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12in12

12in12

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Songbird76 said:
I wonder how much you would realistically be able to visit...I doubt you'd get to go so much that it would be boring. I mean, maybe if you were independently wealthy and didn't have to work and you went every single day, sure. It would get old. But for us "common folk", we need a job to afford the housing, food, etc...so assuming you have a standard 9-5 M-F gig, you only have weekends and evenings to enjoy the park. Once you get home from work, get dinner settled, etc....how much time do you have to spend before you need to go to bed so you are ready for work the next morning? You won't be spending many evenings there. And weekends there are also other obligations....birthdays, sporting events, etc. (depending on your situation) And I think there are enough other things to do in the area that you could change it up easily. I think you'd find you didn't use an anual pass nearly as much as you expected, so living close would be a huge thing....you'd have all the time to explore all the things you never had time for. Resort hopping, Disney Springs, etc. I think it would be amazing. The only downside for me is the heat. I don't think I could handle Florida climate. Winter would be SO nice, but Summers would be miserable.
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If I ever do move there I would have to be away for work weeks on end since I can't do my job there. I could do short contracts and have breaks in between at home so could go to the parks then. At the moment this is all just hypothetical but it's nice to think about.
 
donaldtoo

donaldtoo

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SteveBrickNJ said:
Sounds great. I'm sure there are many things in Texas that are enjoyable.
Two places on my "some day we should go" list are:
Texas and Missouri
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There are indeed many things that are enjoyable here in Texas, but, there are many things in every state that are enjoyable, as well...!!! :)
I have a story about New Jersey, specifically the Jersey Shore, that I’ll try to make as short as possible...! ;)
I went to high school with a guy that became a good friend of mine who’s pop was also transferred here by IBM the same year my pop was. He was transferred here from Danbury, CT. After our sophomore year his pop was transferred back to the east coast, Yardley, PA.
After he graduated HS he came back to Austin to attend The University of Texas.
In the summer of ‘81 (right after his freshman year at UT), he and some of his old HS buddies rented a house on the Jersey Shore for 2 weeks...and, if you guessed Seaside Heights...

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I flew out there for a week of stooooopid-good fun...!!!!! :hilarious::cautious::hilarious:;):)

A lot of it is a blur :cyclops:;), but, one of the guys older sisters had married into big money, and his BILs family had a 75 ft. yacht in the Atlantic City Marina. It had a full-time crew of 3, a pop up TV, a full bar, etc., and for one of the days he had scheduled a cruise for us down to Cape May to have lunch there.
However, once we got underway and well offshore, the seas were just getting too high and people were puking over the rails...!!!!! :hilarious:
I, honestly and fortunately, was not one of them (although, as much as some were drinking already, they would have been puking over the rails in calm seas :D) but, they ended up turning the boat around and parking it back in the marina, where we continued to “Party on, Wayne!!!!!” :hilarious:
Good times...!!!!!!! :joyfull::happy::D;):)
 
ajrwdwgirl

ajrwdwgirl

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RedNoseMickey said:
I was talking to a Disney friend about wether moving to Orlando would make WDW less magical. It would be great in theory to be so close by that you can go every weekend or an evening but I'm worried it will make it less special. Maybe it would be better to live within easy driving distance so we could visit lots of weekends? What do my Disney friends think?
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I would love to live closer to the parks, either in Orlando or Anaheim. When we were in Disneyland one time, we shared a bench with a gentleman who lived close by. He had lived there his whole life and grew up going to Disneyland, he was now a grandpa and retired and still came to Disneyland or DCA everyday. He used it as his daily walk and said he just liked to sit relax, enjoy the atmosphere, and sometimes talk to people. I thought that sounded wonderful.
 
Rista1313

Rista1313

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ajrwdwgirl said:
I would love to live closer to the parks, either in Orlando or Anaheim. When we were in Disneyland one time, we shared a bench with a gentleman who lived close by. He had lived there his whole life and grew up going to Disneyland, he was now a grandpa and retired and still came to Disneyland or DCA everyday. He used it as his daily walk and said he just liked to sit relax, enjoy the atmosphere, and sometimes talk to people. I thought that sounded wonderful.
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It sounds like he's living his best life!
 
Gabe1

Gabe1

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SteveBrickNJ said:
I agree that it is frustrating when a school system cancels school on a given evening because of a forecast snow for the next day....then that now canceled day materializes and it doesn't even snow or it is just an inch.
Yet I also want to agree with @MouseDreaming 's answer. There are people who would freak out :eek: if they were notified at 6:15am that school was gonna be closed rather than a delayed opening. I'm glad I'm not in charge of making the school closed or not kind of decision 😌
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We have elementary districts and a co-op of 8 towns for our high school. Our board yields to the high school district. Our high school often yields to the bus companies. If the bus company can't anticipate with the projected weather forecast to get the buses out or safely navigate the streets they call it. When we did the Frozen Tundra last month with extremely cold weather school was called even without snow. This lasted multiple days and the buses are a massive fleet and a fleet where most of the buses would not start. They worked through the weekend to be operational. If one of these buses stalls with 60 students on them then what? We also have professional staff that travel a long way others that are local, their perspective is different. When the districts use to wait till morning to see how it looked many staff members were already in route to work or arriving to have to travel back home again. Also trying to keep parking lots clear as buses and cars are arriving comes into play. Further what a 5 year old can walk through vs a 12 year old vs a 17 year old also varies and plays into the Superintendents call. It isn't fool proof. Here when schools close the local park districts go into school closing mode to provide students where parents have no option but to go to work.

And ultimately it is our Superintendent at the high school level that makes the close or open call. It isn't always correct but they are no more clairvoyant than a board, staff or parents are. I saw comments that some believe it is boards or new board members trying to make a name for themselves. That isn't generally how school boards work. We cannot independently make decisions. We cannot make decisions without being in session. There has to be a vote, majority rules. But more importantly those are the operational decisions we don't involve ourselves with and leave to school administrators. We carved the policy years ago to yield to the high school administrator so either all the students stayed home or all the students attended. We had a few instances where elementary school kids stayed home and high school went. Parents need high school students to watch over younger ones if they had to go to school, it was problematic. So in combination with the other feeder districts to the high school we came to a consensus to yield to the high school and the high school dealt with closures with our bus company vs 9 different administrators.
So the most boards can get blamed for is the policy we craft for emergency closures. Our boards are unpaid elected officials. It isn't about being new and trying to make a name for ourselves as there is nothing to gain, we here are unpaid public servants. We give up a lot of our time to be public servants and take some flack for our decisions. But day to day operation of staff and students isn't our responsibility, that is administration. Now when any situation where staff or administrators blunder that does bounce back to us. Snow or no snow isn't it. Unfortunately extending the school year is a procedural vote by our board as is cancelling in-service days or random school days off all of which requires us to vote and the majority wins.
 

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