Fort Lauderdale or NJ from Wellington, FL? (Miami, Coral Springs: neighborhoods, school district)

[shadow9d9]

My wife and I are 26/27 with a 1.5 year old baby. We moved to Boca Raton in 2004 and then to Wellington in 2008. We are still unhappy.

In Boca, people were much older and very unfriendly. We would go to the dog park in Boca and Delray and there were never people within 10 years of our age and people stayed in their own pocket around the park and wouldn't talk to anyone else.

In wellington, it is a bit younger, but still mostly well older than us, the okeeheelee dog park does not have young people, and again, unfriendly. My wife has tried mommy and me groups and everyone is 38+ and standoffish. The play area in the wellington mall is again filled with much older, unfriendly people, and hicks.

Would we have better luck finding intelligent, friendly people in Fort Lauderdale around our age? We have tons of hobbies including, reading, boardgaming, video gaming, pingpong/tennis, photography, animal lovers(2 dogs and 2 cats), and others.

We have also considered moving back to New Jersey, where I grew up. The mentality in Florida just seems to be to that people keep to themselves, are hicks, or don't speak english. The problem is, Jersey is expensive and cold/dark(for 8 months of the year).

Checking out area from red bank-new brunswick-scotchplains-jersey city-caldwell and others in about a week.

What do you guys think? We'd love to stay in florida for the weather and the cheap living, but we just hate never seeing people our own age and the fact that people just aren't friendly down here...

[TANaples]

You will get paid more and more job opportunities in NJ, you will have more young people around you, and you child with receive a better education in NJ.

I am a New Yorker saying this.

[shadow9d9]

My wife is an English teacher. I have heard it is very hard to get a teaching job in NJ.

[Rock Newman]

Originally Posted by TANaples

You will get paid more and more job opportunities in NJ, you will have more young people around you, and you child with receive a better education in NJ.

I am a New Yorker saying this.

If New Jersey was so great , you would not have a ton of people from New Jersey in Florida .... there are no more job opportunities in NJ , and although you may get paid more it is offset by a higher cost of living ... younger people ... that is silly , please where . The only thing you are correct on is that yes the school system is better ....other than that NJ is gray , cold and dirty . Also many parts of NJ suffer from the same ghetto mentality that Miami has , in fact some areas are worse .

[TANaples]

They are laying off teachers all over the state of Florida: budget deficits and declining enrollment.


Go on teachers.net and click on Florida if you want to hear REAL LIFE experiences, not happy florida city data.

I work in a school district and it numbers in the hundreds this year.

[TriMT7]

Originally Posted by TANaples

They are laying off teachers all over the state of Florida: budget deficits and declining enrollment.

Teachers are also being laid off in New Jersey, or do you only pay attention to negative news concerning Florida?






To the OP:

Have you thought about somewhere like downtown West Palm Beach and its southside neighborhoods? Or Jupiter?

[compelled to reply]

Try Parkland.

[shadow9d9]

Downtown wpb is kinda a crummy area right?

Jupiter seems to be a place that would be even more isolated than here.

How would parkland be any different than boca or wellington? There werent young people at the coral springs dog park.

[compelled to reply]

Originally Posted by shadow9d9

How would parkland be any different than boca or wellington? There werent young people at the coral springs dog park.

If Coral Springs isn't young enough, try Lauderhill or Miami Gardens, lol.

[Rock Newman]

Originally Posted by shadow9d9

Downtown wpb is kinda a crummy area right?

Jupiter seems to be a place that would be even more isolated than here.

How would parkland be any different than boca or wellington? There werent young people at the coral springs dog park.

You are wrong on both assessments regarding Downtown WPB ... City Place and Clematis Street are very nice and a stones throw from the beauty of Palm Beach .. Jupiter is nothing like Jersey ... puleeeze .. actually on second thought I take it back , Florida blows all old people everywhere and no night life anywhere ... Jersey is the place for you .. please move there . Thanks