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Dear Abby: I Moved to Florida Now I’m Misérable
https://nypost.com/2023/03/19/dear-abby-i-moved-to-florida-now-im-miserable/ ^

Posted on 03/19/2023 10:10:27 AM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

My wife owned a classic car with no A/C when we lived in Florida. She used to go to work at 5:30 am to avoid the morning heat.

We lived in Lakeland at the time - Lakeland is not considered a “big” city. She came home from work on a Friday afternoon after taking 45 minutes to go 4 miles in 4pm heat and said, we’re outta here. We sold our house about 6 weeks before the market went into the crapper in 2006.

Her brother and his wife both have health issues dealing with cold weather that would preclude them leaving Florida, if they desired, which they do not. They both hate Trump, and I know she hates DeSantis, presumably he does also (I quit talking to them) so I do enjoy that ha ha,


101 posted on 03/19/2023 3:29:53 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: nickcarraway

I do feel for the poor husband. But, at least the weather is better so he can at least escape and go play golf or shuffle-board.


102 posted on 03/19/2023 3:31:56 PM PDT by CFW (old and retired)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Well, maybe they would enjoy Palm Springs, California. Desert Heat, and likely plenty of other Trump haters to cavort with.


103 posted on 03/19/2023 3:32:46 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Being good lefties, they are only generous with other people’s money. And being good cheapskate lefties, no way they are going to move to an expensive state their beloved fellow lefties have trashed.

They are the true definition of cognitive dissonance.


104 posted on 03/19/2023 3:39:56 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: nickcarraway

I had no idea Dear Abby was still around.


105 posted on 03/19/2023 3:42:13 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: nickcarraway
yeah my liberal nys retired teacher sister lives half time in Florida....

I enjoy where I live with 4 seasons....

106 posted on 03/19/2023 3:44:42 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

NYS is a wonderful state and just like California, its owned by the big city and its election machine....most of NYS is very pretty, lots of farmland and orchards and rivers and lakes and I miss it to this day....over 40 yrs...


107 posted on 03/19/2023 3:47:50 PM PDT by cherry
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To: nickcarraway

And this why this 5th generation Floridian left in 2019. I moved to the middle of flyover country in order to get away from the yankees.


108 posted on 03/19/2023 3:48:41 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Hamilton)
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To: EVO X

You mean as opposed to staying in their original state and having the husband die and the wife come down with dementia there?


109 posted on 03/19/2023 3:51:07 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: gitmo

A different person using the name, which is owned by the syndicator.


110 posted on 03/19/2023 3:56:40 PM PDT by Publius
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To: thefactor

Is DC about half-way between NYC and Florida?
I think she would like that area.
Or maybe .... Chicago? Or New Orleans?


111 posted on 03/19/2023 6:00:57 PM PDT by Honest Nigerian (.)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

We moved to be nearer to family. I miss my best friend terribly but I deal with it by calling her a couple times a week.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Maybe I missed it but is her best friend a male or female, and what is it she misses about this friend?


112 posted on 03/19/2023 6:08:39 PM PDT by fortes fortuna juvat (Current POPE and POTUS: corrupt, ignorant, paranoid, angry, deeply hateful, and deeply despised.)
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To: fortes fortuna juvat
Not included. Assuming this is an actual situation and not just something made up for the newspaper either she did not say or it was removed.

In fact we technically do not even know if the author is a she.

113 posted on 03/19/2023 6:40:15 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ("EATING... BABIES.... IS NOT.... COOL!" -Rath)
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To: 9YearLurker
You mean as opposed to staying in their original state and having the husband die and the wife come down with dementia there?

At a certain point, it may not make any difference. My parents had some friends that moved to Florida. The wife came down with memory problems. They had to move to assisted living with door locks. The husband died and that was the last my parents were able to contact her. Al least they had a daughter and her family living in the area.

114 posted on 03/20/2023 6:50:40 AM PDT by EVO X ( )
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To: JusPasenThru

The French Canadians are the most rude


115 posted on 03/20/2023 6:58:03 AM PDT by SheepWhisperer ("Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.")
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To: JusPasenThru
Is it just me or do you find the Canadians, especially the Quebecois, more obnoxious than even New Yorkers? And whenever they do something rude they say “Eh?” and think it’ll all go away.

Been that way forever. Back in the 80's I was bicycling around Quebec City with friends. One night we went to a bar for some beer. Gave the guy a $20 U.S. for a beer, he never returned with my change, so I stayed at the bar and finally yelled to him that he owed be change, he responded in French. I said I know you understand me and you had better get me change right now, he returned with my change. A*shole.

116 posted on 03/20/2023 7:02:59 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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