[verobeach]

Florida has natural beauty aside from the beaches. Has anyone been to Bok Gardens in Lake Wales? Beautiful! Micanopy, FL... BEAUTIFUL and untouched by time. Sunshine, year round golf, boating, or just wine-ing and dining on your patio in January. There's countless assets here in Florida, all of them great!

[Pooring Footers]

Yes, I agree. FL has some nice scenery too. Particularly the beaches. But what I was saying is that there isnt a downtown in FL that can match the beauty of a river flowing through it like Greenville SC. Orlando has a pretty clean downtown (where I live), but not in a million yrs would I say it (or any other cities' downtown throughout FL) can compete with Greenville's. I mean, a freakin river running through the middle of downtown, how cool is that?

[verobeach]

They had them in the midwest... The Fox River ran through Geneva and the Dupage River ran through Naperville but it was still the midwest.

[Artsywoman]

Free oranges everywhere!

[DailyJournalist]

Originally Posted by Sunny-Days90

I know one company that was in Wildwood who left Florida.
Why?
Because they could not find enough people to fill and 2nd and 3rd shift at their plant is why.
They started people out at 12 buck an hour and still could net enough people to run a much needed 2nd and 3rd shift.
Now I know why people are so angry, the dang lazy butts with no skills want 20 bucks an hour to work in a factory and wont work anything but day turn.

When you make these outragous claims please post links to back it up.

[cruxan]

Originally Posted by luvthatmouse

Beaches (getting polluted though), weather from November-April, Disney, the Everglades.

good point.... but you forgot one other thing that florida is the most likely state to get hit by major hurricanes. damn i can't wait to move to florida just kidding.. its to flat anyway

[blindy the pirate]

Originally Posted by jojajn

I have had plenty of past experience in Florida. Also, a friend bought a home at the height of the real estate bubble. He hates it there but cannot move out because he cannot sell his gosh-darn house. Worse yet, the expenses are gobbling up his retirement fund fast! Thanks for asking.

Silly me, I thought the real estate bubble was a national problem. Who knew the news was only talking about Florida? If your friend isn't an idiot, why did he buy a house in a state he hates? Are we supposed to feel bad he bought at the height of the bubble? Next you'll tell us he had an ARM and was shocked when the rates went up. I know plenty of people who bought during the boom and are fine, because they actually planned on living in the houses they bought (shocking, I know). I also know people who bought to flip and make money, then got caught when the bubble burst. It was too bad, but if you expect anybody to shed a tear for them, good luck.

That said, Florida's best asset would have to be the weather. Its the weather that people move here for. My parents decided during an April blizzard that enough was enough. It is the same reason why Utah, Arizona, and Texas all are growing quickly. Florida is a service based economy more so than most states, but that mirrors the entire US. It is called the rust belt for a reason. Those jobs have shipped overseas.

Florida pay rates might be low. But my neighbor, growing up in Orlando, even though he lost $17.00 an hour as an electrician moving from NYC, still had more money in his pocket at the end of the month.


To Pooring Footers: Don't overlook Tallahassee in your assessment. It has higher 2 year and post graduate degrees percentages than Alpharetta and is still way above national average in 4 year. Not too bad since Tallahassee is a city unto itself and not a rich white suburb.

[Pooring Footers]

Originally Posted by blindy the pirate

Silly me, I thought the real estate bubble was a national problem. Who knew the news was only talking about Florida? If your friend isn't an idiot, why did he buy a house in a state he hates? Are we supposed to feel bad he bought at the height of the bubble? Next you'll tell us he had an ARM and was shocked when the rates went up. I know plenty of people who bought during the boom and are fine, because they actually planned on living in the houses they bought (shocking, I know). I also know people who bought to flip and make money, then got caught when the bubble burst. It was too bad, but if you expect anybody to shed a tear for them, good luck.

That said, Florida's best asset would have to be the weather. Its the weather that people move here for. My parents decided during an April blizzard that enough was enough. It is the same reason why Utah, Arizona, and Texas all are growing quickly. Florida is a service based economy more so than most states, but that mirrors the entire US. It is called the rust belt for a reason. Those jobs have shipped overseas.

Florida pay rates might be low. But my neighbor, growing up in Orlando, even though he lost $17.00 an hour as an electrician moving from NYC, still had more money in his pocket at the end of the month.


To Pooring Footers: Don't overlook Tallahassee in your assessment. It has higher 2 year and post graduate degrees percentages than Alpharetta and is still way above national average in 4 year. Not too bad since Tallahassee is a city unto itself and not a rich white suburb.

True, it is also home to FSU (I love FSU by the way), one of the biggest universities in the country. Not really fair to compare, lol.

[mrcoolmrcool28]

Originally Posted by verobeach

They had them in the midwest... The Fox River ran through Geneva and the Dupage River ran through Naperville but it was still the midwest.

Madison, WI has 3 lakes surrounding it that are absolutely beautiful. For a few months out of the year. Then they freeze over.

[tallrick]

Plenty of people with sunshine dreams and rose colored glasses to overpay for the property you are trying to unload so you can move out of Florida!