I just hopped on my hometown newspaper and immediately wanted to move.

[trumad]

Nice Friday afternoon in Orlando.



Orlando Sentinel... 8/10/12
4:50pm
Front Page

[CreekDog]

1. Look at the bright side

all the cuts to education are producing dumber criminals.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

2. I'd reply but I'm told I shouldn't.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1240132510

[1-Old-Man]

3. There was a murder in my county last year, the previous murder was 7 years earlier, but ...

I am certain there are more guns than people in this county and the county has, arguably, the worst education system in the nation. When you hear the neighbor's political views it makes you shake - at least from those who have them. Most of my neighbors don't vote at all but still spout right wing talking points as if they were the gospel. We have some of the lowest taxes in the country, we pay way less than $1,000 a year on over 100 acres of property but local government provides nearly no services - as you might expect. Religious cults abound here, there's everything from Amish and Mennonites to snake handlers to be found along with a host of Lutherans straight out of the 18th Century. So I understand how the hometown news can be frightening but sometimes it the facets of a community that don't make the news that can really scare you more.

[Not Me]

4. I am so over this...

I posted this earlier today. I too live in Orlando, and I consider it to be one of the better places to live in FL.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1016&pid=38165

[trumad]

7. My wife and I are emtly nesters in about 5 years...

I've ot a Senior and a Freshman at Oviedo High School.

As soon as they are out of school...we're out of here.

[RebelOne]

5. I live in the Atlanta area,

and we have stories like that and more every day. Fortunately, I live northwest of Atlanta and and am in a low crime area, but stories like that are everyday news in Atlanta. But I am not moving.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. Los Angeles also

[GoneOffShore]

8. You know what Carl Hiassen says about Florida?

When he thinks that the crazy stuff he makes up for his novels is as weird as he can get, some fellow Floridian goes and does something far weirder.