[Tungsten_Udder]

Originally Posted by TANaples

Not just being in Florida. If you are not UNHAPPY in Florida, why post here? You are NOT going to change anybody's mind and make them love Florida. Get it?

Why would this need further comment beyond what I've already said? I've addressed this (and I believe more than once in this thread already) in a very verbose way.

[ChrisA70]

Holy cow!!! I went out this afternoon to see the town I moved to, and the foliage, and there is a battle on the thread!!! LOL!!! Hey, as far as it goes I guess I have to make a new thread for us... NON FLORIDA CHEERLEADERS!!!! I will make sure it is worded perfectly clear for a few of us who are entertained with arguing how it's not only for UNHAPPY people in Florida.

[ChrisA70]

I see this thread being locked soon... The mods are not going to deal with the arguing guys. I made yet another thread better explaining the instructions for the thread. Then "X won't have to post in Y". Therefore the thread may be a bit more calm with less fighting.

[Citrine]

Originally Posted by acegirl

Well, this is my first post on this thread although I've taken comfort in reading about everyone else who feels exactly how I do & I'm glad I'm not crazy for hating the "warm, sunny, paradise" of Florida.

We moved here a year & a half ago. I'd always wanted to live in Florida. I'd vacationed here so many times & loved it, so living here must be even better, right?! Yup, stupid assumption on my part. I realized within 6 weeks of moving here "What the h*ll have we done?!" I've been absolutely miserable for over a year & I've tried so hard to 'go with the flow'... I can just never see raising my children here. Battling with tourists (Oh, to be a clueless happy tourist again), snowbirds, the horrendous drivers (see: tourists & snowbirds) enountered every creepy crawly flying biting critter known to man, the searing heat & humidity which keeps you inside for most of the summer, the need for SPF 70 every day on my kids, the sameness of everything EVERY DAY (God I'm sick of green palm trees 365 days a year, unless you count the lovely big dead brown fronds all over my yard)....

I lived in the midwest all my life & was excited to get out & experience something different. Well, I've learned how much I took for granted- I left friends, family, great schools, great neighbors with KIDS, courteous drivers, a sense of community, seasons, I could go on..

This time of year is the worst for me. I love fall. Enjoying those cool sweatshirt days, bonfires, going to the farmer's market with my kids to buy hay bales & pumpkins, the beautiful leaves... Nope, none of that here. I'm still sweating outside with my t-shirts

And Christmas- I'm sorry but blow up snow globes under a palm tree just isn't right, lol..I can't even bring myself to put up a Christmas tree here. It seems so silly. Thank goodness we spend 2 weeks up north so we can have an ACTUAL Christmas.

Luckily we aren't stuck here due to a job or anything. We're heading back up north ASAP- For those of you who love Florida, that's great.. you can have my parking spot

You're definitely not crazy. I know how it feels to be absolutely miserable here in Florida, trying hard to go with the flow, to play the part in the nightmare that you want so badly to escape.

I can't say I was excited to move here, because I wasn't. Leaving the people, places and life I had known and loved, with all of the seasons and memories that go with them, shattered my heart.

I left behind all of the things you did, including a good (and clean) school where I actually learned things! When my parents took me to the school to cry with my friends on the playground, right before we took off for Florida in that oppressively humid U-Haul, I never could've imagined the horrors that were in store for me in Florida's schools!

Ah, and Christmas in Imitation Winter! I never, ever wear flip-flops, shorts or spaghetti straps, like 98% of the females here do on a daily basis, but to do so on Christmas? The holiday spirit barely exists as it is. It's great that you can go up north for the holidays!!!!

[ChrisA70]

Please explain to us the different seasons in Florida, ALL 4 to be exact, tell us the differences you see, since I NEVER could, except it was 2 degrees cooler once in a while. Always arguing on everything we say.....

Originally Posted by Tungsten_Udder

"Florida does not have four seasons", and "Florida has no winter" are both false. I have to say that, in context, that is believable.

[ChrisA70]

I was excited to live in FL, and loved it for about 5-6 years. The "magic" slowly wore away in time.

[ChrisA70]

I just loved lighting up those palms, it made me feel so Christmasy. I tried everything to make it feel like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, New Years, not a thing worked down there.

Originally Posted by Citrine

You're definitely not crazy. I know how it feels to be absolutely miserable here in Florida, trying hard to go with the flow, to play the part in the nightmare that you want so badly to escape.

I can't say I was excited to move here, because I wasn't. Leaving the people, places and life I had known and loved, with all of the seasons and memories that go with them, shattered my heart.

I left behind all of the things you did, including a good (and clean) school where I actually learned things! When my parents took me to the school to cry with my friends on the playground, right before we took off for Florida in that oppressively humid U-Haul, I never could've imagined the horrors that were in store for me in Florida's schools!

Ah, and Christmas in Imitation Winter! I never, ever wear flip-flops, shorts or spaghetti straps, like 98% of the females here do on a daily basis, but to do so on Christmas? The holiday spirit barely exists as it is. It's great that you can go up north for the holidays!!!!

[Citrine]

Originally Posted by BacktoMA4good

I just loved lighting up those palms, it made me feel so Christmasy. I tried everything to make it feel like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, New Years, not a thing worked down there.

LOL! Isn't it great that you can talk about that in the past tense?

[TANaples]

Originally Posted by Citrine

LOL! Isn't it great that you can talk about that in the past tense?

He is so lucky. Someday. Our time will come.

[TKramar]

Originally Posted by TANaples

Give me a break. Hot, hotter, and hottest are the seasons.

On ignore.

In December, when it's 40 degrees out, do you call that "hot" then? I call it, "time to break out the sweaters and jackets again". And the 40 degree temps last for several months.

I'd call that winter.