Trapped In Pittsburgh (Spring Hill: foreclosures, renting, employment)
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Why are you even responding to this. I am his wife and were not crying about Pittsburgh or having marriage issues (FYI). We want to relocate to somewhere that our children are not trapped in our house for 6 months a year due to snow. Our boys love playing sports, being outside enjoying the warm weather. We are looking for a decent area in Florida to raise our children. That is great that you are "loyal" to your city. I was born and raised here. I just want to give my children an enjoyable childhood with more opportunities. I feel like somewhere south could make that possible due to the huge weather difference. The fact that they can play baseball all year long. We dont have to be couped up in our house due to ****ty weather. So before you make assumptions of why someone wants to move (which is really none of your buisness if we prefer to leave this city) How about you comment when you have some helpful insight on the situation. I would suggest you stick to the Pittsburgh forum and praise your wonderful city on there.
Have you ever been north of Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh winters are very mild to many cities I've been to including Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Buffalo, and Portland, ME. What opportunities aren't there in Pittsburgh I'm jw? They don't have to be cooped up inside, they can snowboard, ice skate, and learn hockey.
Not a bad idea, and it's one area I'm thinking about. I've heard Pittsburgh is retiree friendly. Good luck on your move to Florida.
Pittsburgh is and a nice thing about retiring in Pennsylvania is that you won't have to pay state income taxes on pensions or Social Security. It has attracted retirees from New York, NJ, and Maryland to the commonwealth.
Why are you even responding to this. I am his wife and were not crying about Pittsburgh or having marriage issues (FYI). We want to relocate to somewhere that our children are not trapped in our house for 6 months a year due to snow. Our boys love playing sports, being outside enjoying the warm weather. We are looking for a decent area in Florida to raise our children. That is great that you are "loyal" to your city. I was born and raised here. I just want to give my children an enjoyable childhood with more opportunities. I feel like somewhere south could make that possible due to the huge weather difference. The fact that they can play baseball all year long. We dont have to be couped up in our house due to ****ty weather. So before you make assumptions of why someone wants to move (which is really none of your buisness if we prefer to leave this city) How about you comment when you have some helpful insight on the situation. I would suggest you stick to the Pittsburgh forum and praise your wonderful city on there.
Wow what a nasty attitude. People like you are the reason FL natives don't like "yankees". Maybe if your husband wrote a post asking logical questions instead of one where it sounded like he was taking off from his family people wouldn't have asked about marriage issues.
BTW, your kids will be inside the house with the A/C for about half the year as well here. The FL climate which gets quite brutal with heat and humidity is not conducive to year round outdoor activities.
If your boys are unmotivated to get into winter sports and related winter activities for 6 months a year i doubt they are going to get highly motivated doing physical activity when the temps are in the mid 90's with humidity averages north of 80% from May till November, if all this move is just about a few months of winter why not just get a snow blower for the driveway and a warmer coat for the cold days and extend your annual winter vacation.
Why are you even responding to this. I am his wife and were not crying about Pittsburgh or having marriage issues (FYI). We want to relocate to somewhere that our children are not trapped in our house for 6 months a year due to snow. Our boys love playing sports, being outside enjoying the warm weather. We are looking for a decent area in Florida to raise our children. That is great that you are "loyal" to your city. I was born and raised here. I just want to give my children an enjoyable childhood with more opportunities. I feel like somewhere south could make that possible due to the huge weather difference. The fact that they can play baseball all year long. We dont have to be couped up in our house due to ****ty weather. So before you make assumptions of why someone wants to move (which is really none of your buisness if we prefer to leave this city) How about you comment when you have some helpful insight on the situation. I would suggest you stick to the Pittsburgh forum and praise your wonderful city on there.
Another thing, why am I only being targeted where there are three other people who asked about family issues too. And we don't get 6 months of snow. Sure it may flurry in October and April but it's rare and it's never cold enough for it to last we have only 3 months of true winter IMO with November and March feeling wintry 1/4th of the time at best most years. If you love the warmth I sure hope you were outside yesterday with the record warmth. If you hate 20 degrees, what makes you think you will prefer 90 degrees with a dew point near 70 that will cause a heat index of at least 100? Were your kids outside all the time during the hot summer of 2010? It was hot enough to make me sick after being outside for a couple hours.
[quote=nphomeowner;18681478]I am also in the Pittsburgh area and moving to FL in May. We bought a home in December. Yes FL has heat and humidity in the summer, so we go to the BEACH or go do things early in the morning or late afternoon if it's too hot for us. Certainly we won't be cooped up because the roads are icy or because it's just to darned cold to go out.
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My wife's family are from/still living in Orlando. They can't wait to move up here because they can't enjoy their summers thanks to the heat and humidity. Whether its snow/ice or heat/humidity, its all a novelty until you have to live with it. Florida has its nicer points, but it isn't the paradise most northerners assume it to be.
Wow what a nasty attitude. People like you are the reason FL natives don't like "yankees". Maybe if your husband wrote a post asking logical questions instead of one where it sounded like he was taking off from his family people wouldn't have asked about marriage issues.
Seriously? Check the mirror for the nasty attitude. Besides that where would anyone have interpreted ditching his family from the original post? Go back to watching Jerry Springer and leave your half-baked assumptions out of the forum. It would have been just as easy to ask nicely for clarification versus taking off down the path of false assumption wouldn't it?
We are looking anywhere between Clearwater and Naples... So I would say "south-central"... Lol.
We want good schooling for our kids (age 1-6). We need affordable housing. and most importantly, hospitals!!! My wife is in the medical feild.
Back on track after the peanut gallery is through chiming in hopefully..
You might take a look at Northern Pinellas County. The Clearwater suburbs of Safety Harbor, Oldsmar/East Lake and Palm Harbor offer fairly affordable housing, excellent schools across the board (not just a couple) and commuting distance to many area hospitals.
Ive lived in FL for 20+ years and I have never spent 6 months indoors due to the weather. In fact, I don't know anybody who has. We all (most of us) go to work everyday, come home, have dinner, sit on the deck or in the screened room, go shopping (all year long), go to the beach in the warm months, live our lives. Weekends are for flea markets, landscape maintenance, laundry, more shopping, trips to the beach, trips to Silver Springs near Ocala, trips to Orlando to visit friends, trips to Tarpon Springs, Dade City, Crystal River for collectible hunting, normal everyday life adventures. This is done all year round.
Who is it that is indoors all this time and WHY?
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Originally Posted by airwave09
It was a legitimate question, no need for the attitude. Just keep in mind that moving to Florida means that you may be spending 6 months indoors during the other half of the year. It's not exactly a year round weather paradise down there.
And March, October, and November are usually pretty mild so I don't know where you are getting these six month winters from. Try living in North Dakota!
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Have you ever been north of Pittsburgh? Pittsburgh winters are very mild to many cities I've been to including Toronto, Montreal, Quebec, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis, Buffalo, and Portland, ME. What opportunities aren't there in Pittsburgh I'm jw? They don't have to be cooped up inside, they can snowboard, ice skate, and learn hockey.
