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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Funnily enough we just relocated to Gainesville, Florida after 16 years in DC. We love it. Warm community, great college town, great jobs, and you can get to the ocean and gorgeous beaches in a 2 hour drive. After commuting 1.5 hours each way, everyday from Baltimore to DC and back for work my husband loves making the beach trip. No sweat for us former DC drivers. We do it quite often. 
We miss our longtime DC friends, our old neighbourhood, the Nats games and more but we come back and visit quite a bit. we love Gainesvile and our elem school kids do too. And don't get me started on the affordability. We made bank on the sale of our DC home and have cut our costs in half basically. Schools are great and again the warmth and kindness of this town is astounding. Makes me wonder why I put up with the vitriol of the DC metro area for so long. You deserve to be happy, OP. Consider Gainesville. [/quote]

ohhhh OP here, tell me more about Gainesville.  I know there's no beach right there, but the beach towns often correlate with traffic, tourists, retirees, etc, so we wonder if Gainesville wouldn't be a good fit for us.  We've got kids - the oldest would be starting K when we move. How has it been to make friends? What are the neighborhoods like? Traffic and ease of life?  What is life like generally?  Tell me more![/quote]

It's  grungy southern college town.  My HS friends and I would head there to party, but its full of rundown apartments packed to the gills from kids from all over Florida. Unbearably packed with people during school year; sweltering ghost town in the summer.  I would look at a college town in CT or MA which would have idyllic summers near the coast, and be busy only when weather sucks anyways.

And schools would be better.[/quote]

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