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FL is one of the last places I'd want to retire. It's too hot, most of the state is butt ugly and it's loaded with some of the dumbest people in the country. I went to college in FL and I don't understand why people like it. Different strokes... I guess.
Maybe it should have been "Most stereotypical place to spend your golden years".
While the ocean and beaches in Florida are a draw for me, the intense humidity and living in air conditioning for too many months to alleviate the intense humidity has kept me from pursuing it. I do love the ocean, beaches, and extensive numbers of seashells for seashell collecting on the gulf side around Naples, FL and Sanibel Island & Captiva. The hurricanes have also kept me from pursuing it.
Florida has hurricanes, incredibly expensive house insurance, lots of humidity, alligators, snakes, congested roads, awful tasting tap water and sinkholes.
What's not to like?
Heh; if you are from the Springs ... tap water from anywhere else will taste horrible! It’s literally; all downhill from here.
Hate articles like this. They don't fit everyone and assume all one retiree cares about is to have exactly the same things every other retiree does...and to pay the least for it. Personally I DESPISE Florida. Horrible weather, too many people, fairly predictable hurricanes, weird politics, businesses scrambling to take advantage of oldsters, ticky tacky "pseudo luxuries", the list goes on.
There is a LOT of truth to this. Old people don't react to hot temps as well as younger folks.
Florida politics (I heard the top experts in a panel recently) has ZERO to do with what is good for people. It's based on who pays off the legislators the most in the parties they give a couple weeks before the session.
Trusting the American medical system is dangerous. Trusting the Florida version is plain crazy - the entire system has one purpose (besides hurting and killing you)....and that is to bill you, insurance, medicare and medicaid as fraudulently as possible.
Picture florida as one giant vending machine designed to take all your money before you pass away.
To say nothing of your old friends...family.....are we talking about people with no children or grandchildren?
The weather is so hot and humid here from May to November that you cannot be outside in many cases.
Here is my advice. Get a condo or small Florida house. Live there 4-5 months a year, but keep your roots house
Poppycock. This looks like it was written by an intern in a cubicle with internet access to other articles written by interns in a cubicles. Absolutely useless. If you want to enjoy your retirement and plan on relocating, do your own research and decide what you want, what you can live with and what you can't. The places with the lowest cost of in-home health services also have the lowest life expectancy. I wonder why?
Florida has hurricanes, incredibly expensive house insurance, lots of humidity, alligators, snakes, congested roads, awful tasting tap water and sinkholes.
I really enjoyed visiting Florida, but I still remember the mosquitoes...when we camped in the Everglades, they were able to bite us THROUGH THE TENT! And, that was in the winter! So, I guess it would be fine if you stay indoors, which would make me crazy.
I lived in Miami during the Mariella boatlift from Cuba...that was 35 years ago.
I would never go back for one reason.
The flying **** roaches.
Recall taking a whole can of bug spray to destroy a palmetto bug in my apartment. That sucker took it all and turned around and laughed at me. An old shoe was the only thing that made that monster go to the promised land.
When the War of the Worlds happens the only thing left is going to be Palmetto Bugs. I kid you not.
I cringe just thinking about them. EEEEWWWWW!
They didn't have them in Cuba? I remember being in vacation in Martinique, turned the bathroom light on one night and a roach the size of a mouse was on the wall. They also joined us in the outdoor disco, boogying across the dance floor.
I agree I'd be outta here too, but I (knock wood) have never had one in my condo, nor has my mother who lived here since 1997.
Otherwise, I am laughing at all the generalizations of Florida, like it's all the same everywhere you go. It's a big state -- 65K square miles -- and runs the gamut from your East coast "New Yawker" scene to the southwest Gulf coast with its majority of Midwesterners and yep, many hick towns inland. The person who said it's butt-ugly has never lived where I live, which is one of the most beautiful areas I've ever seen and I've lived many places including Southern California. But it's OK, please continue trashing it, we don't need more people coming here.
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