Stay Away!!!
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6/6/2007
Hollywood, which was once a nice, quiet and sleepy beach town, has morphed into and overpriced, tacky and overrated cesspool. Think Niagra falls with palm trees. I have lived here 7 years. Since I moved here the housing growth has probably tripled and now there are more condos, townhouses and houses in inventory than there are people looking to buy. The real estate market is so overpriced, taxes so outta wack and insurance rediculously astronomical that people are racing to leave the tricounty area in droves. The restaurants are horrible, "quaint" shops are a dime a dozen and sell nothing useful to even the very wealthy. If you don't mind a Spanish flare too everything and sweating 325 days a year, then you might like it here. The weather ain't all that. Temps range in the 90's for 4/5th of the year. I don't care what has been recorded bt the NWS, my A/C runs all year round!! Don't let the brochures fool you. It is sweltering here from May to January. The Mayor is reportedly so crooked she could be used as a coat rack and the City of Hollywood beats down it's residents by making the building permit procedure that of passing a bill in congress. No one can build onto their house with out going through a 2 year process with the city. And let's not even go there with the unscrupulous contractors down here. They do shoddy work, leave jobs and never return and charge outrageous fees that they won't refund even if they are sued (the just go out of business). And that's in a non Hurricane year! My neighbors had a blue roof for 2 years after Wilma. I could go on for hours and I have not even mentioned the rats, bugs, cats and homeless people that frequent every square mile of this hell hole. In case you are wondering. I am trying to get out but job opportunities ain't what they used to be. STAY AWAY from Dade, Broward and evre increasingly, Palm Beach Counties. Unless of course, you get here on a raft in the Atlantic.
John | Hollywood, FL