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Posted on 09/03/2022 10:05:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yep. Florida is just terrible. Awful. Don’t move here. Stay away. Go home.
Yes, worst drivers I’ve ever seen. And you better get you a good pest control service because ANTS..
Actually it is.
The best enticement for me is sunshine!……everything is bright and green year round.
True, the heat is less tolerable the older one gets…..
….but when I’ve spent a few months in cooler North Carolina, ( cooler, but darker)…..I can’t wait to get back to sunny Florida
I’ve lived on the Space Coast many years……..and endured at least 5 hurricanes, but I love this place called Florida……..and we have seen some amazing launches from Cape Canaveral …while standing in our front yard!
The stupid drivers who don’t know where they’re going making sudden stops in the middle of the road, making sudden lefts from the right hand lane, making sudden rights from the left hand lane, doing 90 in all lanes, doing 45 in a 70. Etc. The ratio of sane to insane drivers is about 1/3. And the slow walkers in every parking lot right down the middle.
Black Widow and Brown Recluse spiders as well as scorpions though the scorpions don't get big like out West and won't kill you like out West. Might give you a stomach ache.
Oh and fire ants, plenty of fire ants.
iirc Tampa Bay Area of FL is the lightning capital of the world. I was born in FL and we’re currently residents, ut I spent over 30 years in Texas andTexas has my heart...
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Well, Texas is no better. Oh sure, there’s no state income tax and all that, but roving gangs of diverse color set up roadblocks and rob passersby in between the major cities. Literal highway robbery!
And don’t get me started about the weather. Do you like to see brown, brown, brown everywhere? It hasn’t rained in, like, three years. And when you do get the occasional rain, it comes with football-sized HAIL and ninety mile an hour winds. Unless a tornado hits — then it’s two-hundred-thirty MPH wind.
Housing prices? Sellers’ market? Try bidding DOUBLE for a run-down 1970’s home and they put you on a LIST. Yikes!
Pests? No alligators, but we do have field rats the size of Rottweilers and they run in packs. Our “pythons” are called “rattlesnakes” — eight foot long and unlike pythons, they’re VENOMOUS. And they’re EVERYWHERE. Pulled one out of the dryer last week. The mosquitoes are a contributor to the number three cause of death in Texas, which is anemia from insect bytes (yes, like that statement implies, there are other bloodsucking insects here).
Oh, and ALL the plants have THORNS. You can usually avoid the three-inch thorns on most species, if you’re on your toes... it’s those little tiny ones that look like velvet on the leaves of all the plants (and trees). If you re-seed lettuce into what’s left of your garden, it comes up with THORNS. Lettuce!
Seriously, I’m sick of this place... me and the missus are thinking about going back to New Jersey. You Californians and Yankees would have to be nuts to move to this place!!!
(wink wink nudge nudge)
Please don’t come to Fl. We have bugs, gators hurricanes etc.
Here’s an important tip:
When you leave your wretched hellhole of a Northeast, West Coast, or Rustbelt state, leave your politics, too!
Just like you won’t see months of snow and ice, three-deckers, smog as thick as pea soup or any of those old things, you won’t see democrats trying to out pander each other to freaks or ne’er-do-wells.
If you vote for these types of mental midgets and grifters, you will have crapped your own nest. Don’t do it!
Embrace the Red!!!
Yeah, I’m okay with this. As a long time Floridian, I’m quite comfortable sipping my coffee on the back deck with 97% humidity. When everyone north of Georgia is freezing their ass off in January, I’m enjoying a walk in the woods in a long sleeved shirt.
True Floridians migrate away from the coasts and the population centers. Real Florida is in the woods and the fields. We were, and I believe still are, one of the largest domestic producers of cattle in the US. Lots of wide open spaces here.
“ Nary a mention of sinkholes! Non natives be warned, like California earthquakes, a house is there one day and gone the next”
Is it true that a homeowners insurance policy needs a special rider to provide protection against damage from sinkholes?
“ you won’t see democrats trying to out pander each other to freaks or ne’er-do-wells.”
Sounds wonderful
The Villages also seem like a MAGA community, I've seen the videos of Trump golf cart rallies there.
I'm sure we must have some Freepers living there as the population is pushing 100,000 and it covers just a huge area of the state. Would welcome their input!
To dmn crowded except in the swamp.
Look at a sat view of the Orlando area. Packed in like sardines. I could never live like that.
Moved to FL 15 yrs ago, didn’t ‘retire to FL’, was born and raised in PA and I have no intentions of ever moving back. Don’t live in a gated community, thank goodness. While I miss the smell of dirt, seeing cornfields and getting cold water from the tap, I love the wildlife here, the thunderstorms (no mountains to stop them), the sky goes on forever and the people here in our area are great. There is a sign above my front door, “Northern by birth, Southern by choice”. There is a big difference between East coast and West coast of FL as well as north and south FL. Those in the south and east are have a more “city” attitude, those on the west and north have a more “rural” attitude. That’s just my observation. And I’m glad I’m on the west coast, also, the fishing is pretty good here, LOL. What I don’t like about FL are the no-see’ms and the high humidity days. But i don’t even mind the local gator or the occasional wild boar, our yard is fenced,LOL.
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See: California
I’m with you on that! We bought acreage at least 10 miles from any “town center”, if you know what I mean. Can’t stand traffic. We have to go to Tallahassee for one of doctors and I hate every minute of the city traffic. Hubby was born and raised in St. Pete and he wouldn’t move out of Florida for anything. He never saw snow in person until he went up to Ohio with me a few years ago for a funeral! Our beef is the snowbirds that come down here during the winter and take all the camping spots in all the state parks and forestry sites. Fall and winter is the best time to go camping here in Florida and it is darn hard to get a spot and yet we need the “tourists dollars” for Florida.
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