Review of Fort Lauderdale, Florida


Lived here for 20 years
Star Rating - 5/13/2015
Ok so I've lived in Ft Lauderdale for twenty years. We have two seasons here ... Hot and Hotter. I love it. Our winter comes in January for 2-3 weeks and we all look waaay back in the closet for those buried sweaters to show off and then put them away after we "freeze" when the temps go down to 50. LMAO. Summer brings rain (hence perpetually green here) and yes the threat of hurricanes. It's an easy city to commute around, especially if you live in East Ft. Lauderdale. Everything is within 10 miles. World class cruise port, decent airport and Miami is 50 miles south (for better mins tops and int'l flights). Great performing arts center. LIBERAL politics (but no one will ever accuse Florida of being progressive, but it's slowwwwly changing). Fairly large same sex community that is accepted everywhere. Great medical facilities.
CONS: traffic (during tourist season Nov-May), too many Manhattanites and all that entails. Get it out of your head that it's "cheap" to live here. We are on par with California, except maybe for housing. Top neighborhoods command and get their price. All in all a great place if you can deal with the tourists and the Manhattanites which seem to never leave. LOL


Robb | Fort Lauderdale, FL
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So what you are trying to say is it was ok for me to move here 20 years ago, but its not ok for someone else to do the same or visit.
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