Pensacola

I have lived just outside Pensacola, in Gulf Breeze, for 9 years. The city is small, historic, and largely millitary. It is a nice place to relax at the beach, spend summer days relaxing on the white sand, and enjoying the nightlife in the evening. This is the home of The Blue Angels, and this area always has a special homecoming show for Pensacola. There is rich history here, a nice mall, clean downtown with music clubs & restaurants, and things happening throughout each season to keep people active. But the best part of coming here IS the beach.
There are some downsides to this area:
1. The Panhandle is about 80% Republican. If you can’t accept
they will always be right, then you won’t fit in.
2. The dewpoint is higher here than any place, so be prepared
to sweat and sweat…. Summers are hot and the air is thick.
You get 2 months cold weather, 4 months perfect weather, and
6 months above 75 to 90. This can become horrible and very
hard to breeze.
3. If you are a sports fan there are no professional sports
within 3 hours.
4. The music sucks here. Its mostly country, classic rock,
screaming music from Hell, or Religous channels. Turn on the
AM and the Republican Right will brainwash you with constant
propaganda every day. The only bright spot is FM 88.1, where
music is mostly brought in from Univ. of Pensylvania, and
assorted great programming on weekends.
5. There are 3 kinds of people here: The natives, the trans-
plants, and the visitors. The natives are angry that the
transplants are turning the landscape into a fastpaced,
expensive area, where wages won’t keep pace. The transplants
are building huge homes and pushing real estate beyond the
reach of many natives. The visitors don’t know the area and
turn left from the right lane in a seconds’ notice, causing
transplant’s to give the bird and the natives to simply smile
and just shake their heads.
6. The sprawl is creating traffic anxiety. People spend drive
time bumper to bumper, reading the news, eating breakfast,
grooming in their mirror, and occassionally daydreaming and
causing the transplants to again give the bird, while the
natives simply smile and shake their heads.
7. If art or county fairs, winetasting events, dancing at clubs,
yard sales, trips to the mall or Walmarts, and summer Blues
music at the beach or Classical music in the park is all that
you crave, then Pensacola can be a paradise. But our great
Springfest, which brought a weekend of major national music,
has been cancelled, which was a great loss to Pensacola.
All in all, I want to move away. The heat, the hurricanes, the Republican slant, the lack of pro sports & music outweigh
the most beautiful beach that I have ever seen. So visit and
enjoy. But live elsewhere where there is more to do.

I love Pensacola

McGuire’s Irish pub is a must visit for all tourists and residents alike.

I had a beautiful house with a swimming pool and a nice yard in a suburb here…left it all for a new lifestyle.

This city has it all, shopping malls, beaches, nightclubs,, anything you need. Three great hospitals, wonderful schools. I live 40 minutes from Pensacola and go all the time!!

If you’re a beach bum, this is the place for you.

a friend was spending the summer there and i got tired of hearing how beautiful his beach condo living was, so i paid him a surprise visit: flew into Atlanta, Georgia and took a bus all day through Georgia and Alabama to the very lovely Pensacola.
Beautiful resort town. Crazy adventure!
I was there for the short lull between two major hurricanes that hit the area that month.

We lived in Pensacola for almost four years. There was plenty to do and the climate was good (super if you don’t crave four seasons like I do—fall was like one hour and winter a couple of days, spring was a week or two).

If you like beaches and beach towns… Penascola is great!

I’ve lived in Pensacola my entire life..got any questions?

This is the first place I have ever really felt at home that wasn’t my home town. Most likely the reason I am choosing to finish nursing school there.