Anyone farming offshore or south of the border?

BSer · Jan 9, 2010

Snowed in today in SE Florida and got wondering if anyone here Farms offshore, in Mexico or farther South? Someplace where the weather isn't so crappy.....

buickanddeere · Jan 9, 2010

How about north of the border. In here along the edge of the Great Lakes, the weather is tempered by the "warm" lake water.

rrlund · Jan 9, 2010

No,but I've been seriously thinking about Brazil of Argentina. Not for the weather though.

Tom in TN · Jan 9, 2010

Bser,

I don't know if they still do it, but a few years ago Belize was offering free land to homesteaders. I was attracted to the free land, but I could just see my family and me being slaughtered by rampaging natives.

Maybe that was too exagerated, but I really don't think I'd want to live in a third world country under any circumstances.

Tom in TN

BSer · Jan 9, 2010

I've been to central america numerous times. I'd sooner spend a night in their cities than in Chicago or Detroit,it would be safer and the government would be less corrupt.I'm not moving anywhere but not much to do the days we are snowbound in florida except pound the keys.

Bob from Australia · Jan 9, 2010

We have a few Canadian and US farmers who commute back and forth for the busy times on their northern and southern hemisphere farms. They eventually get sick of flying!

JMS/.MN · Jan 9, 2010

Local fellow is understood to own an island in Belize- farms here, but I doubt that he does there. Costa Rica is attractive- most stable government in Central America for many years, and a fair amount of American businessmen there- met some of them in the late 60s, so there"s a long history of involvement there. Not the unrest like Guatemala and Nicaragua. Nice climate, beautiful scenery.

Hoss In ME · Jan 9, 2010

Our offshore farming is going full tilt right now. Lobsters! Hoss

BCnT · Jan 9, 2010

days of free anything are long gone in Belize...prices of land have gone thru the roof...buncha '80's get rich quick schemers bought most everything and turned it into another socal price wise.

buickanddeere · Jan 9, 2010

It's turned cold tonight, just below 0F. Makes Australia look real good.
I hear that in the very south east parts up in the hills? You folks do get winter weather?

Bob from Australia · Jan 10, 2010

The high country in the south east gets a little snow in winter, but nothing like North America.

In the summer daytime temperatures can get over 100F in many places and over long periods. Winter day temperatures are over 60F in most places and hotter in the north. Many areas have frost over night in winter, but nice days.

Much of our climate is similar to South West USA or Mexico. Totally different to the few years I had at Urbana Ill, and Toronto in Canada.

buickanddeere · Jan 10, 2010

I spent the summers of 84 & 85 in Toronto. Then 1986 to 2003 ended up stuck living full time in Rexdale/Etobicoke and in NewCastle.

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