Reviews & Comments
Orlando, FL
Truly on the worst places in America. -
12/17/2020I lived in Orlando, FL for 10 (almost 11) years. I have lived in multiple areas of Orlando. It is truly one of the worst places I have ever lived in. Here are a few reasons why:
1. The amount people are paid versus the cost of living is astronomical. People truly are being told they are paid well when they can barely afford their rent and have to live with multiple people to get by. On average, someone working a professional job makes an average of $12.00/hr if they are lucky. The cost of rest for a 1 bedroom is about $1,200-$1,300 and that does not include everything else on top. The cost of a bedroom in a house with other people can cost about $650.00 to $900.00 and that is for a pretty crappy run-down place. It is also VERY hard to find a full-time job as most companies do not want to pay for full-time benefits.
2. You can make good money if you are a server or a few various other jobs, but expect to be selling your soul to whatever company you work for in doing the jobs.
3. The people truly are terrible. Native Floridians normalize certain behaviors such as lying, cheating, stealing, sexual harassment, and rape. It is more common to hear of people committing these acts (and repeating these behavior patterns) and getting away with it, or worse seemingly being rewarded for it.
4. Alcoholism and drug use are also normalized. People glamorize their need to rely on these substances as a form of "dealing with their issues" make decisions that continue to hurt themselves or others and then wake up and continue to repeat the same abuse over and over again.
5. They have the weird backward "bless your heart" mentality (AKA, be mean, gossipy, and judgemental, lie to people's faces) and consider being straightforward "mean." - I have found many people from the other places of America end up leaving Orlando because they find they can not communicate with those are originally from the area. It truly is not considered okay to say "please don't do x, y, and z" or setting a boundary, because to natural-born Floridians they consider that mean.
6. The people who do have morals or values often leave because they can no longer stand being around people who normalize hurting others on purpose or using drugs and alcohol to the excess of which many people in Orlando do.
In conclusion, Orlando is a strange messed-up place with what many consider to be some of the worst humans on the planet. Once you leave and move to another place, you realize there is a better life with kinder people who do not make it a habit to lie, cheat, or steal. The average pay is better in other parts of the world and the cost of living (depending on where you go) is much more reasonable.