Lake Mary- Nirvana-Guy (Miami, Orlando: home, title, moving)

[Ash5705]

Originally Posted by Nirvana-Guy

Weather in FL sucks. It's too damn hot and too damn humid 9 months out of the year.:

It sure beats shoveling snow in the winter and throwing chains on your tires, etc.

Originally Posted by Nirvana-Guy

Public schools in FL sucks.:

Maybe where you live, but where I am at, they are all grade A schools.

Originally Posted by Nirvana-Guy

Wages in FL sucks. :

As well as everywhere else.

Originally Posted by Nirvana-Guy

Car Insurance in FL is too high.:

I will agree with you on that.

Originally Posted by Nirvana-Guy

Home insurance is way too high.

It is still much less then what coastal property are paying.

Originally Posted by Nirvana-Guy

Property taxes in FL suck. :

You've never lived in TX. Now that is high property tax.

Originally Posted by Nirvana-Guy

Rude drivers on I-4 suck. Massachussetts, NY, and NJ license plates are the worse offenders. :

Personal opinion that doesnt warrant an answer.

Originally Posted by Nirvana-Guy

Rude northern people at grocery stores.:

See above answer

Originally Posted by Nirvana-Guy

Massive # of illegal aliens killing people in traffic and causing accidents w/o insurance.:

See above answer.

Originally Posted by Nirvana-Guy

Traffic on I-4 sucks. :

I will agree with you there.

Originally Posted by Nirvana-Guy

Cost of living in FL is too high.:

It is all dependant on your lifestyle. Me and my wife do just fine...it is called budgeting. Plus you mention later that you pump gas for a living. I think your going to have a hard time meeting any COLA with the career path that you have chosen.

Originally Posted by Nirvana-Guy

Hurricanes.:

It beats the midwest tornadoes, the west coast earthquakes, and the central hellfire hail storms.

Originally Posted by Nirvana-Guy

Tornadoes are getting old (tornadoes are due AGAIN on Sat late night/Sunday early morning this weekend).:

Let us know how that works out for you.

Originally Posted by Nirvana-Guy

Crime in Orlando (I work in downtown Orlando) is sky high and that sucks. The gas station I pump gas at off of Gore was robbed and people shot 2 days ago.:

Hate to tell you this, but people get shot in other cities too. Fact of life. Maybe you should work in an ice cream store or at the mall.

[warpedg]

Not to defend Nirvana Guy here but....a slight correction is needed on the past two posts...he doesnt pump gas for a living...he meant that that was the location where he gets his gas...he has an office job.

[Nirvana-Guy]

Originally Posted by warpedg

Not to defend Nirvana Guy here but....a slight correction is needed on the past two posts...he doesnt pump gas for a living...he meant that that was the location where he gets his gas...he has an office job.

Yes, that is right. I work in an office making other people rich but I needed gas and stopped on that Gore street gas station in downtown Orlando and minutes after I left, two scumbag robbers came and robbed it and fire two shots.

Now, this thread was initiated and is intended to say Lake Mary "sucks" (in response to my criticism of certain areas of East Orlando). Go for it, folks... but know that deep inside Lake Mary rules!

[jjnnino]

Originally Posted by Nirvana-Guy

Lake Mary has more than 12,000 people. Whatever stats you have are outdated. We get the Lake Mary local paper and it's boomed to almost 40,000 people now.

I called LMPD before moving there. It is MUCH safer than East Orlando (Orlando in general).

Been in Lake Mary 2 years and I come home late, totally relaxed. It is 100x safer than Orlando, specially East Orlando. My cousins live in absolute fear in East Orlando.

Try going to Lake Mary at night. Instead of loud 1980 Honda Civics with big mufflers, we have Lamborghinis and Ferraris driving on the streets. All the malls and shopping areas are super well-kept and everyone acts with a lot more class.

Lake Mary is almost a separate part of FL. It is NOTHING LIKE THE HELLHOLE ORLANDO IS RIGHT NOW (and I grew up in West Orlando - MetroWest).

Nirvana Guy , aren't you the "Miami " expert who listed all of the horrible things about the area ..... funny how you live in Orlando

It seems you are a bon vivant and a connoisseur of the finer things in life , Orlando sucks , Miami sucks but according to you Lake Mary is a paradise with
Ferraris and Lamborghinis driving the streets ..... give me a frickin break

[Rhett_Butler]

Originally Posted by bmurphy

Yup, he's busted alright. Guess Lake Mary isn't a haven like he acts like it is. The bottom line being that there's crime everywhere.

I'm a little confused here because I'm looking at the Lake Mary chart and PER CAPITA (which is the stats we need to be looking at) Lake Mary crime is either on par or significantly LOWER than the national average, while the Orlando crime stats you posted show TOTAL violent crime at almost 3 times the national average.....

Guess I'm confused what point who is trying to prove??

Also let's keep in mind that these are '03 stats and that crime in both areas HAS gotten worse....

[Dalt10]

I agree with you Coyote. You can tell the way he writes he has got to be a youngin.

[Jammie]

The stats may not be totally up to date, but if you check out CD itself, the crime in Lake Mary isn't even one half the national average. It comes in at 146. But if you check out Orlando, they are well above 900 with the national average being at 325. So what exactly is this thread trying to prove?

So in all fairness, I checked out another site. They base the national average at 3. Lake Mary violent crime is a 2. Lake Mary property crime is a 3. For both violent and property crime, Orlando is an 8.

[vpcats]

Originally Posted by Ash5705

They must be using silencers on their guns here in East Orlando, because I have not heard one shot since I moved here. Of course maybe the shots get drowned out by all the happy children playing in Town Square at Avalon. Or maybe it is just me and my friends too busy downing some beer at the friendly businesses that line the area.

No, no, no Ash. You don't hear them because of the Honda Civics' mufflers!!!!

[vpcats]

Originally Posted by pianogal

Yeah...we're living in absolute terror here in east Orlando now that we've been enlightened about all the crime that happens. I'm going to buy a gun ....heck let's make that an AK47...I might as well have as much firepower as those kids out there on the tennis court...you know the ones that are all part of a gang because they speak a language that's not English.

Heaven protect us from those hoodlums that meet at the BasketBall courts in the afternoons after school....I can only imagine what they're hiding under their shorts and t-shirts....and I'm not even going to get started on those kids swimming in the community pool.

I'm glad I have several neighbors who are ex Army special forces and Navy Seals...hey man we need all the protection we can get here in East Orlando.
I can't imagine what my next door neighbors were thinking when they bought out here - they're realtors they should have known better!

Well, I gotta get going...get those bars installed on the windows out here, you know. We could get hit any moment now!

I agree with you Pianogal. A couple of Ak-47s (1 is not enough), plenty of hand grenades, lots of bars and definitely some barbed wire around the perimeter of your house. Don't forget the killer dogs and a very loud alarm system.

[vpcats]

Originally Posted by jjnnino

Nirvana Guy , aren't you the "Miami " expert who listed all of the horrible things about the area ..... funny how you live in Orlando

It seems you are a bon vivant and a connoisseur of the finer things in life , Orlando sucks , Miami sucks but according to you Lake Mary is a paradise with
Ferraris and Lamborghinis driving the streets ..... give me a frickin break

Hey there. I actually do not think it's the same person, despite many similarities. This guy makes a lot more grammatical (especially in verb tenses) and spelling errors.