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I want to start off by saying this is not a hate thread toward this state or the people living in it. This is a long winded honest statement for people that are looking to relocate and have questions on moving here.
I moved here two years ago going on three for a job opportunity. I was raised in Hawaii, lived 15 years in Arkansas and two years in TN. I started in Jacksonville I lasted at that location for 5 weeks! The crime rate is incredibly high. Schools run down and "ghetto" I was on the north side in a nicer area but couldn't even walk down the street with my dog without hearing a cat call or someone coming up to me. Walmart. Psh forget it. So I moved to the next town over. Yulee. Now it is a nicer area. Not trashy in the Fernandina area and some areas in yulee. But where you don't have your ghetto you have your trashy, backwoods redneck locations. The road work there is high because that county is expanding. People are always in a hurry and have alot of road rage. I've never been in a wreck or even a fender bender. I was driving home from work and someone t boned me, totalled my truck and then...left the scene. Animals here are considered property. A dog actually had a DRYER appliance for a dog house. As long as it has 3 sides , top, and bottom it's considered shelter. The people here are very unfriendly, extreme lack of manners and somewhat confrontational. I got screamed at by a woman because I was waiting for a parking spot at Walmart and I didn't move out of her way fast enough never mind I was only waiting for a total of a min and the driver pulling out was a disabled woman with a cane. The beaches are polluted. Their was a shark attack a mile down the beach from where I was with a GA boy that had his calf shredded. A few drownings occurred due to currents and feel sorry for the family that never found the cousin that drowned this summer.
Alot of rentals that are NOT pet friendly. And the prices for rent are ridiculously high for the little box you get.
Bugs. My god. There is bug season and non bug season. The knats and mosquitoes are in colonies. Keep your mouth closed. Especially if your riding a bike, I about choked to death.
Employment. Scarce to none. Wages are low. And unemployment is through the roof in this state.
Commuting to work is hard due to all the traffic and crazy drivers. If it starts to drizzle traffic will be congested. For some reason people ride the brakes.
Hot. Humid. But that's the south for ya.
Also which was interesting for me is seeing teeny bops from 10 and up wearing trashy , skanky clothes. I'm not sure why the parenting system allows that. Here. Girls middle school and up where tops that allow way more then appropriate and crotch eating shorts. Definitely a lack of parenting here. I understand it's hot but c'Mon.
If anyone that is contemplating moving down here. Ask away. I'll tell you what it is. Not sugarcoated.
I apologize to anyone I may have offended. I certainly don't want to do that. I just wish I would have had a better insight before excepting that Job. I would not have taken it.
Last edited by The Villages Guy; 01-04-2016 at 06:40 PM..
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The unemployment rate n FL - Nov 2015 5%. There are 20 million people here (3rd most populated state in the US so its a no brainer that you will come across a wide variety of lifestyles and personalities.
Anyone relocating anywhere must research the potential new location. My advice is stay away from large FL citiesm actually large cities anywhere.
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Originally Posted by Farfromhere
I want to start off by saying this is not a hate thread toward this state or the people living in it. This is a long winded honest statement for people that are looking to relocate and have questions on moving here.
I moved here two years ago going on three for a job opportunity. I was raised in Hawaii, lived 15 years in Arkansas and two years in TN. I started in Jacksonville I lasted at that location for 5 weeks! The crime rate is incredibly high. Schools run down and "ghetto" I was on the north side in a nicer area but couldn't even walk down the street with my dog without hearing a cat call or someone coming up to me. Walmart. Psh forget it. So I moved to the next town over. Yulee. Now it is a nicer area. Not trashy in the Fernandina area and some areas in yulee. But where you don't have your ghetto you have your trashy, backwoods redneck locations. The road work there is high because that county is expanding. People are always in a hurry and have alot of road rage. I've never been in a wreck or even a fender bender. I was driving home from work and someone t boned me, totalled my truck and then...left the scene. Animals here are considered property. A dog actually had a DRYER appliance for a dog house. As long as it has 3 sides , top, and bottom it's considered shelter. The people here are very unfriendly, extreme lack of manners and somewhat confrontational. I got screamed at by a woman because I was waiting for a parking spot at Walmart and I didn't move out of her way fast enough never mind I was only waiting for a total of a min and the driver pulling out was a disabled woman with a cane. The beaches are polluted. Their was a shark attack a mile down the beach from where I was with a GA boy that had his calf shredded. A few drownings occurred due to currents and feel sorry for the family that never found the cousin that drowned this summer.
Alot of rentals that are NOT pet friendly. And the prices for rent are ridiculously high for the little box you get.
Bugs. My god. There is bug season and non bug season. The knats and mosquitoes are in colonies. Keep your mouth closed. Especially if your riding a bike, I about choked to death.
Employment. Scarce to none. Wages are low. And unemployment is through the roof in this state.
Commuting to work is hard due to all the traffic and crazy drivers. If it starts to drizzle traffic will be congested. For some reason people ride the brakes.
Hot. Humid. But that's the south for ya.
Also which was interesting for me is seeing teeny bops from 10 and up wearing trashy , skanky clothes. I'm not sure why the parenting system allows that. Here. Girls middle school and up where tops that allow way more then appropriate and crotch eating shorts. Definitely a lack of parenting here. I understand it's hot but c'Mon.
If anyone that is contemplating moving down here. Ask away. I'll tell you what it is. Not sugarcoated.
I apologize to anyone I may have offended. I certainly don't want to do that. I just wish I would have had a better insight before excepting that Job. I would not have taken it.
Well, it's a good thing the op was sent to jacksonville. Everything they complain about only gets worse the further south in Florida you go. Lol. Bugs get worse, crime gets worse, people can wear skimpy cloths for longer time periods of the year, hotter and humid for longer, the economy gets more and more tourism based, etc.
I don't believe the ops comment about the economy though. Jacksonville has a 4.7% unemployment rate. That is quite good. I live in Naples and the economy here is on fire right now. I've got recruiters trying to poach me for better opportunities left and right. If Naples has a hot economy right now I can only imagine must less tourism oriented Jacksonville to be even better.
Nassau County is perhaps one of the better areas of Florida. You would probably hate Miami for sure. Being from Hawaii, you should be used to bugs and skimpy clothing.
No the bugs in Hawaii is bubblegum compared to FL. Lol. We have alot of geckos and mongooses take care of the occasional garden snake. Temps there are never humid, swampy, or sweat drenching but FL is swamp and Marsh so I understand the bug problem
Schools in Hawaii actually had a dress code. In Nassau they have good A+ schools where in Hawaii it was kill haole day once a week. I went to Washington intermediate in Honolulu and then leilehua high school. Both had dress codes but alot of controversy between Samoans and white folks.
I've never been further then Nassau. So applying these thread to all of Florida isn't what I'm doing. Just where I've been.
Burger King and Walmart's are always hiring. I was referring to good paying jobs families could live off of comfortably.
I want to start off by saying this is not a hate thread toward this state or the people living in it. This is a long winded honest statement for people that are looking to relocate and have questions on moving here.
I moved here two years ago going on three for a job opportunity. I was raised in Hawaii, lived 15 years in Arkansas and two years in TN. I started in Jacksonville I lasted at that location for 5 weeks! The crime rate is incredibly high. Schools run down and "ghetto" I was on the north side in a nicer area but couldn't even walk down the street with my dog without hearing a cat call or someone coming up to me. Walmart. Psh forget it. So I moved to the next town over. Yulee. Now it is a nicer area. Not trashy in the Fernandina area and some areas in yulee. But where you don't have your ghetto you have your trashy, backwoods redneck locations. The road work there is high because that county is expanding. People are always in a hurry and have alot of road rage. I've never been in a wreck or even a fender bender. I was driving home from work and someone t boned me, totalled my truck and then...left the scene. Animals here are considered property. A dog actually had a DRYER appliance for a dog house. As long as it has 3 sides , top, and bottom it's considered shelter. The people here are very unfriendly, extreme lack of manners and somewhat confrontational. I got screamed at by a woman because I was waiting for a parking spot at Walmart and I didn't move out of her way fast enough never mind I was only waiting for a total of a min and the driver pulling out was a disabled woman with a cane. The beaches are polluted. Their was a shark attack a mile down the beach from where I was with a GA boy that had his calf shredded. A few drownings occurred due to currents and feel sorry for the family that never found the cousin that drowned this summer.
Alot of rentals that are NOT pet friendly. And the prices for rent are ridiculously high for the little box you get.
Bugs. My god. There is bug season and non bug season. The knats and mosquitoes are in colonies. Keep your mouth closed. Especially if your riding a bike, I about choked to death.
Employment. Scarce to none. Wages are low. And unemployment is through the roof in this state.
Commuting to work is hard due to all the traffic and crazy drivers. If it starts to drizzle traffic will be congested. For some reason people ride the brakes.
Hot. Humid. But that's the south for ya.
Also which was interesting for me is seeing teeny bops from 10 and up wearing trashy , skanky clothes. I'm not sure why the parenting system allows that. Here. Girls middle school and up where tops that allow way more then appropriate and crotch eating shorts. Definitely a lack of parenting here. I understand it's hot but c'Mon.
If anyone that is contemplating moving down here. Ask away. I'll tell you what it is. Not sugarcoated.
I apologize to anyone I may have offended. I certainly don't want to do that. I just wish I would have had a better insight before excepting that Job. I would not have taken it.
There is a LOT more than Burger King and walmart hiring right now. You are talking nonsense. And those of us who lived in Florida during the crash and witnessed a time when Burger King and Walmart were indeed the only ones hiring need to call you out on the crap you are sputtering.
Hawaii is one the poorest states in our nation, with poverty around every corner. Please go back there if you find that more to your tastes.
Happiness. Even with cnas I believe they make 8-9 an hour? Ma make what? 11 an hour? Home health, less then that. And that's in the medical field...
I'm not sure what your so defensive about. My post is 100% honest and to the point. I'm sorry your offended by that. I, in no way out Hawaii on a pedestal next to Florida. Someone compared the bugs, and in an honest statement... Having lived there. I stated the difference.
Your welcome Ken. hope it helps.
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