[drSteve78]

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.

[The Duke]

Same here. I lived in Tampa for 35+ years and loved every minute. The people were wonderfully quirky, too, with lots of politically-active conservatives.

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.

[Beowulf9]

I was up the street from the ocean, in Vero Beach. My Aunt and Uncle owned a haberdashery story there along the beach. Spring to summer. At 4pm every day in the summer it poured for about an hour. I am 1/4 Scottish with that hair that only the Scots have, like this: At the end of the summer it was TOTALLY wild and unmanageable. One thing I do remember that was a lovely memory. I would walk around the neighborhood. On the next block was an old large house from the 20s I think, big old trees in the yard with Spanish moss hanging down. Very atmospheric. Quiet. Even a little spooky.