Don't move to Orlando
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4/23/2006
As a life-long resident of Orlando, now in my late 40's, I wouldn't recommend living here unless you are in an upper income bracket & can afford the high cost of living here.
As many others have mentioned, the cost of housing has gone crazy. We only bought our current house 5 years ago, and with the way prices have sky-rocketed, we couldn't begin to afford to buy this same house today. Salaries for the average skilled worker haven't begun to keep pace w/ the rising cost of living.
Growing up here 30-40 years ago, it was a great place to live. But now it's over-crowded, over-developed, and getting worse all the time. Traffic is horrendous, we dread driving anywhere these days. We are in the process of selling our home & getting out of here. It's sad, as I've lived here almost my entire life, but it's no longer the nice place to live that it was in the past. I won't ever come back down here again.
Orlando can be a fun place for a vacation, but living here is awful. If you're wealthy, you'd probably still enjoy living here, but for the average person, it's a ever-increasing struggle just to survive here with escalating costs. With only one exception, ALL my friends that I grew up with have already moved away, or are in the process of moving, like we are. No one I know who grew up here wants to stay here any longer.
LOL - I'm glad there are still folks who DO want to move here, so that we CAN sell our home & get out of this craziness --- but I sure can't understand why anyone would choose to live here these days.
ferret | Pine Hills, FL