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Old 05-30-2007, 10:04 AM
 
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You can not afford to live here even with both us workin50 hours a week and making $90,000 a year.

We are thinking of moving to East Texas, I have heard that they have mild weather and the people are supposed to be nicer there and a better job market and more affordable living. I really don't want to leave Florida, but living here has become do difficult I don't know if we can stay!
Have you ever been to east Texas? Weather milder Have you seen the weather in TX the past 2 weeks? This sort of rain happens every other year or so there. A tornado just ripped through the town we lived in. Would you care to know the demographics of many portions of east Texas? I hope you are fluent in Spanish....Job market is better for those in IT & banking. Many more places to find white collar jobs in TX though it is starting to get very competitive due to TX huge population expansion the past few years. Housing is DEFINITELY more affordable, but it is east Texas & once you find a nice, safe neighborhood, the heat, humidity & lack of foliage is depressing. Houston goes back & forth on being one of the most dangerous cities to live in due to gangs & crime.

We are not fans of FL but we just came from 5 years in TX. I would not go back there if you offered me a free home & a million dollar job. The weather alone out there is intolerable from May to October. Last August was a straight month of 100+ temps. Florida is not Texas, so it is tolerable until we can move.

I will say, though, a lot of areas in TX have some really friendly people & there is no state income tax. It is not as transient a state as Florida, but it is VERY heavily hispanic due to its location.

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Old 05-30-2007, 10:26 AM
 
Location: arrlando, flarida
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hengymama, where are you living that you dislike?
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Old 05-30-2007, 01:22 PM
 
Location: Not where I want to be
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I have lived in Ft.Lauderdale, West Palm Beach, Coral Springs and now I live in Panama City. We thought we were doing better by moving from Ft. Laud to PC but it is getting just as bad. My kids still like it but we don't.
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Old 05-30-2007, 03:36 PM
 
Location: arrlando, flarida
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i think panama city gets a lot of partiers and things of that nature, doesnt it? like a milder daytona bch or myrtle beach, sc? you may want to try the other side of northern fla.
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Old 05-30-2007, 04:16 PM
 
Location: Not where I want to be
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Especially in the spring and summer. That's one of the reasons I don't live in town or at the beach.
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Old 05-30-2007, 05:13 PM
 
Location: Bradenton, FL
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By milder I ment then Indiana, where you can go for months with no sunhine and Tornados were part of every spring. I have been looking into the Tyler Texas area. I have been to Houston, from whaqt I have heard the Tyler area is more like the south. Houston was like any big city. As far as the hispanic population goes. Were in florida do you live, I am from Brodward County, the hispanic population as exploded in that area of the last several years. You have heard of little Havanna Right? The workers in the mall don't even speak english. I currantly live in manatte county, we have a huge mexican population due to all the farming in this area. My daughters high school is over 38% Mexican, and we have entire sections our our town were all the stores name are all in spanish. I think it depends on what your looking for I don't want a big city, but that makes it harder to find a good paying job.
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Old 05-30-2007, 09:43 PM
 
Location: Not where I want to be
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That's pretty bad when people in your own country don't speak english.
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Old 05-31-2007, 05:44 AM
 
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Most people I know are moving to North Carolina, but personally I don't like living with crackers (and by that I don't mean offense, I just mean southern people, where I come it's a slang for a southern person or a "redneck").
This 3rd generation Florida cracker (something tells me that word is being used in ignorance of its origin) left the state for good after 45 years there for somewhere more Southern, where there is more respect for the law and tradition; with a resultant slower, saner way of life. I got a kick out of this post as I don't like living with Yankees whose carpetbagging greed ruined Florida.
As goes Florida (and California) so goes the nation. In another thirty years we'll be one giant multicultural cesspool of a nanny state, if we're here at all.
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Old 05-31-2007, 10:26 AM
 
Location: arrlando, flarida
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by the name, "mount'neer" i am guessing west va perhaps?
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Old 05-31-2007, 11:29 AM
 
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'By milder I ment then Indiana, where you can go for months with no sunhine and Tornados were part of every spring. I have been looking into the Tyler Texas area. I have been to Houston, from whaqt I have heard the Tyler area is more like the south. Houston was like any big city. As far as the hispanic population goes. Were in florida do you live, I am from Brodward County, the hispanic population as exploded in that area of the last several years. You have heard of little Havanna Right? The workers in the mall don't even speak english. I currantly live in manatte county, we have a huge mexican population due to all the farming in this area. My daughters high school is over 38% Mexican, and we have entire sections our our town were all the stores name are all in spanish. I think it depends on what your looking for I don't want a big city, but that makes it harder to find a good paying job.'


You must check out the wonderful planned community called 'The Woodlands' about 30 miles north of Houston..
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