Is Orlando as Bad as NY? (Seminole, Jay: crimes, houses, buy)

[backtofla]

i believe it --- trying to talk the wife into moving to northern fla.

[INeedAChange]

Cindy, if this is any help, I live in the Bronx too. I ran a quote thru GEICO of what my auto insurance would be if I lived in a suburb of Orlando and it was HALF of what I pay here (Miami was the same, however), so not everything is as bad.

[aggies07]

Originally Posted by kaila221

I believe that florida is good for somebody who makes good money and is not a single parent. I personally think that here in florida what you don't spend in rent you will spend it in gas, food (which is more expensive than in NY) and utilities. I do believe that most people are still in the past century in the way they think, life sucks if one doesn't have a car and public transportation is horrible, it's extremely humid for most of the year, employers act like if they are doing you a favor for hiring you when most company can't run with only one employee ( which mean they need us as much as we need them). To me this is for rich people. Plus racism is stronger than up north. Floridians say that New Yorkers have an attitude. I don't think New Yorkers have an attitude they just don't take crap from nobody. I am originally from the Caribbean (Dominican Republic) and I felt very welcomed when I first moved to NY, here I don't feel like that. In orlando they still see foreigners as creatures from some other planet. In New York no matter where you come from the show respect for every culture ( in nyc I'm talking about)

I completely agree with this post, but Rochester New York upstate is pretty good also for respecting other cultures too!

[THASPECIAL]

Employers "are" doing you a favor by hiring you....you have to be appreciativce in this life with whatever door opens for you....otherwise you are going to move from job to job because you get tired of things not being catered to "your" needs.....you should be a team player at work....now i understand if you are doing more work than others at your job and not getting better pay then them or something like that but if you are talking of them being too strict about you being late a couple times or calling out then you really have the problem and dont appreciate your job.

[INeedAChange]

In a perfect world you have a point but the problem is that the respect isn't reciprocated by the employers. We are supposed to give 2 weeks notice to leave, but employers have no problem laying people off and escorting them off the premises that same day. One person I worked with had been at the place for years--they laid her off (through no fault of her own), and then they wouldn't even let her get her belongings from her cube before she left--instead they threw the stuff in boxes the next day and UPS'd it to her house. So I understand why a lot of employees aren't loyal these days and there's less professionalism in general.

Originally Posted by THASPECIAL

Employers "are" doing you a favor by hiring you....you have to be appreciativce in this life with whatever door opens for you....otherwise you are going to move from job to job because you get tired of things not being catered to "your" needs.....you should be a team player at work....now i understand if you are doing more work than others at your job and not getting better pay then them or something like that but if you are talking of them being too strict about you being late a couple times or calling out then you really have the problem and dont appreciate your job.

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That's the reason you have to respect your job and act like it is a privaledge because you could lose it just like that. I am sure that when employers have to let people go in certain seasons or times that they try to keep the hardest workers. Not in all cases but most of the time like at my job delivering pizza they let people go after the seasons slow down but my boss even told me that he only cuts peoples hours when needed if they seem like they don't wanna be there to work and if they have problems calling out and stuff, but he also said that he will not let go of any of his hard workers and i think that's how most places are with an exception of places like you are talking about. yeah i dont agree with all my employers do but i try to sacrifice to just because i have pride in my job wherever i work.



That is something that i noticed. Alot of the people on the forums always down foriegners for being here and say crime is worse because of them....well its kinda true about the young ones who try to immitate the hip hop culture and bring thier own moral ideas into our society but at my work the majority of people are Brazilian, and we have amexican and one puerto rican and a couple white people.


I would honestly say that the people that dont appreciate thier job are mostly american at my work because these Brazilians are always keeping busy and not standing around talking like some of these white dudes at work. I guess its not as much competition to keep a job over here and i am american and i look at those white guys and say to myself "man they are frikin lazy and are always the ones who complain" and they set a bad example....but there are hard working americans at my job too but as a majority they arent the ones who act like they need the job.

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Another thing. If you are planning a move from New York (Bronx) to Florida. Iwould suggest not to because not everytime but most of the time i will ask someone where they are from and if they say New York....


I then ask if they like it here and the response i usually get is a negative one....not downing Florida but just stuff like " Iwish things were opened later, or they dont know how to make real food here, or in New York i could do this or that" ......



I get that response about 80 percent of the time but they continue to stay here instead of moving to the Carolinas or some other state. So i really dont know if they (New Yorkers) are just trying to prove to "us" that they have it better there or want us to see what it is like there by saying this kinda stuff or if they are just really miserable being here which in my view is a waste of time.

I learned my lesson after moving from Miami to Nashville. That was a culture shock and i hated it in Nashville and would always down things there when i would talk to people that were from there, but I realized that i wasnt changing peoples' minds about thier city ...I was only making my life more negative by pointing all the negatives out about thier city....

so i realized i had to change my way of thinking and stop acting like my city was better and just start enjoying the good things about where i am now and thats what you have to do because if someone has never been to where you are from and listens to you complain and tell why your city is the best then it does no good because they dont see what you are talking about and youve wasted your energy trying to convince the millions of something they dont see.

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[Hustla718]

Originally Posted by THASPECIAL

Another thing. If you are planning a move from New York (Bronx) to Florida. Iwould suggest not to because not everytime but most of the time i will ask someone where they are from and if they say New York....


I then ask if they like it here and the response i usually get is a negative one....not downing Florida but just stuff like " Iwish things were opened later, or they dont know how to make real food here, or in New York i could do this or that" ......



I get that response about 80 percent of the time but they continue to stay here instead of moving to the Carolinas or some other state. So i really dont know if they (New Yorkers) are just trying to prove to "us" that they have it better there or want us to see what it is like there by saying this kinda stuff or if they are just really miserable being here which in my view is a waste of time.

I learned my lesson after moving from Miami to Nashville. That was a culture shock and i hated it in Nashville and would always down things there when i would talk to people that were from there, but I realized that i wasnt changing peoples' minds about thier city ...I was only making my life more negative by pointing all the negatives out about thier city....

so i realized i had to change my way of thinking and stop acting like my city was better and just start enjoying the good things about where i am now and thats what you have to do because if someone has never been to where you are from and listens to you complain and tell why your city is the best then it does no good because they dont see what you are talking about and youve wasted your energy trying to convince the millions of something they dont see.

You have a serious inferiority complex towards New York City.

Anyway, crime wise Orlando has it's problems. Is it as bad as New York City? Overall, more of Orlando would be considered higher crime then NYC. Meaning the chances that you may live in a higher crime area is higher in Orlando, since a higher percentage of the city is high crime. However in terms of the worst of the worst, NYC's ghettos have much more crime due to population and density. Just last night for example 6 people were shot in 4 seperate incidents in Central Harlem. That is an area less then a square mile.

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Originally Posted by Hustla718

You have a serious inferiority complex towards New York City.

Anyway, crime wise Orlando has it's problems. Is it as bad as New York City? Overall, more of Orlando would be considered higher crime then NYC. Meaning the chances that you may live in a higher crime area is higher in Orlando, since a higher percentage of the city is high crime. However in terms of the worst of the worst, NYC's ghettos have much more crime due to population and density. Just last night for example 6 people were shot in 4 seperate incidents in Central Harlem. That is an area less then a square mile.

I think it is the other way around .......i came on to this site just reading and putting some input in here and there but guess what?....Most times i saw a New Yorker bashing another place and telling the people there how much better NYC was and how they wouldnt compare to crime in the Bronx.....so i finally opened my mouth to give out some truth backed up with some statistics. I am not the person who came on here with arrogance in my mind about thinking my city was the best.......i am the kinda guy who will admit i am wrong in front of people on here, but for some reason a New Yorker has to try to explain thier side and make sure we know how bad thier city is compared to what we see all over america........even if statistics prove wrong......well i am one to admit other places are worse than Orlando or wherever i may live but "rarely" will you find a New Yorker admit they aren't the best (good or bad).....I didnt start going around telling people that Miami was the worst or Orlando was the worst, but things have happened to me in these places and the stuff we hear locally tells me there is something different about the crime rate here.....its actually higher than NYC ......i always knew there were worse areas but if you tell me that statistics dont mean anything and that i havent been a victim like i could be in NYC then that is where i get mad because its a little disrespectfull to disregard our problems like we live in some DISNEYLAND type of city compared to NYC......and to disregard Miami as being the crime capital for many years and the murder capital back then to....it is history ....not opinion


I can prove my point about the bashing of other places to. Go to the NYC forum and count the people that bash or say thier areas are better on the "NYC" forum. Then go to all other cities forums and count the times a New Yorker has to put 2 cents in about why his city is the "greatest in the world" compared to the city forum he is on. Add them up and then i bet you find that there is more people from NYC that have to point out how much better they are on other peoples forums.



One other thing....you need to stop telling people on here (not just me) what to do or that they have something wrong with thier personallity because these forums are for information and not to really analyze peoples personality. You do that alot on here and we are only on the internet just remember. I don't know you and you don't know me.