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People often talk about how Florida is different from the rest of the South and how Manie is different from the rest of the Northeast. Why not compare to the two opposite ends of the East Coast: both have a high population of elderly people, both are known for seafood, both are endpoints of the eastern seaboard of the US, both are gun friendly and both have a high amount of people moving in from the Northeast megalopolis.
If you take out Miami and a few beach communities, Florida is not any different than its neighboring states. Ever been to the Panhandle, eek.
Maine isn't all that different from the Northeast either, the main difference is that it does not have any major metropolitan areas in the state or near the state. I would say Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine are all similar, all very beautiful states (Vermont being more Liberal than the other two).
Also, Maine doesn't have a "a lot" of people moving there from the Northeast megalopolis.
I'm not sure there is any state that I would not vote for when pitted against Florida (maybe Ohio, Alabama or Mississippi). Florida has nice weather, (even that is debatable) and beaches. And Disney. Good for short vacations and nothing else.
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Florida has more than 15x as many people as Maine. Any metrics concerning urbanity or city living, which is what this forum debates on, will go to Florida in a landslide. No contest.
However, if this is just a thread to measure extremes, as the OP suggests, than I find this a fascinating comparison. Maine rarely sees hurricanes, while Florida is the U.S. capital for it. Maine rarely gets thunderstorms, while Florida has the lightning capital of the world in the Tampa Bay area. Florida is in the top ten most densely populated states, despite its relatively large size, while Maine is the least densely populated east of the Rockies. Maine is literally the whitest state in the country, while Florida is consistently rated one the most racially diverse. Both states have huge protected areas not found elsewhere in the country (the Everglades, the Northwest Arastook).
I'd pick Maine: mild summers and mountains for hiking/skiing.
Having grown up in Tampa, I enjoy re-visiting FL, but none of it draws me to live there again except for the great nightlife. The beaches are really nice, but outside of that, the terrain is boring and summer lasts way too long. EDIT: not to mention the threat of very disruptive hurricanes.
Flordia was obviously going to be the favorable state but the reason I made this thread was just to see how different and simlar these East Coast states are. You often see people compare NY to Florida, California to Florida but you'll never hear people talk about Maine vs Flordia which is intresting because these are the two most extreme ends of the Eastern Seaboard. I watched a Maine sterotypes video on youtube and one sterotype that was mentioned is Maine is apart of Canada which is absurd given how large and how northern it is compared to its New England peers. I always knew where Maine was on the map even as a kid. I feel like this thread can bring perspective on just how North Manie is and how far South Florida is. Also give perspective on how big the East Coast is. Driving the entire i-95 corridor is almost the equivalent of going cross country.
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