But what else is there to do? I mean you gotta live somewhere, why not live in a world most people only dream of where eveything is at your fingertips? Atleast thats how i look at it. Disney has much more entertainment and food options then my hometown does.
But if you live there, then it becomes commonplace and loses the magic. At least I know it would for me. Think of it this way; when you were a kid, you really think you're life will be complete when you get *this* toy. Everybody who's anybody has it, and if your mom gets it for you, you'll never ask her for anything again. She gets it for you and a week or two later, it's already forgotten in your toybox. Your friend comes over to your house and thinks your toys are the coolest toys ever and you don't see why he likes your boring old toys. You go to his house and you think his toys are the coolest things ever, but he doesn't see what's so cool about them. Why is this? Because that toy is special when you don't have it, or when you only get to play with it every so often. When you get one of your own and take it home and you see it everyday, the coolness of it wears off really quick and it doesn't take long at all for it to get buried in the junk, never to be touched again.
The place where you live may be the most boring place in the world to you, but someone coming up to visit from Florida may think you live in a pretty neat place. They think it's cool to actually have seasons and snow and such, whereas they're sick and tired of the sights of Florida and the constant warm weather. Part of our nature as humans is that, as adults and as children, we get used to our things and our surroundings and take them for granted and we don't see what's so neat about those things, whereas someone else coming up to visit may think it's the neatest thing in the world.
I recognize that about myself and know that's exactly what would happen if I moved anywhere close to WDW. It may be cool the first week or two, but there is a big difference between looking forward to that Florida trip all year, taking a week or two off work and going down there and having a blast vs living down there, going to work everyday, coming home everyday and having all those cool things of Florida become part of your daily humdrum routine. I look forward to my Florida trips because they are special. It's not something I do everyday. When we do go, we stay a week or so, have fun, then come back home and look forward to the next trip. I'm kinda bummed that we have to skip this year (due to the upcoming birth of our second child), but I'm looking forward to hopefully going next year. But staying there for 3 months is kind of like being excited about your inlaws coming to stay a week at your house, and then having them stay for 3 months...it kind of wears out the welcome. You look forward to the departure from the normal routine by having company for a week, planning the activities to do with them, the fellowship, etc, but after a certain amount of time, the excitement is over and it's time for them to go home.
So for all of you who think you'd really love to move down there, or to stay three months...be careful what you wish for. There's little doubt in my mind that after a while, that Disney Magic and Pixie Dust will wear off. You may discover that, while you got excited about getting to load up the car and do that annual road trip to WDW (and all the planning and preparation that this takes), it's not so much fun when you're talking about just making a half hour drive every weekend. I guess I can't speak for everyone, but for me, part of the magic of Disney is that it's a break from everyday life. My everyday life of living up here in Illinois, working at my job, seeing the same sights everyday, doing the same things, etc. I look forward to taking a couple weeks off, making that road trip to Florida and just having fun, then going back home to my boring house, mowing my yard, going back to work, etc. But when Florida in general or WDW in particular BECOMES your daily routine, as opposed to that much needed break from it, then you lose the magic. Then, IMO, you would have to find something else to do for a weeklong or two week long vacation. Why take a week or two off work to hang out at Disney when you do that everyday because you live there? At that point, you may be looking forward to that trip up to Illinois to see the flat farmland because you're so sick of your daily humdrum life in Florida.
