Run, don't walk to get out of Florida
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5/24/2007
"It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there". Ever heard that saying? Well, don't say you haven't been warned. This place is the most rediculous of places I've ever lived. South Florida in general, really. The cost of living is beyond anything even resembling normal. The average person cannot afford it. The schools are a disgrace, they bring in portables (1 room trailors) because they don't want to spend the money to build schools big enough in the first place. The bugs and heat are unbearable. The summer heat/humidity is far worse than Atlanta in the summer time. And The people are rude, obnoxious yankees who are trying to turn it into a rude Nothern state!! (you know who you are)
The traffic is barely tolerable, most jobs require 45-60 commute times. The unending road construction adds to it. The thousands of immigrants that wont speak English are taking over, there are many, many businesses who's street front signage aren't even in English anymore.
There is no style or etiquette here, everyone walks around a carbon copy of the next. The food isn't that good and every single street corner has the same businesses no matter what part of the county you are in. It's all about commercialization, urbanization, cloning (meaning if you don't look, act, dress, speak, and think like the next person, you're the oddball).
It's hurry up and wait, and when you do finally get service, it's rude and second rate. So, no, I wouldn't live here or visit here. The crime with all the gangs surfacing is really bad. And they say, "the last {english-speaking) person to leave Miami, please bring the flag. i think it can now apply to ALL of South Florida.
Abhd | Royal Palm Beach, FL