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Originally Posted by brit2122
The following sums up Naples for me:
Does anyone remember the news story several years ago when a little girl had a lemonade stand and her neighbors called up the police because she didn't have a permit?
The people in Naples are bizarre. There is absolutely no sense of community because no one is from there. It's a very transient place. It is a very superficial place that for me never felt like home. One would think that living in eternal summer would mean people are constantly at the park playing frisbee, riding their bikes everywhere, grilling, etc.... But I don't feel like this is the case. People generally do this when they first move there, but before long they're locked up in their houses like everyone else. Eternal summer I think makes a lot of people numb. There are certainly exceptions to the rule. There are people who practically live at the beach. Which brings me to my next point. To me, the scenery in FL cannot be beat. If you get yourself a canoe, for example, there is an unlimited amount of peaceful places you can go to that will take your breath away. Also, Florida is a vacationer's paradise, and when you live in FL you can go on little mini vacations every weekend if you want to! The scenery in the state varies a lot from place to place. The Keys are like 6 hours away and so is Miami. The Everglades are pretty close as well, so right there you have 3 very drastically different places available to you for any long weekend.
If you don't mind living a solitary life (which, I have a theory might be they reason many, many people actually do choose to move there), you might like it here, but otherwise I don't recommend this area. The scenery is astounding, the social atmosphere is horrific in my opinion. I do, however, know a lot of people who move there and make lots and lots of friends.
You can tell the mentality of this area by looking at how people cut eachother down right on this forum. That's what it's like living there. You'll constantly get butted in line and experience road rage.
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We have been living in this development for just six months now. After March, the place became deserted, quite literally. All the snowbirds left. Houses are now locked and boarded up. The condos across the course are in total darkness because there is not one single person living in them right now.
My next door neighbor (retired), who I liked and was just getting to know, sold and moved out in June going to Port St. Lucie. Snowbirds bought his house, so it is now empty. The couple across the street, who we also became friends with, are moving out the end of August and will be renting their home until they can sell. We will leave too, someday.
I can contrast this with LI where I lived for 20 years. Not one person moved out in all those years. We were the first and it was only because of circumstances, not choice. The people on the street raised their families in all that time and STAYED after their children left the nest, so to speak. They only moved when they became too old to take care of those big family homes. Because people stayed, put down roots, there was much more of a sense of community.
Yes, it is very, very different here.
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08-08-2008, 10:17 AM
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