 and if you like these types of videos make sure to give this a thumbs up and let me know down in the comments in today's video I'm going to be telling you guys what it was like living in celebration Florida if you guys don't know what celebration Florida is it is a Disney developed community don't get it confused with golden oak because golden oak is a totally separate entity and golden oak is actually on Disney property whereas celebration was just like developed with Disney Disney is not affiliated with it anymore it just started out with Disney I lived in celebration from 2002 till 2014 and I will go ahead and insert pictures so you guys can see so celebration Florida was part of Disney and Disney had developed it they were a part of the creation of celebration just for the record I don't live there anymore like I said I moved out in 2014 my parents wanted to downsize and basically our house helped pay for my college education so that's awesome and my parents wanted to downsize we moved not too far away from celebration so all is good and we really like our place here but I really do miss our house and celebration it was so pretty and you guys will see in the pictures and everything first off a lot of people don't know what celebration is and when I work at Universal sometimes we have where we're from on our badges and they're like celebration where is that so I always had to tell them like oh it's located right near Disney World it's about probably at the most 15 minutes away from Disney and also the people that do know about celebration are always shocked because they thought it was only for rich people and don't get me wrong like the houses there are pretty expensive because of location and name brand and that sort of thing but there's a wide range of incomes that live there so the houses range in prices there's a lot of apartments but they're actually quite expensive if you live in one of the apartments so I wouldn't recommend living in an apartment there also garage apartments we had a garage apartment so yes there is like a stigma I remember like at my school people from Kissimmee which is another like city here in Orlando I live in Kissimmee some of the students from a Kissimmee school got transferred to a celebration school celebration has a high school and a K-8 school so I went to the K-8 school until seventh grade and then I moved to my art school which was great but some of the kids moved to celebration K-8 and I just remember them calling us like celebrats and stuff and it wasn't very nice but there was a stigma behind living in that location but this brings me into the other point where I was just a kid since I grew up it was just where my house was I didn't really know anything else not that where we live now is bad or like run down or anything because like we moved here when they were like building this this house condo place for us we got to pick out everything and have things customized to the way my parents and I wanted but when you come from a place that like you just always known to a different place it makes you feel more grateful that you got to grow up in such an awesome place I always described it as a fake community because it looks fake and I kind of took it for granted to be honest but now looking back on it and reflecting on like wow I'm so grateful that I got to live there and grow up in such a cool place there's no place in the world like it and I'm being honest I'm not trying to be like oh this is like the only place no but this is actually the only place named celebration and I don't know I was watching this like documentary thing on like why there'll be no other place like celebration and how celebration has survived quote-unquote also guys I'm sorry if this video is pretty much everywhere I have notes on my phone right here and I just have like points that I want to hit another point on my list is when you live in a small town like that everybody knows everyone my mom was in Rotary and my dentist and my eye doctor were in Rotary with her there was just like so many intertwined relationships and celebration and not just like through business but also interpersonal relationships there was a lot of people that had affairs and stuff and a lot of people like that got divorced so this goes to show like you can live anywhere and like have as much money as you want but there are still problems if you were to visit a place like celebration like you would not think that anything could go wrong you would think life is perfect but there was a lot of people that we knew personally and everything that had a lot of problems and it was just really really sad that just goes to show improve that no economic status or no location on earth is a place that's always perfect yeah that was another point I really wanted to get across because it's insane my parents and I kind of had this theory that if people were going through like hard times and maybe in their relationship or like job or something that they would move to celebration because they think that all of their problems are going to be solved because they live in this perfect place but that's totally not the case at all because their problems did not escape them and I could probably name off of five people that I know that probably fit into that mold which is insane when we lived there we did actually in fact call it the bubble the bubble because everything that you needed to live off of like a grocery store or a gas station someone's business or job could be there your house is there entertainment is there you really did not have to leave celebration to like really do anything like clearly you could travel and stuff but everything that you needed to live and function you did not have to leave celebration and that was pretty cool everything was really convenient also to go kind of with the bubble we had these things called neves neves stands for neighborhood electric vehicle and what that was it was kind of like a golf cart but electric it's kind of hard to explain so obviously I'll probably insert a picture here they were so cute they went 25 miles an hour and ours was so cool I don't know if I actually have a picture of it but I will try to hunt one down and show you guys our exact neve obviously it matched our house it was a black white and gray and sherry love that thing so much and the dance studio I started out with was actually in celebration again inside the bubble sherry would pick me up from school in our neve and then we would drive to the dance studio and drop me off it ran on electric so we saved on gas with that and it was just really cool obviously there's places that you couldn't drive your neve because the speed limit was above 25 but mostly in celebration the speed limits are 25 miles per hour so most everywhere you could drive your neve and it was so cool oh it was so sad when we had to sell it but I think we just sold it because we weren't using it a lot and my dance studio that I moved to wasn't in celebration so we weren't really getting a lot of use out of our neve but it was so convenient when we were trick-or-treating or had like a 4th of July event or anything like that it was amazing because you had these special parking spots that you could park your neve in this probably sounds like a fantasy to some of you guys and I know it sounded kind of like ridiculous but yeah there were actual parking spots for these things the only bad thing that I actually remember about our neve was that when it was really hot out and you were getting into the neve from like going to the pool or anything like that it would really burn your butt that was the only thing because the seats were kind of like leather this leads me into my next point and there was a lot of events probably more events than today there was so many events like every holiday like Memorial Day 4th of July fall Christmas there was either a parade or a downtown event or booths set up kind of like a market there was like a Sunday farmers market that a lot of people went to and you would see people around town it was just really cool and I love and miss those types of events they still do those events I believe but they're not as good as when I was growing up because this leads me into my next point celebration has expanded so much it's so large now and it's kind of lost that small town vibe because there's just so many people and a lot of the people that I knew growing up and everything have actually moved out I feel like we moved there at the right time and I grew up at the right time there it's just so different now and it's actually kind of sad because I feel like celebration is kind of like going downhill both my optometrist and dentist are still there and I still go to them my optometrist granddaughter was in one of my classes in grade school that's the type of small community it was it's kind of cool because I still get to like touch base with her grandma and like here the news on her and everything so the really good thing about celebration even though it was a place that you had to have probably a little bit more income to live there was a wide range of houses and a wide range of options to choose from and there was never like a rich area because it was all like sprinkled out in this town so you could live in like a little town house and then right next door could be like this giant mansion that's kind of how they wanted to lay it out so everything was kind of like uniform but also had like sprinkles of like mansions and everything there's this one street I actually don't really know what it's called but it is primarily where the big mansions lie which is really cool but most of celebration is intermixed with different houses different styles everything like that there would be people that would like drive around and like critique your area so if it wasn't up to par you would be hearing it you would get fined and stuff they were pretty strict but I understand because they were trying to keep up an image and to keep up an image you need to have strict rules and everything so I totally get that they were just so picky about like grass the littlest things so that's why my parents also wanted to move here because it was just so much nicer and we don't really have to take care of all of that stuff on our own now it's kind of like built into our homeowners association fee which is amazing if you want any more details you can definitely ask me in the comments down below but I'm going to now kind of talk about like what my house looked like we lived in a white house with like black detailing so we had like black shutters it was pretty much the same size of our place now it even kind of looks the same because all of our furniture is the same all the colors are the same really it looks exactly the same but what was really cool about our house in celebration was our pool we had a great pool my parents actually got to design it and it was black so it was a black pool and all my friends when they would come over they'd be like oh my gosh a black pool that's so cool it would always say I've never seen a black pool I'm like well now you have and to me it was kind of like shaped like a dog bone with a bite taken out of it and I don't know if my parents did that on purpose because we did have a dog back then the pool came way before the dog so they probably were not thinking about dogs it had a cool light that actually burned out within a year we never got replaced we also had a three car garage which was behind the pool this was our house this was the pool backyard area and then we had our garage I don't know if that's making any sense but on top of our garage we had a garage apartment so it was kind of like an apartment thing and people were like oh my gosh you have like two houses and honestly it was pretty cool because when we had guests over they would just stay in the garage apartment they wouldn't stay in our house but I remember most of the time when I was older and everything we rented it out so actually another person lived there and they would park their car like in the back alley I know this is sounding like so weird they would pay us rent and everything and like electric and like utilities and all of that was like built into that fee that we would charge them and I really wish I had like video footage and everything but I really only have pictures of our house so anyway that is pretty much it for this video make sure to give this video a thumbs up don't forget to subscribe to my channel if you guys have any questions leave them in the comments down below and I'll see you guys in my next video bye