[HopToIt]

In our apartment, I saw a few huge roaches. They were nasty!

But since we bought our house, and get that yearly (or maybe quarterly, I cant remember) spray (that is actually inside the walls), havent seen one yet!

[Shoegal1075]

Whew - thank goodness - this was about to be a deal breaker.

[grapico]

roaches can be horrible, or non existent depending where you are... I haven't seen one since I got here 5 months ago...

BUT

I helped remodel a house once when I was about 15 and there had to be 10,000 cockroaches inside the walls, literally they ran out and were enough to blanket an entire front yard, weird albino ones and stuff in there too. One of worst experiences of my life as we had to kill them all and my god did they stink. We basically tried to take the drywall we were pulling out and then throw whole panels down on the roaches to smash them. Ended up taking out a blow torch and having to torch the ones in the yard as they were just not dying.

[Aconite]

Originally Posted by Chelsa1075

Hello all, please be constructive when posting. A lot of people depend on these posts to ring true.

Aside from petty crime (if you were robbed at gun point, please do tell), what are the negatives of uprooting your life in another state to move to Florida. If you have lived in Florida all or most of your life, what are your negatives about your home state, if you have any. Remember guys constructive! Please talk about quality of life issues and the like. Bad jobs too.

Honestly? There's nothing specific to Florida. Tourists, rude or stupid people, cockroaches the size of ponies, killer mold, alligators, bad traffic, bad schools, hurricanes, a crappy economy, Formosan termites, fire ants, invasive plants, spiders, weird laws, humidity, rogue cops...you can get any of that, anywhere. Probably not all of it at once though.

Same thing with the good points. We get pretty sunsets (or sunrises for my east coast friends), beach weather in February, terrific grouper sandwiches and sweet potato pie, jacaranda trees, herons and bald eagles and spoonbills (oh my!), yards full of butterflies...lots of cool stuff. Which, admittedly, a lot of other places have, too-- though again, not often all at once.

That's both the curse and the charm of Florida-- it's just...MORE.

[Aconite]

Originally Posted by ngrome

I know someone who works at a major healthcare organization and she tells me there's always returning drug seekers, the same people, coming in and out like a revolving door. These seekers have no insurance, but the hospital admits them, and guess on who's dime? Rather than case workers working on rehabilitation program for these folks to become constructive citizens to contribute to society, the doctors just keep prescribing drugs or painkillers so they just stop complaining, further increasing their dependency on drugs, and even new drugs because these doctors push new meds that pharmaceuticals tell them to try (possibly at with some kickback?), and the docs push them. It's like legalized drug pushing.

Thank the deinstitutionalization of the 1980s and the cuts in social services of the last several years for that one. And you can thank the insurance companies, too, for refusing to pay for drug treatment (so the 28-day treatment centers of the seventies and eighties disappeared, replaced by "crisis intervention" centers who keep patients 24-48 hours then and kick 'em to the curb).
Case managers can't send clients to rehab that doesn't exist.

[TANaples]

Those knats in the summer right before or right after it rains. At least you can see the mosquitos and put on repellent. How do you put bug spray on your face? Those knats will swarm in your face. You get them in your eyes, in your ears, up your nose, and if you try to talk, in your mouth.

They mare MUCH WORSE than mosquitos.

[ngrome]

Originally Posted by Aconite

Honestly? There's nothing specific to Florida. Tourists, rude or stupid people, cockroaches the size of ponies, killer mold, alligators, bad traffic, bad schools, hurricanes, a crappy economy, Formosan termites, fire ants, invasive plants, spiders, weird laws, humidity, rogue cops...you can get any of that, anywhere. Probably not all of it at once though.

Same thing with the good points. We get pretty sunsets (or sunrises for my east coast friends), beach weather in February, terrific grouper sandwiches and sweet potato pie, jacaranda trees, herons and bald eagles and spoonbills (oh my!), yards full of butterflies...lots of cool stuff. Which, admittedly, a lot of other places have, too-- though again, not often all at once.

That's both the curse and the charm of Florida-- it's just...MORE.

Good post.

BTW. How do you multi-quote, does that button even work? I can only catch the last quote, not the previous quote.

[LewLew]

Originally Posted by TANaples

Those knats in the summer right before or right after it rains. At least you can see the mosquitos and put on repellent. How do you put bug spray on your face? Those knats will swarm in your face. You get them in your eyes, in your ears, up your nose, and if you try to talk, in your mouth.

They mare MUCH WORSE than mosquitos.

The scars on my legs and arms (I now have and received while wearing bug spray) will disagree with you any day of the week. Never did I get that living in Ohio, MD, IL, CA, or even Tampa. SWFL has some mean nasty mosquitos.

[lagoon7]

Another thing I really don't like about South Florida is that everything looks the same. I understand that if you grow up there, you can tell the difference, but to people visiting, it looks one huge copy-paste.

[TANaples]

Originally Posted by lagoon7

Another thing I really don't like about South Florida is that everything looks the same. I understand that if you grow up there, you can tell the difference, but to people visiting, it looks one huge copy-paste.

Plus nothing ever changes year round.