Specifically I was offered a promotion in Pembroke Park, FL.

I know nothing about the area...tell me all you know!

1/14/2011 2:41:18 PM

it hot

1/14/2011 2:42:29 PM

Florida is awesome, lived in Tampa for ~3 years. I personally hate the cold weather, so 60-70 degree winters is great. For me, the big appeal was the outdoors. Not only does the warmer weather permit more outdoors, but there is just much more to do. The ocean, gulf, tons of parks, rivers for tubing, fishing, everglades, random islands, hidden beaches,etc. When I moved away, it was the height of the housing market so everything was ridiculously expensive, but things are different now and housing is affordable. So if you like warm weather, the outdoors, titties, good seafood, id say go for it.

Pembroke Park is east coast near Miami, so that is less appealing imo. Depends on your style, but personally I hated miami and its surrounding areas. Too expensive and just wasnt my scene.

1/14/2011 3:53:05 PM

5 continents and dozens of countries, there's no place on Earth I dislike more than Miami. It's expensive, you're spoken to in Spanish first if you look even remotely hispanic, traffic sucks, and summer is ungodly hot. And oh the mosquitoes. Not to mention that with global warming and sea levels rising, it won't even be around at the end of the century anyway. Good riddance.

It's not for everybody, and I would try to explore the area first and get a feel for the place and if it's for you or not. That's my best advice.

1/14/2011 4:02:07 PM

The problem with Miami is that it's full of 6s who think they're 10s.

Not that there aren't some beautiful women there, I just know several who thought that they could move down there and coast on their overestimated looks.

1/14/2011 4:03:37 PM

Miami is great for a weekend of insane partying, but that's about it. The nightlife there is probably the most intense in the US. South Beach is the only place I've seen people doing lines in public. Women will literally do bumps from their makeup cases, as if they are powdering their noses

Anyway, I could never live there. It kinda reminds me of a poor man's LA or NYC.

1/14/2011 5:47:41 PM

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"Not to mention that with global warming and sea levels rising, it won't even be around at the end of the century anyway."

Al Gore has you shook

1/14/2011 6:08:04 PM

^^ poor man's la is about right. And the drug scene is very, very intense. Just steer clear. Easier said than done. It's way too easy to get drugs there. I feel like I get a contact high every time I go to a club there.

It's a fun, beautiful city though. In places. Not familiar with Pembroke.

1/15/2011 10:15:11 AM

both my brothers live there and both want to move back to NC. They both relocated for the money but the cost of living is ridiculous around miami. the old people there cannot drive and they're EVERYWHERE. they seriously don't give a shit. the humidity is something else that can border on treacherous

1/15/2011 10:41:03 AM

Florida is the opposite of awesome imo... one of the worst states

1/15/2011 10:44:34 AM

no state income tax ftw! If you make any money, it's a nice chunk of change you're saving.

1/15/2011 10:49:09 AM

Not awesome reviews so far. I am planning on going to visit in March, but being offered this job has me racking my brain here.

1/15/2011 11:00:55 AM

They saw fit to film a season of Jersey Shore in Miami. Just sayin'

1/15/2011 11:25:06 AM

south beach is crazy.

other parts are a bit saner. talk to robert. he stayed in coconut grove. it wasnt as insane as south beach, but the ghetto is right next door.

rent is high. and its damn hot. and its a lot of non-whites. which will piss a lot of people off.

1/15/2011 11:46:25 AM

Have fun bringing your talents to South Beach.

1/15/2011 12:22:35 PM

I lived in Boca Raton for a while and loved it. Easy drive to Ft Lauderdale, West Palm, about an hour north of Miami.

lucy is right drugs are pretty much all over the place. So are retired people


hence, all the retired people are on drugs.

1/15/2011 12:29:48 PM

Currently looking at the Weston/Sunrise area.

I want to live in the N. Raleigh of the area, not say, Garner.

From the satellite view on Google maps I can see vast stretches of fucking depression that I would like to avoid totally.

And being close to the South Beach area would be a bonus because I'll probably be working in that area eventually.

1/15/2011 2:49:28 PM

FL is a shithole and too damn hot for most of the year.

1/15/2011 3:29:47 PM

Pembroke is hood. I would buy a Sunpass (http://www.sunpass.com) if you're going because the commute will start to hit you and the express lane on 95 (the lifeline of So FL) is tits.

and ftw:

Quote :

"..look even remotely hispanic, traffic sucks, and summer isthe women are ungodly hot"

And by the way if the biggest criticisms, as per previous posts, concerning South FL involve high numbers "non-whites" and Al Gore's global warming causing rising sea levels, then I think that's more of a statement about NC than FL...

[Edited on January 16, 2011 at 2:07 PM. Reason : ftw]

1/16/2011 1:56:50 PM

Ok I am about to drop a treatise concerning urban planning on this b

9one9, I know what you mean when you say you want North Raleigh in South FL...

There is no "North Raleigh" in So FL, which is something intrinsic to its entire scheme and cultural origin. North Raleigh is a collection of neo-classical homes and urban development offshoots built mostly in the design following the paving of roads formerly having been horse-and-buggy routes, naturally evolving from an area rich in colonial history, common to a place with a much longer history, as it is one of the oldest regions in the country.

The mecca of the South FL region's historical origins is the Art Deco explosion in the 50s. If you buy a book on architecture, you'll see that the humidity mandates a different sort of building material, namely the pine wood frames of some of the more beautiful previously mentioned neo-classical homes characteristic of Raleigh simply don't exist because the pine frames are eaten alive by the native (and non-native) inspect species that eat through mid-Atlantic pine transplanted to South FL (people have tried) like melting butter. Hence, we have concrete and cement frames that are not conducive to the rolling neighborhoods you'll find in a beautiful mid-Atlantic state. So don't ever expect to find a North Raleigh ambience. These concrete frames were laid out like a grid. You learn to navigate one city in FL, you can navigate them all. Expect to find continual cement grids without any type of "neighborhood character" that people in places like North Raleigh, or say Alexandria, VA, come to love and adore like no other place in the country.

The best you can hope for is Boca. I know what people say - Boca is yuppie, Boca is old, Boca is boring, but you may do your best to find a North Raleigh in a smaller Boca-esque neighborhood, particularly near the FAU crowd or the Lynn crowd. Las Olas/Fort Lauderdale is hot right now for night life.

and yes, TWWers, I put a whole lot of thought into this.

1/16/2011 2:25:57 PM

I lived on the other side of the state in Sarasota for a year. It's great at first with the beach being so close ... the view from my condo balcony looked like a postcard. But before long, the awesomeness wears off and you could care less that you're living in paradise. It's just deadly hot.

1/16/2011 4:06:35 PM

FT Lauderdale is awesome.

Beaches, poker, Las Olas, horse racing, jai alai, gorgeous girls, bars, amazing weather, fucking peacocks in your yard.

I mean that place is great. Move now.

1/16/2011 6:10:53 PM

Ft. Lauderdale is alright, but on the whole, Broward county is a complete shit hole.

1/16/2011 6:20:05 PM

^ ^ I for one sir, have peacocks in my yard and they do unjustly so refuse to fuck.

1/16/2011 6:30:06 PM

mad props to stategrad100 for bringing the knowledge to this thread

1/16/2011 10:19:32 PM

Florida is only second to New Jersey in being the worst state in the union.

I don't understand what people see in that place.

1/16/2011 10:23:34 PM

Bobby has to be the old cranky grandpa of tdub! i love his comments

1/16/2011 10:26:03 PM

Quote :

"Florida is only second to New Jersey in being the worst state in the union. I don't understand what people see in that place."

New Jersey is so much better than Florida.

And you have obviously never been to Ohio.

1/16/2011 10:28:47 PM