I want to move to Florida

SpringheeledJack · Post by **SpringheeledJack** » Feb Wed 01, 2006 2:14 pm

Heh heh. Then by all means! Come on down! The more the merrier!

Post by **rdeacon** » Feb Wed 01, 2006 4:06 pm

jkm8113 wrote:I guess since I love being a tourist and am not very "cultural" I would fit right in.

haha make that 2 of us. I live and hour from NYC and Philly (GO FLYERS) and hardly ever go to the city. I just need Disney Culture!

Rich

SpringheeledJack · Post by **SpringheeledJack** » Feb Wed 01, 2006 5:28 pm

Let's see if you still believe that after a year of being stuck in traffic for an hour trying to get to work, having to make dining reservations a month in advance just because you want to take your wife out to eat in the Disney area during the summer, or just simply want to enjoy a day at Disney when everyone else in the world (literally) is trying to do the same. It gets old after a while.

Don't get me wrong, I love it. But when you live down here, you'll soon find that waiting in line for longer than 15 minutes is unacceptable, and tourists are really, really annoying. Disney is definitely susceptible to the law of diminshed returns.

jd3921fl · Post by **jd3921fl** » Feb Thu 02, 2006 11:03 am

The grass is always greenier on the other side. Florida is over rated. I know, I live here!!! People are rude, prop taxes are outrageous and it's super duper crowded 24/7 on the higways and biways.

Post by **addlema** » Feb Thu 02, 2006 11:26 am

Sir! This is a disney forum.. The seaweed is always greener around here!

Post by **Dr. Ravenscroft** » Feb Thu 02, 2006 1:03 pm

I just love the fact that the old folks drive 45mph in the left lane. Right lane for driving and left lane for passing, seesh.

SpringheeledJack · Post by **SpringheeledJack** » Feb Thu 02, 2006 1:20 pm

When did you come down here and actually get to pass somebody!?!?! I totally want to see that happen.

Post by **Dr. Ravenscroft** » Feb Thu 02, 2006 2:07 pm

Its that bad all the time? I didn't think it was like that all the time, I figured during the period between when the snowbirds go down and leave(with the lifers there too) was the worst.

SpringheeledJack · Post by **SpringheeledJack** » Feb Thu 02, 2006 4:01 pm

Nope. It's that bad all the time. I-4, the major highway to and from attractions is always a bear. Especially during rush hour, but it happily chugs along at any given time. Factor in special events like Mardi Gras, Horror Nights, Soap Week, Daytona 500, etc... and it's just a mess. Not only that, but the summer weekends see a lot of locals going to either Tampa or Daytona. It's just as bad locally in Orlando which is basically unaffected by tourists. The area just wasn't designed with crowds in mind.

They working on widening roads and such, but for the time being that's just making it worse.

Post by **rdeacon** » Feb Fri 03, 2006 9:51 am

SpringheeledJack wrote:Nope. It's that bad all the time. I-4, the major highway to and from attractions is always a bear. Especially during rush hour, but it happily chugs along at any given time. Factor in special events like Mardi Gras, Horror Nights, Soap Week, Daytona 500, etc... and it's just a mess. Not only that, but the summer weekends see a lot of locals going to either Tampa or Daytona. It's just as bad locally in Orlando which is basically unaffected by tourists. The area just wasn't designed with crowds in mind. They working on widening roads and such, but for the time being that's just making it worse.

It cracks me up to hear your Floridians talk about traffic. There is no way the traffic can be worse then the NJ/NYC area. We have like 15 lanes of traffic and its crawls... crazy

And if the traffic is bad, you do the local thing and take a back road

Rich

SpringheeledJack · Post by **SpringheeledJack** » Feb Fri 03, 2006 9:58 am

Heh heh... It's that bad, or at least close to it.

On top of that, the drivers are a MILLION time worse. In NY/NJ people know where they want to go. In Florida, nobody knows where anything is. And if they do, it's because they're 90 and have lived here all their life. We have more incidents of road rage here than probably anywhere in the world.

So, while you can still get to where you're going with only a 45 minute to an hour delay, it's a far more FRUSTRATING drive.

As for backroads, they're actually WORSE, since there seems to be an overabundance of stoplights everywhere. For example, my wife takes the expressway into work every morning. It takes her about an hour to get to work, and about twenty minutes to get back... On the EXPRESSWAY. When she's taken local roads (they're almost all one or two lanes), the trip typically takes around an hour and a half. Of course, it depends on where and when you're going, but it's pretty much a mess to go anywhere.

Post by **Dr. Ravenscroft** » Feb Fri 03, 2006 11:18 am

Here in Philly the road rage just got worse, A man was stabbed for getting in an accident with another guy. We also have/had, don't know if they still are, two of the worst intersections in the US. US-1 and Red Lion Rd., and US-1 and Grant Ave. I drive through these allot and they are bad. They just installed red light cameras last year and they caught in one intersection, in one month 485 violaters. They have since installed them at more intersections throuhout the us-1 corridor.

Mickeymac · Post by **Mickeymac** » Feb Fri 03, 2006 12:35 pm

I'm so glad I live in Mayberry...

Post by **rdeacon** » Feb Sat 04, 2006 4:36 am

I'm glad when I move the FLA I will be working from home...no commute!

Rich

ericpabear · Post by **ericpabear** » Feb Sun 19, 2006 11:22 am

We have always dreamed of living near Walt Disney World. Celebration was the place we had planned to retire to, till recently, when we found that Disney dumped it. Now we are dreaming of other locations in Florida, near Disney. We want to be able to go to Walt Disney World during the off season. Things are pretty messed up here, and won't ever be the same again, so the dream may come true sooner. We have lived here all our lives, so it is kind of scary, moving the family to the "unknown".