Re:I've been there & Live in FL (Score 1)

The place isn't as bad as it seems. There are several communities around that have the same visual guidelines: MetroWest, Dr Phillips, Heathrow (one of those farther north areas), Lake Mary, and even Deltona and Deland areas. The only major difference at Celebration is that at Celebration you can not park your cars on every streetside, you can not construct play areas in your frontyard, and you can not paint your house a non skeemed color (not that bad since they paint your house for free, or relative if you consider the property value difference). Of course no where around here in any walled community can you work on an automobile in your driveway. These are things that are the norm for central Florida. As for the school the number one thing that I hear (from the wife that is a teacher in the next county) is that either teachers do not like teaching on that schools format (I must note that this school is run by Orange Cnty- Disney just funds the technology), or parents are not used to the interactive homework model which they must participate in with their child via the house computer.