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Florida changed so much to where people forget how southern Florida actually is. Miami and Orlando get so much of the spotlight to people don't associate Florida with the rest of the South.
Posting this here because I want to hear from people across the US forum, not just in the Florida forum. In your mind, which city best exemplifies "quintessential" Florida, if such a thing exists-- the diversity, the landscape, the insane and wacky and unique mix of people and cultures across the state? Where can vestiges of "Old Florida" be found alongside the new, representing the best of what Florida has to offer?
I'm guessing a lot of people will say Miami; I nominate Orlando.
Inland Florida or the panhandle. South Florida is not real Florida. Real Florida is the undeveloped beaches, lakes, rivers, pine trees and oak trees with Spanish moss. Everything else is commercialized crap. St Augustine’s is probably the first real Florida city. Unfortunately the rest of that county is getting bulldozed down. Tampa, Ocala, Jacksonville, tally, ft Myers and Vero Beach are others. Miami is another country of its own.
As another native Floridian.. I nominate Tampa it has everything you'd expect from the sunshine state. I'm from Orlando winch is very Floridian as well. However, Florida has the longest coastline in the lower 48 it'd be absurd to not nominate a city on the coast.
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Funny thing is that as much as Miami doesn't carry that Florida quintessence, there is no where else that a city like Miami which has its own distinctive identity in the world could possibly exist anywhere else, but Florida!
Funny thing is that as much as Miami doesn't carry that Florida quintessence, there is no where else that a city like Miami which has its own distinctive identity in the world could possibly exist anywhere else, but Florida!
Having lived in Florida for almost 50 years, I would vote for St. Augustine and "Old Town" Key West. They hearken back to the simpler times prior to the over development of many areas of the state.
Posting this here because I want to hear from people across the US forum, not just in the Florida forum. In your mind, which city best exemplifies "quintessential" Florida, if such a thing exists-- the diversity, the landscape, the insane and wacky and unique mix of people and cultures across the state? Where can vestiges of "Old Florida" be found alongside the new, representing the best of what Florida has to offer?
I'm guessing a lot of people will say Miami; I nominate Orlando.
No way to the big cities as they're dominated by transplants from the Midwest and the Northeast.
I'm going with Lakeland. I dated a girl from that area and man was she beautiful. Sweet gal.
Florida changed so much to where people forget how southern Florida actually is. Miami and Orlando get so much of the spotlight to people don't associate Florida with the rest of the South.
This is due to growth of the state. In the 1920 census Florida was the state with the least amount of people in the southeast. Now Florida has more than double any other state in the South East. My family is from the Ocala Gainesville area and all of them have southern accents still. Something I didn't notice until I move to California.
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