Majority of these folks are not locals they are work from home people from up north who will complain Orlando isn’t like Chicago or NYC true locals hear it all of the time. Orlando isn’t what it used to be. It’s now just a place for bad drivers, rich people, and work from home people and gentrification. Orlando is viewed as vacation land and nothing more. True Orlando locals know Orlando isn’t what it used to be and knows it sucks now. Not your fault Ken, those folks aren’t locals. Being a jacksonville resident, yeah Miami Tampa Orlando make fun of us but we have a unique culture and community. True Orlando locals know we’ll always love them!
Just got back from Orlando, the drivers on the highway were INSANE. 3 totally reckless drivers in like a 10 minute span, totally reckless like out of a racing movie, absolutely terrifying.
I grew up, in Orlando it was an awsome place in the late 80's thruout the 90's and early 2000's, people where friendly, partying downtown was supersafe, around after 2004 things started to change you saw more homelesness , more crime, more traffic, people became less friendly, it sucks compared to back then, but still way better than most cities.
I'm in Kissimmee, don't even think of coming here. Honestly it's a dump. Traffic is an absolute parking lot and has gotten so bad the last 4 years. Roads were not for the amount of people here. Almost everyone is from NY, NJ or PR. You will easily take 45mins to 1 hour to drive anywhere you want. Prices are out of control here on buying anything and insurance is sky high for your home and car. We came here from North FL in 2012 for my wife's medical job and are leaving by January and heading to Kentucky which pays more than Orlando and costs half the price with zero traffic. I honestly feel like Orlando is the Miami of the 80s and 90s how much it is changing and turning into a Latin town.
@@anthonyr8320Kentucky might not have as much to do as down here but the quality of life is way better. I’m a South Florida native who lived in both Orlando and Lexington
Florida native here. Not really enjoying it anymore, it feels too fake. It does lake a strong community, I find myself getting so anxious in the crowds and it's gotten so expensive. I don't think it's good for me long term. Happy for others if they end up staying though!
Great video! Loved hearing the variety of answers. I agree, it's difficult to find community here. Not impossible, just not as easy as up North/Midwest.
I hate to say it, but Orlando is a shell of what it was 10-15 years ago. in 09, my apt was 625 a month on Kirkman rd. I was only paid $10.75 an hour, yet I paid for rent, brighthouse's phone, internet and tv triple play for 69.99, out to eat money and annual passes for all the local parks (disney, seaworld and universal). First kiss of death was when Disney forced all the restaurants at downtown to take the dining plan. Then the happy hours, specials and hospitality nights were cancelled. Then they cut the budget on food, like eliminating options and ingredients to make it cheaper. Now it's just a mediocre cash grab
The locals complaining about the weather is crazy. Try living in the midwest, where we get the same hot and humid summers, then the freezing cold, below zero winters. We get maybe 6 weeks a year that are decent where it is neither too hot or too cold.
Not only that, there’s barely spring or fall in the upper Midwest now (which is what people seem to be nostalgic about that moved away), because you just go straight from hot as hell to freezing most years
I lived in the quad cities for 4 years I visited south Florida in July and it was actually cooler down here because of the coastal breeze. Midwest living is for a different breed I counted the days til I was back in Florida
As a orlando resident and transpalant from up north and postal worker, millennial. This place is unaffordable for young people or young families its meant for established professionals with high income. The problem is getting worse everyday with wages that dont keep up and higher and higher expenses. I cant even rent anything here. The resturants, amentities are great, but everything else traffic, weather/humidity, upward mobility sucks, and like other guy in video the lack of community is isolating. Its getting to be like Miami here and I see the type of cars driving here everyday looking like it too.
This sounds more like a work ethic issue than a systemic issue. I know plenty of young people thriving in Orlando who are buying up houses in Windermere, Dr Phillips, or a little north in Winter Garden/Clermont. The notion of “wages” has little to no relevance in 2024 as remote work allows a person to work anywhere l.
@@Hw-xf6gs it's a state issue, most industries dont pay a living wage. Good for them they prob got into a high paying job, like I already stated that the only way people make it around here. lol remote work isn't even in every company, even when its offered its a small number of positions your living in a bubble.
@@emmanuel1163 More excuses. The notion is "living wage" is nonsensical. People who demonstrate value will move forward in life, people who put in the least amount of effort will not. When someone rambles about a "living wage" its a red flag that they are a mediocre at best worker.
@@Hw-xf6gs a bigger red flag is this meritocratic ideology of worth, irrespective of circumstance, it's an over simplistic and idealised worldview. You can't predict how hard anyone works, or by extension is "worth" based on income alone. A cop or soldier objectively have more risk than a Singer or actor, yet they compensated differently. Meritocratic thinking is a sign of a limited simplistic worldview, or "fantasy thinking", the real world isn't a bubble. It's also ignorant of economics to assume there's a six figure job for everyone to go around.
@@Hw-xf6gsYou wanna know what a red flag is? The Meritocratic fallacy and simplistic worldview that "worth" can only be evaluated by income, irrespective of circumstance, There's lazy supervisors that only got their position from networking, but don't actually do their job well, a soldier or cop are objectively sacrificing more to produce value to society, a comedian or celebrity, whether B-list or not is still compensated more despite offering less value. It's also ignorant to assume that a six figure job is common place or "easy" for anyone, that demonstrates ignorance of economics.
Crazy how subjective the population topic is. I moved from Miami to San Diego, and when I visit central Florida, it always seems dead, outside of the park bubbles.
It is dead; even more than before. People can't afford to live here so discretionary money that was used for fun is now being used simply to live. Orlando used to be great because it was at least affordable but without that it's kind of blah.
@@EvSqPr That's the problem with all these videos calling everything Orlando, when it's actually just central Florida, minus the coastal cities. In reality, it's 5 to 6 massive counties known lately as the "Greater Orlando Area", when just 5 to 10 years ago, most of that was the sticks. lol Don't get me wrong, there are great pockets of Orlando, and the areas around the theme parks. It's just most of this "Greater Orlando" is just the sticks with a Walmart, Publix and Chipotle 5-10 minutes away. But let's be 100% honest, most people making the choice to live there is because of the theme parks, and for me, that will always be central Florida's selling point, and there's nothing wrong with it.
Miami is less practical if you have kids and not rich. Get real about miami. Unreal place for people that have kids. Single and ready to mingle of course miami beats Orlando.
With Orlando being the international city that it is, building a sense of community is somewhat difficult. Everything surrounds the parks and airport. Maybe take a page from large cities like Atlanta, which was much like Orlando before the 1996 Olympics, have non-profits and corporate sponsors (UNICORP, Morgan&Morgan, AdventHealth, OrlandoHealth etc) develop a walkable bike-able beltway (like ATL), Dogwood Festival, Peachtree Road Race (like Jax's Turkey Trot), Jazz Festival, Music and Arts Festival (not just Winter Park) and other social events that 'build and connects the disparate communities. Build the community connections, but Ken, u and your folks are probably best positioned to catalyst these ideas.
My family has been in the Orlando area since 1989, and I honestly don't understand why people keep moving here. All these folks "love it" when they move here and then proceed to complain about everything. The reality is that central Florida has grown so much faster than it could actually handle. So now traffic SUCKS!!! Oh, and you better have reliable transportation and money to do all the things people tell you that's here to do. But hey, if you want to move here, do you.
I moved here for the Disney College Program and got suckered into staying full time with the company. Safe to say I'm ready to move back home to Texas by the beginning of 2025 and never look back to this place. Too hot, too humid, too touristy, getting way too expensive, traffic is egregious, etc, etc. Everyone say there's so much to do here, but besides the theme parks and if you're not an alcoholic there's really not. Some people swear by Orlando and Florida with their lives, but it's not for me.
I think it’s really important to highlight that Orlando is becoming an increasingly difficult (especially for young adults working in the theme parks) place to live due to rising rent prices. The hundreds of thousands of people that make this city so profitable are having a very hard time competing with everyone coming from New York and California
wait until the next short while, government is secretly handing out free money for homes and free medical eyc to millions who have been flown into usa from all over the world and come across the borders. It’s going to get more expensive and competitive in job market.
I love Orlando but I lived there all of 2008. Not one person opened a conversation with me the entire time. It was always me starting the conversation.
4 years living in Orlando , came from volusia county. I would add more farmers markets and fresh local food stores. Traffic isn’t bad with my work schedule but going to Disney is rough anytime you drive there.. halloween horror nights seems to be my group thing with friends. I used to party a lot downtown and at gilt but since they shut down I haven’t gone out partying at all. if I do go out, it’s at milk district because I feel safer than orange ave😂 had an opportunity to move to Puerto Rico and I said no because I don’t wanna leave the theme parks 😂
Love the content! Living in Orlando for over 20 years now everyone I’ve spoken to says the same things. They wish there was more community here and I think it is because there’s so many transient people coming and going, It’s almost impossible.
I visit Orlando once a yr from Sacramento,CA for the theme parks, but what Orlando needs is more upscale, Asian markets and more variety of authentic, Asian restaurants.Dont get me wrong, I love Publix sub sandwiches, the variety of Latin American food(e.g. Cuban sandwiches, ropa vieja), good coffee from Joffreys, but in urban parts of California, every other corner seems to have pho, banh mi, hot pot, boba tea, dim sum, and a variety of Asian markets.Its just normal over here.
Been here 3 years. The biggest negatives are the weather being unbearable. Coming from the north we had the fall season, the Christmas season and the summer and spring. Here in Florida it’s only summer all year round and I miss the seasons. The other negative is the lack of community. I have even here with my wife and child as I said for 3 years and have never met anybody who’s genuine. Everybody is either on the go, tourists or just snobby. I found a lot of people judge you based on your finances. By that I mean, I was at the ymca and another family who works in tel estate and lives in lake Nona stopped associating themselves with us because my career is below theirs. It’s hard to meet people here and I wish it had a sense of community. The drivers are terrible as well and there are countless car crashes daily. No place here is walkable and no public transportation. Most “good areas” like horizon west and Windermere are a suburban nightmare. It’s all overpriced housing that looks the same with NO personality. Seriously take a drive to horizon west or any of those hyped up neighborhoods and see how dull and bland it is. They have nothing to do there besides a movie theater and Publix. The only place in Orlando that has personality is winter park and houses there are like $1,000,000 and up. There is no diversity here. Unless you’re white or Latino, you won’t find anything else. My wife and I are Asian. The only thing we have is mills district and half of those Asian restaurants aren’t even Asian owned. Orlando is terrible for diversity. Orlando is cool to visit for vacation, but I feel like a lot of people come visit on vacation and feel like they want to live here. Don’t make that mistake unless you’re rich and can afford housing here. Orlando is way too overhyped.
I am Asian and lived in Orlamdo since the 90s. The asian scene blew up the past 3 years and there are authentic restaurants popping up daily. Have you checked out Chinatown and I'm sure Hmart will turn that area to Korea town. As for the weather, people hates shoveling snow and that's why they are here. The temperature is hell for 4 months out of the year, and then becomes California bay area for the other 8.
@@Singuy888 I shouldn’t have to drive to a Chinatown for Asian culture. I am Filipino so a Chinatown wouldn’t do much for us anyway. Let’s take a place like Seattle, or any city in California, Chicago, Houston, Las Vegas. Their Asian cultural scene is spectacular. The weather is hell for 10 months and and bearable for 2 months. It’s 99 degrees in fall time, yikes
@Shandy812 what are you even talking about? Average temp for October is 84, then it's down from that till late April. And yes you are referring to cities with population that is 3-8x the population of orlando. So of course they have more culture. However out of all the cities in FL, Orlando has the best Asian scene compared to places like Miami , Tampa or Jacksonville. FL is predominantly white and Hispanic. If covid didn't happen, Asians would still rather stay in NYC or California.
@@Singuy888 It's nice that the temp is finally going down but the last few months of close to 100° made Orlando a not fun place to be in. Maybe we don't have to shovel snow but you couldn't really do alot outside this summer. Where is the Chinatown. All I could find on google was just a strip mall called the Orlando Chinatown. Unless you mean Mills and Colonial but I thought that was more Vietnamese.
My apologies it’s just so affordable from where I’m from and working remote couldn’t pass up this opportunity plus going to Disney 3-4 times a week with my partner I feel like I’m on vacation all the time. 😂
28 years here. Love most of it but I 4 traffic is a turn off. Easy solution if they'd move a little faster and have the work being done 24/7.Even if it costs a little extra to pay for those workers.
I agree. The freeways, especially around Sea World, have been under construction for at least four years (as long as I have been here), and quite possibly far longer. They really need to finish them already. It's ridiculous.
I think it would be cool to ask people “if you’re a tourist or looking to move to the Orlando area, besides the theme parks what would you tell them to check out or do?”
Orlando needs one subway system like manhattan. tourist can choose to go different locations in subway. this will reduce the accidents, traffic and safe so much time to both the residents and the tourists. they can to disney, universal seaworld downtown all in subway.
Orlando right now is one of the worst places to live in the USA, due to the horrible and unbearable weather and the ridiculous cost of: Housing, Car and Home Insurance, HOA, gasoline, food and the high cost of electricity, overpopulated. High taxes and very low wages bad working conditions. Continuous hurricanes and their consequences, congestion on the roads, central florida has the most toll roads of any city in the U.S. with153!!! and we could continue listing everything here all day long and many other things. It's crazy just thinking about it!
Transit must improve. Nobody (mayor, Orange County Commission Chair (now called “mayor”) or any other politicians wanted to spend any $ on it back in the 1990’s and now things have gotten out of hand. Ever since I can remember, what became SunRail was always supposed to be a backbone commuter rail line serving stations that were also going to be criss-crossed by LRT lines/street cars…but that never materialized. Instead, I-4 has been widened multiple times. The 408 and 528 were also widened. The 417 as well. The 429 is there now, too, along with some other toll spurs. That’s all fine and good, but a good transit system would provide an alternative to the traffic if the lines were located where people would use it.
As someone who moved two years ago, I got emotional hearing the common theme/need of community 😢 - I’m down to collaborate with anyone who wants to start an event to build more community ❤
Community probably related to the built environment, Orlando is mainly suburban residential with strip malls aside from a few places its feel for people to connect natrual y
If you had ever gone any place in your life you would realize this place is an artificial nightmare on all level possible. You must have no taste, no education, no sense of what relationships mean to find anything acceptable about this place. This is a cold objective observation of the reality of the place. You can drop billions more into that swamp, it will not change its nature
I love the weather during late fall, winter months and early spring, I can't stand the summers and not the heat but raining too dang much, I wish there was more affordable housing with police stations near it, I wish the buses would run 24-7 but have guards on the bus at night in case of drunks. I love International Drive area and up near Winter Park , I love that there are organic stores on East Colonial, Winter Park and near Turkey and Sand Lake. I've met some interesting people here, I've also met some people that I want to stay far far away from me , I can't stand the drivers especially at crosswalks, I can't count how many times out walking I've nearly been hit .
“I wish they had bigger parks.” This guy dreams MASSIVE if Disney World isn’t big enough!! 🤣 But yeah, Disney World and Universal aren’t “community parks”, they’re major tourist destinations. Big, big difference. It was just funny to hear that!
@MrBrewman95 I've been to Massachusetts, military, IDK. Many complain but like the community cleanliness and transportation methods...it costs to have what these other metros have...and only so many ways to pay for it. Costly yes. But I did like Mass.
Hi Ken, Can you ask what locally owned places have good food at reasonable price. I love Puerto Rican food. But only place I know of is Santiago’s that’s in Clermont.
That just shows you that there are so many worse places than Orlando to live and the locals have no clue. Especially when they complain about the weather. They would all die once winter hit.
@@dapperdino1996 I was talking about the weather. Many from Florida assume that they are the only ones that get hot and humid summers, but that is not the case. In the midwest, they get the same summers, they just also get horrible and dangerous winters. I'll take a hot summer and a nice winter any day over what we deal with in the midwest.
Born and raised Orlando native! Beautiful city with lots to see and do, but WAY too expensive for young adults! The economy sucks and can't seem to keep up with the population growth and the city itself has become one big tourist attraction 😢
born and raised here, too. Downtown Orlando area. Traffic sucks. Too many people coming down here and don’t know how to drive! But I love Baldwin Park and Winter Park.
Orlando was really great about 30 years ago. By the new millennium almost all the character was being erased and replaced with a bunch of stale and corporate yuppie shit. That might be the whole country, though. Goodness knows the city isn't growing smartly, either. The way things are going it's just going to end up about as much of a mess as Atlanta is, just without any of the history or culture to make it interesting. It's slowly building out more infrastructure for cyclists, which is good if you get into a neighborhood that was planned well rather than a cluster of subdivisions where the nearest store is miles away.
@@buyfixrentrepeat1270 please don't make this place any more like Atlanta. I've lived here for 13 years and was from savannah ga and we hate Atlanta in ga, wish we could secede from Atlanta
I lived in ocala 20 plus it becoming the next orlando but thing i like about coming is coming there to do comedy and i like mills 50 and milk district area but they they gotta lower price of housing i like to move there someday
Where is the best place to live in Orlando? here is the real answer, the best place to live in Orlando depend on how much money you have, most of the people can not afford to live in " best" places in Orlando, the housing, the rents and insurance are ridiculous
There’s MUCH more to Orlando than Mills50/Milk District. I feel like I’m on Reddit hearing that… 🤦🏻♂️ That old man is smart. North/Northwest of Orlando is the way to go.
just because its cheaper down here than it is in nyc. shit. floridians can barely afford things as it is. I love orlando and florida, im in kissimmee. the growth is scary. but amazing at the same time. we need more people and community growth. more national parks, events, FREE sightseeing. we dont need it to turn into NYC. just cause its cheap, doesnt mean the people who actually live here can afford it. a lot of orlando and surrounding areas, are a mix of young and old, puerto rican migrations, cubans, culture, asian, Jamaican, Caribbean styled foods.
I love that we're a medium sized city and that real Orlando residents know that Davenport, Champions Gate and all the Disney adjacent cities aren't really the Orlando experience. The transportation and rent control really need to be worked on though.
😂 been having family own business seen 2001 I can tell you rent has got too much to have a business. My aunts had to shut business 4 times. With all the chances that goes on it better just to online business these days.
There nothing to do here at all. The clubs what is that some walking areas to walk your dog nice if you live right next to there paying rent for it other wise 0 things here...
I truly hate how many people have moved to Orlando… it’s been one of my annual vacation spots, now the traffic is absolutely horrendous… I wish they took applications🤣🤣🤣. I also expect the state the go blue really soon. 🤦🏾♂️
I moved to Orlando 4 weeks ago (from SLC). Heres my review: -Driving is scary. so many clueless, reckless, and selfish drivers make it a real challenge to get around -The weather is bearable, as long as you avoid peak afternoons. I'm brand new to humidity (came from the desert), but it doesn't bother me as much as I expected. just have to shower a lot more. -The landscaping everywhere is beautiful. I love how green everything is, love all the lakes, love how nice the city looks lit up at night. -There is so much to do. I've spent nearly every day in theme parks since I got here, and I have only just scratched the surface on things I want to try. -I love the storms. Actually a bit disappointed that the hurricane narrowly scraped by us. I was hoping to see a bit more action last night! -I agree with the community comments. I try to meet people in parks, but its hard to find times and places where people are just open to being social with strangers. This is probably true in most cities though.
You've been here a month.That isn't long enough to form an opinion You are going to learn the hard way that living here is not like going to disney world
I would love to see it along 50 since this would give us a high walkability increase, but it would probably be very destructive / expensive. 408 might be easier & cheaper
@@UpperTierDevelopment It's subjective but I like Tampa, South Florida, and New York more. To each their own. You may like it here but there's definitely a significantly alot of people here that don't like it anymore.
@@kenpozek Ok I take back what I said because it implies that I'm calling you a liar. I don't mean that. But I do think that if you interviewed a larger sample of people you would find many people don't like it in Orlando anymore. If you read the comment section, you will see many other that have that same outlook. From my perspective, alot of people can't afford what was once a really affordable city which leads to places being dead. In most of your cut scenes there were little to no people. Orlando used to be lively and it simply isn't anymore. Even Disney had historic low attendance these past few years.
The rent is too damn high and public transportation is trash for a city of this size.
Amen, live there since 2007 and just watch housing get extremely unaffordable and increased homelessness .
@@kakerosa5466like that all over usa the past 3 1/2-4 years especially
I can see you haven't lived in South florida
@@kakerosa5466 Couldn't give houses away there in 2009 through 2012. Now the entire place is a strip mall with a perpetual traffic jam.
That’s because everyone and their mothers moved there🙄
Majority of these folks are not locals they are work from home people from up north who will complain Orlando isn’t like Chicago or NYC true locals hear it all of the time.
Orlando isn’t what it used to be. It’s now just a place for bad drivers, rich people, and work from home people and gentrification. Orlando is viewed as vacation land and nothing more. True Orlando locals know Orlando isn’t what it used to be and knows it sucks now.
Not your fault Ken, those folks aren’t locals. Being a jacksonville resident, yeah Miami Tampa Orlando make fun of us but we have a unique culture and community. True Orlando locals know we’ll always love them!
Just about everything and any place isn’t the same anymore, especially since the 90s to be frankly honest with you..😢🤔😢🧐🤨
facts. I blame the snowbirds for ruining Orlando.
Snowbirds ruin every environment they're in
@@anthonyjackson1446 yep it’s unfortunate
@@MS-ty8eq yep snowbirds are annoying. All they do is talk about up north and politics
Just got back from Orlando, the drivers on the highway were INSANE. 3 totally reckless drivers in like a 10 minute span, totally reckless like out of a racing movie, absolutely terrifying.
Thats why are insurance rates are so outrageous regardless of your driving record.
I4 is one of the most dangerous highways in the nation
Drive in Florida as if everyone is trying to kill you with their car and you should be ok.
Welcome to Orlando!!
I have seen 3 different times a car driving down the wrong side of the freeway. Couldnt believe it at the time. Not anymore
Definitely need a metro rail system that run parallel with I-4 and around the Orlando metropolitan area
dude... we literally have that
Need a double decker interstate like Tampa built, local traffic on the bottom, thru traffic over the top.
We seriously need this 💯💯
I grew up, in Orlando it was an awsome place in the late 80's thruout the 90's and early 2000's, people where friendly, partying downtown was supersafe, around after 2004 things started to change you saw more homelesness , more crime, more traffic, people became less friendly, it sucks compared to back then, but still way better than most cities.
I'm in Kissimmee, don't even think of coming here. Honestly it's a dump. Traffic is an absolute parking lot and has gotten so bad the last 4 years. Roads were not for the amount of people here. Almost everyone is from NY, NJ or PR. You will easily take 45mins to 1 hour to drive anywhere you want. Prices are out of control here on buying anything and insurance is sky high for your home and car. We came here from North FL in 2012 for my wife's medical job and are leaving by January and heading to Kentucky which pays more than Orlando and costs half the price with zero traffic. I honestly feel like Orlando is the Miami of the 80s and 90s how much it is changing and turning into a Latin town.
100% agree...
Ky? you’ll be back in a month mark my words 😂
KY? you’ll be back in a month mark my words 😂
Yep
@@anthonyr8320Kentucky might not have as much to do as down here but the quality of life is way better. I’m a South Florida native who lived in both Orlando and Lexington
I was born and raised in Kissimmee Fl and worked in Orlando for 7 years. I moved to NC in 2023 and never looked back.
which part? i lived there once
@@ckomtro3 Mooresville
Florida native here. Not really enjoying it anymore, it feels too fake. It does lake a strong community, I find myself getting so anxious in the crowds and it's gotten so expensive. I don't think it's good for me long term. Happy for others if they end up staying though!
Great video! Loved hearing the variety of answers. I agree, it's difficult to find community here. Not impossible, just not as easy as up North/Midwest.
I hate to say it, but Orlando is a shell of what it was 10-15 years ago. in 09, my apt was 625 a month on Kirkman rd. I was only paid $10.75 an hour, yet I paid for rent, brighthouse's phone, internet and tv triple play for 69.99, out to eat money and annual passes for all the local parks (disney, seaworld and universal). First kiss of death was when Disney forced all the restaurants at downtown to take the dining plan. Then the happy hours, specials and hospitality nights were cancelled. Then they cut the budget on food, like eliminating options and ingredients to make it cheaper. Now it's just a mediocre cash grab
The locals complaining about the weather is crazy. Try living in the midwest, where we get the same hot and humid summers, then the freezing cold, below zero winters. We get maybe 6 weeks a year that are decent where it is neither too hot or too cold.
Not only that, there’s barely spring or fall in the upper Midwest now (which is what people seem to be nostalgic about that moved away), because you just go straight from hot as hell to freezing most years
I lived in the quad cities for 4 years I visited south Florida in July and it was actually cooler down here because of the coastal breeze. Midwest living is for a different breed I counted the days til I was back in Florida
People just love to complain now. They don't enjoy shit. One bad story can ruin there whole day.
This was awesome! Informative and seemingly authentic. Nice work.
As a orlando resident and transpalant from up north and postal worker, millennial. This place is unaffordable for young people or young families its meant for established professionals with high income. The problem is getting worse everyday with wages that dont keep up and higher and higher expenses. I cant even rent anything here.
The resturants, amentities are great, but everything else traffic, weather/humidity, upward mobility sucks, and like other guy in video the lack of community is isolating. Its getting to be like Miami here and I see the type of cars driving here everyday looking like it too.
This sounds more like a work ethic issue than a systemic issue. I know plenty of young people thriving in Orlando who are buying up houses in Windermere, Dr Phillips, or a little north in Winter Garden/Clermont. The notion of “wages” has little to no relevance in 2024 as remote work allows a person to work anywhere l.
@@Hw-xf6gs it's a state issue, most industries dont pay a living wage.
Good for them they prob got into a high paying job, like I already stated that the only way people make it around here.
lol remote work isn't even in every company, even when its offered its a small number of positions your living in a bubble.
@@emmanuel1163 More excuses. The notion is "living wage" is nonsensical. People who demonstrate value will move forward in life, people who put in the least amount of effort will not. When someone rambles about a "living wage" its a red flag that they are a mediocre
at best worker.
@@Hw-xf6gs a bigger red flag is this meritocratic ideology of worth, irrespective of circumstance, it's an over simplistic and idealised worldview. You can't predict how hard anyone works, or by extension is "worth" based on income alone. A cop or soldier objectively have more risk than a Singer or actor, yet they compensated differently. Meritocratic thinking is a sign of a limited simplistic worldview, or "fantasy thinking", the real world isn't a bubble.
It's also ignorant of economics to assume there's a six figure job for everyone to go around.
@@Hw-xf6gsYou wanna know what a red flag is? The Meritocratic fallacy and simplistic worldview that "worth" can only be evaluated by income, irrespective of circumstance, There's lazy supervisors that only got their position from networking, but don't actually do their job well, a soldier or cop are objectively sacrificing more to produce value to society, a comedian or celebrity, whether B-list or not is still compensated more despite offering less value. It's also ignorant to assume that a six figure job is common place or "easy" for anyone, that demonstrates ignorance of economics.
Orlando is great but more for familys terrible for young adults
Crazy how subjective the population topic is. I moved from Miami to San Diego, and when I visit central Florida, it always seems dead, outside of the park bubbles.
It is dead; even more than before. People can't afford to live here so discretionary money that was used for fun is now being used simply to live. Orlando used to be great because it was at least affordable but without that it's kind of blah.
@@EvSqPr That's the problem with all these videos calling everything Orlando, when it's actually just central Florida, minus the coastal cities. In reality, it's 5 to 6 massive counties known lately as the "Greater Orlando Area", when just 5 to 10 years ago, most of that was the sticks. lol
Don't get me wrong, there are great pockets of Orlando, and the areas around the theme parks. It's just most of this "Greater Orlando" is just the sticks with a Walmart, Publix and Chipotle 5-10 minutes away. But let's be 100% honest, most people making the choice to live there is because of the theme parks, and for me, that will always be central Florida's selling point, and there's nothing wrong with it.
Miami is less practical if you have kids and not rich. Get real about miami. Unreal place for people that have kids. Single and ready to mingle of course miami beats Orlando.
With Orlando being the international city that it is, building a sense of community is somewhat difficult. Everything surrounds the parks and airport. Maybe take a page from large cities like Atlanta, which was much like Orlando before the 1996 Olympics, have non-profits and corporate sponsors (UNICORP, Morgan&Morgan, AdventHealth, OrlandoHealth etc) develop a walkable bike-able beltway (like ATL), Dogwood Festival, Peachtree Road Race (like Jax's Turkey Trot), Jazz Festival, Music and Arts Festival (not just Winter Park) and other social events that 'build and connects the disparate communities. Build the community connections, but Ken, u and your folks are probably best positioned to catalyst these ideas.
Lived in ATL from 2017-June 2022 before moving to Orlando. Couldn’t agree more with this comment! 🙏🤝
I would love to see a beltway as well. There are a couple through different neighborhoods but a citywide one would be amazing
My family has been in the Orlando area since 1989, and I honestly don't understand why people keep moving here. All these folks "love it" when they move here and then proceed to complain about everything.
The reality is that central Florida has grown so much faster than it could actually handle. So now traffic SUCKS!!! Oh, and you better have reliable transportation and money to do all the things people tell you that's here to do.
But hey, if you want to move here, do you.
Sounds like you need to spearhead building up a community feeling! Awesome video, this is one of my faves.
I moved here for the Disney College Program and got suckered into staying full time with the company. Safe to say I'm ready to move back home to Texas by the beginning of 2025 and never look back to this place. Too hot, too humid, too touristy, getting way too expensive, traffic is egregious, etc, etc. Everyone say there's so much to do here, but besides the theme parks and if you're not an alcoholic there's really not. Some people swear by Orlando and Florida with their lives, but it's not for me.
Man! I wish I could be in this video:) Orlando is awesome!!
I think it’s really important to highlight that Orlando is becoming an increasingly difficult (especially for young adults working in the theme parks) place to live due to rising rent prices. The hundreds of thousands of people that make this city so profitable are having a very hard time competing with everyone coming from New York and California
wait until the next short while, government is secretly handing out free money for homes and free medical eyc to millions who have been flown into usa from all over the world and come across the borders. It’s going to get more expensive and competitive in job market.
I love Orlando but I lived there all of 2008. Not one person opened a conversation with me the entire time. It was always me starting the conversation.
4 years living in Orlando , came from volusia county. I would add more farmers markets and fresh local food stores. Traffic isn’t bad with my work schedule but going to Disney is rough anytime you drive there.. halloween horror nights seems to be my group thing with friends. I used to party a lot downtown and at gilt but since they shut down I haven’t gone out partying at all. if I do go out, it’s at milk district because I feel safer than orange ave😂 had an opportunity to move to Puerto Rico and I said no because I don’t wanna leave the theme parks 😂
The best places in the O to find a faith based community are the RROC church, Jesus Image church, and Nations Church.
Love the content!
Living in Orlando for over 20 years now everyone I’ve spoken to says the same things. They wish there was more community here and I think it is because there’s so many transient people coming and going, It’s almost impossible.
Thanks for watching! Hopefully we can help cultivate more community here the longer people decide to stay
I visit Orlando once a yr from Sacramento,CA for the theme parks, but what Orlando needs is more upscale, Asian markets and more variety of authentic, Asian restaurants.Dont get me wrong, I love Publix sub sandwiches, the variety of Latin American food(e.g. Cuban sandwiches, ropa vieja), good coffee from Joffreys, but in urban parts of California, every other corner seems to have pho, banh mi, hot pot, boba tea, dim sum, and a variety of Asian markets.Its just normal over here.
Without a doubt I would change the Drivers. The amount of wreckless drivers, road rage, and anger on these folks is unbelievable
I drive on i4 at least twice a week and I agree
I miss the old Orlando!
Been here 3 years. The biggest negatives are the weather being unbearable. Coming from the north we had the fall season, the Christmas season and the summer and spring. Here in Florida it’s only summer all year round and I miss the seasons.
The other negative is the lack of community. I have even here with my wife and child as I said for 3 years and have never met anybody who’s genuine. Everybody is either on the go, tourists or just snobby. I found a lot of people judge you based on your finances. By that I mean, I was at the ymca and another family who works in tel estate and lives in lake Nona stopped associating themselves with us because my career is below theirs. It’s hard to meet people here and I wish it had a sense of community.
The drivers are terrible as well and there are countless car crashes daily. No place here is walkable and no public transportation. Most “good areas” like horizon west and Windermere are a suburban nightmare. It’s all overpriced housing that looks the same with NO personality. Seriously take a drive to horizon west or any of those hyped up neighborhoods and see how dull and bland it is. They have nothing to do there besides a movie theater and Publix. The only place in Orlando that has personality is winter park and houses there are like $1,000,000 and up.
There is no diversity here. Unless you’re white or Latino, you won’t find anything else. My wife and I are Asian. The only thing we have is mills district and half of those Asian restaurants aren’t even Asian owned. Orlando is terrible for diversity.
Orlando is cool to visit for vacation, but I feel like a lot of people come visit on vacation and feel like they want to live here. Don’t make that mistake unless you’re rich and can afford housing here.
Orlando is way too overhyped.
Overhyped is definitely the best way to describe it. It's only well known because of the theme parks.
I am Asian and lived in Orlamdo since the 90s. The asian scene blew up the past 3 years and there are authentic restaurants popping up daily. Have you checked out Chinatown and I'm sure Hmart will turn that area to Korea town.
As for the weather, people hates shoveling snow and that's why they are here. The temperature is hell for 4 months out of the year, and then becomes California bay area for the other 8.
@@Singuy888 I shouldn’t have to drive to a Chinatown for Asian culture. I am Filipino so a Chinatown wouldn’t do much for us anyway.
Let’s take a place like Seattle, or any city in California, Chicago, Houston, Las Vegas. Their Asian cultural scene is spectacular.
The weather is hell for 10 months and and bearable for 2 months. It’s 99 degrees in fall time, yikes
@Shandy812 what are you even talking about? Average temp for October is 84, then it's down from that till late April.
And yes you are referring to cities with population that is 3-8x the population of orlando. So of course they have more culture.
However out of all the cities in FL, Orlando has the best Asian scene compared to places like Miami , Tampa or Jacksonville. FL is predominantly white and Hispanic. If covid didn't happen, Asians would still rather stay in NYC or California.
@@Singuy888 It's nice that the temp is finally going down but the last few months of close to 100° made Orlando a not fun place to be in. Maybe we don't have to shovel snow but you couldn't really do alot outside this summer. Where is the Chinatown. All I could find on google was just a strip mall called the Orlando Chinatown. Unless you mean Mills and Colonial but I thought that was more Vietnamese.
been here my whole life, great city but way too many people moving here
My apologies it’s just so affordable from where I’m from and working remote couldn’t pass up this opportunity plus going to Disney 3-4 times a week with my partner I feel like I’m on vacation all the time. 😂
Agreed man! I'm a 32 year native. This place has become just one big tourist attraction and unaffordable for average folks
28 years here. Love most of it but I 4 traffic is a turn off. Easy solution if they'd move a little faster and have the work being done 24/7.Even if it costs a little extra to pay for those workers.
I agree. The freeways, especially around Sea World, have been under construction for at least four years (as long as I have been here), and quite possibly far longer. They really need to finish them already. It's ridiculous.
Tell everyone to stop moving here 😡
Yeees! More big green space for community to gather!
I think it would be cool to ask people “if you’re a tourist or looking to move to the Orlando area, besides the theme parks what would you tell them to check out or do?”
Awesome question
Orlando needs one subway system like manhattan. tourist can choose to go different locations in subway. this will reduce the accidents, traffic and safe so much time to both the residents and the tourists. they can to disney, universal seaworld downtown all in subway.
I live in Fl.Born and raised in Stuart.All of Fl is getting exspensive .
Even the new developments are car centered and have massive surface lots. It’s literally insane. It’s like walkability isn’t a thing.
Orlando right now is one of the worst places to live in the USA, due to the horrible and unbearable weather and the ridiculous cost of: Housing, Car and Home Insurance, HOA, gasoline, food and the high cost of electricity, overpopulated. High taxes and very low wages bad working conditions. Continuous hurricanes and their consequences, congestion on the roads, central florida has the most toll roads of any city in the U.S. with153!!! and we could continue listing everything here all day long and many other things. It's crazy just thinking about it!
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And people are SO FAKE and CULTURALLY IMPAIRED 😮
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Transit must improve. Nobody (mayor, Orange County Commission Chair (now called “mayor”) or any other politicians wanted to spend any $ on it back in the 1990’s and now things have gotten out of hand. Ever since I can remember, what became SunRail was always supposed to be a backbone commuter rail line serving stations that were also going to be criss-crossed by LRT lines/street cars…but that never materialized. Instead, I-4 has been widened multiple times. The 408 and 528 were also widened. The 417 as well. The 429 is there now, too, along with some other toll spurs. That’s all fine and good, but a good transit system would provide an alternative to the traffic if the lines were located where people would use it.
Love to be in your video! Been living in Orlando/altamonte 10-11 years
As someone who moved two years ago, I got emotional hearing the common theme/need of community 😢 - I’m down to collaborate with anyone who wants to start an event to build more community ❤
Community probably related to the built environment, Orlando is mainly suburban residential with strip malls aside from a few places its feel for people to connect natrual y
Now interview Orlando natives and Florida natives.
As a Orlando citizen who has lived here my whole life I would probably change the downtown area it’s so trashy and needs a renovation
If you had ever gone any place in your life you would realize this place is an artificial nightmare on all level possible. You must have no taste, no education, no sense of what relationships mean to find anything acceptable about this place. This is a cold objective observation of the reality of the place. You can drop billions more into that swamp, it will not change its nature
Hurricane concerns if there's any?
I love the weather during late fall, winter months and early spring, I can't stand the summers and not the heat but raining too dang much, I wish there was more affordable housing with police stations near it, I wish the buses would run 24-7 but have guards on the bus at night in case of drunks. I love International Drive area and up near Winter Park , I love that there are organic stores on East Colonial, Winter Park and near Turkey and Sand Lake. I've met some interesting people here, I've also met some people that I want to stay far far away from me , I can't stand the drivers especially at crosswalks, I can't count how many times out walking I've nearly been hit .
You should make an updated video of what is happening in wesley park sunbridge The last video of the area is only one that is 12 days old
“I wish they had bigger parks.”
This guy dreams MASSIVE if Disney World isn’t big enough!! 🤣
But yeah, Disney World and Universal aren’t “community parks”, they’re major tourist destinations. Big, big difference. It was just funny to hear that!
To much traffic and not enough good jobs, but the winter is nice
Dont new york my Florida.
too late
Yep, too late.
As long as they vote red, it’s okay. I’m from Taxachusetts and glad I fled to Florida.
@MrBrewman95 I've been to Massachusetts, military, IDK. Many complain but like the community cleanliness and transportation methods...it costs to have what these other metros have...and only so many ways to pay for it. Costly yes. But I did like Mass.
Why not
Hi Ken,
Can you ask what locally owned places have good food at reasonable price. I love Puerto Rican food. But only place I know of is Santiago’s that’s in Clermont.
@4:49 --- When I'm old --- this is my hair goal... don't care... white hair... just blowing in the wind. :)
Funny how transplants love florida, while locals from Florida don't like it anymore.
That just shows you that there are so many worse places than Orlando to live and the locals have no clue. Especially when they complain about the weather. They would all die once winter hit.
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@@jaklg7905 I’m a FL native and moved out of state 13 months ago and never once missed Orlando.
@@dapperdino1996 I was talking about the weather. Many from Florida assume that they are the only ones that get hot and humid summers, but that is not the case. In the midwest, they get the same summers, they just also get horrible and dangerous winters. I'll take a hot summer and a nice winter any day over what we deal with in the midwest.
@@jaklg7905 Yeah that’s very true. Where I moved to the summer is hot as hell but it breaks sooner than FL summers.
I can't imagine moving from Atlanta to Orlando 😭.
Born and raised Orlando native! Beautiful city with lots to see and do, but WAY too expensive for young adults!
The economy sucks and can't seem to keep up with the population growth and the city itself has become one big tourist attraction 😢
8:59 Guy casually dropping an area with $1.3 million dollar houses.
Cheaper to rent in BP.
The HOA is over 1,000 a month there now. 😂😂😂
@@MrBrewman95 yikes!
Good video man ~ I am speaking to Liz on your team about a possible relocation. I plan to make a video to document the move.
Stay away
for real i just moved here and feel super lonely
I've been here half a year and have met some amazing friends already. Orlando is way more friendly than the city I moved from
born and raised here, too. Downtown Orlando area. Traffic sucks. Too many people coming down here and don’t know how to drive! But I love Baldwin Park and Winter Park.
Orlando was really great about 30 years ago.
By the new millennium almost all the character was being erased and replaced with a bunch of stale and corporate yuppie shit.
That might be the whole country, though.
Goodness knows the city isn't growing smartly, either. The way things are going it's just going to end up about as much of a mess as Atlanta is, just without any of the history or culture to make it interesting.
It's slowly building out more infrastructure for cyclists, which is good if you get into a neighborhood that was planned well rather than a cluster of subdivisions where the nearest store is miles away.
SHOUT OUT DOMU AND THE EAST END MARKET! Domu is so cheap and its the best food ive had in Florida NOT KIDDING
I personally don’t think there is that much to do here but I am firm a big city
My wife hates it
You're right. There isn't much besides the theme parks.
@@buyfixrentrepeat1270 please don't make this place any more like Atlanta. I've lived here for 13 years and was from savannah ga and we hate Atlanta in ga, wish we could secede from Atlanta
Starting out in O-Town West which is the best place to live imo 🙊
I lived in ocala 20 plus it becoming the next orlando but thing i like about coming is coming there to do comedy and i like mills 50 and milk district area but they they gotta lower price of housing i like to move there someday
Where is the best place to live in Orlando? here is the real answer, the best place to live in Orlando depend on how much money you have, most of the people can not afford to live in " best" places in Orlando, the housing, the rents and insurance are ridiculous
same in my part of usa
There’s MUCH more to Orlando than Mills50/Milk District. I feel like I’m on Reddit hearing that… 🤦🏻♂️
That old man is smart. North/Northwest of Orlando is the way to go.
how long is it unbearably humid (how many months per year)
These days it’s all 12 months really, in the “Winter” you’ll have days where it dips to comfortable levels. It didn’t used to be like this though.
Talk about public transportation in Orlando
just because its cheaper down here than it is in nyc. shit. floridians can barely afford things as it is. I love orlando and florida, im in kissimmee. the growth is scary. but amazing at the same time. we need more people and community growth. more national parks, events, FREE sightseeing. we dont need it to turn into NYC. just cause its cheap, doesnt mean the people who actually live here can afford it. a lot of orlando and surrounding areas, are a mix of young and old, puerto rican migrations, cubans, culture, asian, Jamaican, Caribbean styled foods.
What’s up Ken what’s the future of horizon west and lake Nona
Winter park 1 then Baldwin then Audubon then windemere
Half NYkers, after a while, go back to NY from Orlando.
Good. We don’t want them here.
Best thing I’ve read on UA-cam. Please leave sooner
I love that we're a medium sized city and that real Orlando residents know that Davenport, Champions Gate and all the Disney adjacent cities aren't really the Orlando experience. The transportation and rent control really need to be worked on though.
rent control is a communist thing and doesn’t work, I come from a communist country and trust me it’s not a good thing.
why didn’t you go to neighborhoods like Azelia park,South Semoran or even Vista lakes? South east never gets any love 😢
😂 been having family own business seen 2001
I can tell you rent has got too much to have a business. My aunts had to shut business 4 times. With all the chances that goes on it better just to online business these days.
Ohio is calling
Another great video from the best team
Appreciate you 💪🏽
Orlando needs light rail east to west and commuter rail to lake county
Mass Transit, they need mass transit.
I wanna move there so bad
homes -$300,000 , wages --$9.00 an hour.....thats it!
move to california
The best part about Orlando is when population reaches 4 million like Miami 🏝 which will be soon 😮
There nothing to do here at all. The clubs what is that some walking areas to walk your dog nice if you live right next to there paying rent for it other wise 0 things here...
Great content as always from Ken and the gang.
I truly hate how many people have moved to Orlando… it’s been one of my annual vacation spots, now the traffic is absolutely horrendous…
I wish they took applications🤣🤣🤣. I also expect the state the go blue really soon. 🤦🏾♂️
that would be a shame
Orlando is great! I love being here. :))
Lol
There are some real prick drivers in Orlando. Too much traffic and developers control the government.
Drink every time those two girls say “ like”….
winter park . Lake mary are also really nice areas
gentleman from puerto rico was a sweetie
this feels like a targeted youtube recommendation (i’ve lived in orlando for 10+ years)
The algorithm is strong with this one
anything north of downtown is really good
Thanks for keeping up the great content Ken! You’re my best source to keep all of my fondest Orlando memories alive.
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Time to start learning Spanish
I moved to Orlando 4 weeks ago (from SLC). Heres my review:
-Driving is scary. so many clueless, reckless, and selfish drivers make it a real challenge to get around
-The weather is bearable, as long as you avoid peak afternoons. I'm brand new to humidity (came from the desert), but it doesn't bother me as much as I expected. just have to shower a lot more.
-The landscaping everywhere is beautiful. I love how green everything is, love all the lakes, love how nice the city looks lit up at night.
-There is so much to do. I've spent nearly every day in theme parks since I got here, and I have only just scratched the surface on things I want to try.
-I love the storms. Actually a bit disappointed that the hurricane narrowly scraped by us. I was hoping to see a bit more action last night!
-I agree with the community comments. I try to meet people in parks, but its hard to find times and places where people are just open to being social with strangers. This is probably true in most cities though.
Hey i just moved here too if u need a friend lemme know
You've been here a month.That isn't long enough to form an opinion
You are going to learn the hard way that living here is not like going to disney world
2008 like exodus is starting
That a good place to live in Orlando Florida
Orlando needs an east-west line for the sunrail. End of story
Totally agree with you. That said; where would the mid point be? Maybe just follow the 408/50?
I would love to see it along 50 since this would give us a high walkability increase, but it would probably be very destructive / expensive. 408 might be easier & cheaper
@@btzrdj don’t forget south west Orlando Hunter creek or south east lake nona we want a train too!
Nonsense
You left out all the people you interviewed that says Orlando is boring. Not really an objective video.
Literally everyone we interviewed we put into the video
lol, if Orlando is boring, then what place isn’t?
@@UpperTierDevelopment It's subjective but I like Tampa, South Florida, and New York more. To each their own. You may like it here but there's definitely a significantly alot of people here that don't like it anymore.
@@kenpozek Ok I take back what I said because it implies that I'm calling you a liar. I don't mean that. But I do think that if you interviewed a larger sample of people you would find many people don't like it in Orlando anymore. If you read the comment section, you will see many other that have that same outlook. From my perspective, alot of people can't afford what was once a really affordable city which leads to places being dead. In most of your cut scenes there were little to no people. Orlando used to be lively and it simply isn't anymore. Even Disney had historic low attendance these past few years.
@@EvSqPr WOW “ now that’s crazy when it comes to the amusement parks having low attendance etc etc..
Born and raised here….still love it…just overly populated now