A city on the wrong track.
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10/18/2021
I've lived in Pensacola for 35yrs, I am well travelled. Pensacola has gone down hill and is continuing to go down hill. What was once a slightly backward, but Southern affordable town, has become a borderline cesspool.
The City and County governments are incompetent, we elect people who range from marginal to barely functioning morons. Nothing gets improved here and things are left to languish until they become difficult and expensive to fix. The good ole' boy mentality is still in effect as well.
This is a drinking town with a beach problem, moderation doesn't exist, the people here act like fools when they drink.
Customer service is usually poor, people lack manners, they are semi-lazy.
This area is plagued by people who have no future, have become comfortable, complain a lot, don't want to do anything with their lives, complain a lot, etc. For the most part, the people are trash, even if they have money they are trash.
The area has more crime than New York City, the crime rate is 3x the National Average. Law Enforcement here is lazy, very lazy.
The City has a homeless problem, the City won't do anything about it.
Nothing ever gets improved here, they will do studies but nothing ever gets done. If there is a road project, it will take 10x longer than anywhere else in the World... Yes, THE WORLD.
Utilities are expensive, jobs pay marginal wages, housing prices and rent have increased, as has the cost of entertainment.
I have decided to move, I will miss my friends, but this town is heading in the wrong direction.
Alex | Ferry Pass, FL