Gene, Mitch, and I (for those of you who met us) are planning on moving to Gainesville this summer. I know other people have moved to Gainesville because of Fest, I'm just wondering...

anyone else moving this year?

also, any GNV residents/UF students who could give us some tips, I'm sure that would be comical and helpful.

hahaha I love it. Let me be the first to request a floor to sleep on next year.

I'm moving next year also
but just to somewhere else in Gainesville so it's not that exciting

I've been planning to move to G-ville for about a year, but whenever I get enough money saved up something stupid like my car blows up and then i'm back at square one hopefully by april-may ish i'll move.

oh snap, awesome!

i just moved here in August. it's been great so far, but I love florida and the heat and crackers and flat roads and such so I am biased. so get ready for that.

watch out for the ghetto, it kind of sneaks up on you here. as in, when you find a place to live, you'll be in a nice little neighborhood and BAM broken 40s and shoes hangin from the power lines.

traffic blows, in a way I haven't seen since Atlanta. get a bike. ( i need one...)

don't eat the yellow snow!

UF is the savior and the devil in this town. students are cool but they/we are admittedly the dumbest people in the universe. i can't possibly describe how, but this is nothing new as far as the world, just the concentration seems to be extra-high here. the cops despise your stupid guts because you are between 18-30 years of age, just because you MIGHT be a UF student and therefore a no-good hippie drug-dealing communist (you name it...) scumbag. even though they are 32 and were UF student a decade ago...

The residents of the town, not associated with the university, are Florida's finest. the official dress is jean shorts and MAYBE a shirt, but that's pushing it. boots and no socks, 1982 yugo smoking like a bonfire, and a general distaste for 'y'all young fellers'. They are harmless, and comical, but they WIL ask you for $1 with some line about their kids or a rare disease or something.

dont live on the SE side of town unless you like things stolen from your home.

everything else not typical of anywhere else in the US I can think of (granted, i'm new) you experience over Fest-weekend.

that's just the negative stuff, sorry. the music's good, beer is cheap and people are awesome.

good luck!

this is awesome, thanks!

I was looking at houses in GNV and I found this:

http://gainesville.craigslist.org/apa/915949097.html

So who's having house shows there next year?

i should be moving there within the month, but it might get pushed back a bit more. soon as i get this job rolling.

last year i had set a deadline to live in gainesville by november 2008, but i still have yet to find a decent web development job there.

i really miss gator beverage & a car-free life....

In summer 2010 I'm probably going to attempt to emmigrate to Gainesville

or, failing that.. just 'forget' to come back from Fest. 'What do you mean I only bought a one-way ticket? Boy, is my face red.. well, I guess i'll have to stay.. Darn this bad luck of mine.'

Don't do it.

Negativity is not very Fest, Josh.

Don't tell me what's Fest. I coined it as an adjective you know!