What is going on everyone? How about we travel on over and look at the city that
Mickey Mouse calls his second home Orlando Florida
Orlando is a hub of family entertainment pretty much for the whole East Coast and
stop typing technically Disney is in a town called
Lake Buena Vista which is basically part of the Orlando metro area so just don't
it's right here in case you don't know it's not just Disney in the Orlando area
you have SeaWorld universal Discovery Cove and of course Gator land the only
place where alligators get golden showers no really they have a zipline
that goes over an alligator pond that has like 40 alligators in it I'm sure
more than one person got a little scared and peed Orlando was incorporated into a
town in 1875 then again four years later in 1879
I guess they forgot they already did it it was finally incorporated into a city
in 1885 and currently has about two hundred and eighty-five thousand
residents in Orlando with the metro area holding a little under 2.4 million
sun-baked Floridians perhaps the most critical event in Orlando's economy and
history pretty much occurred in 1965 when Walt Disney announced plans to
build Walt Disney World although Walt Disney did consider other
parts of Florida like Miami and Tampa for his park but the one major reason
that made him settle on Orlando was hurricanes Orlando is a little bit
inland although not free from hurricanes it doesn't get them as often or as bad
as the coastal cities do Disney World opened in October of 1971 assuring in a
population explosion and serious economic growth for the Orlando
metropolitan area as a result tourism became the main industry for the area
Orlando now has more theme parks and entertainment attractions than anywhere
else in the world Orlando grew rapidly in the 1980s up to
the first decade of the 21st century Orlando's home the University of Central
Florida which is the largest university campus in the United States in terms of
enrollment that was as of 2016 there is a lot of good reasons to move to Orlando
living there isn't one of them but hey maybe you dream of making a career out
of being a Disney princess who knows before you pack up your bags and change
your name to Elsa Arial or Belle you should watch my top ten reasons not
to move to Orlando Florida number ten you'll need a tan
now this one's gonna seem kind of dumb and that's because well it is but it's
also really true a friend explained it to me this way she moved to the Orlando
area while working for the TSA so really was more of a transfer thing this is
about five years ago she said that everyone who lives in Florida has a tan
if you're the type of person that doesn't ever tan she said people are
going to assume that you're a tourist and treat you accordingly
nothing will show that you're not local more than very untanned skin especially
during the middle summer so buy some suntan lotion some moisturizer and go
hang out by the lake if you go to college in the area buy some cheap stuff
to use while you work as a ride operator Disney and pay down your student loans
you don't want to get skin cancer before you pay off your student loans number
nine housing prices for being in the middle of the state housing prices here
are horrible most places that aren't near the ocean or Gulf in Florida are
borderline affordable Orlando isn't most places while the average is just
slightly higher than the national average prices can climb quicker the
closer you get to downtown now a lot of places are like that but this one is in
the middle of the state it just kind of it's too high a single-family home under
2,000 square feet in downtown can be as much as $500,000 well if you want to
venture out a little bit from downtown and find a slightly smaller house the
price is almost cut in half in Orlando it's all about location and neighborhood
just keep in mind they're trying to get oceanfront prices with no ocean maybe
you can get a pond they've got plenty there I have a pond I spend a lot of
time staring at it wondering if the mortgage is worth it you could get a
pond in Florida very easily and you could stare at it and wonder if your
mortgage is worth it but be careful Florida has alligators your pond might
have alligators so be careful if you do see an alligator don't pee on it and
that only goes on in Gator land number eight bugs bugs and retirees love
Florida they're everywhere in the state lots of residents have screened-in
porches and even back patios to help keep the bugs out while they're enjoying
the outdoors they also never use the phrase early bird special so retirees
don't show up if you see a tear in any of your screens in the house you'll need
to get it repaired fast before you gotta call an exterminator see it's not just
alligators in Florida you always have to keep in mind that the state is a giant
swamp swamps have snakes alligators and tons of bugs number seven tourism the
tourism industry is the largest industry in Orlando in 2017 the city hit a record
number of tourists at 116 point five million visitors for that year only this
is about a three point six percent increase from the year prior located
within the city are hundreds of things to do kind of went over those again
SeaWorld Disney Universal Gator land all that stuff well this is great
this means tourists that means more traffic higher prices on basically
everything it also means those people that think because they're on vacation
rules don't apply to them if you've ever lived in a tourist City like I grew up
in you know exactly what I'm talking about they don't follow traffic laws
they drink too much and apparently if they're businessmen they think all girls
in the town are for sale I'm not even kidding about that one number six not on
the ocean Orlando is the fifth largest city in Florida and is the most inland
of the top five this means there's no ocean anywhere around when you think
about living in Florida you're more than likely thinking about living near the
ocean unfortunately the closest beach that's attached to the Atlantic ocean
would be Cape Canaveral about an hour east now there's plenty of lakes and
rivers with beaches however they're really not beaches the ocean has beaches
lakes and rivers don't have beaches sure people in Iowa and Kansas try and sell
you on that but it's just not true it's not a beach at the beach you have
rock-hard beach bodies in Iowa you have fluffy pale Lake bodies number five
natural disasters Orlando is no stranger to natural disasters in fact locals may
even be considered seasoned veterans in natural disaster preparations Orlando
experiences a hurricane nearly every single year during hurricane season the
good news is being inland it lessens the blow say verse one of the coastal towns
they give thunderstorms and sometimes even tornadoes
unfortunately should you ever experience a tornado
they're rare in the city of Orlando you can't even retreat to your basement
since the environment here is very much like a swamp it's pretty much swamp it's
nearly impossible to have a basement in or around Orlando one good thing about
tornadoes they hardly ever happen they also get wildfires in Florida which
screws up the air quality for most of the state when they get a really good
one number four heat humidity if you enjoy being hot and sweaty then this is
your place however for the rest of us it's hard to breathe and feels almost
like your nose is lodged in a heavyset man's belly button and you're
suffocating be prepared to spend a lot on your utilities to cool your house
down also make sure you know exactly where the nearest swimming pool is at
all times drink plenty of fluids beer doesn't count
maybe Coors does but drink plenty of water the central part of Florida can
get really bad I spent a few summers in the Ocala area of Florida which is a
little north of Orlando and it was brutal some days now this is where
someone always leaves a comment about how it's not that bad then they make
some comment about how your week if it bothers units you know not that bad to
that person I want to congratulate you for being a tough guy that likes to
sweat while sitting under a tree or an awning congratulations to that person
keep in mind you might be acclimated to the weather this video is directed
towards newcomers so they're not used to that weather okay thanks
number three low-paying jobs in the cost of living the jobs are one of the worst
things about living in Orlando unless you have a very favorable degree you may
have a pretty tough time finding a decent job in Orlando while the
unemployment rate is extremely low at only 2.8 percent the income per capita
is also extremely low at $28,000 a year making the poverty rate sit somewhere
around nineteen percent with all the theme parks and tourist attractions many
of them offer entry-level jobs that pay minimum wage now if you make minimum
wage or there abouts it's gonna be rough the cost living in Orlando is outrageous
transportation is about 28 percent higher than the national average and
utilities are about 4 percent higher the overall cost living here is about 13
percent higher than the national average number two uninsured drivers when making
the move to Orlando be sure you change your liability insurance on your car to
full coverage this is because Florida has the most uninsured drivers in the
country at nearly 30 percent that's nearly 30 percent of the drivers in the
state of Florida have no coverage for themselves or their car while this is
frustrating because you're gonna be paying for all of those who don't
that's just how insurance works it may save you a lot in the long run if you
just get full insurance insurance rates are already higher than most states in
Florida so you may hesitate to take that extra coverage don't just do it number
one no cold-weather Orlando residents don't know what
cold-weather is the average low in January seems to stay somewhere around
50 degrees so if you ask a local they'll tell you
anything below 65 is cold the city sees no snow throughout the year which is no
surprise however they do see about 52 inches of rain which is about 14 inches
higher than the national average there is no real seasons here why is that bad
weather that hardly changes where's in some people not all people
but some people it does affect one of the top reasons listed by people moving
back after relocating to a warmer climate was the seasons never changed to
be fair Florida does have slight changes but compared to save Minnesota it didn't
change at all now I get it warm weather is better some people just don't like it
all year round so that's it's a negative for a lot of people believe it or not I
know a lot of people sitting in Arizona or Florida things like that they're all
there's nothing wrong with warm weather why would you want it to be cold some
people aren't like you it's just how it is
alright so that's my top 10 reasons not to move to Orlando Florida hope you guys
enjoyed it hope you got some information out of it Florida's are actually a
really nice state a lot of fun especially Orlando area they've got so
many things to do it's it's a lot of fun I got a mint but it's just not the best
place to move to I mean they don't have terrible terrible crime or anything like
that they have a lot of reasons people wouldn't want to move there I am
traveling there I'm taking the train there actually in October the good news
is I just got a new book loving coffee it's that same one the caffeinated humor
I'm saving that till my trip but I'll leave a link below if you want to pick
that one up it's a really good book don't forget all the rest of the links
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