What's So Great About Florida, Anyway? (Celebration, Inglis: mortgage, tornadoes, insurance)

[LauraC]

This question isn't for people who have lived there all of their lives and suffered the invasion over the last 30 years. This question is for people who chosing to move there now from someplace else.

What's so great about Florida, anyway?

I can't think of any reason to want to live there. You got your beaches but so do a lot of other places.

The way I see it, you got horrible heat so that you don't go outside of your homes at certain times of the day on certain days of the year and some of you won't even live there all year long, your schools stink for a variety of reasons but voting down the school budget doesn't help, the place is overcrowded, overdeveloped and a lot of parts are innundated with rude overbearing tourists many of which are so enamored with the place when they are on vacation that they eventually move there stinking up the place even more with their rude overbearing attitudes, no one ever mentions "Florida" when they talk about innovative places to live and work, every time you turn on the news another Florida creep has committed a crime, you have hurricanes galore that you expect smarter other people who live away from hurricane alley to foot the bill for with high premiums and tax dollars (state, local, federal) so you can rebuild near the beach, you don't have 4 seasons, your electric and insurance bills rival some people's mortgages, you've got bugs you could put a saddle on, the geezers (and I'm in that age group) vote in blocks to turn down just about everything except new master planned communities (more traffic) and old people benefits when they aren't mowing down people in the streets, you plow down all of the trees when you get there so you can live in little master planned cities...you all moved down there from your big northern locations and turned the place into the same *rappy crime-infested congested liberal place you left, etc. Am I missing anything?

Unless you are from Florida originally, have family there or have to move there for a job or to export drugs to the rest of the country, or think the economy in Florida still beats Mexico, who the heck is moving there now and why?

And why are the rest of you so bent on ruining the next great place (South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, West Virginia) to live when you flee? I know, you don't think you are, but you are. Thirty years from now, those places will be just like Florida is today.

[NHtoFLMom]

Wow-You are in a good mood today!

[firemed]

Unless you are from Florida originally, have family there or have to move there for a job or to export drugs to the rest of the country, or think the economy in Florida still beats Mexico, who the heck is moving there now and why?
Thats just too funny!!!!!

[Muggy]

Originally Posted by LauraC

This question isn't for people who have lived there all of their lives and suffered the invasion over the last 30 years. This question is for people who chosing to move there now from someplace else.

What's so great about Florida, anyway?

I can't think of any reason to want to live there. You got your beaches but so do a lot of other places.

The way I see it, you got horrible heat so that you don't go outside of your homes at certain times of the day on certain days of the year and some of you won't even live there all year long, your schools stink for a variety of reasons but voting down the school budget doesn't help, the place is overcrowded, overdeveloped and a lot of parts are innundated with rude overbearing tourists many of which are so enamored with the place when they are on vacation that they eventually move there stinking up the place even more with their rude overbearing attitudes, no one ever mentions "Florida" when they talk about innovative places to live and work, every time you turn on the news another Florida creep has committed a crime, you have hurricanes galore that you expect smarter other people who live away from hurricane alley to foot the bill for with high premiums and tax dollars (state, local, federal) so you can rebuild near the beach, you don't have 4 seasons, your electric and insurance bills rival some people's mortgages, you've got bugs you could put a saddle on, the geezers (and I'm in that age group) vote in blocks to turn down just about everything except new master planned communities (more traffic) and old people benefits when they aren't mowing down people in the streets, you plow down all of the trees when you get there so you can live in little master planned cities...you all moved down there from your big northern locations and turned the place into the same *rappy crime-infested congested liberal place you left, etc. Am I missing anything?

Unless you are from Florida originally, have family there or have to move there for a job or to export drugs to the rest of the country, or think the economy in Florida still beats Mexico, who the heck is moving there now and why?

And why are the rest of you so bent on ruining the next great place (South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, West Virginia) to live when you flee? I know, you don't think you are, but you are. Thirty years from now, those places will be just like Florida is today.

LauraC for President!

Also, it will not take 30 years for all of those states to get mowed over. I'd say 15, tops.

[cjgsav]

Originally Posted by LauraC

And why are the rest of you so bent on ruining the next great place (South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, West Virginia) to live when you flee? I know, you don't think you are, but you are. Thirty years from now, those places will be just like Florida is today.

Keep posting. It brings a smile to my face to see wretched people, like yourself, spiraling into depression as the north once again invades the south. Winning the war was nice, but ruining your way of life will be much sweeter.

[Jammie]

OK Who crapped in your wheaties this morning?

Seriously, we're from the upper midwest and are strongly considering Fla. for our move, which by the way will be the first real move of our lifetime. We've been searching a few other areas, and although beautiful, we've decided that we want to be closer to our extended family. My brother's wife is a born and raised Floridian. So, I guess I fall into the category that you mentioned about people wanting to live close to family.

BUT Fla. has all the other states beat, including my own state which I do dearly love. I love the year round warmth. Heat doesn't bother me and yes, I've been there and know how hot it gets. I don't have to worry about snow that comes down FEET at a time. I don't have to worry about going out and freezing to death if my car stalls when it's forty below zero. We have our share of crime here, too so that's not isolated to just Florida. Other states also have bugs galore. Believe me, the West Nile Virus has struck my state HARD at times. In fact, we hold the record for West Nile cases per capita. Florida can have some ferocious weather with the canes, but when they're not present, their tornadoes are nothing. Cat 1 or 2? Try a Cat 5 and see how that works for ya. Yup, I live in tornado alley and chuckle at the slight winds when they forecast tornadoes in Fla. My state is also WINDY. When Fla. has wind of 40 or 50, it's broadcast on the news like a catastrophe. When our winds are that, it's just another windy day here. And heat? One of the nearby towns tied the all time record for temps this past summer. 120 degrees. We don't have the humidity of Fla., but anyone who tells you it doesn't get humid up here is kidding you. While the Floridians are outside enjoying their 70 degree days and 60 degree nights in the upcoming months, I'll be sitting in the house or out braving the weather and shoveling snow and bundling up because of fierce windchills. I have the beautiful Black Hills to go to, but not beaches at all. So, those are just a few of the reasons that I'm ready to become a Floridian.

[verobeach]

Originally Posted by LauraC

This question isn't for people who have lived there all of their lives and suffered the invasion over the last 30 years. This question is for people who chosing to move there now from someplace else.

What's so great about Florida, anyway?

The way I see it, you got horrible heat so that you don't go outside of your homes at certain times of the day on certain days of the year

You don't have to shovel or rake heat. You just put on your bikini and sit by your pool or in your air-conditioned house and enjoy your tropical drink of choice. So this winter while you're layering clothes over your longjohns and pulling on your galoshes to shovel out your car maybe you'll think of Florida in a new light with it's sky so clear and blue they should name a crayola crayon after it. And when you get your heating bill you can think of Florida with it's winter breezes gently blowing through our patios and our opened windows, the air so fragrant they should name a perfume after it.

[m.boogie]

Agree with both sides...
It comes off harsh.. unless you've experienced the area in more than 3 days at the Plolynesian Resort laughing over "cocktails" while you watch your Funai classic with airconditioning while the rest of us un-privaleged suckers face reality.


HOWEVER!!
We moved to florida on a whim and a prayer and found a state that I cannot work in because i'm NOT BI-LINGUAL.
I go to Target and I don't understand what the employees say..
I have a degree but it doesn't matter because it's not a degree in SPAINGLISH..
I'm not racist ..it's actually quite the opposite for me my wife and child.


The BRITISH INVASION of RUDE/CRUDE/DRUNKEN - 24/7 CHAIN SMOKERS!
Has made me want to vomit at the thought of the possible 2 more months we have to live here.

Reading articles in the newspaper that care more about their Brits than their own residents..building these "mini cities" for the people from Europe cause the rest of FL can't afford it at the 6.40 an hour.

The bugs..yes that eat your paint off the car.. or well their intestines do, but at least they provide a car wash that doesn't work here.

Disney world.. forget that!!
We paid over 1200.00 for annual passes that we can rarely use because there is always some SPECIAL EVENT and or some BRITISH INVASION of DISNEY WORLD/ UNIVERSAL making it impossible to even get near, we had a 45 minute wait for the monorail just last week and in the end never made it on the monorail..instead the tram back to Minie 40 to head over to Universal in hopes that we stand a chance of even seeing a ride.

I'm disgusted with this area.. went over to look at Celebration and was snooted out of there because I don't have my Barney's of NY shoes and my Rolex bling blinging on my Mercedes Benz.
Excuse me for having a Honda ..

Let's see.. what else.. oh yes!
The school was on lockdown because some crazed mad man was running around my childs elementary school with a gun.

A teenager was murdered at school last week, stabbed to death, there is a "theory" (it's taken them that long) that a serial killer is now present in Orange Co and is killing women.. he's only at 5 though so no one out here panics.. and there is airplanes in my back yard and the zoneing in insane and the british bought out all the decent places to live.

Hmmm oh and good luck if you haven't been in a car wreck yet, we've witnessed 7 including a fatality of a Peace officer within the month we've been here.

So in all reality i'll take the cold back.
and there wasn't much humidity.. it was rather more dry heat.

[firemed]

Originally Posted by verobeach

You don't have to shovel or rake heat. You just put on your bikini and sit by your pool or in your air-conditioned house and enjoy your tropical drink of choice. So this winter while you're layering clothes over your longjohns and pulling on your galoshes to shovel out your car maybe you'll think of Florida in a new light with it's sky so clear and blue they should name a crayola crayon after it. And when you get your heating bill you can think of Florida with it's winter breezes gently blowing through our patios and our opened windows, the air so fragrant they should name a perfume after it.

now I dont know where the air is so fragrant. I smell fish kill and swamp. winters are nice. but summer is hot and you pay the high bills for air-conditioning. Sitting by the pool is great but sitting in the doctors office to have the spots removed from sitting in the sun too long sucks. so how green is the grass in Florida

[grammy164]

What's so great?
It's October 28th and I'm wearing shorts and a t-shirt and soon I'm going for a nice bike ride.
My air conditioning bills have never equaled the heating bills I had up north and my wardrobe lasts all year.
My grass is beautifully green, my plants are full of flowers and I know when to move to the shade, but I'm still able to enjoy the great weather.