Downtown vs. Suburbs

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Where to Live Choosing a place to live has been proving quite difficult for me and my girlfriend. We both grew up in the suburbs for most of our lives and just moved to Downtown Orlando recently. We left a good life in the suburbs to move to downtown mainly for the convenience of commuting to our jobs. I have driven through downtown plenty of times to get to class or stopped by to enjoy a club or festival on the weekends and it did not seem so different. I never thought that moving to the inner city of Orlando from the suburbs would be that big of a change. After moving downtown however, I have discovered that there are many differences between the two that have led me to make a decision on whether to move back or stay. When my girlfriend and I started looking downtown for places to live we were both excited. We were already anticipating that the rent was going to be a little higher than our home in the suburbs so we were not surprised by the prices. We choose to pick a house in an area that was close to a lake like our house in the suburbs. After we were finished moving in we went to our local Publix grocery store. The parking lot was a little hard to find since it is located underneath the store in the underground parking garage. The parking garage even had its own security guard to make sure no one parks there unless they were shopping. After we get done shopping I saw that our bill was higher than usual even though we grabbed the same items that we normally get to last for a week. I noticed that the normal everyday items cost more than it does in the suburbs. Within the next couple of weeks I realized that it was not just the cost of food that was higher but, parking, gas, convenience stores, local bars, and even general services cost more than the suburbs. When the month was over I had to redo my whole monthly budget to account for all of these unexpected

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