List your reasons why you want to move out or already moved out of South Florida (Jacksonville: insurance, house)

[Outofhere77]

I am moving out of South Florida in a few weeks. I have lived in Chicago, IL and Jacksonville, NC for the most part and I've been living in South Florida for the past 5 1/2 years. I got used to the hot weather and humidity, but unfortunately, never got used to the road rage, crazy drivers, ignorant people, rudeness, superficiality, high cost of living, and low wages. Do you share the same thoughts or its just my personal experience here??? Fire away!!!

[perry335654]

To the OP read other threads on this topic as this is a waste of bandwidth. Read people read!!!!

[cixcell]

perry: treadmill

[Outofhere77]

Originally Posted by perry335654

To the OP read other threads on this topic as this is a waste of bandwidth. Read people read!!!!

If there's somebody that wastes bandwidth its you buddy. I know you feel the need to comment on every thread and every post, but give a chance to the new people to start a fresh thread and get some replies from other new people. I have read many other threads and after a thousand and some replies, people end up talking about what kind of ketchup they buy at publix. What I ask is simple, list the things that made you move out of south Florida, that's it. If you are one of these "Florida lovers" or you have read every single thread and every single post in CD and you dont want to read mine, then ignore it and move on

[Pear Martini]

I'm moving soon and its pretty much for the same reasons as you. Where are ou moving to?

[boxus]

The only reason I would ever want to move would be because of housing. Housing here is crazy in costs compared to wages. I make just fine money, but have a hard time committing to purchasing a house when I can get one somewhere else for half the price, or three times the house for the same money, and I will not even get into the tax and insurance thing.

I mention wages because my company does give me a housing allowance, but heck, where I was before I could purchase a nice place without having an allowance, here the allowance does not come close to matched the disparity.

[NYC809]

I dislike it here for many of the same reasons. I am moving to San Francisco hopefully soon.

[Three Wolves In Snow]

I already moved. I lived in S. FL for 6 years.

My reasons were as follows:

Heat/humidity...worse than I thought. My bad.

But, the main reasons were, as you listed:

"road rage, crazy drivers, ignorant people, rudeness, superficiality, high cost of living, and low wages"

I'm out, it's so much more peaceful where I am, so much cooler..in fact, I hear, periodically over this summer, locals complaining about the humidity and I jerk back in surprise, "What humidity?!?!?"

Instead of 99% of the people being angry, rude and aggressive, with 1% being decent, it's 1% being angry, rude and aggressive and 99% being decent if not downright friendly as hell.

Cost of living is SO MUCH lower here but the wages are higher for the same type of jobs. And superficial? hahahahaha, that does not exist here. Everyone is mellow, laid back and "down to earth", (as much as I hate that phrase).

Refreshing.

[flyers29]

Originally Posted by Outofhere77

If there's somebody that wastes bandwidth its you buddy. I know you feel the need to comment on every thread and every post, but give a chance to the new people to start a fresh thread and get some replies from other new people. I have read many other threads and after a thousand and some replies, people end up talking about what kind of ketchup they buy at publix. What I ask is simple, list the things that made you move out of south Florida, that's it. If you are one of these "Florida lovers" or you have read every single thread and every single post in CD and you dont want to read mine, then ignore it and move on

Because a thread like this: //www.city-data.com/forum/miami...ate-miami.html wouldn't have accomplished the same? Or how about this one://www.city-data.com/forum/miami...cant-wait.html What's the point of starting yet another pissing contest when there are enough on the first 2 pages of this forum alone?

[tallrick]

The incompetent and corrupt Miami-Dade government is enough to chase any productive citizen away. They are still harassing my elderly parents and shortening their lives. Currently I am trying to convince them to dump dade and move to my old place in Key Largo. Miami is a unique cesspool that only a cat 3+ can reform. I do not blame the average person in the area, they are only a product of a flawed environment.