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To: ChildOfThe60s

What’s wrong with Orlando? It’s on my list of places to retire to. Right now I’m stuck in San Jose, CA.


103 posted on 11/27/2021 5:21:09 PM PST by Kevmo (I’m immune from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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To: Kevmo

I guess to some degree it depends on where you are coming from, literally and figuratively.

I moved to Florida in the mid 60s in high school. It was a nice place to be a teenager. The building boom and Disney hit in the mid 70s and growth was so dramatic from there on it was like a cancer. Central FL roads and traffic are a nightmare, though perhaps not in comparison to where you are now. Ditto for crime. Orlando / Orange County are run by commie libtards with no relief in sight. Illegals abound.

On a personal level, the wife and I just got worn down by the traffic and almost never ending summers. Here in central Kentucky we actually spend less time trapped in doors by the weather than we did by the heat in Florida. That said, it does take time for the heat to wear you down. You’ll be fine unless you plan on living there for 30 or 40 years.

I had my belly full of too many people and too much traffic & I missed having four seasons a year.


107 posted on 11/27/2021 5:37:06 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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