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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have heard the public schools in Florida are not good anywhere.  Period.  And, most people with money put their kids in parochial or private schools.  My family lives full time in the DC Metro area but we own a home in Boca Raton.  I would never move down there with grade school children.  I have kids in middle school now.  At least in the DC area you have a wide variety of school options but not in Florida. [b] Plus, people down there are stupid (culturally, socially, politically...) at least in South Florida.  OP, you should think long and hard about it.[/quote]

[/b]You must have missed the part where I said I lived in florida for 7 years and love it.  [/quote]

But, you have kids now which is a critical component.  You weren't concerned about schools when you were loving it.[/quote]

I was mostly responding to the bolded.  No one can be so stupid to think that there are literally no excellent public schools in the entire state of florida, so that I didn't even think to respond to that part of the PP's comment. [/quote]

NP. I grew up in Florida. Don't do this to your kids. You understand great school ratings don't work across state lines? And though UF is not a bad school, it is the only viable in state option and decent university for like 600 miles.

Culturally there is a reason why Florida is the butt of many jokes. And summers are unbearable unless you live on the beach. No one will be walking in your cute downtown area for 5 months of the year because of the blistering heat.  And it is the south with a bunch of lower income folks who moved down from up north to live large.

If you must do this, Gainesville is cute college town but kind of grungy, St Augustine is decent option, bayside in Tampa, parts of New Tampa are where all my friends with professional jobs ended up (but suburban sprawl). Maybe Celebration, but snooty. Winter Park I think is ok but less familiar with Orlando. Space coast might be nice but has been in decline since NASA outsourced everything to SpaceX and Russians.

You will not find cats and dogs and teachers and doctors living together; teachers make $30k, it just doesn't happen unless teacher marries a doctor. Gated communities are EVERYWHERE.

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OP,  people are just stupid.  [b]This poster has no idea what she is talking about. [/b] My daughter is a teacher in St Johns.  Starting salary several years ago was 46,000 a year.   [b]That's just one small example of the nonsense on the board.  [/b] There are several great colleges in Florida.  Smart,  high performing kids in Florida go to college at almost no cost.   UF and FSU are good as are University of North Florida,  University of Central Florida,  Miami, .......  Plenty of good in-state options.   We have lived in every region of this country (including several years in Hawaii)  and in three overseas countries.   We can't WAIT to move back to Florida.   [/quote]

Huh, so DCUM is not a great forum for asking about where to live in Florida? Who would have thunk it?[/quote]

I'm PP being called stupid.  My parents were teachers, I knew many growing up, and have many friends who stayed in FL and now teach (because honestly, in MUCH of the state, the jobs are tourism, healthcare, or schools and that's it).  I am guessing my numbers are a bit stale, but sure $46k could be inflation adjusted, but it's still far far below what a doctor would be making, and with low property taxes and no state income taxes, it just doesn't have much money to pay state employees like teachers.   I don't know why all these PPs who vacationed in Florida are poo-pooing the folks who actually grew up there? I mean there is bias; DCUM posters will invariably be the folks who LEFT Florida if they grew up there, b/c otherwise why would they be on DCUM?  It's a nice place for spring break vacations, but as a place to live its quite... different... than most metropolitan cities on the coasts.[/quote]

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