What Can you Tell Me About Homestead Florida

SouthernAsh · Jan 25, 2009

I live in Homestead. DO NOT MOVE HERE!!!!! I wish I could talk with you directly about this. I AM SERIOUS! My family and I are all originally from here. Born and breed and everyone is leaving. My mom and brother live in MS now and my sister lives in OK. My husband wants to move away too and eventually we are going to. NOBODY speaks english, people are rude and hateful. It is like a 3rd world country believe me. I really really wish we could speak directly. DO NOT move to Homestead. You will regret it. I don't know if you have children but, unless you can afford private school, you wouldn't want them in Dade county public schools.

zoni56 · Jan 25, 2009

Ok got that...I have a job interview there..where would you suggest living even if I end up working there? Please keep in mind that I'm working nite shift and I don't want to be driving an hour to get home to crash. I'd like some place safe and not too expensive.

Fallon · Jan 26, 2009

I would have to agree. I guess it really depends on where you are coming from, but this an area that is south of miami and it is not progressive at all. Kind of like slow town, usa. Alot of people moved there during the housing boom because they could no longer afford miami.

Mommy_of_3_in_AL..RN · Jan 26, 2009

I dont know anything about Homestead, other than the final NASCAR race is held there in early November..which i would LOVE to go to one day!!! So, you would have all that traffic and the drunken idiots that go along with NASCAR

SouthernAsh · Jan 27, 2009

I have to be honest. There is really NOWHERE in south Florida that I would reccommend to someone. Miami and south florida is played up on TV and in the Movies. All you see is Sun, beach, bikinis, and wealth. South Florida is not at all like what you see. The crime rate throughout Dade and Broward counties is ridiculous, the schools are below average, Many people who live here are illegal aliens, because of the warm weather It attracts many transients. Miami beach and downtown Miami is full of nothing but Homeless people and transients. And you almost HAVE to be bilingual to get a job anywhere. Before the economy tanked, and the United States was still in pretty good shape, I actively searched for a job for about a year. I must have called a thousand places and put in MANY MANY applications. Each and every time I was denied for one reason and one reason only. I CANT SPEAK SPANISH.

And honestly, I don't care to learn. Even though my family helped build this community 100 years ago when things were different, I actually had a woman tell me that I had no buisness working or living in Dade County if I couldn't speak English. The taxes in South Florida are ridiculous, the cost of living is much higher here than many parts of the country. The tax payers here carry the burden of the many, many people who don't contribute to society. The school system is broken and poor because of all the free breakfasts, lunches, and supplies that Many of the kids recieve for free. Welfare runs rampant here. I once read that an estimated 80% of South Florida families are on Government assistance. It never fails each time I am at the grocery store I see the food Stamp card come out and watch the user walk outside and load their free groceries into their 2008 brand new car. This weekend 9 people were shot in Miami in one incident alone. You do not want to live in South Florida. Anywhere in South Florida, believe me.

SouthernAsh · Jan 27, 2009

I found this in an article on South Florida

The high crime rate in Miami is a major factor driving native-born residents out of the city.

In 2003, violent crimes in Miami were 3.14 times the national rate and triple the rate of some larger cities like Denver.
The murder rate in 2003 was 2.53 times the national rate and double the rate of another large city in the region, Charlotte-Mecklenburg.
In 1999, 26% of all youth arrested aged 15 to 26 in Miami tested positive for cocaine.
Greater Miami’s cocaine-based emergency room admissions are three times the national average.
The good news is Miami no longer has the highest crime rate in the U.S.—it is improved to be only #3. Perhaps the mayor will declare a holiday.
Last month the Palm Beach Post reported that the U.S. Justice Department calls South Florida the “public corruption capital of the nation,” outranking New York City, Detroit, and Los Angeles. In the ten year period 1996-2005, 576 individuals were prosecuted on public corruption charges in South Florida.

SouthernAsh · Jan 27, 2009

If you dont believe me, read what other people who are from Homestead are saying.

http://www.bestplaces.net/backfence/viewcomment.aspx?id=92CC26AE-8522-41E6-895E-15D4C47EAE05&city=Homestead_FL&p=51232275

labrador4122, RN · Jan 28, 2009

It all depends who you ask.

I don't live in homestead, but I live in 20-30 minute drive away from the area--- and I love it, everywhere you drive, it's decent clean homes, there are tons of parks for children, and tons of malls and shopping centers.

Homestead is booming with new houses left and right, there is a movie theater that just opened up. Since the market has gone down, you can get a brand new apartment for $125K.

In the cutler bay area there are tons of new houses and apartments for sale near the water, there are bike areas, parks a marina----

not all is bad-----

If you get a chance, I would suggest that you come down here and see for yourself

SuesquatchRN, BSN, RN · Jan 28, 2009

I never lived in Homestead but travelled though on my way to the Keys. It seemed poor, lots of trailers, Waffle Houses, more southern than the Florida I know.

quiet, small town that got creamed during Andrew.

SouthernAsh · Jan 28, 2009

I really dont appreciate SOUTHERN as being described as trailers, waffle houses, and poor. Homestead used to be a very SOUTHERN place. My daddy is a farmer, his daddy was a farmer and we are all from Homestead. We are very SOUTHERN and I don't appreciate your description of what that is. That was down right disrespectful.

galan108 · Feb 14, 2010

Homestead is defintely outside of Miami and the pay will be a little less. But don't be discouraged by that. My nursing school professor points out that it's a matter of work/life balance. The pay might be a little less, but then so is real-estate expense, traffic congestion, etc.

Professor has a got a good point.