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fla aint all that
#11 Do not go for a swim..... CHOMP!
or CRUSHED! by a boa.
It’s too much like Houston which I already escaped
We went down to Florida for 10 or 12 years vacationing, with relatives. Observed many things there, compared, evaluated, local knowledge and in general got then lay of the land...my takeaway... I needed a slower paced retirement area. Plus it always felt like there was this undercurrent of felony everywhere, and the weather doesn’t suit me.
As I’ve aged, there’s three things about living in beachy areas that I don’t like salt, sand, and sunburn... it’s sort of an inside joke but there’s a lot of personal truth in that. Besides I can get that same feeling in the Carolina’s, and it’s closer.
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If you’re a lib... KEEP OUT
Thanks for posting.
“Oklahoma as the lightning capital of the U.S. Oklahoma averages 83.4 flashes per square kilometer, with Florida close behind at 82.8 flashes per square mile.”
Which is it mile² or Km²?
Nary a mention of sinkholes! Non natives be warned, like California earthquakes, a house is there one day and gone the next. Oh, it’s pieces are all there, it is just that they are disassociated and multiple feet underground.
Just left Florida after living there 40 years. Retired to TN.
Why? Insurance and traffic jams.
We really loved it there and it will always be “home” to me but the traffic is a nightmare - everywhere.
Yep. Florida is just terrible. Awful. Don’t move here. Stay away. Go home.
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.
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)
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!!!
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!
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I lived in Florida for 33 years before moving to be closer to my wife’s family.
There’s a lot of inaccuracies and distortions in that story.
Read the Serge Storms novels by Tim Dorsey for background research before going.