My wife and I have started watching videos about moving to Florida in the evenings before heading to bed. We kinda know where we want to move to, but we could be easily swayed by better jobs and more affordable housing.
Lakeland Florida is a community that sits between Orlando and Tampa. Living in Lakeland would provide opportunities to tap into both city's job markets. We could have the benefits of living near Orlando and having the job market for Tampa (which is the best in the state for computer jobs). It is listed as the 59th best places to live in the US with a low average housing cost.
We decided to watch several YouTube videos that talked about Lakeland.
We watched Cost Of Living in Lakeland.
Lakeland, city on the move
Lakeland, a great place to live
10 things to do in Lakeland
Goodbye Lakeland
After watching these, we decided Lakeland Florida was not for us. There isn't really isn't in Lakeland that interests us. Some of the big selling points of Lakeland is the architecture, which I don't care about. And the small town feeling, but it isn't a small town at all. Apparently there are many swans, which doesn't interest me because I am coming from an area with a lot of geese. It seems like the best parts of Lakeland are the things that are not in Lakeland (being close to Disney, Orlando, beaches, etc). We would be accepting Lakeland in exchange for relatively long work commutes.
I am sure there are people who live in Lakeland who could make a long list of things they love about it, but, I couldn't see anything interesting in the videos. I admit, I have never been to Lakeland, and, if I ever did visit Lakeland perhaps my thoughts would change. But I'm just not feeling it.
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