Anonymous wrote:Question for the Gainesville posters recommending Buchholz zone. Which middle school do you recommend?

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Anonymous wrote:We moved to the Orlando area with elementary school kids and moved right back. If you have never lived there, I would suggest to try and live there for a couple months before making a decision. It is a different world; some people love it but it is not for everyone.

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After spending the weekend in Orlando, my verdict is if you live in Florida year round you are some kind of mutant.

Every time I spend a couple weeks in Orlando I come back wondering why the hell I live here. I still can't answer it other than my job. Everything else is horrible in comparison.

You like Orlando, of all places? I can see liking Florida, but Orlando is just a hot, humid wasteland.

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Anonymous wrote:We moved to the Orlando area with elementary school kids and moved right back. If you have never lived there, I would suggest to try and live there for a couple months before making a decision. It is a different world; some people love it but it is not for everyone.

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After spending the weekend in Orlando, my verdict is if you live in Florida year round you are some kind of mutant.

Every time I spend a couple weeks in Orlando I come back wondering why the hell I live here. I still can't answer it other than my job. Everything else is horrible in comparison.

Because you don't know where to go. I guess these are considered the Orlando metro area technically, but Windemere and Winter Park are beautiful.

You like Orlando, of all places? I can see liking Florida, but Orlando is just a hot, humid wasteland.

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Anonymous wrote:We moved to the Orlando area with elementary school kids and moved right back. If you have never lived there, I would suggest to try and live there for a couple months before making a decision. It is a different world; some people love it but it is not for everyone.

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After spending the weekend in Orlando, my verdict is if you live in Florida year round you are some kind of mutant.

Every time I spend a couple weeks in Orlando I come back wondering why the hell I live here. I still can't answer it other than my job. Everything else is horrible in comparison.

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Anonymous wrote:We moved to the Orlando area with elementary school kids and moved right back. If you have never lived there, I would suggest to try and live there for a couple months before making a decision. It is a different world; some people love it but it is not for everyone.

+1
After spending the weekend in Orlando, my verdict is if you live in Florida year round you are some kind of mutant.

Every time I spend a couple weeks in Orlando I come back wondering why the hell I live here. I still can't answer it other than my job. Everything else is horrible in comparison.

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Anonymous wrote:We moved to the Orlando area with elementary school kids and moved right back. If you have never lived there, I would suggest to try and live there for a couple months before making a decision. It is a different world; some people love it but it is not for everyone.

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After spending the weekend in Orlando, my verdict is if you live in Florida year round you are some kind of mutant.

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Anonymous wrote:We moved to the Orlando area with elementary school kids and moved right back. If you have never lived there, I would suggest to try and live there for a couple months before making a decision. It is a different world; some people love it but it is not for everyone.

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After spending the weekend in Orlando, my verdict is if you live in Florida year round you are some kind of mutant.

Anonymous wrote:We moved to the Orlando area with elementary school kids and moved right back. If you have never lived there, I would suggest to try and live there for a couple months before making a decision. It is a different world; some people love it but it is not for everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:Op here. The only part of Florida I am very familiar with is Lee County: Fort Myers Cape Coral Pine Island Naples etc. My mother lived there for years and so has extended family. I love the weather and beach but can't really imagine living there full time.

I am open to Tampa Area, Jacksonville, Central Florida/Orlando etc. Not interested in South Florida Miami and also priced out of it. I love St Pete but assumed I was priced out. I have family in Pensacola but have never been there and not sure about it. I have heard good and bad about the Panhandle.

Thank you all so much for the specifics about Orlando and Jacksonville. Florida is a huge state and any insight helps.

I’m from Florida and am very familiar with a few of the cities mentioned above. I think the nicer parts of Tampa with good schools are out of your budget (at least until/unless the housing market crashes there). I’d stick to St. John’s/Jacksonville and maybe Seminole County (suburban county of Orlando with generally good schools).

I'm in St Pete and you may not be priced out here. It depends on what you need - if it's a new construction, waterfront house with four bedrooms, then yes.

But something like this is available for right around what you want to spend: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/5910-35th-Ave-N-Saint-Petersburg-FL-33710/47024546_zpid/

This house is close to downtown - not walking distance but a very short drive. It's right on the edge of a neighborhood that's already gotten really hot - Kenwood - so assuming St Pete keeps growing the way it's been, the neighborhood should appreciate. We'll see what happens with real estate with interest rates going up, I suppose. I think it does need flood insurance, so that would probably knock it out of the running for me - but it's just an example of a place in St Pete that is on the affordable end of things. There's others - though less every day - but def worth looking, if you like St Pete.