WHY We Didnt Choose PENSACOLA, FL [5 REASONS]

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@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 11 ай бұрын

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@daryllect6659 6 ай бұрын

You claim schools are important to you, yet you used an apostrophe in the plural of "school" @ 2:56.

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 6 ай бұрын

@@daryllect6659 We hire editors who at times make minor mistakes when editing the video. Hopefully that minor punctuation error didn't distract you from the actual content in the video....

@daryllect6659 6 ай бұрын

@@EmeraldCoastReloTeam The irony is palpable.

@joycejoline2627 3 ай бұрын

This is your opinion and you know what they say about that, opinions are like as'holes everybody has one.... people will choose for them selves,if you are against Pensacola,why live near there.... also, some people's opinions get out of hand, just like you are exaggerating a bit much...if you don't like it, don't live there, but don't rain on some one else's dream......👎👎

@Divabellas 10 ай бұрын

On behalf of Pensacola, we thank you for not moving here.

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 10 ай бұрын

That’s a first…. So far every time we are in pensacola everyone has been super welcoming.

@Divabellas 10 ай бұрын

@@EmeraldCoastReloTeam With the influx of transplants moving here every 5 minutes, it's put a strain on infrastructure, housing, governmental resources. Until those issues are addressed and fixed, less is better, in terms of relocation to Pensacola.

@user-xq6nh6mf1j 7 ай бұрын

Why? Because they're decent, God-fearing conservatives. Sounds like you're a hating karen.v

@jeffrt3893 6 ай бұрын

@@DivabellasMay I ask, were you born in Pensacola?

@Divabellas 6 ай бұрын

@@jeffrt3893 yes. Born and raised. Perhaps you're asking because you think Im a transplant? Im not, but my parents were transplants. My grandfather was born and raised in Pcola, in Warrington actually by NAS, which is where they put the black folks back in the day. My grandfather served in the Army in WW2. When he came back to Pensacola, he knew he couldn't make a better life here at the time so he moved to NYC. My parents are native New Yorkers who moved back to Pensacola on their honeymoon in 1972, and have lived here ever since. So, with that said, I hold no ill will to the transplants who move here, but until the county and city come together to fix the issues that I mentioned in my original comment, such as infrastructure (have ya driven down 9 mile lately during rush hour) and affordable attainable housing for locals who make not even $16 an hour, I truly wish people would stop doing videos about how great Pensacola is, and stop moving here.

@jeffhyde1909 6 ай бұрын

Up there vs down here? LOL Gulf Breeze is literally 3 miles from Pensacola.

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 6 ай бұрын

Although it may not seem far we noticed a big difference

@TrueIndie88 12 күн бұрын

There is also Milton, Pace, Navarre.

@sirslimothy7402 Ай бұрын

Incorrect information...Pensacola has palm trees everywhere. What do you mean you can't have palm trees in Pensacola? You need a different tree guy. I stare at them all the time while enjoying the breeze that you don't think is in Pensacola.

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam Ай бұрын

Thank you for watching. We weren’t saying that there aren’t palm trees in Pensacola, just that there may be some that will survive in Gulf Breeze that wouldn’t in Pensacola.

@mlizzaklizza498 2 күн бұрын

I’m glad I’m Not the only one. Almost all this information is completely wrong. 😂

@mlizzaklizza498 2 күн бұрын

@@EmeraldCoastReloTeam We have all the same palm trees in both places. Pensacola and Gulf Breeze aren’t that different.

@jeltoninc.8542 10 ай бұрын

Y’all need to go back to school if you’re putting up title cards that say shit like “school’s” 🤣

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching

@danielvillareal2569 7 ай бұрын

You remind me of Beto orork… take it down a few notches or not so many Red Bulls… you’re doing a video about beach living which is supposed to be chill an layed back, shed the Colorado Bullshi# or go back…

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 7 ай бұрын

Oh man, Beto is not great to be compared with. Talking fast has little to do with us being from Colorado more so the passion of sharing information.

@michaelduke4500 6 ай бұрын

And lose the hand gestures, you remind me of a used car salesman screaming and using their hands.

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, we like to be authentically ourselves and sometimes that may not be for everyone. We tried the scripted monotone style videos when we started KZfaq a few years back and it didn’t feel genuine.

@MrBojangles-er4hd 14 күн бұрын

@@EmeraldCoastReloTeamwhy did you move from Colorado to Florida instead of just leaving Denver?? I lived in fort myers for 4 years; but I missed the changing of the seasons

@Bigboi8501 2 ай бұрын

Pensacola is on the Emerald Coast

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

@joblo2671 10 ай бұрын

I rented a place in GB for 3 months and was thinking of buying a place there. Just WAY too much traffic and only ONE main street to go from one end to the other...its a peninsula filled with subdivisions and constant road contstruction. This was last winter in the "off" season. Everyones on vacation and not familiar with the roads..sometimes just going a mile or two or popping down to the store for milk could take hours. What a nightmare to try to live in a place like that. Prices are insane, too. I moved 3 hrs N to AL. Will go back for vacation a lot, but could never live there!

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for your comment, did you stay on the west or east side of the nature preserve? Majority of the traffic we see is during school drop off and pickup. We also came from a big city so this traffic is nothing compared to what we came from.

@mlizzaklizza498 2 күн бұрын

Yeah- 15 years living in Gulf Breeze. Hwy 98 was the worst part. I think it’s a little better now that the new 3 mile bridge is finished. (Hopefully!)

@Cooper_isjusthim 3 ай бұрын

Pensacola IS the Emerald Coast as well. I'm so confused by this description?

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching, what confuses you?

@mlizzaklizza498 2 күн бұрын

Yep- this video is so full of misinformation. No palm trees in Pensacola? It’s somehow hotter in Pensacola? Pensacola is not the Gulf Coast? 😂😂😂

@Deaddreamer75 9 ай бұрын

Fine take down the comment y’all still make me cringe enjoy the traffic on your one main road

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the feedback, it’s puzzling that we make you cringe yet you spend time watching and commenting….

@irishsailor9327 2 ай бұрын

Love your Reason Number 5. Amen

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 2 ай бұрын

Heck yeah! Thank you for watching.

@delfinward9908 7 ай бұрын

Just visited Sarasota recently and I was impressed. Did y'all consider that area before choosing Gulf Breeze?

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for the comment! We did look into the Sarasota area, we actually have family that lives in North Port. Just wasn’t for us.

@robertclarke7411 Ай бұрын

Great video, and i love that Gulf Breeze is more conservative. I will definitely pick Gulf Breeze over Pensacola 🎉

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam Ай бұрын

Thank you for the kinds words and thank you for watching. Personally we love Gulf Breeze!

@annaburns2865 8 күн бұрын

As long as you remember that conservative doesn’t mean Christian. Christianity is progressive. Conservative means : averse to change or innovation and holding to traditional values.

@cindyonyoutube 10 ай бұрын

Yikes. We're in Colorado & we're coming to the Panhandle at the end of the month to check out neighborhoods. Planning to go to Pensacola, as it seems more affordable and not everything is an AE flood zone. But some of the points you covered in this video will be a concern for us, so it gives us more to think about!

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 10 ай бұрын

Hey Cindy thank you for your comment. Always good hearing from a fellow Coloradoan! Ultimately we would choose the panhandle over Denver for raising our kids over and over. What were the biggest concerns that stuck out to you?

@tedramirez6304 10 ай бұрын

Paaaaaa hahahaha. ….”will be a concern for us”. 😂😂😂

@cindyonyoutube 10 ай бұрын

@@EmeraldCoastReloTeam definitely the heat, for one. The heat/humidity is going to be a massive change! (as you know) I sure would like the ocean breeze, but flood zones are a concern. School rating also. Our daughter is grown, but I'm thinking for resale. And I don't want to live in progressive area.

@texastravelers210 10 ай бұрын

Florida is in a homeowner insurance crisis , insurance companies leaving the state in droves or if you find one they won't cover natural disasters anymore. If you're lucky if they do you're going to pay lots of $$$ . Many people reconsider to move inland or areas with less natural disasters right now since they're insurance doubled or tripled . Most real estate agents won't tell you about the true costs of living in the sunshine state. Doesn't mean you shouldn't but be aware of the high cost of living and the reason Pensacola is cheap is since 1975 it got hit directly by 8 hurricanes and more tropical storms. The emerald coast is one of the most hurricane prone areas. If money and occasional natural disasters aren't an issue for you Florida is a great place to live hands down. Look at forums , watch YT videos about nowadays hidden costs because cost of living has changed dramatically for many residents in FL . No realtor will tell you this because they just want to make money. Good luck .

@Brandon_Lambert Ай бұрын

I’d love Gulf Breeze it’s just so much more than we could ever afford. BUT being a short drive away sounds nice. We’re conservative family(from east TN) we have 4 kids which is why we can’t afford much 🤣🤣🤣 Is Pace area pretty Conservative? Thank you

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 29 күн бұрын

Thank you for watching. Pace is pretty conservative it runs along the same lines as Gulf breeze being in Santa Rosa county.

@mlizzaklizza498 2 күн бұрын

We just moved from Gulf Breeze to East Tennessee! We lived in Gulf Breeze for 15 years- that’s where we raised our kids.

@Joeyfingzasa 10 ай бұрын

"Baby breezers"....ugghhh

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 10 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching

@harryhoesch3793 Ай бұрын

Wow, Gulf Breeze has an ocean breeze. You think they would have named it, that. If your not stuck with kids, Pensacola sounds perfect' You not living there is it's biggest selling point.

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam Ай бұрын

Haha love the sarcasm, thank you for watching

@mlizzaklizza498 3 күн бұрын

It looks like you’re standing in Tiger Point park in Gulf Breeze. I wouldn’t say it has any more of a small town feel than Pensacola. 🤔 I lived in Paradise Bay for 15 years and raised my kids there. Our kids attended Oriole Beach elementary, Woodlawn Beach Middle & Gulf Breeze Middle, and Gulf Breeze High School. We were an active duty military family, so my husband commuted along HWY 98 to Hurlburt Field in Ft Walton Beach. You keep mentioning “The Gulf Coast.” the City of Pensacola is also on the Bay and the Gulf Coast, so that’s a little odd. It’s all the Gulf Coast. 1.) Schools: Yes, the area is relatively conservative, but please know the curriculum is the same all over. If I could go back in time, I would either home school, or send my kids to a private school. I promise you, everything you’re talking about being “shoved down your kids’ throats” it will still happen. There are some wonderful teachers, many are still my friends, so don’t get me wrong, but don’t make the mistake I made. All 3 of my kids were bullied. They were beautiful, kind, smart, creative, and they were bullied. My kids could not ride the school busses because of multiple bullying incidences. My son was punched 3-4 times while walking through the halls at Woodlawn Beach middle, so we transferred him to Gulf Breeze middle After 6th grade. So I spent 10 years driving 3 kids to 3 different schools all day long on HWY 98. 2.) Expense of school in Gulf Breeze Gulf Breeze has Highly rated schools, and a wide variety of activities available. Please understand that nearly all of those activities are EXPENSIVE and highly competitive. My kids did travel soccer with Houston dynamo in Tiger Point. My kids also did drama at Gulf Breeze High school and theatre in Pensacola. For the most part, for most the travel soccer teams, and for Gulf Breeze Drama, money was no obstacle for most of the parents of highly successful kids. We couldn’t just do soccer, we had to put our kids in travel soccer. We were traveling nearly every weekend. We had to pay for extra camps, and my son’s extra goalkeeping coach. We spent at least $10,000 per year, per kid, on GBHS Drama, private voice lessons, acting classes, and dance classes in order to train, to keep up well enough to be cast in shows. Hey attended 3-4 drama trips, per year. If we had not provided all the extra training, our kids didn’t stand much of a chance. So please be aware of the expense for all the activities your kids do on that area. 3.) “Small Town Feel” Pensacola & Gulf breeze both have a small town feel. I guess that’s all relative. Gulf Breeze Proper has a little more of a town feel, I guess. The neighborhoods are all packed, and most are separated by the highway. 4.) Highway 98. I tell everyone Hwy 98 is the worst part about living in Gulf Breeze Pensacola Beach, or Navarre. Look at the map. You have one highway connecting everything from Ft Walton to Pensacola and the beach. Most of it is 45MPH speed limit. If you can live on the beach or the sound, it is a very different experience. Our family lived in a 1500 square foot ranch without a pool, and we were just driving up & down the highway all day long. Again, my friends who could afford boats and pools or could live on the bay, sound, or beach, could enjoy everything the area has to offer, any time they wanted. If you don’t have those options, you can start to feel like a cog in a wheel, just driving around the highway, fighting traffic in order to go to work and school. 5.) Heat. I didn’t notice a difference between the heat in Pensacola or in Gulf Breeze. I guess it depends on how close you are to the water, or if you’re in a location with hot cement or shade. 🤔 So that was an odd assessment to me. The key factor with the heat, and enjoying living on the Gulf Coast is access to water. Pools, and bodies of water. 6.) By the time my kids were in Middle & High school, we were driving back & forth from Tiger Point area, across the bridge to Pensacola nearly every day, sometimes 2-3 times per day. It would have made a lot more sense for us to just live in Pensacola. 7.) If you are a professional, have plenty of money, and are willing to spend it, you will probably fit in. If you are middle class, or lower, it’s much harder to fit in. Yesterday, my husband & Inwere talking about our kids’ school experience and he said “I completely underestimated how hard it would be for our kids to grow up in Gulf Breeze as the “poor” middle class kids. Which is Kinda crazy! We were a nice family, and I volunteered full time in the schools, etc. if we ever go back, we would live in Pensacola, Perdido or Pensacola Beach

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 2 күн бұрын

Thank you for watching and thank you for the information

@y2vvilliam 7 ай бұрын

That conservatives comment ended my search for Pensacola LOL Last thing i need is my kids getting brainwashed with multiple genders Thank you guys :) Great video btw

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching, big reason we moved from Colorado was what was being taught in schools. We didn’t dig it either.

@haydon-ge8dt 3 ай бұрын

If you're not conservative, don't move to Florida. Stay where you are at

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 3 ай бұрын

Sounds like a good plan to us!

@werquantum 5 ай бұрын

Welcome to Pensacola.

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 5 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@matthewcox9624 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info. HAs really help me with some decisions. Sounds like Gulf Breeze is more for us.

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 8 ай бұрын

Matthew thank you for the comment. Ultimately it’s all about preference and Gulf Breeze really checked the boxes for us. Let us know if you have any other questions.

@Iamlightning333 7 ай бұрын

Interesting y’all are from Colorado but I hear a southern accent! Love it! 🤭😀🎶🎶🎶

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 7 ай бұрын

😂 oh man, maybe we are beginning to gather that southern slang in our speech.

@rjh2772 5 ай бұрын

What town did you decide on??You guys are talking too fast

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 5 ай бұрын

We decided on Gulf Breeze!

@r.melindar.1349 6 ай бұрын

Can you advise safe, less expensive places to rent in the area? Apartments or house? ❤

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching, it seems the northern portion of Pensacola will have some nice affordable options. Milton, Buelah, etc….

@r.melindar.1349 6 ай бұрын

@@EmeraldCoastReloTeam Thank you so much!!

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 6 ай бұрын

Of course!

@Rescuemaven 5 ай бұрын

Looking to move to that area, but need property for my animals. Like to be near cafes, food, etc (25 minutes out is fine) and we are conservative. Any areas you suggest?

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 5 ай бұрын

Hello thank you for the comment. Would you like to hop on a call or zoom and go over some ideas?

@danielsinger6722 Ай бұрын

Thank you for not moving here

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam Ай бұрын

Your welcome

@mlizzaklizza498 2 күн бұрын

It’s so weird that you say you can’t have palm trees in Pensacola. 🤔 There are palm trees all over Pensacola. It sounds like you were given some inaccurate information and advice. So much of this information is odd, speaking as someone who lived in Gulf Breeze for 15 years, Navarre for 3 years, and Ft Walton Beach for a year. You should probably live in Gulf Breeze a little longer before you make videos about it.

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 2 күн бұрын

Thank you for watching. You may want to re-watch the video as we did not say you couldn’t have palm trees in Pensacola. We said there are palm trees that you can have in gulf breeze that you may not be able to have in Pensacola.

@MightyMattito 2 ай бұрын

Oh, they’re from Gulf breeze, the douche bag capital of Northwest Florida… followed up very closely by Fort Walton Beach

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 2 ай бұрын

Hmm interesting take…

@ayo9057 4 ай бұрын

Not enough gay people for Peter.

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 4 ай бұрын

Um ok…. Not exactly sure what you mean by this comment

@annaburns2865 8 күн бұрын

As someone who loves Pensacola thank you for not living here. Gulf breeze is where all the annoying people go. 🙃

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 7 күн бұрын

Haha always enjoy a hater from time to time. Wishing you the best

@JimSuperwhite43 3 ай бұрын

School's. I hope that was a joke...

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam 2 ай бұрын

Which Joke are you speaking of?

@JoshuaDStewart Ай бұрын

Lives in Gulf Breeze and pretends the weather and culture are different than Pensacola. You literally live in the Pensacola suburbs a 5 minute drive across the bridge from downtown Pensacola.

@EmeraldCoastReloTeam Ай бұрын

I’m not sure you’re familiar with the area when you make a statement that Gulf Breeze is not different from Pensacola. There’s literally a running joke in Pensacola how to pick out a breezer….

@JoshuaDStewart Ай бұрын

I used to live in Pensacola as well as Pensacola Beach and am moving back there in a couple of months. You're a five minute drive from downtown Pensacola, the weather is absolutely no different in GB than in the city. The only difference with GB is people who live there usually have a higher income than people in Pensacola, but not high enough to live in Pensacola Beach.