I want to move to Orlando so I can go to Disney

[4mygrls]

whenever I want. :rotfl:

[MILLZ]

Me Too

[luvgrumpy]

Me 3! :teeth:

[Unregistered]

Me 3! :teeth:

Me too! I am teacher in NJ. I have loved teaching for the 16 years I have done it. I will always love teaching, but lately all I can think about is moving to Orlando and working at WDW. I just want to feel that joy every single day. I wonder, though, if working there would take the joy out of it for me. My gut tells me no, but you never really know until you are in the situation.

[DisneyGirlie]

I don't.
Because I think then the magic would be taken away because it becomes so commonplace and normal for you to go to Disney whenever.
Its not special anymore.
Currently i have a theme park 30 minutes away from me and I hate it and never go because I have been so many times and its just so close that its just sort of there, ya know?

[dwelty]

Spend an entire hot, sticky, wet, and buggy summer there and then decide.

[Sabbie]

I live in Jacksonville.. already TOO close to Orlando. Disney is one thing.. Orlando and Florida itself is a whole 'nother. :(

[4mygrls]

Spend an entire hot, sticky, wet, and buggy summer there and then decide.

suffer through a hot,sticky, wet, summer day with no ac. It sucks, but I try not to think about those days. We went to Orlando twice this past summer. We went with our little girls to Disney and then Universal. Oh, and also detoured a bit and went to visit my brother in Clearwater. We went back with all of the kids again in August. It was bad but we were at Universal and the water rides helped a bit. And staying onsite made a big difference.

[Plantlady]

My husband searches for jobs in the Orlando area in his spare time.

He tells me that we are going to retire to Flordia after the kids finish school too.

[makinorlando]

I don't.
Because I think then the magic would be taken away because it becomes so commonplace and normal for you to go to Disney whenever.
Its not special anymore.
Currently i have a theme park 30 minutes away from me and I hate it and never go because I have been so many times and its just so close that its just sort of there, ya know?


Lived her three years so far and the magic has not gone away.

I have to say I was not a Disney Fanatic when I moved here, had only visited once prior to my move - so Disney was not the major factor in my moving. I just loved the area, hated the north (I will take hot sticky buggy summers over cold windy snowy winters any day) and housing prices at that time were much less than where i lived - I got so much more house here than I ever would have in PA for the price I paid at that time...

You still have REAL LIFE when you live here - so unless you are retired, indepentantly weathly, home school your kids, etc, you can't go whenever you want. Or live close enough that you can be there in a couple of minutes... I still have to work, DD goes to school, and I have to take care of the house! We go on an average of once a week and sometimes more- we live within an hours (door to inside of a park) - but we do other things too. During the school year most visits are reserved for Fri - Sun.

The climate is not for everyone, but enough people seem to give it a try - you meet very few people who live here that are natives... in fact in DDs class at school out of 20 kids, only 3 were born and raised in Florida!!!

I love the diversity of the area - again DD and the other caucasian kids in her class are in the minority, but I like that. She does not see other people for what is on the outside.

The area I live in is growing in leaps and bounds - what were empty fields and lots three years ago are now more stores, offices, etc--- and we already had a HUGE town center that had just about everything that a person would need! But I still LOVE it - I don't commute to work, as I work from home. DDs school is less than 2 miles from our home. It is an A rated school with wonderful family involvement. I don't have to drive more than five miles for anything - except the attractions.

The beach (I just "discovered" a new beautiful beach to us this past weekend - YEAH going to the beach in October!) - is within an hour, and so much more than just Disney.

Maybe I was just tired of being in the NE - I spent 45 years living mostly in PA, a few years in No VA, and my college years in the Adirondacks (where I learned to HATE winter!) - but unless something out of my control happens, or something major in my life changes, I plan an being a Floridian the rest of my life (unless of course I can move further south to the Caribbean!)

[safetymom]

My first summer here was the summer of hurricanes. I still wouldn't move back to PA. I also work from home and managed to visit the parks 86 times last year. I am still doing things I have never done before. It still is thrilling for me living close to the parks.

I don't miss PA. at all.

[Luv'sTink]

I want to work there for like 3 months in the spring to see if I like it!! :thumbsup2 I hate the heat so I know I wouldn't like the summers. :sad2:

[tmt martins]

I'm always looking for transfers from work.Now they added GA and FL to our OPS so it will be easier to move.

If anything were to happen to DW or my Job we would so be outta here.

One way I really like all the seasons we have here in another way I can't stand the depth of extream they put us through.

Just today big rain and wind and out goes the power for no reason.The other day mid 80's then down to the 40's the next night.

[safetymom]

I don't find the summers any worse here than when I lived in PA. At least here I have a/c.

I love being able to go to either coast in a little over an hour.

[makinorlando]

I don't find the summers any worse here than when I lived in PA. At least here I have a/c.

I love being able to go to either coast in a little over an hour.

Great PA minds think a like....

[safetymom]

It works for me. :) We are going for a visit to PA. My daughter wants to visit the area. I don't really want to go. I enjoy it too much here in FL.

[Brise Nannie]

If anything were to happen to DW or my Job we would so be outta here.

One way I really like all the seasons we have here in another way I can't stand the depth of extream they put us through.

Just today big rain and wind and out goes the power for no reason.The other day mid 80's then down to the 40's the next night.

I feel your pain! I too would be outta here in a New York minute (don't live in NY though). I can't stand the weather! I'll take hot and sticky any day over cold, cold snowy winters and we didn't get any notice when a Cat 5 tornado came through this area. A darn hurricane even came through this way! I could scream because we didn't move when the housing market blew wide open although when we checked the houses weren't much cheaper in SW FL. :sad2:

[dizchick]

I lived at Disney while I was working in the college program and thought it was wonderful. Even though I was COMPLETELY IMMERSED in Disney everyday, for the most part, I absolutely loved it!

Keep in mind though, that Orlando is not necessarily the same as Disney World. You'll still have all the headaches of everyday life, but at least you can be closer to somewhere that you love.

I would love to move back down there. I fell in love with the Orlando area when I lived there. It was a great town. While living in the Wash, D.C. area has it perks, I wouldn't miss the insane traffic, the VERY high cost of living, and general stressed out feeling that most people have here.

[Rudy6]

I thought of it, too. Other than the heat, the few people I know who lived there, then moved back up north, said they hated the bugs. You really do not see the bugs at WDW (I wonder what they do with them) but they must run rampant in Florida.

[safetymom]

The bugs are not rampant here. We do get a few but that is the price you pay for living here. I don't find them bad at all.

[6mouskateers]

We live in NW FL and get to visit WDW a few times a year-it takes us about 6
hours to drive. DH and I always joke that when we are old and the kids are gone we wil go work at WDW. But honestly, I think it's like everywhere else, when you LIVE there, life gets in the way. We live 5 miles from some of the most beautiful beaches in the US and we went ONCE this year, and that was a couple of weeks ago when the kids were off from school for a teacher workday.

AH,to dream though. Maybe if we play our points right we can manage to live in our DVC when we retire... :rotfl2:

[lustergirl]

are you kidding me?? This is my dream when I retire- to buy a condo in orlando and work at disney during the winter months. I don't think I could handle the summer months down there- too hot for me. But a definite plus would to be able to get away from Buffalo winters. My husband is in agreement with me.

[LMCT88]

Would love to pack up and move to Florida. Trying to talk my husband into in when he retires. Can't stand the winters here, and the older I get the more I hate to shovel the snow. Would love to spend winters there, and summers back in New England. One can only hope and dream, I have been told be careful what you wish for. (sometimes it comes true).

[svalencia1]

Oh yes, but this is a dream I want so badly to come true. My son has asthma and I don't know why but winter is the worst for him...he was in the hospital the first 4 years for a week each time. Ever since I have taken him down to FL for a while in the winter and he has done fine. I think it is the weather. All my family wants me to stay but I don't want to!