[TXRyan23]

Originally Posted by grapico

Talk to people at UNC or UT Austin... Many would like to stay in their respective states b/c they have nice jobs lined up.

Yeah, There's a funny joke going around Texas that Gov's Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal made a deal.. Jindal will keep low paying jobs in Louisiana and make sure the graduates of LSU, Tulane, and LA-Tech take jobs in Texas, and Perry will keep Texas from having casino's and gambling, sending millions of Texans each year to gamble and spend money in Louisiana.. It's a win-win

[Spring Hillian]

I think you should post on the Texas section and tell all there to stay there and do not come to FL. Your message would get the right audience then.

Like I said, minimum wage skills, minimum wage pay.


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I think back to applying for jobs in Florida like McDonalds when I couldn't find anything else
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Originally Posted by TXRyan23

I'm the first to admit, We have TONS of minimum wage jobs, and guys like Mike1306 are quick to jump on that stat but I think back to applying for jobs in Florida like McDonalds when I couldn't find anything else (When I lived in Ft. Myers) and being told that they had over 700 applications already. It's not like that here. Anyone that WANTS to work here can work. There is no "700 applications." ect, ect..

However, We also have A LOT of good wage paying jobs as well. Texas, especially Houston, Dallas, and Austin are not hurting in this economy. We're doing well.

Time for the Texans to win a playoff game !

Edit: Just look at this as an example for Houston...

Texas Medical Center - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tell me those are all minimum wage jobs..

[TXRyan23]

Originally Posted by Spring Hillian

I think you should post on the Texas section and tell all there to stay there and do not come to FL. Your message would get the right audience then.

Like I said, minimum wage skills, minimum wage pay.

Why would someone here want to go to Florida ? Most people I talk to here go to Colorado, California, and Hawaii..

[Spring Hillian]

Great. They should go where they like it most.



Most people I talk to here go to Colorado, California, and Hawaii..[/quote]

[Jo48]

Originally Posted by TXRyan23

Why would someone here want to go to Florida ? Most people I talk to here go to Colorado, California, and Hawaii..

I worked with man who was born, raised in Florida, and moved to California as a Pre-teen. His parents were native Floridians who moved back when they retired. After his father passed and his mother became disabled, he came back to care for her.

All he talked about was moving back to California. His younger brother stayed in Ca. with his family. I cannot tell you how many times he compared Ca. to Florida from weather to beaches, etc. He used to lament all the time that as the oldest son he had to come back to Florida. He tried to convince his mother to move in with him in Ca. but she would not go. Although he said he loved his Mom, he said as soon as she passed that he was going to sell her house and go back to Califorinia.

I have seen this in my own family with my daughter's father-in-law. His parents retired to Naples. When he father died, his Mom wanted to stay in Florida, but her son wouldn't hear of it. When she could no longer take care of her self and had to go into a nursing home, son got her to sell the house in Florida, and go back North near him and her grandkids in a nursing home. He said NOBODY wanted that house in Naples. So now 10 years later, she is near her son and grandkids all the time. If I can survive living in Florida, some day that will be my story too. My children have already said they do not want a house in Florida, so it will have to be sold too.

Florida lovers just cannot see that others do not feel the same way they do about this state.

[**NoodLes**]

Originally Posted by TXRyan23

Why would someone here want to go to Florida ? Most people I talk to here go to Colorado, California, and Hawaii..

Exactly, most sane people from out west clearly know to stay away from the swamp. Nice to visit, but not live.

[TXRyan23]

Originally Posted by **NoodLes**

Exactly, most sane people from out west clearly know to stay away from the swamp. Nice to visit, but not live.

What part of Texas are you relocating to ?

[New Horizons]

That's a sad story and the first guy reminds me of me. For a while my parents owned a condo in Del Mar, just north of San Diego. It was so nice there, we were a half a mile from the ocean. I'd sleep with my windows open in the summertime. When my parents split up for a while, my mother came back to St. Petersburg only because she didn't know where else to go, and her step mom lived here. After living in Boca Raton and then San Diego, St. Petersburg seemed like a downgrade to me. But one by one everybody followed suit. My sisters told me I wouldn't recognize the corner of 38th Ave N and 4th street anymore, they built a Burger King!!

I'm always telling my parents that when I finish college I can get us out west again. But I feel like I'm on a race against time, because they're getting old. And anyway they don't seem to have the drive to leave this place like I do. As long as my mom has grandkids to dote over she feels like she has a purpose. But she's not getting any from me or my brother. He already got a vasectomy and I told her I'd do the same.

So screw it, I'll leave them here and start my own life in CA, or Arizona possibly (I'll be checking out Phoenix this March, already got my ticket). My sisters can take care of them. This is bad but I feel like when they die I'll finally be free mentally. I'll feel like the main charachter in Les Miserables when the police officer threw himself in the water.

Originally Posted by Jo48

I worked with man who was born, raised in Florida, and moved to California as a Pre-teen. His parents were native Floridians who moved back when they retired. After his father passed and his mother became disabled, he came back to care for her.

All he talked about was moving back to California. His younger brother stayed in Ca. with his family. I cannot tell you how many times he compared Ca. to Florida from weather to beaches, etc. He used to lament all the time that as the oldest son he had to come back to Florida. He tried to convince his mother to move in with him in Ca. but she would not go. Although he said he loved his Mom, he said as soon as she passed that he was going to sell her house and go back to Califorinia.

I have seen this in my own family with my daughter's father-in-law. His parents retired to Naples. When he father died, his Mom wanted to stay in Florida, but her son wouldn't hear of it. When she could no longer take care of her self and had to go into a nursing home, son got her to sell the house in Florida, and go back North near him and her grandkids in a nursing home. He said NOBODY wanted that house in Naples. So now 10 years later, she is near her son and grandkids all the time. If I can survive living in Florida, some day that will be my story too. My children have already said they do not want a house in Florida, so it will have to be sold too.

Florida lovers just cannot see that others do not feel the same way they do about this state.

[gypsychic]

Originally Posted by TXRyan23

What part of Texas are you relocating to ?

Probably the place he left before and used to bash.

[JohnVosilla]

Originally Posted by duttygal86

We might be a tourist state but those jobs don't pay, point blank we need new industry.

Yep as someone who has lived here a very long time, done business in 30 counties, lived in 6 of them I agree. Unfortunate brain drain here because we don't have the corporate presence we should for a state soon to surpass NY for number 3. Folks can spin another housing boom or tourism leading us out all they want but that is literally a house of cards low paying economy that hollows out the middle class even more. Only time I saw anything even approaching the more balanced real economic expansion that has happened in Houston, Austin or Raleigh in recent decades was the period of Reaganomics when I first moved here very young and we got our share of corporate relo's and expansion of large companies both domestic and foreign that brought high paying jobs.....