Lakeland, Florida - City on the Move
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Learn more about the downtown development of Lakeland Downtown Development Authority Center at (2:52) at 117 N. Kentucky Ave Lakeland, FL ldda.org/
RECREATION
We feature Lake Mirror at (4:07). For information on Lake Mirror & Hollis Garden and Barnett Family Park (701 E. Lemon Street Lakeland see www.lakelandgo...
Common Grounds Playground at (3:51) 1000 E. Edgewood Drive, Lakeland, FL 33803
Lakeside Villiage (Open-Air Mall) at (8:22) 1479 Town Center Dr, Lakeland, FL 33803 shoplakesidevi...
Silver Moon Drive-In at (6:35) 4100 New Tampa Hwy, Lakeland, FL 33815 www.silvermoond...
Fantasy of Flight at (7:22) 1400 Broadway Blvd SE, Polk City, FL 33868 www.fantasyoff...
Polk Discovery Center (9:18) www.polknature.... 4399 Winter Lake Rd, Lakeland, FL 33803
Explorations Children Museum at (1:29) 109 N Kentucky Ave, Lakeland, FL 33801 explorationsv....
Cleveland Heights Golf Course at (4:03) 2900 Buckingham Ave, Lakeland, FL 33803 www.clevelandh...
The Polk Theatre 121 Florida Ave S. Lakeland at (3:02) www.polktheatr...
We show Joker Marchant Stadium spring home of the Detroit Tigers at (5:51) For ticket info see www.boxofficet...
UNIVERSITIES
SouthEastern Christian University at (6:15) 1000 Longfellow Blvd, Lakeland, FL 33801 online.seu.edu/
Florida Southern College (3:07) 111 Lake Hollingsworth Dr Lakeland, FL www.flsouthern...
Florida Polytechnic University 4700 Research Way, Lakeland, FL 33805 floridapoly.edu/ (Science & Art) at (9:00)
RESTAURANTS
Harrys Seafood Bar & Grille at (2:49) 101 N. Kentucky Ave Lakeland, FL hookedonharrys... Terrace Hotel 329 E. Main St Lakeland at (2:57) www.terracehot...
HOUSING
Lake Mirror Tower Apartments at (2:59) 130 S Massachusetts Ave, Lakeland www.lakemirror...
EMPLOYMENT
Publix Supermarkets at (6:50) for employment see corporate.publ...
Amazon search.amazond...
Amazon Fullfilment Centers & Air Hub (at 9:43) search.amazond...
We also featureMunn Park, Lake Mirror, Lake Hunter, Lake Hollingsworth, Lake Parker, and Lake Wire.
Aerials of Joker Marchant Stadium, Henley Field, Victory Field, and Thomas W. Bryant Stadium
We show Fantasy of Flight, The Silver Moon Drive In, the warehouses of Publix & Amazon.
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Never thought our little city would get taped lmao this is cool
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I did that's why I moved to LA
Rent in Lakeland is getting too high.
4 real. I pay 1100. For a 2 bedroom 2 bath
@@fila7832 that's rather normal rent
Still better then NJ... 2br is 1,400
@@genemarsh3150 the minimum wage in Florida is 8 dollars and some change. That makes it hard for some Floridians.
@@fila7832 cheap
I don't know why but this video showed up on my recommended page. I don't recall watching any related videos or this channel. Lakeland is my hometown I was a teen in the 70s. My family owned An Amoco gas station across from the Holiday Inn on S. Florida av. for many years. Moved to California in the early 80s bounced back and forth for years haven't been back for about 15 years. Two of my four grown kids were born there, I still have family and friends that live there. It's nice to see Lakeland hasn't really changed yet has grown so much since I was a kid there. Lakeland was a great place to grow up and holds many of my fondest memories. This video really took me back Thanks for sharing.
yep, the high tech google algorythms probably saw your past with Ca & Lakeland and being we have recently done videos in CA & Lakeland, thought you would probably be interested.
I love Lakeland. Every city has it's good and bad. We have raised our kids here and so glad we did. It is what you make it. We moved here from up North and it was a great decision. Love that Lakeland is central and in between Orlando and Tampa. The traffic is heavy in every popular city. Lakeland sure is a city on the move.
I got you thanks for enjoying my home town. Went up north and the people didn't speak to me.
Our family moved here in 2007. The move to Florida and particularly this area is the best decision we could have made as retirees.
Hollis Gardens is where my husband and I took our wedding vows.
We can't say enough about the scenic views around the City, especially the swans and the luscious gardens and the economic growth that has come to Lakeland.
There's certainly a variety of choices for shopping, leisure and play within our home district. This undoubtedly, is the biggest change in the City since our arrival. Our only hope is that Lakeland doesn't become a megatropolis and lose its charm
We have found the people to be friendly and helpful.
Our environment is very relaxing. We're not naive. realizing. crime exist wherewhere, but we as a family, have not been confronted by crime nor do we know of anyone who has had any incidence with violence and we don't live in La La Land ;we live a normal peaceful life in Lakeland, Florida and lovin it !
Might we suggest you join us if you are truly tired of living your life as a " rut" and want to. beging getting more out of life.!
I live in Orlando for 30 years I drove past Lakeland all the time on Interstate 4 but I've never been to downtown Lakeland. I didn't know Lakeland have a downtown after I watched this video this morning I literally drove to downtown Lakeland. Downtown is nice and peaceful I walk around the lake it like a smaller version of downtown Orlando lake Eola
Welcome to Polk County.
Stop moving here. It’s getting way too crowded! Lol.
It's tplate but own property saveita few moreyears it will double in value time to buy cheap ifpossible
Dam up north people have invaded central Florida. I am not talking anymore about the old snow birds either.
it's the locals to nasty ass people, 20 years ago lakeland didn't become a disaster town
Lmao
Hey I moved out 3 years ago and from 863
Moved here in '97 and have fallen in love with my city.
Lakeland was home for sixteen years. Still have family there and can't wait to visit again.
Love Lakeland! Moved away for some time and missed it! It’ll always be home, no matter where I move to in my future. The people commenting bad things about it clearly don’t realize every city or town has run down areas, crime, or other negative characteristics they can come up with. Those are the people who will complain but continue to live in Lakeland their whole lives. Some people only see negative in everything!
Yep very true, it just comes with a growing city, but with the bad I think there is much more good.
they all seem to be bitter old people.
It's just that a lot of those people making negative comments about Lakeland are for one, not from Lakeland or they never left Lakeland and need to be exposed to other place's. I realize now that growing up in Lakeland was not like everywhere else. Hell I remember pulling fresh fruit off of trees in my yard. Now you go into a grocery store and that same fruit is expensive. Lakeland is a very unique place in Florida, please persevere Lakeland.
Tell William McKinney that the reason is the slaves don't work for free no more that's why you got to pay at the grocery store
@@donnataliercio7080 Don't understand what you saying.. You sound like an idiot. Slaves trees grocery store. What the hell you talking about?????????????
Frankly, we love Lakeland. Its beautiful and safe , thanks to our sheriff. It has several universities and of course many lakes. We moved from New York and find it is a nice fit for our family. Many new options for living downtown and also indie beer companies. A 1 hr drive to Clearwater beach and 40 minutes to Orlando as well.
Love Grady Judd press conferences, hes the best.
I looked up online that school ratings are very low. Is it true?
And Montessori schools - do you have to pay extra to get in them?
Margo R the schools are pretty... bad. It’s a great place to retire and (perhaps) go after higher education. Although the public school systems are mediocre, at best. If I’m not mistaken, you must pay more Montessori
@@Jjjjose449 Well I think you cant really blame the school, or the kids, if parents are out to lunch, and just want to dump their kids anywhere somethings free..
Michael G the inadequate teachers are to blame. Moreover, the trash wages that Lakeland offers forces both parents to work. Once again: great place to retire, but horrible to bring up a family.
My mother retired to Lakeland several years ago- She loves it, and considers it home sweet home :)
She probably at the Casino with all the other retiree and seniors 🤑
Well at least she not trash talking my city. Bless her heart.
lakeland is a nice place and it’s great to be so close to orlando and tampa, however, it’s boring here. everyone seems to be the same here and you can only walk around lake mirror so many times before it gets boring. lakeside village is our biggest shopping area but they truly don’t have that many stores and you’ll find yourself having to go to the brandon mall or somewhere else if you need to get a lot of shopping done. it’s nice here but you have to go to tampa or orlando if you’re actually looking for something fun to do, not just aimlessly wandering around the same old downtown.
This is the truest of all the replies
Mostly good here in Lakeland but there are definitely some negatives. Lakeland can be a great place to raise a family. My kids went to South Lakeland public schools. I felt they received a good education and the sports opportunities were excellent. I'm a former northerner and fell head over heels for Florida when we visited when I was 10 years old. Going from snow one day to beautiful sunshine the next seemed like paradise discovered. There are a lot of days I still feel that way. The smell of orange blossoms wafting through the air driving home from work makes you wonder what you've done to deserve such earthly pleasures.
There are a lot of positive and talented people in the area. They commit their lives to their work and their communities and help to make Lakeland a place where you can achieve your own piece of the American dream.
The main negative here goes for Polk County in general. I am businessman and hardly a week goes by where I don't experience some sort of vandalism or theft. The area seems to have a lot of dysfunctional people and/or criminals. Law enforcement does catch some but they are soon back on the streets doing their thing again. I blame our legal system, legislators, and media for giving criminals and their like more concern and rights than your solid, law-abiding citizen. With real punishment criminals wouldn't keep doing it dozens of times. When you do file a complaint, you can tell it's so commonplace with the officer that they don't get too worked up about it. So, compared to where I grew up anyway, there are many more lower quality people (and many of them have migrated from the North). This goes for Central Florida in general. If you live here hopefully you find a way to insulate yourself better than I've been able to.
Another feeling that some might share with me is this feeling of being landlocked or a bit trapped. A lot of the beauty of our area has been lost, at least lake-wise. Most of the lakes are this ugly green that reminds me of times I was deathly sick and lost it. There are times when I get geographical equivalent of cabin fever. Like I just have to get to one of our beautiful coasts or I'm going to suffocate. Fortunately the drive is short to some of the best tourist destinations in the world. I'm extremely grateful for all those things about an hour away: theme parks, salt water beaches, incredible freshwater springs and you could probably add a few more. Lakeland's proximity, more than its own assets, also makes it a good place to be.
Back to the weather. You can say what you want about our warm summers but I still love them. I know the trade off, snow or heat, and I'll take the warm every day. There's no better climate in the Eastern United States as far as I'm concerned. I wouldn't enjoy working ten hour days on a hot roof in the summer but I can do a half a day of hard labor and still feel blessed. If you have trouble with the heat you can do things to help your adaptation like taking saunas from time to time.
I've lived in Central Florida for over 17 years. My only regret really is that I didn't get here sooner. I may not stay until the end. I will, however, always look back on my time here as well spent for me and my family.
That is a good analysis.
Iv never been to lakeland but i know someone who lives there and they love it and say they wouldnt move i dont get all the hate in the comments , some people i guess used to live in lakeland and moved many years ago but from what i hear florida is growing and changing alot
It's mainly to do with the crushing couruption and people having there lives crushed because of abuse from CODE DCF LEO & OFFICALS Buttt... Beautiful here I grew up here love it it's in-between tpa and country southern folk
Why no scenic view of Combee or Wabash? 😅 Just kidding I moved from Bartow to Lakeland and been here for 10 years now but I really wish the growth would slow down, the roads here aren't meant to handle this amount of traffic and its becoming a serious problem.
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I like lakeland but this video being biased to downtown towards mulberry.Everything along Memorial pass the Lakeland mall is trash.
Winter Haven is in even worse shape for population growth.
Great drone footage!! Lakeland will always hold a special place in my heart! ❤
Thankyou for the nice words
I live in Winter Haven and Love Lakeland, the summer heat is a little hot though 🔥
I moved to Lakeland, almost 20 years ago, for a new job. I wasn't too excited about moving here, at the time, but the town has really grown on me. I really like living here. Lakeland has almost everything a big city, like Tampa, has, minus most "Big City" problems, like chronic traffic jams and rampant crime. Very affordable, versus cities on the coast. The people are friendly. Shopping, restaurants, movie theatres, doctors, etc. are rarely more than a 15 minute drive away. Growth has added plenty new stores, restaurants, and things to do. Tampa is only 45 minutes away; Orlando is 1 hour. The winters are fantastic....plenty cool, breezy days and chilly nights, occasionally dropping to freezing. ( My only complaint is the miserably long, hot, humid "summer" months (May - October). Being 40+ miles inland, Lakeland doesn't get any significant coastal breeze in the summer, so it's a sweltering, sticky inferno.). I am concerned continued population growth will ruin the "small town" feel and create big city problems.
Beautiful City! I spent my holidays in Lakeland and Orlando. I am Brazilian and I can say wue you Americans live in a free country. It has problems, but you can to walk safely at any time oh the day! I brougtht with me an American flag that I cherish! god bless the America!!!!
Thankyou for commenting, great to hear from someone from Brazil.
That's where I live for 20 years now and I love it ! 👏👏👏
I was there in the 70s it was awesome. Back then you could leave your doors open and not be afraid.
I lived in Lakeland all my life, it’s just the best town ever! But it takes an hour to get to the parks now!
Blame that on the invasion of the up north people in Florida now. Especially Orlando......
I've lived in many different cities throughout Florida including south FL, Miami and Broward. The people with all the negative comments really don't appreciate what they have, everything bad mentioned about Lakeland is 10 times worse in the bigger cities, I work in Orlando and live in south Lakeland, one advantage of living there is the ability to go work Tampa or Orlando and not have to pay home prices associated with the big cities. It's still possible to buy a single family home at a very reasonable price in Lakeland in very good communities. As in any place, stay away from bad neighborhoods, many places in this city are great for raising a family if that's what you have in mind. Also a great place for freshwater fishing, golfing and enjoying good weather.
yep very true its even much worse in CA.
Rick Gonzalez I really can’t disagree with you.
Exactly!🎯💯
The people making negative comments about my home town Lakeland are out of town people. Mainly up north people that have invaded Florida.
I miss living in Lakeland but I’m there every day for work so it’s not that bad 👍🏽.i love this video good job 👍🏽
Thankyou for the nice words.
I live in Lakeland for 22 years now and I love this place !!!
Family live there! I get to visit twice a year! Love it!
Lakeland is nice for people over 50 other than that if you want to have some sort of fun...just go to Orlando or Tampa
Lake land not that bad, try moving from lakeland to Baltimore Maryland. A city over 300 murders. I miss home so bad.
True
I was born and raised in Winter Haven but i currently live in Lakeland and love it. I also work for Publix.
You work for a great company.
@@TampaAerialMedia yes i do. I should consider myself lucky to be working for Publix.
Your videos are always so very interesting, entertaining & informative!!!
Thankyou I appreciate that.
So glad we decided to move to Lakeland. 💙
There's no such thing as a city without flaws. However, I was in the Army and I've also traveled a lot. Lakeland is definitely one of the nicer cities! In fact, I love Lakeland. A place is what you make of it.
yep very true, thanks for sharing.
Amazing city! Thanks for sharing.
Its really not :/
They his a lot 😂😂
I am very proud to say I have lived in Lakeland for over 40 years. Every thing new residents would need is here. Hospital, doctors, shopping, great schools, entertainment. Our downtown was flourishing when so many other towns lost their downtowns during recessions. Lakeland is beautiful and no long traffic jams like Tampa and Orlando. Both our county and city police do an excellent job. You won’t say you are sorry if you check out Lakeland, FL!
I’ve been thinking about moving there
I love it here too.
When I first moved here to LKND S Florida Ave was not busy at all, now it is very backed up, so we take Cleveland Heights Blvd near Lake Hollingsworth
Love my city ❤
We lived there for 6 years. We loved it but we felt called to go take a church in Indiana. My husband is a pastor. Miss Lakeland!!
You didn't mention anything about our VERY historical swans or the fact that Common Grounds is a playground made for children with disabilities to be able to play with other children as well! Otherwise, this is nicely filmed video.
Caraline Rose hmm you look familiar tbh 👀
1KBent xx well you’ve probably seen me around? Idk what to tell you
I remember in 1st grade, we did a field trip to common grounds park for learning about the disabled.
Great video. In addition Lakeland offers good restaurants, live entertainment and events like First Friday. Lake Miror is amazing.
I knew I saw drone lights earlier this week. Lol
I love Lakeland. Y'all stay back. 😂. We got this.
I grew up in Lakeland and I have to say after being away for 10 years, I’m moving back in a few weeks and I’m excited
Never seen so many overdoses and shooting victims than I did while working at Lakeland Regional Medical Center - you left that part out.
You have made that one up out of thin air. While I don't know about overdoses, you are flat out lying about shootings. I can only image your previous hospital experience have been some place with smaller population or, again, you're flat out lying.
From what I hear, even the police like to murder their own citizens. Didn’t they unload 140+ bullets in to ONE man? And I’d believe the overdoses. Highest concentration of junkies of any place I’ve lived.
@@DIEXBOXDIE you're right & the person above you is cappin' 😂 the cops are the worst part
@@DIEXBOXDIE 68 shots into a cop killer named angelo Freeland
@@DIEXBOXDIE A MURDERER was shot.
The END.
So. I have to chime in. Everyone saying Lakeland sucks. It’s whack. Bunch of druggies etc etc. first of all. Tell me a city in this country that you can go to that doesn’t have a drug problem .... go ahead. I’ll wait. .... secondly every city has its upper middle and lower class sections. Those of you complaining most likely live in the lower class section and well let’s be real. You get what you pay for. I moved from Fort Lauderdale a year and a half ago. And I haven’t once thought about moving back. I think Lakeland is an amazing little town. You’re mad about low paying jobs ? Better yourself. EARN a better paying job. It’s not the cities fault that you aren’t striving for more. This is a great place to raise a family. And yes. A lot of lakes. All the more places to enjoy time with your family and friends. I take my jetski out multiple times a week and I love it here.
yep very true, and I think many cities the size of Lakeland has more of a problem with drugs. In Polk I think the drugs problems have been well known, because you have a Sherriff that is taking action. Thanks for sharing your story.
I really liked this post. Do you live in Lakeland now?
Danielle Baumgartner I do. I live in south Lakeland and I love it
It's mainly to do with the crushing couruption and people having there lives crushed because of abuse from CODE DCF LEO & OFFICALS Buttt... Beautiful here I grew up here love it it's in-between tpa and country southern folk
I love lakeland, born and raised here. still here. but the growth I know is a good thing thing but I dislike it. Everything is starting become unrecognizable now, no more cow pastures, almost all of the orange groves are being torn out, homes are being torn down on kathleen for shopping centers and commercial stuff etc. and the traffic is getting as bad as tampa n orlando just about in most areas
Yep Tampa and Orlando are overlapping lakeland now. I knew it was coming.
Oversize????Have you ever been anywhere real???
You guys can make any city look amazing
Thats a great compliment, thanks for saying that.
I been working and I when to high school in Lakeland and I’m still living in Lakeland I Been 21 year living in here it the best place to live lakeland it part of my life my job And I like lakeland it home
I live in Lakeland and it’s funny how you guys just pick the good spots to show if I never live there and I seen this video I would definitely think it was a cute town
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@skyboundpilot looking at moving to Lakeland...what are the major issues to move there for a family
@skyboundpilot Pensacola sucks u must be in military
Aaron Thompson well water and electricity rates are..meh but if you’re looking for a family environment area move to either the southside or northside. Stay away from west and east, those are no bueno. Southside is a bit more uppity, northside is more rural in comparison.
Trini_Aviation I do live on the south side but everything is just getting worse and worse we’ve been getting more homeless people coming into our neighborhood and sleeping basically under trees buy The streets That’s why were deciding to move to North Carolina in the mountains
I love my City!
Me too want to come back home get out of this black hole Baltimore. Crazy City man.
Where in Lakeland you from
Every City has its good and bad but I think Lakeland is a pretty cool place.
Swan City..........
yep will be doing a new video of Lakeland witihn next 6 months.
@@TampaAerialMedia Glad to hear it Lakeland is my home town keep up the great work !
@@TampaAerialMedia good too much has changed to not be documented
Is this a good place to live for families? We drove through and stopped really quick last year but the kids were to tired for us to really look around.
Benefits of a bigger city = MASSIVE TRAFFIC JAMS - the whole I4 is a NIGHTMARE to be honest
Amo este hermoso rincón del mundo que me recibió con la naturalidad de un hijo que regresa de un largo viaje! Gracias y larga vida, mi querida Lakeland!
Florida Polytechnic University's world-renowned building is named the Innovation, Science, and Technology (IST) Building. This building moves with the sun to create indirect sunlight through its glass roof! It is home to every class at Florida Poly at the moment.
The IST Building was finished in 2014, not 2007. We had our first graduating class in 2018, and now have ABET Accreditation, an internationally recognized accreditation for science and engineering programs.
I am an alumni :)
I absolutely love my home state, but growth is getting out of hand down here. We are running out of room fast and in the process we're destroying our beautiful natural habitats. Old Florida is slowly dying off and it's sad to see.
Everywhere this is what’s happening. If you live long the changes are even harder😊 This looks like a lovely town.
Old Florida, like in The Villages, is too old for me. I'm in my sixties, the older age demographic in Florida does not appeal to me.
No more people moving here. Please. We are quite overloaded now and this will cause home prices and everything else to go up!
Blame the 600,000 up north people moving into Florida Daily. Now gotta go to Georgia and not Atlanta.
Wao, I didn't know lakeland is so interesting town....I will visit it soon for my vacation to Florida.
It’s not a tOwN the population for 2020 is 115k- not including the service area
I’ve lived in Lakeland all my life. I’m only 15 though
SAME
The heat make u don't want 2 come out ur house
Another amazing video always a pleasure to watch.Great city would love to live here 👍🙂🇱🇷
Thankyou for the nice words.
@@TampaAerialMedia your welcome look forward to the next.Please have a look at my channel also thanks 👍
Polk County native here and while I consider Lakeland its "crown jewel", it's still not THAT great to me. Lived in Bartow (aka "Barftow") for 15 years and hence found myself over in Lakeland during those years a LOT due to the relatively greater amount of activities and food... but I feel so much better since moving over to Tampa recently. Tampa can be a real cesspool in its own right and property values around the greater Tampa Bay area are getting a LITTLE high... but the trade from the bunch of nothing that is the majority of Polk has been one of the best I've ever made in my life. There just aren't a lot of opportunities with either employment or culture out in Grady Judd Land, and that works for some people and I'm glad they're happy, but MAN, what an amazing feeling it was for me to GET OUT!
Poogedy S idk why people hate bartow so much, it’s honestly a pretty chill place and the sunsets are beautiful. It really depends if you prefer the city or the country
@@stinkyboy2498 It definitely depends on what you want out of life for sure, just like anywhere. I could see Bartow being a paradise for those who like the country (what with the proximity of so much rural land and communities) or the simple, quiet life. Only speaking for myself, I found it quaint and very peaceful at best and meth-infested, uncultured, and unwilling to catch up with social progress at worst.
Grady judd weighs polk down honestly they were trying to open a casino for polk and grady shut that down same thing with strip clubs there is very little they may do in polk due to it being ran by grady but when election time comes around people are to skared to run against that boy I'll be happy once hes out the office he is a crooked sheriff but no one sees it and the lakeland police department is too. I moved out of polk due to that at least where I am now theres way better culture,waaaay more stuff to do , a actual night life , just so much more to do in general polk county wack once grady judd go I'll go back cause just maybe polk might get some new scenery there is no nightlife in polk only bars
Looking forward to adding to all of the greatness Lakeland has to offer with the grand opening of CYCLEdelic in 2021! :)
Great video, no mention of Sun N Fun air show? Second biggest air show in the country? Interesting.
yep good point, we should have mentioned it. Couldn't do much around the airport because of drone restrictions, but still probably should have mentioned it.
That's what I was waiting to see in the video!! And no mention of the car shows& live bands on the Lake Mirror Promenade.🤷
Haven’t lived here in years kinda miss it
Born and raised...home sweet home
Likewise😁
@Dennis my boy. What it do lol.
Kathleen class of 92. Lakeland in my bones, home sweet home.
@@williammckinney9288 👍😊...Lake Gibson Sr High 82' over here!!!
Dennis I'm moving my family down there in the fall. I hope all will be well. My wife has a few businesses as a fashion designer and and I have a building and property maintenance business. We are looking for a better area then kansas city to raise our kids hopefully this will be it.
A big highlight and source of pride are the swans, which were not mentioned.
You are absolutely correct and our mistake. We should have mentioned the swans. We showed them but should have talked more about them.
I’m afraid of them but there beautiful
Wow, never thought I’d say this but I miss Lakeland lol 😅
Claude Lester: I live in Lakeland now, and although I hate the fact that it is growing so fast, I do not see a drug problem, homeless problem, or a sexual predator problem. you must have had a bad experience here, and your taking revenge by talking bad about the town.
You should follow the news for Polk County. Just today the sherriff is doing a presser about 124 sex traffickers that were arrested yesterday. Sherrif Grady is on the ball and one can see these kinds news reports on an almost monthly basis. There is a big drug problem around Memorial Blvd too.
yep but thats a good thing they they were arrested. Sex Trafficing is happening in many places super bad in NY & CA, but atleast The Good Sherriff is proactive in dealing with it.
You apparently live under a rock.
@@chippendale888 I live on the far south side of Lakeland. Last crime by me was 3 years ago, attempted robbery at a pizza joint. Grady's boys got the scumbag right away.
Good job, man ! You hit some major spots of Lakeland.
Thankyou, we just did a new video of Lakeland a month ago
I can see that. I took a photo of that Christmas tree (the same one on your video) and Lake Mirror .
Best video of Lakeland ive seen ☺️
Thankyou for the nice words.
Man if you dont take this video down. I'm tired of these dam people moving in! We crazy in polk county dont get it wrong G!
It is inevitable regardless of the video. Along with alittle bad, growth will bring some good things as well.
Lol your right I'm just mad about south fl being so packed now.
TF!? They say Floridians are some stupid motherfu*kers... 😂😂
Now I see why.
... might have to knock the shit outta one of y’all before it’s all said and done... but I’m still comin... 😂✌🏽🖕🏽
@@nonichalant7251 With that mentality you will do well here Noni. DM me when you touch down. I'll introduce you to the city.
Ricardo
NP! From one asshole to another... see u soon! 😂😘✌🏽
I love downtown Lakeland, it's a big city but certainly doesn't look or feel it, it feels like a cozy old Town. I work there now but will be transferring to South Lakeland. I will miss "Swan Lake" (lake Morton I think), the lake with all the swans and birds. I got a lot of wonderful pictures there too.
That's the Lakeland I remember nice out look.
I lived in lakeland about 20 years, let me help you know more about lakeland, almost every city have good area and bad area, lakeland is one of them, generally, you can separate lakeland as north lakeland and south lakeland, in the middle is downtown, a little area at north side of downtown, i call it district 13( one movie, after you watch it, you know what i mean), north side lakeland is not really that good, i believe most neg comments from local were from there. on the other hand, south lakeland is really outstanding, beautiful place, very low crime, low living cost, very nice people, and you have the best grocery store in the country- publix, i know some survey said, the best grocery store basic on their own customer's review is trader's joe. but after i visit it, it not even close to Publix, yes. their store is very unique, but the customer service is not close to half of publix, because publix is employee owned, the shopping experience is unimaginable if you never shopping in publix store before. only reason publix can't beat them, because they are not in the same area. if you don't mind florida weather, south lakeland is wonderful place to live. from number 1-10, i give district 13 area score 1, north lakeland 4 or 5, some spot might be 7-8, but south lakeland, i give it 10 and plus. i recently moved to Washington, lot colder, i like the colder weather, but i really missed the friendly people in the south lakeland.
yep that is a good point. There are some poorer parts of Lakeland, but Lakeland does have some great areas.
I have been looking for information for Lakeland for months because I want to buy at home and to move with my family, your information has helped me a lot, please, if you have more details, do not forget, send it to me, thank you.
@@auqiz9 Have you moved to Lakeland yet? How do you find out about Lakeland? Please share. I am considering moving to Lakeland too; heard that zip 33811, 33813 are good area.
I move to Lakeland. Zip code 33811, 🎉💞🥳👍✌️👌
@@titeo00 I moved two months ago to zip code 33811. I'm happy 😁😊.
Leave us alone! We don’t need anymore people here!
I'm coming and moving in with you girl. What's for supper?
I don't blame you FL has too many Yankees..Who knew that FL would become their promise land..
Too late, we're gonna be the next Tampa. :(
That part
Trust nobody wants to go there
That's so lovely beautiful view!😉😉☺
Lakeland was nice 30 years ago...
I was in Lake Mirror the other day. There is a huge beautiful Christmas Tree. It looks really nice at night.
Everyone that can't afford Tampa Bay ends up in this place it sucks .
Wow that’s so mean
Lakeland is a very nice city. You have your trouble spots but what city doesn’t ? I have lived here for almost 50 years from New York City and I’ll take Lakeland any day. I live on the south side much quieter.
The last part was a joke right? South side sound like a drag strip haha
Would’ve been a whole lot cooler if Lakeland’s music scene was mentioned even once.
They never show close ups of major areas in lakeland.
Left Tampa to live in Lakeland in 2003...The nice parts are South and N. 98.
The I-4 Corridor is going to be the next Silicon Valley! My hopes are that innovation, science, and technology will soon be the heart of this region.
yes but hopefully will not have the problems of Sillicon Valley with housing, homeless, high taxes, and social issues, and illegal immiagration.
Coming here for my flight school from India. Was afraid checking out all the bad news about shootings and gang violence. Finally something positive.
Yea people make it sound worse than what it is...its fine
I live in Los Angeles area, you can borrow my bulletproof vest
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Wrong. Fun Fact: Did you know Winter haven was suppose to be lakeland and lakeland was supposed to be winter haven due to there are more lakes in winter haven than the lakeland area look it up
Kings Treasure87 I remember that!
Didn't know that, thanks for sharing.
No problem
My home town love Lakeland I will never leave my family's roots run deep here
I love Lakeland I want it to keep its beautiful feel.. Stop building.. The cows need somewhere to live..
Are you referring to my ex wife. She moved to Chicago. LOL
Born and raised. Its the being between 2 major cities with tourist attractions that's causing all this growth. All cities have good or bad. Its still home 💖. Most of my family is here.
Don’t move here. We full.
This is the perfect attitude it seems to come equipped with the common Folk
We are coming 🚚
And the schools suck, judging by your post and those of the other locals.
Awesome vid,
thank you!
Beautiful. My home. Just got to b to many people. Moved the family to bartow
Quiet don't tell them up north people about other parts of our beautiful Polk County. Bad enough this guy making this video letting everyone else's know about lakeland. Out of town people use to pass by Lakeland on I-4 ,so fast. Now the moving in taking over my once little town.
We lived down there for about 2 years had to move back to north ms because I lost my job, it was a pretty quiet side of town we lived in but apartments were pretty expensive
We need to work on our homeless population because that is about to explode.
Still not nearly as bad as CA, but yes there needs to be something done.
@@TampaAerialMedia I love the video and love Lakeland. People who say it's a shit hole have no idea what this city has to offer. Lakeland is known for it's parks and rec. We have parks and gardens that people from other counties and city's come here to enjoy. You did a great job highlighting this town. I'm born and raised here on the south side. Still Iive here and couldn't imagine living elsewhere in the county or central Florida for that matter. My property value keeps going up.
The only downside is the homeless population and the amount of transient people I see walking around and pan handling. They seem to flock here, especially since their homeless camp was destroyed for the new Bonnie Springs Park.
Lakeland is peaceful. The southside is at least.
The whole lake land is peaceful compared to other places in Florida and America.
Let me know when lakeland gets over a 100 murders. Then I can see oh lakeland is a bad place too live. Ya right lakeland safe.
863 forever mannnn❤️
Most definitely💗
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@@Darius2high👍 I've lived in Hillsborough county before also
305 Dade county!
This is an amazing video to get an idea of the city while we are looking to move to florida!
Thankyou, great to hear, thats what we are striving for.
Stay the fuck out of Florida
@@austinmac2693 wtf is up with that name of yours?? Lol
Lakeland has a lot of problems but it is a nice place to live, small town feel, city amenities.
Not even but if it suits you that speaks VOLUMES :-P
@@janjones8006 You can always leave Lakeland thee door is wide open.
I left YEARS ago asswipe :-D
Weather looks preety beautiful around the city
Will be doing a new video of Lakeland in February
If you are a crab people better go to Miami or other places, because in Lakeland you never don't gonna be happy. This city is for good people only. I love my city 😍❤️❤️
Love my town! Great footage. So many wonderful parts of town not shown but I’m sure time was limited.
Good video, still happy I left Lakeland 34 years ago, could not find a liveable job at that time. The City appear to have left my former neighborhood behind, if you live there you know what I'm saying. Loving Atlanta and retired from government here. GO RED DEVILS
Dreadnaughts!!!
Seriously, I miss Lakeland. However like you, I’m in Atlanta and not missing Florida at all.
I went to Morris Brown from lakeland now in Maryland. Atlanta overrated. Its alright but it's not how it's use to be when o was there in the 90s. There are other places nicer the Atalanta.
William next time you in Lakeland, go stand on the corner of 5th street and Lincoln ave. As for Atlanta successful people like myself GOT IT MADE
Great video, yes Lakeland is growing very fast and this is a great place to live and to raise a family God bless!!
Well done.
Thankyou for the nice words.
I hope you cover my hometown of Plant City, FL! It has some interesting facts. Although I don't expect such to be said about it in a long video, it is still a great city nevertheless! The winter strawberry capital of the world!
Yep we did a video on Plant City a few months ago th-cam.com/video/LKqIVq3zLpg/w-d-xo.html
@@TampaAerialMedia Oh dang I looked for one but never found this! Thanks!!