10 Responses to “Forbes Names Area One Of The Country’s Best Places To Retire”

1. 429SCJ on June 27th, 2012 1:08 am

   Hey I’ve lived here since I was 8 years old, excepting my service years. After HS graduation I did not want to focus on colloge, just girls, cars and partying, working jobs that were certainly not offering a future. After a year and a half of that I came to the realization I was 19 and had to focus on the future. I joined the USAF which helped me develope focus and internal discipline and provided a path for career and promotion.

   Pensacola has always been hard and with the reductions at NAS, loss of the Lexington and Forrestall, closure of Westinghouse, reductions at Solutia and IP things are only tougher. I would suggest college or technical training and acceptance of the fact you may have to leave Escambia County for career or employment. You can always come back here, after you retire, I did.

2. chris1 on June 26th, 2012 4:52 pm

   Great. More govt. retirees looking for the cheapest of everything.
   Another dollar store will open paying $8/hr.
   All the good jobs been send to Chindia.
   BUT ,,, you can still get all that cheap cr*p at WalMart,

3. Doug on June 26th, 2012 2:20 pm

   This is nothing new. This area is full of retirees. Tamano hit the nail on the head… the lack of (sufficiently paying) jobs is the death kneel for Northwest FL.

4. Citizen on June 26th, 2012 9:11 am

   Mrs Jane, I respect your opinion as well as my own, but you may need to look at the crime rate a little closer. Don’t believe what you are told, go to the FDLE web site and view it for yourself. It’s not down, it’s up. While Neighborhood Watch groups are good for the cause, it’s your local Sheriffs Office that is responsible for crime prevention. There are a lot of ways to prevent crime in this county that aren’t being practiced. Clean Sweeps isn’t one of them that’s Code Enforcements job. Most of your violent crime revolves around drugs and thefts. We need more officers on the street showing a presence more than we need contract employees sucking up two and three paychecks a month from other retirements, other extra jobs such as Blue Lights etc.. Morgan said he was against double dipping during his campaign and now he’s hired back a bunch of useless people just as the other past Sheriffs had done. It’s nothing more than political favors being paid back such as David Craig who was his most involved in his last campaign. Please go look at all the time and money he invested through BLAB for his ads. Morgan is no more than a northerner turned good ole boy. It’s time for a change. If he’s elected for another term, we will be paying him and his wife for the rest of their lives. I don’t plan on paying him for something that’s not deserving.

5. Jane on June 26th, 2012 6:13 am

   Considering the high unemployment and lack of possible jobs in the area the sheriff has done well to cut the crime rate down. The Neighborhood Watch groups are helping too. Yes, we have hurricanes, but if you don’t live in a flood area or on the beach it isn’t as bad as it could be. I am surprised that Forbes picked this area.

6. well on June 26th, 2012 5:18 am

   What?

   In the heart of good ole boys politics and where nothing is ever right?

   Too funny!!! LMA.

7. Citizen on June 25th, 2012 7:03 pm

   If we had a Sheriff that knew what he was doing, we wouldn’t have the crime rate we do. He’s too busy putting medals on HIS uniform because he wants every one to know he earned them other than the one he bought and hasn’t made his yearly payment on. He was quick a few months ago to yell out to all of us that the crime rate was down under his administration. But now that FDLE has posted the true results, I haven’t heard him say a word. He rants about reducing the budget now every year since being in office which has been proven to be another lie. He’s also got his wife now answering issues about the department and HIS uniform. What a joke.

8. CW on June 25th, 2012 9:58 am

   Great, now people can flock here and ruin it like they did south FL.

9. tamano on June 25th, 2012 9:16 am

   I can see it — partly due to the fact that retirees don’t have to worry about the lack of (sufficiently paying) jobs like the rest of us.

10. 429SCJ on June 25th, 2012 6:38 am

    Feels good to me.