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Places to live in Whiting
- Thread starter scubasteve38
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That area is still the best choice.
I disagree with living by UWF. Ever seen Davis highway? Depending on where you live you may be hitting that traffic every day vice every Friday and Saturday evening. So far, all of my instructor buds who decided to live there as well have all abandoned ship for either East Hill or Pace. Long commute, and it's not just 10 minutes to downtown.
Yeah, it has. About $30-40 each way though typically.
That's like $20 cheaper than the cabs. We used to drive one way, then cab back. Make a pensacola brunch trip out of getting the car the next day.
I lived on the West side of Pace and really enjoyed it. Not particularly close to anything but not terribly far from anything either. About 20ish minutes from base and 20ish minutes from downtown. If downtown is your scene more power to you, I ended up spending far more time down on Pensacola beach so I wish there was a place that was closer to that without having a prohibitively long commute to base.
Regardless of where you live, for the love of god enjoy your time in Pensacola. I never thought I'd say that going into primary but almost a year in KVegas has changed my tune
Regardless of where you live, for the love of god enjoy your time in Pensacola. I never thought I'd say that going into primary but almost a year in KVegas has changed my tune
Awesome, thank you all for the input. I think we're looking more in the East Hill/Pace areas now. Definitely looking forward to staying here, I was planning on going to Corpus but the only knock I've heard on Milton so far is that it's in the middle of nowhere (hence the desire to live closer to downtown Pcola)
My only caution as a flight school student living all the way down in East Hill is consider that you'll have some really early briefs - occasionally 0430. If you go to HT's, that means you're doing weight and balance at 4 in the morning, which means you're leaving your house at probably 0300-0315. Also, consider that the "party" scene being a bit far away may be a good thing. Pace is good enough to go party once in a while, but also a deterrent enough to not do it all the dang time. If you're just looking for restaurants and a bar here or there, Pace and Milton are fine nowadays. Just drive through Hwy 90 and you'll see - the place is growing - fast. It's not going to have the quality of bars in Pensacola, but it's good some halfway decent restaurants and a watering hole here and there.
Milton is as unexciting as promised, however, there is (was?) a pretty solid Po' Boy place. Other than that, can't really recommend it unless you really hate commuting.
FWIW: I lived at 'Park on the Square' (500' from Governor's gate), my buddy lived in East Hill, and my girlfriend lived in Pace. Due to the impending aneurism/case study in highway engineering that is Davis Hwy, it took my buddy maybe 7 minutes longer to get to work - even less if I left at the wrong time. IMO, the difference between 35 minutes from UWF and 42 minutes from East Hill is a wash given the required NE Pensacola traffic slop factor. Took me 22 minutes to the squadron from her place in Pace (Avalon/90). I used the drive to review flashcards /chill out (technique only).
If I had to do it again, I'd think real hard about East Hill, but I admit that's largely because I liked to study downtown and hangout with my NFO buddies in Perdido.
In defense of Pace, they just did add a Tin Cow, a Panera Bread, a Jersey Mikes, a Five Guys, and there's even a Target with a Starbucks in it. It's highly livable, but probably not lovable.
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^^^ This is good advice.
You can make very good time at that time of the day because there aren't any rubes driving nowhere slowly like there are during the day. BUT, the whole length of Avalon Blvd is 45 (used to be 55 a long time ag0). The local law enforcement will tolerate a moderate number over the posted limit and good manners go a long way if do you get caught exceeding that, but the simple fact is that drive is no fun when you have a 0445~0530 brief, plus a few more minutes earlier for your last bit of pre-brief prep/paperwork.
Plenty of flight students live farther that that and make it through just fine, but it's one more thing to consider.
The Whiting Q...and if the almighty beer machine is still stashed within the Whiting Q, get your almighty quarters ready...good times!
I lived in Governors Gate during my time at NAS Whiting. They were really nice apartments in a pretty decent location however that 35+ drive got old after a while. I would usually use that time to practice my briefs, go over EP's, or do a little chair flying. I had lots of friends that lived in the Pace area and they seemed to enjoy it and they really weren't to far away from downtown Pcola. Just depends on what you are looking for. If you think you will hitting up practice sims a lot, i would probably pick Pace. If you want to live in a "city", pick UWF/East Hill area.
Find a place? What did you decide?
Yeah we ended up finding a place about 5 minutes south of I-10 off of 281 right on the water of Escambia Bay. The owner is an retired E-2 NFO (call sign Kiwi for anyone who might know him). 25 mins to base and 25 to downtown so it does the whole Goldilocks thing pretty well, and it even has a beach volleyball court for recreating Top Gun montages!