What a trip! Days of aggressive eighteen wheelers and endless miles, interrupted only by brief pit stops and fast-food lunches. Toss and turn nights on the sheets of Marriott. But Thursday night we were finally home to the cold gray skies of Massachusetts. With the memories of the sunny skies and warm weather of Naples fresh in our minds, we wondered what was wrong with this picture.
Our month in the south was full of fun and games and well-worth the trip. Thawing out after most of a New England winter is marvelous. Naples, home of the endlessly expanding condo market is nothing if not pleasant. Tropical landscaping has been raised to an art form with even the most pedestrian retail shop sporting palm tress and flowers. If the national real estate market is soft, the Naples market seems to be continuing at least at half speed with endless new developments continuing to be built. While there is talk of lowered seller expectations (read asking prices), the momentum of the market continues with the newspapers and cable TV full of ads for new communities. Naples developers clearly are expecting about half of the U.S. population to be moving to south Florida in the near future.
In spite of the weather trade-off, its good to be home.
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