Posted on 11/17/2023 9:21:39 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I’m surprised the article didn’t mention the fake “don’t say gay” bill.
I spent a few months in Florida. Really not for me. Muggy and buggy.
Florida Man…..
They left out the bears. At least in the panhandle, we have bears in various parts. I’ve only seen one personally. I was glad I wasn’t the lady in the open convertible at a stop light with the bear on the other side of her. Happily, it was more interested in the woods that ran along that section and didn’t come to say hi. The main base in this county is also an animal reserve. Bombs, bombers, bears, why not? every so often, the newspaper would have a photo of a bear in a residential area tree.
spent a few months in Florida.
Lived in Ocala/Gainesville area for 45 years, and loved most every minute of muggy and buggy. Would never have moved to western Colorado except that’s where the daughter was never coming back from….
Life goes on.
I lived in Miami for 10 years and I have never had any desire to return.
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And Florida is definitely far more than non-Floridians can imagine, although a good bit of "old Florida" is, sadly, starting to fade away.
I may very well return some day, but this time somewhere closer to nature.
I live in and love Florida!…..
you couldn’t pay me to live in florida: too hot, too humid, and WAY TOO MANY BUGS YEAR ROUND!
Same here....those few months were enough for me. ..and the size of the Palameno bugs about floored me! One was enough!
I distinctly recall arriving via Auto-Train - stepping onto the deck felt like I just walked into a Sauna going full bore!
Everybody stays indoors where there’s air conditioning in the Summer months...much like folks do staying inside in the North over Winter...just a trade off.
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This fact saddens Serge Storms.
Tim Dorsey is currently one of my favorite Florida authors, but John D. MacDonald was the best, IMO. There are plenty of other good ones.
My oldest sister has lived in Florida for 30+ years now, in Gainesville and now Jacksonville. I've visited a couple of times, but I'll stay in Arizona. It's a dry heat here.
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Must not be from Florida. Forgot to mention palmetto bugs and fire ants.
Humididity & Bugs
I was able to participate in some archaeology excavation in Belize, in the jungle. We lived in huts, slept in hammocks. It was so humid it felt as though you were sweating in the shower. There were so many types of bugs. I had already read up on the Anopheles mosquito and malaria. One day I was able to look at one close up without getting bit. It reminded me of a hypodermic needle. It must have just consumed enough because it just stayed in front of me, on a table.
The other bug that made quite the impression was the LARGE red ant. One day we were out surveying (you cannot excavate the entire Mayan city, but you can survey and map out as much as possible. Some idiot did not pay attention to his surroundings and sat on the home of the large red ants. When he discovered his error, there were already a few ants starting to sting. We stripped his clothes off and beat the ants off his body. He did not feel well for a few days. The manager of the entire site was not impressed, or happy, with the foolishness of not paying attention.
Re: Humididity at the beginning of this comment. Humididity is used in honor of the great Lloyd Lindsey Young. A great and hilarious TV weather personality. My two favorites were humididity and thunderbumpers. Besides his unique vocabulary and phraseology, he was also famous (or infamous?) for his unique pointers during TV weather broadcasts. He had people mailing in to the TV station different items to use as pointers. The funniest was a mannequin leg. Glorious.
One thing about Florida: It is HUGE! There is something for most people. Northern Florida is hill country, no mountains, but it isn’t flat.
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