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Old 01-07-2018, 01:26 PM
 
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New to this forum and Broward County. Is it just me or is there nothing for young people to do down here? I am a 20-something (yes a millennial) and it just seems there are not many young people around Fort Lauderdale and if they are they're rich and stuck up or really poor and doing all they can to leave this place (these ones usually grew up here).
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Old 01-07-2018, 03:07 PM
 
Location: Port Charlotte FL
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Florida is basically a retirement state, hence the saying "God's waiting room"..
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Old 01-07-2018, 03:29 PM
 
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New to this forum and Broward County. Is it just me or is there nothing for young people to do down here? I am a 20-something (yes a millennial) and it just seems there are not many young people around Fort Lauderdale and if they are they're rich and stuck up or really poor and doing all they can to leave this place (these ones usually grew up here).
I was 18 when I moved to Florida. I loved it. What's funny is I moved to Sarasota, which definitely is old people central. I'm a beach bum and I can stay on the beach the whole day and not get bored. It's weird because most of the young people in Florida seem to not visit the beaches often.

At least you're in Broward County so you have Ft. Lauderdale and Miami if you want to go to bars/clubs/fancy restaurants.
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Old 01-07-2018, 04:47 PM
 
Location: Weston, FL
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Flagler Village part of Fort Lauderdale is full of young people that seem to be pretty happy.
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Old 01-07-2018, 05:51 PM
 
Location: Florida & Cebu, Philippines
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There is plenty of thing to do for a young person, there is all that is on Las OLas and at Las Olas beach including the Elbo Room and then there is the beach and diving or even snorkeling off Dania beach and other beaches, as well as Kayaking or boating along the river off Las Olas, to name just one place, then there is the Everglades for camping, hunting, fishing, air boating etc, and shooting ranges if a person likes that type of thing and then a short hop to South Beach, plenty to do down there.
The first Sunday of the month their is the Jazz Brunch @Riverwalk, then there are car shows and more, check out the links below for some in the area and some out of the area
https://www.eventbrite.com/d/fl--for...dale/car-show/
Cruisin South Florida - South Florida's Hottest Classic Car Show Events Site! Home of DJ "Scott The Musicman"
http://flacarshows.com/events/catego...heast-florida/

What to do can be limitless, depending on a persons state of mind.
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Old 01-07-2018, 06:04 PM
 
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Florida is basically a retirement state, hence the saying "God's waiting room"..
This is geographically stereotypical. I live in Dunedin, I'm 67, and I'm one of the older people here. I lived in Vero Beach where I was a baby by comparison.
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Old 01-08-2018, 09:59 AM
 
Location: Florida
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There's a lot to do in Broward in Miami-Dade for a young person, perhaps too much. I live in Ft. Lauderdale and I'm in my early 30's, so I'm still a "millennial". I never don't have something to do, my problem is picking what to do.

We have among the best nightlife in the country, we have great outdoor recreational facilities and activities, plenty of parks, year-round events, casinos, beaches, etc etc

If you can't find something to do in Ft. Lauderdale or Miami you really aren't looking at all.
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Old 01-09-2018, 07:31 AM
 
Location: cary, nc
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What are things you like to do? have you tried meetup.com ?
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Old 01-15-2018, 12:36 PM
 
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This is geographically stereotypical. I live in Dunedin, I'm 67, and I'm one of the older people here. I lived in Vero Beach where I was a baby by comparison.
Dunedin has a lot of young families, right?
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Old 01-17-2018, 02:14 PM
 
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Well, if you like discount shopping there is plenty of that to do here. I think there's maybe 10 thrifts stores within 10 miles of each other and lots and lots of discount stores at the Coral Ridge Mall and of course the big discount tourist destination, Sawgrass Mills, which is an outlet mall.

Lots of people come here from Europe and South American to buy designer brands in the discount stores as the European Union and many of the South American countries won't allow imports to come in without import taxes on them to protect their manufacturing workers from having to compete with countries that use child labor like it used to be in the U.S. until Congress started voting away those protections.

Of course, now large parts of once thriving manufacturing areas of the U.S. are ghost-towns and the only jobs left are low paying service industry jobs like we mostly have here in this area but people here seem to think that allowing for the building of luxury apartment and condo buildings will keep the money flowing in here, even though that market has softened in cities like New York because of the over abundance of new buildings going up and of course, there are only so many rich people to go around. Many of the units in those buildings in downtown Fort Lauderdale are sitting empty as investors bought a lot of the units when the buildings went up hedging that they could make a bundle reselling them as prices go up or they use them as federal tax write offs on their fully occupied units in other cities that have worked to make their downtowns vibrant and alive.

I was in the near north area of downtown Fort Lauderdale recently where there's a spate of new mid rise apartment buildings that have gone up but they only seem to foster the building of more of the same as most of the retail and restaurant buildings in that area are now sitting vacant, except in the first floor corporate run businesses of the new buildings on Federal Highway just north of Broward Boulevard. Nobody who lives in those buildings really have any interesting places to walk to so they probably just get in their cars and increase the traffic congestion here to go to a movie or out to eat as most of downtown Fort Lauderdale folds up at 5pm and the Riverwalk shopping complex where you used to be able to go shop, dine and see a movie and then hang out on the riverfront and have a drink is closed and sold off to developers who are tearing it down to build another closed up high rise condo or apartment building.

I can't see where any fun places for young people to go have opened up as empty spaces such as where Joseph's Clock and Watch Repair used to be are closed up with gates across where the windows were broken out with litter and trash laying around on the inside. Kinda scary looking if you ask me and I wonder who in the City of Fort Lauderdale allows this sort of burned out abandoned building thing to go on right across the street from "luxury" apartments.

Miami Beach kept Lincoln Road in shape after it went into decline years ago by getting subsidies for artists to open up studios in vacant storefronts and allowing an antique and collectibles market to set up there which started over 20 years ago and still is held a couple of Sundays a month from October to May. All that activity on Lincoln Road eventually helped Lincoln Road become the hot spot on South Beach for retail stores and restaurants where lots of young people work and hang out, along with lots of people in different age groups with a lot of people driving down from Fort Lauderdale because there's nothing similar here to go to.

The previous mayors of Fort Lauderdale, including the current one who is endorsing Roberts in the run-off in March against Trantalis, didn't seem to care about being creative enough to bring or keep younger adults downtown and so now it's a bit of a wasteland where the only young people you see out and about that aren't homeless are those walking their dogs who live in the new buildings in the area that in most cities would have stores, cafe's and restaurants on the first floor but which weren't required here so developers could maximize rental space for apartments.

Once you get off Federal Highway and go west into these developments, it's like going into a deserted village with lights on in the apartments but no stores or restaurants or street activity. It's like one of those old horror movies where all the villagers have locked themselves up tight to make sure the monsters don't find them.

There is one small event called Food in Motion takes places the 2nd Friday of each month just north of downtown where a side street off 3rd Avenue is closed off and people set up and sell vintage and handmade items in the park there and people can sit at tables and eat food from gourmet food trucks but other than that, I don't think there's much in the way of social things for young people to do in Fort Lauderdale and most of the younger people I know head up to Boca Raton and West Palm Beach or down to South Beach if they want to go out and hang out at outdoor cafe's and restaurants because really, who wants to sit in an outdoor restaurant and try to have a conversation with the heavy traffic on Federal Highway roaring past?
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