[smarino]

I think it stands for beautiful geography, ultra right wingers, mosquitoes as large as the family cat, fantastic wildlife, over the top boosters (see ultra right wingers) evangelical/fundamentalist Christians, crooked and dumb politicians, an uninformed citizenry, college football, amazingly hot summers and mild winters, pushy and rude Yankee retirees, ignorant red necks, young partyers, beach goers, fishin, a state full of people from somewhere else, a poor civil rights record, the Klan, developers and realtors, a lot of criminals and drug users, the NRA, and a surprisingly amount of Buddhist organizations (just to average things out a little I suppose).

The developers are probably the worst of the bunch, as they generally consist of much of the above (minus the Buddhists of course).

Sorry, I couldn't fit it all in to the letters of the state.

[Florida or Bust....]

Felons
Losers
Outcasts
Retirees
Island Beaches
Deviants
Addicts

[NYC10022]

Hey, this is fun...but New York has Florida beat. I've often heard Florida referred to as NYC's "sixth borough" so I feel entitled to chime in:

N: Nuts and psychopaths freely roaming the streets.

E: Excessive and oppressive taxes, the highest in the country.

W: Weather that sucks. New York doesn't really have four seasons, it essentially has two seasons. They are...Season 1: uncomfortably cold; and Season 2: uncomfortably hot.


Y: Yuck...the streets are filled with garbage and there's medical waste washing up on the beaches.

O: Oppressive property taxes...see letter "E".

R: Roads that are crumbling, despite the excessive and oppressive taxes...see letters "E" and "O".

K: Knowledge that New York is one of the worst places in the nation is what drives record numbers of New Yorkers to flee the state--for places like Florida (among others). There's a reason New York keeps losing all those House seats and electoral votes and all that income...and continues to decay. There's a reason why New York had the biggest migration exodus of any state in the nation according to the 2010 census...see letters "N" through "R".

[Spring Hillian]

good points. However that is what has been going on for decades.

Originally Posted by NYC10022

Hey, this is fun...but New York has Florida beat. I've often heard Florida referred to as NYC's "sixth borough" so I feel entitled to chime in:

N: Nuts and psychopaths freely roaming the streets.

E: Excessive and oppressive taxes, the highest in the country.

W: Weather that sucks. New York doesn't really have four seasons, it essentially has two seasons. They are...Season 1: uncomfortably cold; and Season 2: uncomfortably hot.


Y: Yuck...the streets are filled with garbage and there's medical waste washing up on the beaches.

O: Oppressive property taxes...see letter "E".

R: Roads that are crumbling, despite the excessive and oppressive taxes...see letters "E" and "O".

K: Knowledge that New York is one of the worst places in the nation is what drives record numbers of New Yorkers to flee the state--for places like Florida (among others). There's a reason New York keeps losing all those House seats and electoral votes and all that income...and continues to decay. There's a reason why New York had the biggest migration exodus of any state in the nation according to the 2010 census...see letters "N" through "R".

[animalcrazy]

Love the Keys and St. Augustine but I wouldn't want to live there. No snow. Kill me now.

[macrodome2]

Originally Posted by Armyvet1

Sorry people but golf shorts, white shoes, and knee high black socks is not exactly fashionable. Apparently at age 65 an older you forget how to dress yourself.

By the time the old fart hits 65 his wife is tired of telling him to go back and change and he gets out wearing what he put together himself.

[Cmfmeo]

Fraudsters
Low life's
Old
Rejects
Idiots
Damn Yankees
Alligators

[The Villages Guy]

Originally Posted by Armyvet1

Apparently at age 65 an older you forget how to dress yourself.

Not exactly. You just don't care what other people think about you anymore, so you dress for comfort instead of for other people's idea of fashion.

[The Villages Guy]

Originally Posted by smarino

I think it stands for beautiful geography, ultra right wingers, mosquitoes as large as the family cat, fantastic wildlife, over the top boosters (see ultra right wingers) evangelical/fundamentalist Christians, crooked and dumb politicians, an uninformed citizenry, college football, amazingly hot summers and mild winters, pushy and rude Yankee retirees, ignorant red necks, young partyers, beach goers, fishin, a state full of people from somewhere else, a poor civil rights record, the Klan, developers and realtors, a lot of criminals and drug users, the NRA, and a surprisingly amount of Buddhist organizations (just to average things out a little I suppose).

The developers are probably the worst of the bunch, as they generally consist of much of the above (minus the Buddhists of course).

Sorry, I couldn't fit it all in to the letters of the state.

You say all that, yet the record shows the state voted for Obama, who is a democrat.

[Spring Hillian]

I think all of these FL haters dont live here, tried to live here and failed, want to live here but cant.

It isnt the fastest growing state because of its deficiencies.