AVOID Moving to the Florida Keys UNLESS You can Handle These 9 FACTS

so you're thinking about getting that vacation or second home moving to the florida keys well i'm gonna be discussing nine things that may have you thinking differently so if you wanna know if you can handle the nine negatives about living in the florida keys we're getting after it right now [Music] what's up everybody this is jackson wilkie with the living in the florida keys team if you want to know everything about what it's like to buy a second home work fish sleep boat play uh right here in the florida keys well make sure you tap that subscribe button click the little bell so you're notified every time we do a new video we honestly get so many phone calls emails and reach outs every single day from people moving uh buying that second home here in the florida keys and we absolutely love it so thinking about doing any of that right here in the florida keys make sure you give us a call shoot us a text send us an email days nights weekends we got your back when buying that second home or vacation home in the florida keys all right so i came up with a list of nine things that really caught me off guard could catch anybody off guard and i'm gonna see if you could stand these uh these negatives when moving here so obviously some of these are the reason people are moving here but really wanted to just be open and honest and talk about those nine the last one was the thing that i thought no way jose could i ever ever get buy a second home down in the florida key so you're gonna want to stay tuned to that so number one actually is kind of interesting or number nine let's go with number nine the sun i actually asked somebody once you know who really lived here forever is it ever too much sun for you they were like actually i mean well the husband's like hell no no i love the heat i want it every single day and these are lifetime you know residents who who live here year round too so um just i wanted to ask that question to some and the the gal was kind of like you know i love the heat too i love the sun but you know sometimes it can be i kind of enjoy a cloudier day um you know it doesn't get cold very often we've never had a day you know below freezing and as as i've gotten older and older it can be tough you know sometimes having that sun and that heat but again this is coming from people who live here year round but at the same time i mean if you can't handle the sun basically almost every day in that that hot weather you're definitely not going to like the keys so number eight let's go down to the humidity if you don't like humidity the keys ain't for you but that's the south in general uh the humidity again i've asked a couple couples this and my wife um you know we came from drier climates that was one thing that you know it came out in the comments a lot and i just wanted to ask people again like with the humidity obviously humidity can be very uncomfortable especially when it's super super hot after a rain is the worst oh my lord but the thing that gets talked about a lot from you know elderly or even my wife the females they love the humidity on their skin they used to you know my wife up in drier climates used to have to just apply you know lotions and stuff just 24 7 as her skin was cracking and so she just really enjoys the humidity it's a lot less of that but if you can't enjoy or really stand the humidity um the keys can be brutal sometime and that's again like anywhere in the south some of those summer months and that's one thing too you know the summer months and the rain uh the humidity levels can definitely get up there you can't really hide from humidity under a shade tree so if humidity hot sticky isn't your thing then you may not want to live or get that second home in the keys but i can tell you right now that's not why most people come here they love the off season when it's when it's cold where they're from like me you know to be down in its 60s 70s 80s every single day uh really getting to enjoy your life instead of man i grew up in north idaho so you know having five six feet of snow for six months on end was very very tough especially as you get older and have kids and that kind of stuff so i like to be able to enjoy year-round pleasantry so that's what you love about it and you deal with the humidity so number seven on the list is the jobs um if you're really coming down here and trying to lock that big time job you got to realize there's basically no corporate structure um you're going to be in the service industry you're going to be in the fishing industry and that's really it we have seen a huge spike of people buying second homes or even just moving down here because of you know coven learning they can work from home you got to find you know good areas with those really good internet got to find those pockets we know those you got to reach out but if you're coming out for the job you just got to really realize hey it's service oriented so i mean even the key west and every other key up to the north you're going to be basically working service but you do have you know police officers fire department who are coming in and going so again you know we love having those conversations so that we can place you in the right spot but if you're coming for that big time corporate job it's not really going to be here all right so let's go to number six the flowers if you have to have flowers and beautiful landscaping it may not happen we got those pesky pesky iguanas that are not from here everybody comes down to the keys and sees these giant green or gray big old iguanas and loves them and they're cute well they are flower eating machines and so the good news is you can grow plants year-round and there's a ton of plants and trees that grow and they just have an incredible climate here to where you can plant year-round but some of the flowers the incredible scenery the the reds the blues all that i'm not a big flower guy come on let's be honest but i talk to a lot of people they get really irritated with the iguanas because they eat those and so if you have to have that i do know in the team knows a couple secret spots where they got the lizard killers as they call it so they actually um employ teams to go out and eliminate the lizards so it's not inhumane it's actually legal in the florida keys to kill the iguanas year round 24 7 because they are not from here and and basically viewed as a nuisance especially from the locals so uh if you're looking for those you know extravagant you know flower gardens you just gotta watch out for the iguanas so next up um number five on the list uh the smells that's one thing and and the entire florida coast like the atlantic it just has a smell to it now it's not awful and it's something you totally get used to very very quickly but i have noticed especially doing you know traveling all over uh the florida beaches have a distinct smell to them and so you will notice that down in the keys that especially you know they have the seaweed that comes up onto the shores um they have the actual um tractors and stuff to go out there and scoop that up and place it you'll see that so that's really cool that they get rid of it so that we can utilize a lot of the beaches but you'll definitely notice a little bit of a smell coming to the keys number four on the list is the hurricanes hurricanes um hey you're down in in the south you're the southernmost part of the united states and um you can be right into the eye of hurricanes but i can say that you know um you know 2017 talking to the team talking to lee you know coming here since the 60s was the only time he ever had to evacuate a lot of it from there is you know tropical storms or rain heavy winds and so those you brace yourself get everything set up but uh irma in 17 was definitely one that was uh you didn't want to mess with so you headed out i actually talked to a couple people who did stay um and it almost dramatized them so you can prepare your house you get the shutters up you put everything away and yet you evacuate when evacuating for hurricanes um you know they actually do it by island so you're by by key um and so you know the florida keys comes from the spanish word kaio learned that that's pretty cool um so that they'll go from key west and you know and then they'll also um you know have people start taking off from the south all the way up north and then um the hurricanes you have to know hey be prepared so if you're not because you got to realize you're 100 miles of florida keys so one may not hit you directly it could be 50 70 miles from you so you're going to get some wind some rain where those tropical storms being prepared is is the most important thing because once the warnings come in everything goes hectic everybody's trying to get water everybody's trying to get gas everybody's trying to get dog food you know get pet food get set up have a generator bring that down with you and so um you want to just be prepared for these things so that you can take the time get your house situated get everything ready have your flashlights have your water have everything just ready and you know hope that it veers off and goes back out into the atlantic and gets the hell out of here so yeah if if hurricanes are something that you absolutely fear and cannot do um then then yeah the keys won't be for you sometimes or the majority of time you know a lot of the clients and people coming they don't even live here during the hurricane the hurricane may come while they're not here so that's another thing the team does is assess right after it's done goes around to each house of all past clients and anybody uh current clients and just assesses houses assesses damages and we have all the contacts of all the people that can go in and start working on things immediately because the quicker you can get in with water and fix things uh the better for sure so just know hey you're in the south hurricanes can come number three on the list snakes and gators um yeah you will see them definitely but surprisingly enough to me you know just always thinking about florida and seeing these giant boas cross the road and alligators everywhere it seemed like they're not in the keys like it's it you rarely ever ever see them in fact um you know i there's the the rattlesnakes i still you know knock on wood haven't seen one um but the the gators really around big pine key is like the the best area for him so that's typically where you'll see him um and there's some uh you know the blue hole and stuff over there has some but you rarely see snakes and gators so yes they are here um you're not gonna hear about you know attacks or nothing like that really ever and in fact if you do see any kind of snakes or anything it's usually somebody's pet you know uh so i don't know why you'd have a snake as a pet i can't stand snakes they oh they're nasty but um yeah if you can't handle snakes and alligators don't come to the keys but just know that it is not near as bad as going up inland you know north into florida so number two on the list is the schools uh if you have to have schools just know that there's not many here but they actually are awarded excellent especially you know i saw in key largo but you have to know too if you have those kids that are in high school and you're going to be moving here key west marathon and key largo they have the high schools so the north very north the central and the south so you're probably going to want to be somewhere somewhat close to that um and other than that i mean they're you're not going to have all these high schools on all these keys they don't have those so a lot of the keys will have maybe like a k through 7 k through 8 style but you basically especially down south you have you have two high schools so if schools are a huge huge huge thing for you your family it may be something you want to think about before you know moving find that second home in the keys so last but not least is before i get to it if you're loving these videos and they're helping you will you please hit that like button comment down below uh one thing that you maybe caught you off guard or something that you'd like to know about the florida keys and we'll shoot some videos on that if you get seasick you may not want to come to the keys there is so much boating and aquatic life around here and things to do and even just going out just a couple miles you can still see land it can get so damn choppy and i'm speaking from experience i've gone out twice trying to do the deep sea stuff i got drama mean patches everywhere i'm taking pills i can't i can't avoid it i don't know what it is about me but i can't and it's just something if you if you like the deep sea fishing and all that is your thing uh the majority of people obviously they don't get affected but if you're gonna get seasick all the time it may be something you think about but i can tell you from experience uh it's not everything the beautiful thing about the keys that i've learned you know is you can go south go out in the ocean if it's a calm day you know go out to sombrero reef something do scuba diving it won't be bad but if that wind starts coming up and it starts rolling that boat man i get sick so you can head up into the north and get tucked away into some of these bays do some back country fishing that kind of stuff where you're only in two feet of water it'll be just completely uh clear and and flat so um it's been something i've been able to avoid and the pontoon life is more our style but there's incredible i mean you have this big flat deck and you can fish off all sides kids love it jump out you know swimming lobsters whatever so you can really get away from it but seasickness is a thing and i swear it's like affected me there for other things if i go on swings or rides now it just seems like after i got seasick those times it kicked my butt so you won't catch me out miles offshore anymore but that doesn't end the immense uh incredible things that i can do so close and find my own not so rocky water but those are the nine things that may have you thinking differently about the florida keys helping you place you in the right spot is the most important if you move to the wrong key the wrong area and it doesn't fit your lifestyle it's not going to be as enjoyable here in the keys and that's what we love doing you reach out have the conversation what do you need to be close to what do you like what style of boat do you have what kind of lifestyle do you live and from there we know three four little areas that you've never even heard of that will make your time here amazing or your vacation home or second third fourth fifth home whatever it is that's what we do the only way we can help you gotta reach out you gotta give us a call shoot us a text send us an email days nights weekends we got your back with all of those things right here in the florida keys and until the next video guys we'll catch you later [Applause] you

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Length: 14min 13sec (853 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 30 2021