NOT for people with families and/or 20 or 30 Somet
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11/12/2006
You will literally have to check your pulse and make sure you are still alive and breathing. The slowed down lifestyle here is so slow that you will think that you moved to some alternative universe.
DO NOT, I REPEAT, DO NOT MOVE YOUR FAMILY HERE if you care about your child or children's future (example: education, quality of life, culture, access to quality health care or a future job.) or you do not have a guaranteed exit plan.
Top 10 Reasons not to move to the Long Beach Peninsula and that Includes Ocean Park, WA:
1) Education, finally the local school passed the bonds. Yes, new schools are being built, but a new building does not mean that your child will get quality education. The decrease in the enrollment has recently shut the high school building down, consolidating everyone.
Is your child gifted? Have special needs? You better be independently wealthy so you can fight the schools for every resource they have b/c they will not let go willingly --they will not be ready to serve your child and will backdoor you every change they get.
2) This whole area (the entire long beach peninsula) is like some twilight zone. Where everyone 50 and older and they are finally getting to *PLAY* .
Normally, it is the 20 or 30 something's being obnoxious on a night out, but not here all the older folk are having there second childhood.
3) Forget sidewalks to take a walk with your family or street lights to help reduce crime --the older tax payers could care less they are all RETIRED!! And do not want light in their bedroom windows and taxes are a 4 letter word round here.
4) Need milk? Forgot to pick up that cough suppressant for your kid, TOO BAD! Everything closes about 7PM and if you are really depressed and want to get blitzed and toss back all your worries, I hate to break it to you but the liquor store closed at 6PM.
5) So you think you will hang out at the beach and kick back and have fun. Have you ever smelled rotten fish or sat at the beach mid June freezing your arss off because of the west coast winds? Think again mattey, this ain't California.
6) Need internet access, well you can get it. But you need to get your email done 'tween the blustery winds or your DSL router is useless. And don't call tech support 'cause they have only one guy.
7) Into wildlife? Good, 'cause the big black bears are into you too and appreciate those oversized garbage cans the county makes you use.
8) Speaking of county. Did I mention they don't
Jennifer | Ocean Park, WA