FLORIDA designers
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- CockDiesel0
do u really need a heater... its not that fricken cold here.
im dippin out to denver next weekend, thats some heater weather.
w00t for the Kool Keith/zion i show last friday here in orlando, that was the shit !
- 8e0
besides disney any hot places to work in FLA.?
(no pun intended)
- nope0
tampa, miami or orlando.
- unknown0
I don't know but, jobs in the orlando area in media design is kinda sketchy, well, so I've heard, but it could be better than in jacksonville! I dojn't work in the new media area, so it could be worse!
:)
- supes0
sorry I missed this thread when it was going on. Im in Jacksonville and I resent whoever called it a DIRTY city..unless you mean.....dirty ;)
- iodine740
Hmm... I'm in Jacksonville too. But Supes might better be able to answer the job/design market question than me. I'm more of an IT type guy that picked up some photoshop skills on my own... hanging around here with you folks, hoping something will rub off on me. =) Always been interested in art, but just have the logical brain to have been a CS major.
As for the city.. eh. I was born and raised here so I'm kinda bored with it from a 'city' perspective. Orlando is about 2 hours away... so it's cool for day trips to guitar stores and such. There are a couple cool areas I would think a creative-type would like, but we definately aren't pushing the boundaries of culture.
I will say that in the last 5 to 10 years there has been a large amount of growth in the area. Even if they suck, the Jaguars have brought some positive growth in the area (we finally have a Pottery Barn). With the Superbowl 2 years away, I'm expecting more. Which will obviously help the cultural scene too.
Housing prices are low compared to the rest of the country, but are rising pretty quickly. I bought my 60 year old house in 2000, and it's probably gone up about $30-40k in value, and that isn't counting the value improvements I've made (which brings it up more around $60k). Also overall unemployment level here has been lower than the rest of the country throughout the last couple of years because of all the growth.
It's funny, most of the people that I work with aren't from here, they were brought in by the company from all over the place and they love it here compared to where they were (alot of the Jaguar players have said the same thing). It's weird to me cause I'm like 'ehh ok' it's just Jacksonville.