Not a fun place
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12/1/2005
Nice place to visit, wouldn't want to live there. Although I have for nearly 8 years. Dining here is horrible, the local restaurants don't have a good service attitude, nor a good food attitude. Mediocre is the best you get. Even the chains are not that good. The weather here is unbearably humid from May to October. There may be a few weeks in there that dry out, but overall very, very sticky. Too many cloudy days, in a row. Average says 212 sunny days, feels like 20. Housing is atrocious. Look at the average house price and you will faint. Retirees love it here, two people in an oversized energy sucking monstrosity. No affordable housing for the working folks who actually work here. Sure, great place for kids until they're teenagers, but then nothing to do, bus system slow, unpredictable, no covered bus stops. Too many have's and have not's, no real middle class. Colonial Williamsburg is dying; overpriced, fewer services, recreated history. Colonial not at all interested in expanding, just trying to stay above water. Colonial or die seems to be the attitude. The area is expanding at an exponential rate, but not planned well at all. The solution to traffic problems is another stoplight. In one stretch of 1.8 miles there are 7 stoplights. My advice. Look elsewhere to live.
Havelina | Williamsburg, VA