[dnc19694339]

I have to admit, this forum has swayed my decision about moving to florida. I have been looking to move down to a warmer climate from NY. I was really gung ho to sell everything and go a couple years ago until I started reading on here.

So I was just wondering if 10 years ago (not sure how long citydata has been around) every one was as negative about florida as they are now on these forums?

I have not moved yet, and I will probably end up in GA or somewhere close but my opinion on living in florida has definitely been changed by reading here. I just have doubts about supporting myself and family down there.

[Sweetbottoms]

Maybe more so negative honestly. 10 years ago while there were jobs the prices to live here were outrageous. If it had stayed the way it did my husband and I would of never had a chance of ever owning a house, or condo or anything . The retires perhaps liked it that way , the prices drove out the young families .

I was living in an apt at the time. I was 20 my husband was getting paid great (for. 20 ear old about $18 an hour) and "condo conversion" was starting. They were literally telling people either buy your condo or get the hell out. They offered us our 1/1 wood frame apt for over $300,000. We declined & twice more we were "kicked out " of other apts due to condo conversion. Many many people lost their homes that way here and had no where to go. This was at the peak boom so maybe 06-07. We became so displaced and so many times and had no hope of buying any house or condo with the prices for a tiny dump of a house being over $400,000 that we moved out of state after hanging on a few more years. Most of our friends left at that time also, in the same position...

The bubble burst within months of moving up there. We moved back the following year, as did all our friends and more and more young families we noticed. My husband works for the county still, and has a good paying job. I'm able to stay at home with our daughter and with prices being so much lower now we have no issues buying a lovely new home to call ours. Honestly I'm glad the bubble burst, I'm sorry for the people it affected the way it did but it had to happen. Things were out of control and there were people suffering and struggling just as bad then that no one talked out. For us at least it's a more even playing ground now. I found it to be way WAY more expensive up north than we ever did down here.

[canudigit]

Originally Posted by dnc19694339

I have to admit, this forum has swayed my decision about moving to florida. I have been looking to move down to a warmer climate from NY. I was really gung ho to sell everything and go a couple years ago until I started reading on here.

So I was just wondering if 10 years ago (not sure how long citydata has been around) every one was as negative about florida as they are now on these forums?

I have not moved yet, and I will probably end up in GA or somewhere close but my opinion on living in florida has definitely been changed by reading here. I just have doubts about supporting myself and family down there.

The wages and job prospects in GA aren't anything to get excited about either, as far one can tell from reading these forums. Ditto SC, NC, and other "warm" states.

I think too many people have flocked to the Southeast in recent years, resulting in a much more competitive job market, and an increase in housing costs without and increase in wages due to supply and demand. I see a lot of threads both here and on other travel/relocation forums from people who tried moving south and ended up moving home for the above reasons, among others. I guess they discovered that warmer winters didn't outweigh the other things, not to mention that they were homesick and missing their friends and families.

Maybe this is why so many people have become so negative on these forums, because they are either transplants who didn't fine the gold at the end of the rainbow like they thought they would, or they are natives who remember what it was like before all the transplants changed things so drastically.

[gypsychic]

Originally Posted by canudigit

The wages and job prospects in GA aren't anything to get excited about either, as far one can tell from reading these forums. Ditto SC, NC, and other "warm" states.

I think too many people have flocked to the Southeast in recent years, resulting in a much more competitive job market, and an increase in housing costs without and increase in wages due to supply and demand. I see a lot of threads both here and on other travel/relocation forums from people who tried moving south and ended up moving home for the above reasons, among others. I guess they discovered that warmer winters didn't outweigh the other things, not to mention that they were homesick and missing their friends and families.

Maybe this is why so many people have become so negative on these forums, because they are either transplants who didn't fine the gold at the end of the rainbow like they thought they would, or they are natives who remember what it was like before all the transplants changed things so drastically.

100% agree ^^^.

[Spring Hillian]

Excellent post. I agree!

Originally Posted by canudigit

The wages and job prospects in GA aren't anything to get excited about either, as far one can tell from reading these forums. Ditto SC, NC, and other "warm" states.

I think too many people have flocked to the Southeast in recent years, resulting in a much more competitive job market, and an increase in housing costs without and increase in wages due to supply and demand. I see a lot of threads both here and on other travel/relocation forums from people who tried moving south and ended up moving home for the above reasons, among others. I guess they discovered that warmer winters didn't outweigh the other things, not to mention that they were homesick and missing their friends and families.

Maybe this is why so many people have become so negative on these forums, because they are either transplants who didn't fine the gold at the end of the rainbow like they thought they would, or they are natives who remember what it was like before all the transplants changed things so drastically.

[Eresh]

Originally Posted by dnc19694339

So I was just wondering if 10 years ago (not sure how long citydata has been around) every one was as negative about florida as they are now on these forums?

I think your perception is skewed because this is an internet forum. First, there were way fewer people regularly using the internet than there was a decade ago. Second, haters and complainers will always complain the loudest and get more attention than those who are happy. Not to mention that people just seem to feel more entitled these days. So when things don't go their way, it always must be something else (such as their state/town).

[gypsychic]

Originally Posted by Eresh

I think your perception is skewed because this is an internet forum. First, there were way fewer people regularly using the internet than there was a decade ago. Second, haters and complainers will always complain the loudest and get more attention than those who are happy. Not to mention that people just seem to feel more entitled these days. So when things don't go their way, it always must be something else (such as their state/town).

Another great post with which I agree! ^^^

[jfitch21]

Originally Posted by dnc19694339

I have to admit, this forum has swayed my decision about moving to florida. I have been looking to move down to a warmer climate from NY. I was really gung ho to sell everything and go a couple years ago until I started reading on here.

So I was just wondering if 10 years ago (not sure how long citydata has been around) every one was as negative about florida as they are now on these forums?

I have not moved yet, and I will probably end up in GA or somewhere close but my opinion on living in florida has definitely been changed by reading here. I just have doubts about supporting myself and family down there.

Florida was awesome, it still is in some aspects, but big development and the constant influx of transients are eroding the quality of life here little by little...