What are the towns around Pensacola like? Are they safe?

Question

I'm moving later this year with my future Marine Hubby down to Pensacola. He will be living on-base while I have to get something off-base by myself. We're from Indiana, so we don't really have a chance to take a look around the Pensacola area.

Answer 1

Pensacola is nice-it is a small town but very nice. The beaches are great. No major traffic. Some areas better than others. There is two malls-cordova and university. 2 major hospitals-Sacred Heart and Baptist(they bought the 3rd one West Florida Hospital). There is a couple of clubs- Seville Quarter and others downtown Pensacola area. There is seafood- Joe Pattii's is the best place for seafood. I think you will like it though! Just find something near the base. also there is a university( UWF) and junior college(PJC-which I graduated from!). Hope this helps out-if not google it!!

Answer 2

My father was stationed at Whiting Field in Milton during 1983-1986 and I lived there about 5 years ago. Navarre, Gulf Breeze ,Milton and Pace are just outside Pensacola  and are small cities. Milton/Avalon, is also home to the Moors, a golf course used in PGA tournaments (if that interests you). OR you can be really adventurous and live in Alabama. I live in Bay Minette (north end of Baldwin County) which is 45 minutes from P'cola, but the south end of Baldwin has Lillian and Orange Beach which are minutes from P'cola.

Answer 3

my husband is stationed here in pensacola and he is in the navy. i dont really know which base he will be on, but there is pensacola nas, and corry station which are very close to each other. If you are going to get an apartment, i would recommend if you want to be very close to NAS, then austinwood apartments, or country wood at blue angel, are nice apartments. If he's on corry, then Fairfield Lakes will be closer to there because its on 98, and they are nice apartments too. my friend lives there and you have an alarm in your apartment and its gated. If you decide to rent a house there are some nice subdivisions on gulf beech hwy ( staying in the direction going towards perdido). in the other direction there is coral village, but after that it gets questionable. There is also a nice subdivision behind the military housing i live in on blue angel. i would recommend Pensacola.MLS if you are looking for houses ect.. to rent. if you have any other questions feel free to email me.

Answer 4

i live in gulf breeze, right by pensacola, and there is virtually NO crime here. and when it comes to violent crimes, you won't find much of that at all. it's a pretty safe area altogether. there are some areas of pensacola that i would avoid, but i wouldn't worry about getting hurt or anything.