[grapico]

Delta left Tallahassee??? Can that be confirmed??? It has always felt a little isolated but that would make it even more so...
Flying into TLH can be really expensive. i.e. over 600 dollars vs. 180 in JAX b/c they have south west...In the last few years it has actually been cheaper for me to fly into JAX PLUS pay for a rent a car and drive to Tallahassee, still comes out about half the price.

Guntersville I had also driven to ATL parked my car there for 4-5 days and flown out b/c it was much cheaper... How inconvenient though..

[TD*]

Grapico stop trolling, all you do is post negatively in Tallahassee threads..

No Delta Hasn't left our market, they are just cutting back the seat load and some flights.

[flyers29]

Originally Posted by ArielE

"Walkability" -- ie, We dislike strip malls, suburban type areas, and anything where you don't have a nice outdoorsy place or urban area to walk around in or go to restaurants, libraries, museums, etc
Affordable housing (we're trying for under $250,000)
Family friendly
Environmentally friendly
Mild weather
Hills... I don't like completely flat areas
Liberal attitude
A large body of water nearby, the ocean, a river, lakes, anything really.
Lots of green space and parks

-Walkability-Not really in the sense you describe. Tallahassee is more a suburban town. Even downtown doesn't have that much to offer. They are trying to add a "walkable" area along Gaines St, but that's at least a few years off.
-Affordable housing under 250k-Definitely
-Family friendly-Definitely
-Environmentally friendly-Not sure if they have city-wide recycling pick up with your trash, but if they do that'd be the extent of it.
-Mild weather-I'd say so. Gets to be chilly during the winter months (40s-50s), but HOT in the summer.
-Hills-It is hilly, but you won't be able to tell in the sense of "standing somewhere and looking out over a plain of hills." Can really only tell when driving.
-Liberal attitude-This is a real sticking point with me on these forums. People say, "Leon County consistently votes Democrat, so it's liberal." I mean as long as we're generalizing, a lot of that comes from the fact that Tallahassee is 33% black, a group that is staunchly Democrat as a whole but is not what I would call "liberal" in the sense that Portland or San Francisco is. Yes FSU/FAMU are here and that adds to it too, but being a recent grad of FSU I'd say you'd actually have to go looking for liberalness to find it. Tallahassee is a pretty standard Southern town if anything, so I'd say you're more likely to find Bible-thumpers than people heading to a peace rally.
-Large body of water-Lake Jackson has about dried up, and even though Tallahassee is only about 25 miles inland the nearest actual beach is about 1 1/2 hours away. Wakulla Springs isn't far though and nice swimming hole.
-Lots of green space-A few decent parks in the city. I mean this place only has about 150-175,000 people, so you're not going to find them all over the place.

Overall, Tallahassee is a pretty decent place to raise a family, but I'm not sure it has everything you're looking for.

[AlfredB1979]

You're liberal...you should be fine because you're open to diverse opinions and whatnot.

Problem solved.

[Guntersville Boomer]

Delta quit flying out of Tallahassee to anywhere in the state, it only flys to Atlanta. This has really messed up folks ability to do business at the Capitol and for the Legislators to get in and out.

[TD*]

Legislators can drive.

[MiamiRob]

Tallahassee is a college town so it's liberal in that regard but remember you are in the panhandle of Florida or what we south Floridians refer to as "lower Alabama" in that it is a island in a sea of religious & political conservatism. To find liberal in Florida you have to try the major metros excluding JAX however that would put you in SE Florida which is flat as a pancake or possibly Orlando which has has lots of lakes & some hills.

[TD*]

We up here refer to South Florida as the wastelands.

[MiamiRob]

^ yes we here what you call us. In fact we are such a wasteland that we generate most of the tax revenue for the state. If it weren't for the wastelands most of you up north would still be driving on dirt roads!

[TD*]

Nobody likes that place...

Everyone i know comes up here from South Florida and loves it.

They say I would never go back..

To expensive, To many People, To hot.

South Failure.