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Old 01-11-2009, 08:12 PM
 
Location: Concrete jungle where dreams are made of.
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The "implications" as you have imagined them are incorrect. Prices of groceries have not gone down. I have a degree in economics, and understand how market factors work. Walmart coming in here or anywhere else isn't going to do that. You still have input cost like getting the stuff to market, example trucking it in and then comes in cost of fuel or bringing it in via rail. Then you have higher wages of labor on farms and also fuel cost etc. You are confusing cheap goods and trinkets being made in china and sold here in the U.S. with food being grown and bought to market right here in the good old U.S. of A

As for craigslist *chuckle*. Most listings in NYC if you truly live there and know the market as you say you do are listed with agents. And then you have private owners who don't list with agents or craigslist, but go through word of mouth for example. But you knowing the "tricks" probably already knew that *the internet never ceases to amaze me*

I won't give you exact addresses as they are where family and friends live. However next time you are in a adventures mood just find your way to Nostrand ave between Lefferts Avenue and Sterling and walk around to the buildings around there and ask about prices. Thats one example, once you have done this I can give you some other scouting missions if you like.

As for the grocery challenge, lets have at it.

Anyway, I did think of one thing that South Florida has. Thats the winter music fest. I love house music (deep/souful house) and some of my favorite DJs come down to Miami beach for the music fest. Only thing is, the darn thing is so expesive if you want to partake in everything the music fest has to offer.



I used to live in Dallas for a split second and traveled around Texas. You finding something even fractionally close to what NYC has to offer as far as ethnic food and diversity is about as possible as a lion standing on two legs and speaking. Well I take that back, in Houston and Dallas they have HUGE Ethiopian populations and the Ethiopian food there is to die for but that's about it. Where on the Island you moving too? I used to live out on the Island for a hot minute. You should wait awhile before moving, those prices are still nose diving. Wait for them to bottom out and get something nice. As for Atlanta, ummm you can get good Somali and Nigerian food, thats about it. Atlanta to me wasn't that bad but it still wasn't my cup of tea. I hear Cuban food down here is very good. I don't eat pork so I have not tried it out to have a opinion on it.
We're probably buying a house in the Levittown area.

The people on the General US forum really crack me up. I've been to Atlanta and there wasn't really that much to do there. Been there a few times. Never saw anything remotely close to the ethnic food NYC has to offer.

 
Old 01-11-2009, 08:21 PM
 
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We (my friends and family) are Brooklynites born and breed, we don't own cars By train you can take the 2 or 5 to get to where I am telling you.

Anyway, from sterling and nostrand head north, there is a grocery on your right if you walk a few blocks up. Down here we do a LOT of shopping at whole foods, that's another place you can check in the city, the prices are the same there as it is here. I generally go to the one in Union Square when i am home.

As to the craiglist thing, errrrr ok.
I will check the neighborhood and that grocery store out next weekend and report back.

I know that Whole Foods store well. As you know, WF is relatively more expensive in any city as it is in the upper tier as far as grocery stores go and not representative of the broader market...so lets throw it out.
 
Old 01-11-2009, 08:23 PM
 
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Never saw anything remotely close to the ethnic food NYC has to offer.
100% agree. It's amazing.
 
Old 01-11-2009, 11:14 PM
 
Location: Jersey Shore
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I see you are in Sarasota. I can't speak for that place but in South Florida people are not overly friendly so it is hard to find friends here outside of your buddies. At least that has been my experience. My mother was down here for a bit and for the time she was her she didn't meet to many people should would consider hang out buddies. She was so happy when she left here. I think as you said its easier if you are from here. Or if you have buddies that have moved down here from where ever you are from. But as tony said, maybe try finding clubs where you can meet up with people of similar interest. I know its tuff though, best of luck.
People are not friendly here either or maybe I should say not receptive to making new friends. I play bunko with a bunch of woman once a month just to get out of the house but thats as far as it goes. They don't seem to really socialize outside of that.
 
Old 01-11-2009, 11:29 PM
 
Location: Jersey Shore
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Make new friends. Join community groups and organizations; volunter in the neighborhood, help feed the poor and hugry.
I was a welfare director in NJ for 15 years, been there done that. Not my thing, besides that homeless people here are aweful picky.lol I only responded to this post because of the " boring issue" and to get my point of view which is its all about friends that make it not so boring.
 
Old 01-12-2009, 06:07 AM
 
Location: Miramar, FL
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Ok..... you're not living here yet..... thats why

SO After you've been here, lets say 5 years......
And after you've done the beach, done the diving, gone fishing, owned a boat and wish you never had one, been to metro zoo and know the animals by name, driven up to Orlando to do the parks and know the turnpike like your back yard, been on cruises, spent your money in south beach, driven on the palmetto expressway at rush hour 5 days a week, the grove is just another city, been through a category 4 hurricane with no electricity for a week in 90 plus degree heat, put up with the 5th ranked most obnoxious drivers in the country, spent too much at the casino's or horse racing, been to the museums and know enough that you could be the guide for each. Oh and did I mention visiting the Keys and know what you will find at each mile marker on your way down to walk on Duval street.

Then LETS TALK about it

AND yes Florida is Boring
Ok will do. I'll be sure to check back once I've been living down there for a couple of years to tell you all that you're wrong. My BF and his friends have been down there over 25 years (some their whole lives) and they are never bored. They usually have too much to do! They dive every weekend, year round (which I will also be doing once I get down) and have been since they all moved there and still aren't bored of it. During football season they have to fit in diving AND Dolphins games, plus group get togethers and fishing. Not enough hours in the day if you ask them.

Btw, you just named a lot of things up there that you're bored of...way more options than most U.S. cities have. Good thing you live in FL, I think if you lived anywhere else ([sarcasm] other than the blessed, holy, and orgasmic place that is NYC [/sarcasm]) you would have been bored in 6 months.

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I had to put my two cents in. I am a Jersey Girl that moved to Florida and I also think its sooo boring. After thinking long and hard, here is what I came up with. If your originally from Florida you don't know any other way of life. Its your "home" and you have friends here and know your surroundings. I came to realize that its not the amount of acitivities out there its being able to go to a place that you'll run into familiar faces. Kinda like the bar "cheers". I have gone to many of the activities here and don't know a sole, it was boring. When I would go to them at home I would always run into someone I knew. Just being able to drop by a friends house anytime is something to do. In my opinion close friends make a place home and not boring and if you move to a state where you don't have them your really going to be bored out of your mind and spend lots of money just to keep yourself occupied.
Get a hobby...join some meet up groups. If you don't have friends down there it's b/c you aren't trying very hard to make them. (see comment below to dmc)

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People are not friendly here either or maybe I should say not receptive to making new friends. I play bunko with a bunch of woman once a month just to get out of the house but thats as far as it goes. They don't seem to really socialize outside of that.
Don't know what to tell you, I don't even live down there yet and I already have a huge circle of friends. I come down every few weeks and my BF and I rarely have a chance to even sit down b/c there are so many people that want to do dinners, drinks, diving, bbqs, sports games, tailgating. I never get to see everyone and always have to tell several people "Sorry, but I'll see you next time I'm down."

Yup just look at all those unfriendly Floridians

 
Old 01-12-2009, 10:59 AM
 
Location: Atlanta
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Oh yeah, the greek food here is to die for...lol. I'm going to miss the gyros when I buy a house on the island.

As far as areas being boring...I was recently in arguments with people in the south who live in Houston and Atlanta. They said I could get exactly what I find in NYC over there in Houston, as far as the ethnic foods being so close together. Uh huh, sure...
^As one of the people in that so-called "argument," that is a flat-out lie.

If you are going to refer to a now-closed thread (thanks in part to you and your mother), at least refer to it in a truthful manner. NOBODY ever claimed what you just said they did.
 
Old 01-12-2009, 11:03 AM
 
Location: Atlanta
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We're probably buying a house in the Levittown area.

The people on the General US forum really crack me up. I've been to Atlanta and there wasn't really that much to do there. Been there a few times. Never saw anything remotely close to the ethnic food NYC has to offer.
Then you have either never been here, just passed through on the Interstate or are so blinded by the fabulous NY that you can't see past the Hudson. Way to make broad generalizations about a huge area you obviously know nothing about.

You and your mother were responsible for several threads being shut down over the weekend. Are you starting out a new week hoping for more of the same?

Last edited by johnatl; 01-12-2009 at 11:25 AM.. Reason: spelling
 
Old 01-12-2009, 11:19 AM
 
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To John & Rachel,

We have enough arguments here by ourselves - this is really are the wrong place for a spillover argument...maybe there's some boring board in the midwest you can invade who would appreciate the drama.
 
Old 01-12-2009, 11:24 AM
 
Location: Atlanta
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No problem at all. I just can't stand lies - sorry.
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