One thing though, if you are looking to get out of New England to get away
from New Englanders, South FL may not be the best place. If I had a dollar
for every empire or garden state tag I see in Miami daily, I would be
sitting pretty. Its one of the reasons I want to leave Miami and move to
more Southerner. territory ;-)
If you are single and like Latino girls you are in luck down here though.
I've never even dated an American girl in my life.(Sorry American girls on
this list, its just my personal taste).
James
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From: "Micheal Espinola Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NT System Admin Issues" <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 10:33 AM
Subject: Re: Fort Lauderdale area
Wow, wow, and wow. Thanks for that awesome summary!
I'll be heading down a single man, so I might be looking to live
lavida loca or whatever that song title is - for a little while
anyways.
I'll prolly be apt/rental-bound until I figure out what I want out of the
area.
On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 6:14 PM, Benjamin Zachary - Lists
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I live in Delray Beach area, about 20 mins north of FTL. Its fine there,
the
city is huge you can live just about anywhere around there and still be
10-15 mins from your office.
If you want family stuff, areas like Plantation, Weston (way west), Boca
Raton are a good choice, if you are gay you will want to live around
Wilton
Manors, if you are a beach goer you live right along the water, if you
are
poor you live somewhere 1-2 miles west of the ocean to I95. If you are a
boater you have a condo or TH with deep water access in a canal somewhere
near the water but not on it. If you are wealthy you live off Las Olas
and
the Intra coastal, a little strip of area along Pompano Beach (Lighthouse
Point) or in one of three key areas of Boca Raton.
If you are single then the rest of the land is yours ;). Downtown FTL
offers
several high rise condos that have ocean views and you can walk to all
the
bars. Deerfield Beach a few miles North is where a lot of younger people
are, you can hit the scene there and find a lot of 'college girl types'.
Also a lot less expensive living with similar amenities.
Delray Beach has one of the larger concentrations of party goers in one
street (IMO). The only place you will find a guy asking for a handout,
the
street lined with benz/bmw's, and a drug dealer in every bar, oh not to
mention everyone that works in those bars is in some program or another
(Delray leads the nation I think in rehab programs). It makes for very
interesting night life. Don't get lost though, two blocks away is some
pretty bad ghettos. Oh yah all tucked inside this little 'strip' are
500-750k townhouses and condos. (The beach is clothing optional, I think,
or
at least it seems quite a few people like to go topless and no one ever
says
anything)
Ive been down in the area for 15 years (South Beach to Boca Raton, to
Delray)
The housing market has pretty much tanked as much as its going to, lots
of
short sales and bank stuff going on in certain areas. The wealthier areas
of
course you wont find anything, I guess its whatever your looking for.
Owning
a house here isn't all its cracked up to be, real estate tax is high in
lieu
of a state sales tax (we have no state sales tax, just city/fed). You
also
need a HELL of a lot of insurance, and if you live east of I95 that can
cost
50% of your mortgage payment depending on flood zone or not.
Also there is no tradeoff for the breeze from the water, it makes a big
difference between being on the water and getting that light breeze vs
being
10 miles west and sitting in the swamp. As someone who owned homes out
West
and now rents right on the water, I can say Im much happier for about the
same money.
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