14 years ago. Here is the information that I have gathered about BP's Medicare Eligible coverage. Go to the following website: BP Life Benefits (Core US Benefits) - Retiree medical coverage Near...

May 16, 1996 -- We purchased a book for one of our sons who were studying music while in high school. Harmony Through Counterpoint : A Programmed Introduction to the Theory of Tonal Music

Before we moved to Florida two years ago, we stayed at the Candlewood Suites in Clearwater. We negotiated a $1200 a month rate with the local manager. This is for a studio room with full kitchen (no oven though). Also there are homes in Sun City Center (a 55+ community) where we live listed...

We plan to buy a home in Sun City Center this summer. We have a sales contract on our current home which is scheduled to close in June. We have been winter snowbirds in Clearwater for the past two years. We chose Sun City Center due to the relatively affordable cost (we are looking mainly at...

From ClarkHoward.com (Clark Howard has a syndicated consumer oriented radio show): Aug 09, 2010 -- Getting rid of a timeshare may cost you $2,000 For the last eight years, Clark has guided timeshare owners who wanted to get rid of their obligation to DonateforaCause.org. This group allowed...

A US nuclear sub rammed another ship causing nearly £60MILLION damage - while its navigator was listening to his iPod. iPranged a submarine | The Sun |News This may be interesting to ex-Navy folks.

Sent our census form in. Filled in number of people and age -- put lines through anything doing with race (we are a racially mixed family and we're not telling Obama) -- and didn't include birthdates or phone number.

VMWare Player to run other OS's (Linux, another version or the same version of Windows) virtually. With the latest version, you can create virtual machines. Sun VirtualBox will do the same.

Our Megacorp premium insurance for me and DW went from $108 to $467 per month but that is mostly because they no longer offer the high deductible plan that we had for the past 5 years. They also started a new wellness program where, like a trained monkey, you have to fill out surveys, call the...

97% of Americans also missed it. Healthy Lifestyle Characteristics Among Adults in the United States, 2000 Archives of Internal Medicine The overall prevalence of the healthy lifestyle indicator (ie, having all 4 HLCs) was only 3.0%..... Arch Intern Med -- Abstract: Healthy Lifestyle...

While we discuss the merits and risks of screening, we should not forget that screening is not prevention of disease - prevention is really prevention. Two of my favorite websites that are really about prevention are: fitnessrocks.org -- Dr. Monte Ladner, MD, presents free podcasts (he has...

From DrMcDougall.com - concerning prostate cancer: "Because of the common belief in early detection with PSA, prostate cancer has increased at least 10-fold in the past 2 decades. Honest doctors will tell patients that testing does more harm than good – because over 90% of men diagnosed with...

Because for breast cancer and prostate cancer, screening doesn't work - overall people don't live longer if they are screened. And medical procedures (biopsies and treatment) are done unnecesarily because of positive tests* with unnecessary risks to the person and unnecessarily costs to the...

Are there any tax implications to claiming not to be a Florida resident? When I worked for Megacorp, we lived overseas for 5 years (2 years in Argentina and 3 years in Africa). HR told us that we had to have a state of residence. Since we lived in Texas both times before the transfers and...

The idea of making a quick buy doesn't bother us. Megacorp transferred me every 2 or 3 years for 23 years. We usually purchased a house during a 5 day house hunting trip before each move. It always worked out well even though we knew virtually nothing about the neighborhoods we moved into...

Our plan is to go with liability insurance only if we think that the home insurance is too expensive. Our understanding so far is that SCC has not ever had significant storm damage.

We are considering a move to Florida and are going to look at Sun City Center near Tampa in the next few months. We have friends in the area and it seems warm enough to us. We don't plan to move until 2011 to wait until I am 59.5 years old and to wait for the Florida real estate market to calm...

This is part of what Dr. John McDougall says about reversing heart disease: "An expected part of aging in Western societies is to have the arteries feeding your heart, brain, legs, and penis close down by atherosclerosis. Yet these problems are almost never found in populations of people who...