Taxes and Fees
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6/26/2010
Okay, yes, it is nice here. It "looks" nice here. If you move from the Palm Beach area, up to this area, yes, it is really nice to look at. But its skin deep. A lot of the people here are in a perpetual bad mood. I can't blame them. In order to look nice this city has taxed people to high hell. Its crazy! They just dropped the property tax but the auto insurance rates keep going up on everyone. Home owners insurance had near tripled since the hurricanes which is bull crud since our home never had any damage. We didn't make a claim and only lost one stinking shingle. O.o Yeah.. its nuts. And there are no jobs. None. We're number 4 in the national list of cities with high unemployment rates. 16% I think. Its not pretty. Boy, I tell you, I can not wait to move. its going to take me at least a year to get enough money to move but we'll get out of here some how. Oh, and if you require a community health center.. for the low income people? Don't come here. They don't have that unless you're pregnant or have kids. I'm in a wheel chair and if someone would just fix my ankle and give me some physical therapy, I could get a job. We have the highest medical costs here, as well. I was in the hospital for 4 days, had a scopic (telescopic) surgery to remove gout crystals from my ankle, a chest x-ray for prep, and the hospital charged me $35,000. That's not including the anesthesiologist or the actual surgeon's fees. Don't move here. If you want to live in Florida, move to nothern Florida. You still get a bit of a season change and if you want to you can "visit" the nice pretty Port Saint Lucie. Don't move here. The only nice thing about this place, is the schools are nice... no wait, they force the FCAT, and teachers don't even do spelling for the 3rd graders till 2 months before school is out because before that its all about the freaking FCAT.
Jenny | Port St. Lucie, FL