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for the positives, unemployment is low, there's plenty of work, the town is growing, there's definitely signs of wealth, it's a town that's getting cleaner looking, it has the largest university in the state, and a new business (bel cheese plant) is coming. Town itself is run well with progressive city management/council.
crime here is nonexistent.
Larger growing city to the south, and live along a fast interstate, so it's not like it's totally in the middle of nowhere. Swiftel center gets some good bands from time to time, such as Disturbed who have been here more than once since I've lived here. No state income tax. Good summers.
However it's too isolated, winters too cold (actually it's the springs and falls that last too long, I don't mind the cold winters they just drag out) , too flat, with not enough forested areas, no large areas of water with beaches, not enough paved roads (no state income tax will do that), housing is fairly tight and expensive ... it's a toss up, to leave a job with good working conditions in a temperature controlled environment when I'd probably never find one that will equal the pay that I make now, just for more things to do and a warmer climate... I toss this one all around all the time as I look at google maps for possible alternatives.
You don't see anything positive about being 15 minutes from beautiful beaches and natural preserves/barrier islands? I know Jacksonville isn't very pretty, but after I drive through there I do on to Emerald Isle - which is gorgeous...or Beaufort - also gorgeous.
Depending on where you live in Jacksonville, the beach is up to an hour away unless you want to go to Onslow Beach on Camp Lejeune. As for Beaufort, that too is an hour + away. I agree that Beaufort is adorable... but one of the points I made was that everything half decent was an hour away
Unfortunately I'm not much of a 'beach person'. I grew up 10 minutes walk from the beach in Australia so have never thought of it as 'any big deal'. When I first moved to the Midwest when I was 22, I thought I may miss the beach, but I didn't at all. It's just not my kind of thing Each to their own!
Dallas (Texas): sprawl, lack of congregation places, sprawl, NRA lovers, sprawl, violence, sprawl, trashy people, sprawl, rednecks, sprawl, conservatives, sprawl, awful weather, sprawl, lack of green, sprawl, bad food with the exception of the amazing BBQ (I miss it in fact), sprawl, life-less enviroment, sprawl, dull center, sprawl, religious wackos, sprawl, traffic, sprawl, pathetic night life, sprawl, megachurches... er, did I mention sprawl?
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South Florida----
Not humanity. Three years I will never get back. I can only hope time will mercifully purge my memory of the horror. A cultureless void--traffic, malls, bourgeois, trashy gated "communities". Like living in the parking lot of South of the Border but with mean angry peopledroids instead of cool plaster dinosaurus rex statues . . .
Dallas (Texas): sprawl, lack of congregation places, sprawl, NRA lovers, sprawl, violence, sprawl, trashy people, sprawl, rednecks, sprawl, conservatives, sprawl, awful weather, sprawl, lack of green, sprawl, bad food with the exception of the amazing BBQ (I miss it in fact), sprawl, life-less enviroment, sprawl, dull center, sprawl, religious wackos, sprawl, traffic, sprawl, pathetic night life, sprawl, megachurches... er, did I mention sprawl?
I guess the sprawl has gotten to you. The religious people and rednecks would get to me, too.
No. Every place I've ever lived was the right place for me at the time in my life when I lived there. Some of those places would not be right for me now.
I guess the sprawl has gotten to you. The religious people and rednecks would get to me, too.
Well, in fact the atrocious sprawl of Dallas is the first reason I strongly dislike that city (as well as Houston/Miami/Atlanta/Phoenix): I always shake my head when anyone tells me that TX cities are less stressful than NYC/Boston/Chicago/San Francisco... sorry, such a car-centric city IS the epitome of stress and unhealthy life.
people in south florida are some of the most shallow people I have ever known
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