I think it would be a nice place to retire to? What do you think?
West Palm Beach just has alot of retired New Yorkers. Who wants to live among their bitchiness?
by Anonymous | reply 1 | March 14, 2019 4:09 PM |
There are people who live there but mainly it's full of government offices, parking lots and large court complex. Not a particularly attractive residential destination.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | March 14, 2019 4:11 PM |
Fort Lauderdale has potential but has too many trashy parts
by Anonymous | reply 3 | March 14, 2019 4:16 PM |
I liked this place when I visited, about 17 years ago.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | March 14, 2019 4:17 PM |
Seems like so much of Florida has potential. But the people are a major turn off. I feel like it has the brashness of NY/NJ with the blandness of the South. There is no denying a certain trashiness - even in places with million dollar condos. The real estate is strangely expensive - especially given quality of construction, insurance costs and risk of hurricanes. I can never quite put my finger on it but it just seems like someplace I wouldn’t be happy.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | March 14, 2019 4:21 PM |
It's nice because it's an actual city of all different types. You can be poor and work in Palm Beach and live in West Palm Beach. It's also old so it didn't develop the new suburban way most FL cities did, that came after 1960.
West Palm Beach to Fort Myers forms the "frost line" meaning if you draw a line between those two cities it usually doesn't go below freezing.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | March 14, 2019 4:22 PM |
This place looks OK. Needs decoration. It has a pool!
by Anonymous | reply 8 | March 14, 2019 4:26 PM |
[quote]It's nice because it's an actual city of all different types.
That's what I was thinking.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | March 14, 2019 4:27 PM |
It's a bunch of old people
by Anonymous | reply 10 | March 14, 2019 4:30 PM |
I'd rent to start off. This place has a pool too.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | March 14, 2019 4:30 PM |
Don Burns land. Sean Cody boys galore.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | March 14, 2019 4:31 PM |
[quote]It's a bunch of old people
I'm 56 in a few weeks. Before I know it, I'll be 70.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | March 14, 2019 4:32 PM |
[quote]Sean Cody boys galore.
Hawt!
by Anonymous | reply 14 | March 14, 2019 4:32 PM |
My Gparents live there and its beautiful. I live in NY-but I love to visit and would consider moving there after college.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | March 14, 2019 4:45 PM |
R15 lucky you to still have your grandparents. My grandma died this day in 1996 RIP. I still miss her.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | March 14, 2019 4:48 PM |
R16, I am so sorry. That is really awful.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | March 14, 2019 4:51 PM |
Absolutely not! My sister and her family live there and hate it. It’s the rehab capital of the US abs there are hundreds of half-way houses everywhere, as a result a ton of drug addicts relapsing and causing all kinds of trouble. The downtown is depressing - no charm at all. There are some great old neighborhoods along the intercoastal looking across to the island of Palm Beach but just going to the grocery store or any shopping is a bad experience. Seriously look elsewhere.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | March 14, 2019 4:57 PM |
Curious how people would compare West Palm Beach to Wilton Manors/Fort Lauderdale. West Palm Beach seems cheaper.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | March 14, 2019 5:05 PM |
I parked my car in the WPB court center then walked (yes, walked) the half mile to the social security office. This teenager on a bicycle stopped me to beg for money. I was rather alarmed but calmly said I had no change. He said, "What about a dollar bill?" There is begging in that area and also at I-95 exit ramps (WPB and elsewhere) which can be rather intimidating and unpleasant.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | March 14, 2019 5:19 PM |
"Palm Beach" is nice, very rich, and VERY expensive. "West" Palm Beach is poor and black, that's why it's so cheap.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | March 14, 2019 5:20 PM |
"black". Thanks, R21, please be sure to apply for our special membership.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | March 14, 2019 5:26 PM |
Downtown West Palm Beach has a clean walkable downtown and a revitalized 'urban town center" called CityPlace with lots of shows, restaurants and street life. I could definitely retire there.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | March 14, 2019 5:27 PM |
lots of cranky Jews
by Anonymous | reply 24 | March 14, 2019 5:27 PM |
[quote]I parked my car in the WPB court center then walked (yes, walked) the half mile to the social security office. This teenager on a bicycle stopped me to beg for money. I was rather alarmed but calmly said I had no change. He said, "What about a dollar bill?" There is begging in that area and also at I-95 exit ramps (WPB and elsewhere) which can be rather intimidating and unpleasant.
You'll get over it. Better than a lot of cities.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | March 14, 2019 5:28 PM |
"Palm Beach" has the Everglades Club. They have blacks there, but only on the outdoor staff. They also have Roman Catholics and Irish there but only on the staff (old Joe Kennedy was enough). No Jews, despite the rumour that the 'ban' is imaginary.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | March 14, 2019 5:32 PM |
The harbor is so small there. What will you do with your yacht?
by Anonymous | reply 28 | March 14, 2019 5:49 PM |
R28 There appears to be ample mooring [bitch].
by Anonymous | reply 29 | March 14, 2019 5:57 PM |
Traffic, impossibly hot and humid summers, traffic, poor social possibilities for gay men, traffic...
by Anonymous | reply 30 | March 14, 2019 6:35 PM |
WPB is the fastest growing urban area in the country, FTL can be manageable , however it is as well overcrowded, traffic mess, and losers from everywhere who flock there. Drug addicts, alcoholics , murderers just to name a few are plentiful .
by Anonymous | reply 31 | March 14, 2019 6:42 PM |
Not really r16 like any other place the gays discover and gentrify and pretty up , like Wilton Manors everything becomes expensive, 15 years ago you could buy a home in Wilton Manors for 40-50k , smart queens scooped them up. WPB is old and the gays there a soooo tacky, and yes overpriced as well. and yes full of bitchy , obnoxious , Jews and Italians who have that horrid LI accent and look all the same , eyes close together and big noses! UGH...
by Anonymous | reply 32 | March 16, 2019 4:57 PM |
It looks hideous and it's full of rude old NY jews.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | March 16, 2019 5:01 PM |
Overated.An i never understand why anybody gay wants to live in states that are heavily religious or homophobic.SMH
by Anonymous | reply 34 | March 16, 2019 5:02 PM |
It’s like watching paint dry to live in Florida The people have no education there. There is NO culture in Florida.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | March 16, 2019 5:35 PM |
It's going to be underwater in the near future.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | March 16, 2019 5:38 PM |
OP you should know better than to ask for opinions about Florida on DL. With a few exceptions all you'll get is the usual band of toxic queens who sit at their computers 16 hours a day just waiting for a thread about some place, something, or somebody they very likely know absolutely nothing about first hand, they can trash talk about.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | March 16, 2019 5:48 PM |
R33 = DJT
by Anonymous | reply 38 | March 16, 2019 5:54 PM |
On the positive side, WPB is better than Belle Glade.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | March 16, 2019 5:58 PM |
R38 = Michael Bloomberg
by Anonymous | reply 40 | March 16, 2019 5:59 PM |
I'll take the good ol' boys and rednecks on the NW Gulf coast any day over the crazy old northeast coots in south Florida. Everything south of Vero Beach should be walled off and treated as a foreign country.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | March 16, 2019 6:04 PM |
My sister and brother in law live there. They relocated from Connecticut about 15 years ago and love it.
They’re retired and live in a golf community - beautiful house with a pool. I love to visit but I’m not ready to leave New York just yet.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | March 16, 2019 9:01 PM |
You pretty much described every DL "tell me about" thread, either in the US or abroad.
So many posts based on a scene from a TV show they saw 25 years ago, or Perillo tour with mom and grandma back in the 90s.
I'm guessing that many of these posters are extrapolating out from Seinfeld episodes.
And to that point, yes there are lots of retired Northeast Jews and Italians in Palm Beach COUNTY--they live in Boca, Delray Beach, Boynton Beach and Jupiter. Not in the city of WPB.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | March 16, 2019 9:44 PM |
Sometimes I worry for people who have a job transfer and they're just about to move to some new city and they post here for encouragement.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | March 16, 2019 10:06 PM |
True r43 but those places are IN Palm Beach County, and the nasty spillover from WPB is evident.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | March 16, 2019 10:26 PM |
It's full of jews.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | March 16, 2019 10:29 PM |
R46 = Ivanka
by Anonymous | reply 47 | March 16, 2019 10:32 PM |
yes r23 just be careful not to be mowed down by a drunk or addict on Clematis, or attacked by a crazy homeless person having lunch outside at a cafe, Then there is the nasty bat welding motorists on I95 ready for a road rage fight anytime, then consider retiring there. No Thanks!!!
by Anonymous | reply 49 | March 17, 2019 12:52 AM |
Humidity, insects, hurricanes, tornadoes, Republicans, snow birds, what's not to love?
by Anonymous | reply 50 | March 17, 2019 1:31 AM |
WPB has a really bad problem with halfway houses and homeless drug addicts as an earlier poster stated upthread. The west coast of FL is far more tolerable than the trashy east coast. St Pete is cool and has a really good gay scene. The weather is perfect and the housing is cheap.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | March 17, 2019 1:49 AM |
And the water on the west coast of Florida is crystal clear, unlike the brown murky water on most of the Atlantic side.
by Anonymous | reply 52 | March 17, 2019 1:52 AM |
PB county is a democratic stronghold in the state. (One of four.) If you move here and want to be involved with democratic politics, you'll have a grand time.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | March 17, 2019 1:54 AM |
Too close to Mar-A-Lago.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | March 17, 2019 5:15 AM |
R54, ever been there? Look up right after you go through the main entrance. What do you see? How about the tiles around the bathroom mirrors. What do they say? Didn’t think so.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | March 17, 2019 5:54 AM |
R55 What the hell are you talking about?
by Anonymous | reply 56 | March 17, 2019 5:34 PM |
I've heard Palm Beach itself is gated because it's so rich. So doesn't that mean WPB people wanting to go to the beach have to take a long way around it to the north or south? Seems like that would be kind of a pain.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | March 17, 2019 5:38 PM |
God's toilet. All of FL is.
by Anonymous | reply 58 | March 17, 2019 5:41 PM |
It's great. It will also be underwater in 15 years.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | March 17, 2019 5:53 PM |
There is almost zero gay public social life in all of Palm Beach County.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | March 17, 2019 5:56 PM |
What's public social life?
by Anonymous | reply 61 | March 17, 2019 7:06 PM |
East coaster here. Anticipating early retirement, we bought a second home in WPB a few years ago. Beautiful apartment with Intercostal and Atlantic views. Biked to the beach. Hung out at City Place. But that’s it.
Eventually realized, unless you want to drive to sinking Miami, most everything is geared to up and coming druggies or (really) old, people. The “better” restaurants water down food for the elderly clientele (“al dente” pasta, what’s that?).
by Anonymous | reply 62 | March 17, 2019 7:27 PM |
It’s no Boca.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | March 17, 2019 7:52 PM |
its where the palm beach day maids and landscapers live if they are not live-in.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | March 17, 2019 11:02 PM |
[quote]Affordable housing for residents with mental illnesses coming to West Palm Beach
by Anonymous | reply 65 | March 17, 2019 11:04 PM |