How are you going to keep the ghosts out?

That Florida home is really nice, another one of my favorites in the whole competition.

Also, having lived in Florida for over a decade, hurricane concerns are overblown. There's nowhere on Earth more equipped to deal with hurricanes than Florida. Not to mention maintenance and, I'm assuming, repairs wouldn't even be our responsibility.

I'd be shocked if the ceiling of that front porch wasn't haint blue.

SC still gets my vote in this round. I can take my golf cart to 3 different 5* courses in less than five minutes. The house and general style is more my vibe as well....not huge on the modern aesthetic in some of these trendier homes.

I kinda like the understated appearance of the SC house, LOVED it's location....and the $$$

Oh, I know that.

SC all the way.
Florida reminds me of Miami Vice Reruns.

I did some research into haint blue, because I had no idea what you guys were talking about.

From Wikipedia:

Kind of interesting how traditions (or whatever you want to call this) earn their origins. Looks like it started as some Hoodoo kind of stuff, but then spread to the mainstream culture as they mingled with the whites.

Big ****ing oof here though:

I'm going with SC on this one.

Let me point out two less attractive features of the FL house - 1) the palm trees are all on crutches. Maybe because its a new place and the trees aren't established, but it is unattractive, and for my investment ($0) I expect more. 2.) More importantly the location of the house is right on the exit of the bay. I imagine that it is the nautical equivalent of having your house right on the interstate. Boat traffic all day long, and you can be sure that half of them are operated by obnoxiously drunk tourists and the other half by drug dealers either bringing drugs in or taking bodies out.

A little 10 minute primer on it:

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-s...blue-64057722/

And yeah, it's everywhere down south.

I'm also trying to figure out why 1/3 of the pool seems to be concrete that's hidden two inches below the surface of the water. It seems like it's designed to break someone's neck.

Well, that backfired big time.

I am generally hard to live with. I suspect even ghosts and ghouls will bail once I start making passive aggressive comments about them.

I was ready to go South Carolina because damned if I am gonna live in a 79 million $$ home with 2x4's holding all the trees up. I'll be using that stipend for tree replacement in year 1.

But looking at the SC home, the interiors are really weird. So many places with furniture setups you'd never sit in. And that weird bar in the corner that looks like an apartment kitchen. Just poor choices inside., The outside is great, love the boardwalk. But I choose Miami cuz it's Miami and I don't want to live in SC -- in a lot of spaces it looks like the home I had in Fairway on the edge of Mission Hills built in 2008.

This is a tough one. That Miami house is fantastic but the money is too much. It was pretty close but the Carolina house wins

:spock:

There is a lot of cool shit in the Carolina house.

Outdoor kitchen? Yes please.
https://ap.rdcpix.com/87ca719cbd02e7...0_h770_q80.jpg

I dunno what kind of apartments you lived in, but I never lived in one with a kitchen like that.

https://ap.rdcpix.com/87ca719cbd02e7...0_h770_q80.jpg