Moving to FL, looking for Disney Friends to join us in the Adventure!!

[ElliePeters]

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[HunnyBunny]

Ellie,

Just subscribed to your blog! Can't wait to hear about your adventure south. Best of luck and welcome to our "World"!

 

[earthfaries]

Congrats on the move ~~ we did it a little over a year ago and posted a "We're Moving to Orlando Moving Trip Report " It was an incredible experience

We are so glad we moved to be next to Disney and love living the magic every day

You have such fun and adventure ahead of you ~~~ I would love to read about it on your blog !

Once again Congrats ~ and if you have any specific questions please feel free to ask !

 

[ElliePeters]

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[ElliePeters]

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[dkostel]

I too am moving from the midwest to Florida in about a year. Not sure if it will be Orlando or the treasure coast, but close to the magic and away from the snow!
I had family on the Gulf coast, have family on the treasure coast and lived in Miami for 3 years myself. We all loved it. Chicago is an amazing city and I will miss the 6 or 7 days a year that the weather is nice, but 70s in February, sign me up!
I will be reading you blog, thanks for sharing.

 

[Kaler131]

That's awesome!! I am planning to move to Florida sometime in the future too....I just have to get my DH on board...lol!! It probably won't be until our youngest is in college (he's only in Kindergarden now...so it's gonna be a LONG wait for me!!)

 

[MingMingsMom]

I am so glad I found this today. On our trip in July/August , I've made plans to to spend some time with a realtor, just to try to get a feel for certain areas that I'm interested in. Not jumping into anything, just quitely looking. So, you can bet I'll be keeping up with your journey!

 

[ElliePeters]

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[remark44]

That's awesome!! I am planning to move to Florida sometime in the future too....I just have to get my DH on board...lol!! It probably won't be until our youngest is in college (he's only in Kindergarden now...so it's gonna be a LONG wait for me!!)

I could have written this exact post! I would love to move to FL. But I'm too scared to do it without jobs. Also the economy right now scares me. But I would love to get away from these winters. (Especially after having 5 feet of snow this past winter.)

Good luck, maybe I'll be there too someday.

 

[ElliePeters]

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[CinderellasSister]

I could have written this exact post! I would love to move to FL. But I'm too scared to do it without jobs. Also the economy right now scares me. But I would love to get away from these winters. (Especially after having 5 feet of snow this past winter.)

Good luck, maybe I'll be there too someday.

OMG! DH and I have also talked recently about getting out of SJ and moving to Florida. These snow storms are great motivators of that talk. But like you, the idea terrifies me without a job. My company does have an office in Orlando, but there are no openings right now. So I couldn't even use that as a safety net. My kids would love to move closer to Disney, but I just can't bring myself to take that leap yet.

 

[wdwpins]

I moved to FL just over 5 years ago from South Jersey, first to South Florida for 2 years, then to Brevard County.

The first thing I noticed was the reckless/aggressive drivers, more so in South Florida than in Central Florida. I then learned that Miami was voted for the second year in a row the worst city for drivers. Tailgating is rampant, and many will tailgate you instead of simply passing you.

Gun shows. Well, FL seems to have them with the same frequency as car shows, if not more often. Having grown up in South Jersey, guns were mentioned maybe a few times at the dinner table, and my parents didn't have any.

Confederate flags. Yeah, I know it was part of our heritage, but aside from the hateful aspect of it, we no longer live in a confederacy. Should I fly an American flag with only 48 stars because that was part of US history?

Linguistic unfairness. ABC and other English-language TV stations will either dub or subtitle at least some of their programming in Spanish, "disponible en espanol." Do Univision and Telemundo dub or subtitle any of their programs into English? Not the last time I checked, and Florida has a huge English-speaking population. I'd love to be able to watch Sabato Gigante, but I don't want to have to learn Spanish in order to do so.

Price of food. It seems to me that food in Florida supermarkets is more expensive than in NJ. $8.59/lb for lunch meat is what comes to mind immediately. Also, they don't double coupons down here like they do in New Jersey.

Although FL beat out NJ with regard to smoke-free restaurants, it has yet to make bars smoke free, too, as NJ has done. (FL states that if a bar gets more than 10% of its revenue from food sales, it has to be smoke free.)

One nice thing about FL is that in 2005 they changed the law about reselling event tickets. There is no such things as "scalping" anymore here, and you can flip that Celine Dion ticket and get what the market will bear, just like many FL homeowners did in 2004/2005 when the housing market was red hot and people were flipping homes like crazy.

Finally, hurricanes. Yes, it's scary not knowing if your home (or car) will be damaged. Sadly, despite receiving warnings, many Floridians in my experience simply do not prepare. Many go out in their cars afterwards looking for gas and food when they should have done so before the hurricane hit. Also, you may experience a power outage for days if not weeks. Can you deal with eating food all of the time that doesn't need to be cooked-canned tuna, crackers, etc? Do you like taking cold showers again and again? Florida hasn't made much of an effort to bury power lines, citing costs, but how much is lost in productivity because you have no electricity? You could get a generator, but they can be dangerous, and they have to be serviced regularly just like your car's engine.

Hope all of this helps with your decision to move here.

 

[ElliePeters]

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