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<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by jeffc
the estates on the edge of lake county near polk ie weston hills etc look like they will not be zoned for windy hill or east ridge high for next year but they will be for south lake high etc so bear that in mind if you want the kids to go to them schools..
we have moved from our original home on orange tree for that reason...
we are now living on hills of clermont which is only residental and in my opinion much better for the kids due to having friends on the same estate..
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I think kids get by OK without having their friends or other kids nearby......we had no kids near us.....everyones retired....but my son soon fell into the American way of going home with school friends on their bus.....and then getting picked up by us later......its seems normal for American kids to have to travel to meet up with friends...and we'd get to meet the parents....and that way we made new friends......I'd not not buy a house I loved because of lack of kids on the estate.....but I would if the schools were bad......
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we came over to florida from england we knew the schools we wanted and we knew the zones for the schools the problem was the estates we liked as rental areas were just on the borders of the school zones and then we have found over the last 5 months that the boys really had no friends that they could visit or have visit them due to the fact that all there new friends lived 15miles at least from where they lived.. on the estate we lived on we were the only family to send the kids to the schools my boys went to so the contact for new friends was nil.. on the estate there were no residents with kids the same age apart from one and the least said about him the better....
so the point i was making is for brits to come out and live and have a normal lifestyle with there family you have to have residents around you... we made lots of friends for a few weeks then they would fly back to wherever...
hope that makes sense....
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It does to me, Jeff, and we picked to live on Celebration for the same reason. What is right on holiday isnt right when you live here, you need your neighbours and more especially your kids need your neighbours kids, Holiday makers have a totally different lifestyle and no real point in
making friends for a couple of weeks and then they are gone,. Look for an estate that is 50% residents or more.
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<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by esprit
It does to me, Jeff, and we picked to live on Celebration for the same reason. What is right on holiday isnt right when you live here, you need your neighbours and more especially your kids need your neighbours kids, Holiday makers have a totally different lifestyle and no real point in
making friends for a couple of weeks and then they are gone,. Look for an estate that is 50% residents or more.
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In England my son had most of his friends in our street.....but here his friends are all over the Cape.....It was a worry to me at first having no kids nearby......but like most things..parents worry more then the kids do......for the first 2 years he only had the grandchildren of the neighbours to play with in our street......they would come and go all over the summer.....we never gave it a thought when we first moved over....we just needed a home quick and this one came up.....the biggest problem with STR neighbourhoods that are nearly all rental....is the quiet....no-one around.....its a bit like that here...when everyone goes to FL for the winter......
