Posted on 05/10/2007 6:40:31 PM PDT by CertainInalienableRights
A good friend of mine was relocated to Ocala with her family due to her husband’s job.
She was coming from a upstate NY small town family friendly area, and they did their best to find the suburb/type neighborhood they could fit in with.
I think she lasted 4 months.
she did find a large catholic community, but she couldn’t adapt to the city atmosphere - didn’t care for the schools - and it drove her crazy that walking barefoot in your back yard was painful.
She is VERY VERY happy to be back home even though the job market here does not have as much opportunity.
I know exactly what she means.
A year after I moved to Raleigh I went back to Miami to visit my son. He was living in a townhouse complex surrounding a small lake. ( all complexes have a lake. That's where they get the dirt to bring the lots above the water table)
I walked out on my son's patio the first morning and stepped off into the grass.
Suddenly I was aware of feeling my ankles were in hot coals.
I was standing in a red ant nest.
All I could think was, Welcome back sucker.
I have a similar story about a family that lasted a few months.
It's sad, S. Fla. used to be beautiful. Still had all the critters, bugs, heat, etc. but at least it was pretty, safe and friendly.
Now there isn't enough positives to outweigh the negatives.
the girl is not a quitter and she really left with a good positive attitude of making it work.
I was pretty surprised at how quickly she decided Fl was NOT the place for her and her children.
If you had bars on the windows you weren't living in a good neighborhood.
“I have to agree. South Florida was beautiful when I was a kid — thirty years ago.”
Absolutely. I moved away in 80’ as it was turning into a dangerous and unsavory place for a cocky kid. I have a friend who grew up there in the 60’s and he tells me stories about paradise.
It was close to our church, everyone said it was a good neighborhood before we moved there. Said it was better than where they lived. We didn’t know it was a bad neighborhood until we lived there for awhile.
Have you ever been to Dade or Broward county? Everyone who had the money had bars on the windows. Poor neighborhoods had no bars.
I now live in the midwest again, and we don’t have bars on the windows here, nor do we need them.
The only family that I knew there whose family had lived in Dade county for generations and raised their children there, now two of their sons live in Indiana even with our snow.
Everyone was leaving who had a family.
Your comment sounds funny just to read it. I know it wasn’t a good neighborhood now, but you tend to believe Christians when they tell you something.
I would move to FLA without hesitation and not look back. All in all it is much cheaper living here and the quality and variety of females (if I can remember being single) is much much better than Ohio.
Like the rest of life, things are what you make of them.
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