OUTSTANDING PLACE TO LIVE
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4/13/2007
Pensacola has it all except for the extreme hustle and bustle of a large metropolitan city. Pensacoleans just voted to approve "Maritime Park" for constuction downtown on our beautiful Pensacola Bay. The park will include a multi-use baseball stadium/complex, a national maritime museum, University of West Florida class facilities, conference space, tremendous waterfront access by all, an adjacent marina and restaurants with many other amenities. Pensacola has mild weather but with a nice change of seasons (leaf change and all) that is not harsh but much more interesting than South Florida. The University of West Florida and Pensacola Junior College continue to expand...their majors, degree programs and enrollment. We have superb fishing, very good hunting and great canoeing. We have a nice zoo and several nice nature walk trails. We are remodeling our beautiful Saenger theatre and have the Pensacola Little theatre for all kinds of national and local entertainment. Pensacola's ecomomy is spurred by many vibrant small businesses however we have major niches in medicine (Andrews Instutute among several facilities with great reputations), with the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, paper manufacturing, the military, tourism etc. For diving enthusiasts we have the largest ship ever sunk for the purpose of creating a fishing reef (over 850' long) directly south of Pensacola. Our schools have performed well overall on Florida Comprehensive testing. Because we are in North Florida we retain our priceless southern hospitality. We have many great restaurants, two superb shopping malls, a major outlet mall 45 minutes from Pensacola. Pensacola Beach has one of the world's whitest and widest sand beaches.
The only way someone could not like Pensacola would either be because they are completely blind or because they are overly focused on their one little selfish personal irritiation...people like that would complain about paradise and when they complain about Pensacola they have complained about paradise!
William | Pensacola, FL