[TriMT7]

Originally Posted by Mugatu

Yes it would be. That's the point. All those cities were quite different and interesting in their own way because they were in different states (and countries!). Different cultures, different types of people, different ways of speaking, different laws. There's not that much variety within the state of FL.

Not much variety in the state of Florida?

THE state of Florida? Part of the United States, state of Florida? That one?



One of the things I like best about Florida is the diversity from one section to the next!

[Lulu101]

Apparently they get a rush out of crossing state lines--it's an adrenalin thing.

Originally Posted by TriMT7

Not much variety in the state of Florida?

THE state of Florida? Part of the United States, state of Florida? That one?



One of the things I like best about Florida is the diversity from one section to the next!

[Mugatu]

Originally Posted by Lulu101

Apparently they get a rush out of crossing state lines--it's an adrenalin thing.

If you don't see the vast difference between being able to visit the US Capitol one weekend and Canada on another weekend, I don't know what else to say.

[Lulu101]

Oh, I thought I would do that too when I lived up there. But tromping around in ice rain in Boston on a weekend gets old. And the reality is you won't want to spend your weekend driving to those places when the weather is so fickle.

Originally Posted by Mugatu

If you don't see the vast difference between being able to visit the US Capitol one weekend and Canada on another weekend, I don't know what else to say.

[GloryB]

If it wasn't for all my family being in Florida, it probably would not be a state I would want to live in. I always look longingly at states that have a real change of seasons and wonderful mountains.

[mrs1885]

Originally Posted by TNRyan23

As I've said before...

It's the best move I've ever made. After leaving Florida I was able to go to college at a State University. I was able to make a living wage. I was able to afford rent WITHOUT 3 roommates. I was able to afford my utilities. I didn't die of heat stroke in September, October, and November, Oh, and I'm also fixing to close on a deal to buy 100 acres of land in Columbia, TN ( about 45 minutes south of Nashville ) for $95,000.

Something I could have NEVER done in Florida. I wish you luck in getting out, It'll be the best thing you ever did !

How in the world did you find a deal like that? Land in the area is going for about $10,000 per acre, not $1,000. Can you go car shopping with me??

[TriMT7]

Originally Posted by Mugatu

If you don't see the vast difference between being able to visit the US Capitol one weekend and Canada on another weekend, I don't know what else to say.

Yeah, well, I can hop a boat and be in the Bahamas in no time (weekend cruise, anyone?). I can drive up to North Florida and be amongst rolling hills, or I can go to the Everglades and take an airboat ride. I can visit any number of Carribbean islands, or hang out in Miami and experience 10 different Latin cultures at once. I can then go up to Ocala or Jacksonville for some "old South" culture, or chill in Palm Beach with the New Yorkers.

[TANaples]

The last job I had in NY I worked the Midnight shift. I had to go out in all kinds of weather. Yes, even snow which they don't plow the roads at midnight because nobody is on the roads at that time. I was only a mile away from where I lived and had been driving that same road for almost 20 years. I could have driven it blindfolded.

I had to get there on time to relieve the woman on the previous shift. This was a group home and the residents could not be left alone. This woman lived 40 miles away. Yes, she drove in all kinds of weather at that time of night to get home. She was older and had trouble seeing at night. I made SURE I got there in time for her. I did not want to hold her up going home. She liked where she worked and didn't want to get another job closer to home.

If it snowed in the day, I got up then and shoveled, so I could get out that night. If it snowed at night, well, I just did the best I could. I used to go out and start my car about a half hour before I had to leave to melt the ice on the windshield and warm it up. My daughters were going to bed when I was going to work. No, it was not easy to do this. A few times with an ice storm my car was literally STUCK in the ice in the driveway. I always managed to get out somehow, again, at MIDNIGHT. If I had stayed, I certainly would have gotten a job with more normal hours. I NEVER wanted to move to Florida because of any of this.

So, for all of you who cry about what you have to go through, you don't have my sympathy. My experiences weren't even half as bad as that woman worked the previous shift and had to drive for over an hour to get home.

Cry me a river. I STILL would do that again, to be out of here. Another reminder, this is a thread for those who are miserable in Florida ONLY. If you don't fall in this category, then DON'T POST if you don't like what we are saying.

[TANaples]

Originally Posted by Lulu101

Oh, I thought I would do that too when I lived up there. But tromping around in ice rain in Boston on a weekend gets old. And the reality is you won't want to spend your weekend driving to those places when the weather is so fickle.

Maybe a few months. If you don't like one season, you always have 3 others. There is only ONE season in Florida, summer, and that DOES last forever.

[Lulu101]

oh yeah I loved that up there--snow and they STILL wouldn't cancel work, and it would take 2 hours to drive home at the end of the day. Then there were no parking spaces on the street because of the snow. And after you do find a space, you get plowed in overnight when the plow comes through. Who wants to be bothered with such nonsense.
I have to thank you TANaples for reminding me that I made the right decision by leaving that miserable part of the coutnry and never looking back. I'm giving you one rep point.

Originally Posted by TANaples

The last job I had in NY I worked the Midnight shift. I had to go out in all kinds of weather. Yes, even snow which they don't plow the roads at midnight because nobody is on the roads at that time. I was only a mile away from where I lived and had been driving that same road for almost 20 years. I could have driven it blindfolded.

I had to get there on time to relieve the woman on the previous shift. This was a group home and the residents could not be left alone. This woman lived 40 miles away. Yes, she drove in all kinds of weather at that time of night to get home. She was older and had trouble seeing at night. I made SURE I got there in time for her. I did not want to hold her up going home. She liked where she worked and didn't want to get another job closer to home.

If it snowed in the day, I got up then and shoveled, so I could get out that night. If it snowed at night, well, I just did the best I could. I used to go out and start my car about a half hour before I had to leave to melt the ice on the windshield and warm it up. My daughters were going to bed when I was going to work. No, it was not easy to do this. A few times with an ice storm my car was literally STUCK in the ice in the driveway. I always managed to get out somehow, again, at MIDNIGHT. If I had stayed, I certainly would have gotten a job with more normal hours. I NEVER wanted to move to Florida because of any of this.

So, for all of you who cry about what you have to go through, you don't have my sympathy. My experiences weren't even half as bad as that woman worked the previous shift and had to drive for over an hour to get home.

Cry me a river. I STILL would do that again, to be out of here. Another reminder, this is a thread for those who are miserable in Florida ONLY. If you don't fall in this category, then DON'T POST if you don't like what we are saying.