Now is the time for Brits to buy property in Florida!

Written by Seb Jay


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Orlando Developments Unlike inrepparttar UK where a development is thought more of as an 'estate', Orlando developments are exclusive landscaped communities that are private and enclosed. The communities contain many features designed to enhancerepparttar 136336 living space including shops, restaurants, a clubhouse, communal pool, green spaces and lakes. The homes themselves are built to a much higher specification than standard builds back inrepparttar 136337 UK, most villas having private pools included inrepparttar 136338 price.

Several UK-based companies arrange inspection trips of these gated communities in Orlando every week, although it is possible to arrange viewings ofrepparttar 136339 developments yourself. If you do make your own arrangements it is advisable to spend four or five days inrepparttar 136340 area and book viewings direct withrepparttar 136341 developers in advance. A list of homebuilders with developments in Orlando can be found at http://www.newhomesource.com/ . Car hire can be booked in advance at http://www.your-carhire.com for pick up at any ofrepparttar 136342 airports close to Orlando.

Seb Jay is a freelance writer specializing in the origination of web content for http://www.your-carhire.com


Raising the Teen Driving Age to 18

Written by Melih Oztalay


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Economic Implications

The primary industries affected by increasingrepparttar driving age to 18 arerepparttar 136335 automotive manufacturers, auto insurance, gas and driving education companies. This basically coversrepparttar 136336 largest firms withinrepparttar 136337 auto industry.

The automotive manufacturers would only see a delay in purchases by a factor of three years and only forrepparttar 136338 first three years thatrepparttar 136339 driving age was raised to 18. Most 18 year olds would receive their driver’s licenses duringrepparttar 136340 summer after graduating from high school.

The auto insurance companies would hopefully gain revenues by not having to pay out insurance claims due to car accidents created byrepparttar 136341 15 – 18 old teens. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration indicates approximately 300,000 motor vehicle crashes resulting in injuries for this age group per year, which is aboverepparttar 136342 figures forrepparttar 136343 fatalities mentioned earlier in this article. Therefore, auto insurance industry would have a gain from raisingrepparttar 136344 age limit and not having to pay out 900,000 claims from car accidents over a three year period from age 15 to 18.

Gasoline companies would see a reduction in their revenues withrepparttar 136345 reduction of gasoline usage. Whether 15 – 18 year old drivers generate a significant impact uponrepparttar 136346 revenues of gasoline companies is unsubstantiated as of this writing. However, it would be safe to surmise some level of reduction would be apparent. The reduction of emissions would indeed benefit our planet.

Driving schools would seerepparttar 136347 most significant impact. Short term they would lose business forrepparttar 136348 first 3 years. Those three years could be used, however, to help provide them support by both State and Federal governments. The amount of financial effort that has been put forth after 9/11 against terrorist continues to question if only a fraction could be used in this effort to help save our teenagers. During these three years, assisting them to prepare courses should be considered. Long termrepparttar 136349 driving schools would actually fair better as they would have more hours per student to charge.

Affects uponrepparttar 136350 Family

For parents with new teen drivers with permit licenses going through a state Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) program, there will be no affect inrepparttar 136351 initial implementation of changingrepparttar 136352 driving age to 18. Parents with teens that have their operators license and who have allowed their teens to drive on their own will most likely find themselves having to continue to “chauffeur” their 16 – 18 year old teens to their various activities. While precious time would be encumbered, you can get comfort fromrepparttar 136353 fact that your teen is still alive, your car is not damaged from an auto accident and your insurance has not doubled because of a teen driver onrepparttar 136354 policy.

What if we do not changerepparttar 136355 driving age?

I have a philosophy thatrepparttar 136356 difference between utopia and reality is a choice. A choice by an individual or a group to make a change or move in a different direction. The statistics about teen driving require a change. If changingrepparttar 136357 driving age to 18 is too big of a leap today, then we can take smaller steps to help teens have better education and understand how to drive a car instead of blindly using a deadly weapon.

We need to review whatrepparttar 136358 driving schools are asked to teachrepparttar 136359 students. The requirements need to include not only traffic safety, but car driving training under differing conditions. The number of hours required behindrepparttar 136360 wheel should equalrepparttar 136361 number of hours required forrepparttar 136362 course, which is currently around 30 hours. Parents would spend more money to achieve this, butrepparttar 136363 additional cost is insignificant compared torepparttar 136364 lives of their loved ones.

Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) should be a requirement nationwide and include a probationary period for all new drivers to last through age 18. Traffic violations duringrepparttar 136365 probationary period should require re-takingrepparttar 136366 driver education course -not with adults that are in a defensive driving course, but with other teens. Askingrepparttar 136367 teen to re-take driver education throughrepparttar 136368 same school they received their initial education would be a consideration. Trackingrepparttar 136369 teens that re-take driver education andrepparttar 136370 driving schools they attend would also help understand if there is a driving school that may not be properly educatingrepparttar 136371 teens.

Driving school vehicles are always well marked while students are driving onrepparttar 136372 main roads. Unfortunately, that requirement does not extend torepparttar 136373 family vehicle for new drivers in a GDL program. All family vehicles with a new teen driver should be required to have at least one label onrepparttar 136374 back ofrepparttar 136375 car whilerepparttar 136376 teen is driving and through age 18.

Bumper stickers are not always practical when a teen is occasionally drivingrepparttar 136377 car and stick-on vinyl torepparttar 136378 window does not address night-time driving issues. The technology exists today to use car magnets that are thick, reflective forrepparttar 136379 night and are durable. These types of car magnets can be found at Auto Safety Magnets. http://www.autosafetymagnets.com Identifying these almost 2 million vehicles onrepparttar 136380 road should be a requirement on a national level.

In Conclusion

We hoperepparttar 136381 above information was helpful to addressrepparttar 136382 problems,repparttar 136383 need, and identify options ifrepparttar 136384 driving age remained status quo or if it were raised. We hoperepparttar 136385 information was comprehensive to showrepparttar 136386 economic implications andrepparttar 136387 hindrances to raisingrepparttar 136388 driving age. With these alarming statistics why have state and federal governments, as well as,repparttar 136389 automotive industry jumped torepparttar 136390 rescue? Have financial issues during hard economic times been put ahead of our youth? We have to "cowboy-up" to a resolution about this national problem.

Melih (may-lee) Oztalay, CEO Auto Safety Magnets Direct: (248) 568-2241 Web: http://www.autosafetymagnets.com Newsletter: http://www.autosafetymagnets.com/newsletter.php Blog: http://autosafetymagnets.blogspot.com


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