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Old 01-01-2017, 07:13 PM
 
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surudos.. since you post in so many different places including Europe Orlando etc. If you really don't like Florida, why are you still here?
I never said I don't like it here. But I wouldn't like it for sure if I was single no kids and younger.
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Old 01-02-2017, 05:55 AM
 
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whats not to like


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHG-gewWKIA
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Old 01-02-2017, 08:00 AM
 
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I never said I don't like it here. But I wouldn't like it for sure if I was single no kids and younger.
Feeling that pain myself haha.
Single No Kids.
Seems like it's all 40+(pay no mind to the snowbirds if I do then I feel like I'm trapped in a tropical taping of the walking dead)

I don't consider PSL or Ft Pierce city's. They're far from "city" material. West palm would be comparable to areas outside of Albany (Latham, Schenectady, Colonie)
PSL reminds me an awful lot like Poughkeepsie.
Route 9 littered with car dealerships new and sketchy used lots.-US1
Strip malls/plazas as far as the eye can see.-both have them.
Doctors offices everywhere.-both have them.
Fast food joints everywhere.
The alphabet streets of ft pierce-Hamilton and academy streets in Poughkeepsie.

Food.
Have yet to have good pizza or Chinese food, perhaps the humidity messes with the sauce? Mineral content in the water messes with the dough? But that's alright. Your publix chicken, Tillmans BBQ, Zaxbys, chick fil a, Ruffinos is ORGASMIC!

Bars. Oh my. I can walk to 5 of them! Can go to a bar with a 50 dollar Bill and the bartender get a 15 dollar tip. NY bottled light beer is 4-5 bucks a piece, mixed drinks (jack and coke, boiler makers) are 12 a piece. Imported beer like Stella Heineken Corona 8-10. Buy 3 packs of cigarettes for what 1 goes for.

People truly are spoiled here, traffic providing, everything is 5-15 minutes away... Where I'm from, it's a half hour to Wal mart and civilization. But taking half an hour-45 minutes to get to work traveling a distance of 18 miles is ridiculous... Only here can the lights all be green and people sit at a green light... Green means go not sit and think about it, or finish a text/social media post, apply make up, whatever it is they do. Then creep up to speed...

Do that where I'm from you get rear ended and ticketed for impeding traffic and if the cop decides to go through your phone to see if you were texting or doing anything on social media, 3 points and a 500 dollar fine for your first offense. 2nd offense fine is higher another 2 points I believe, then 3rd revocation of license and impounding of the vehicle. Hehe I pass everyone get to the front, sit with one foot on the gas one on the brake, soon as that light is green I'm gone pedal is on the floor board I don't hold anyone up. We have jobs to get to... (seriously would put a double decker highway over US1 st lucie blvd go from say Vero to Stuart or the whole length of 1, couple exits per town, lower level for local access and commercial vehicles, get from Vero to Stuart in 20 minutes) and what's with the need to go 10 under the limit in the fast lanes? Or if it rains hazards come on and drop down to 20-30? Phew you'd be up the creek without a paddle or life preserver in a blizzard traveling on I90 87 or 81. Can't do at least 60 in the snow you face death via big rig, especially if they have plates from Canada, those boys FLY in white out conditions! And changing lanes-turning onto streets into plazas. Blind spots. Check em. For some strange reason whether car salesmen neglect to inform, there's a nifty little lever on the steering column that you flick. It actuates these things called turn signals/Blinkers. Let's others know that you plan on turning/change a lane. I don't know how many times I get honked at on St lucie blvd because someone wants to be where I am and they decide bumper cars with a truck isn't a good idea... Folks, contrary to popular practices, you do not need to come to a stop or creep into a plaza or to turn onto a side street... I've seen big rigs with trailers enter these same plazas and side roads doing 20-30 it's not like you're going to hit a patch of black ice and spin violently out of control. And if you decide to do so, use the turn signal don't just jam on the brakes 20-30feet from where you intend to turn then put them on as you're turning into it... Must be a lot of people from Boston and Mass that's exactly what driving in the Berkshires to Boston is like. From Pittsfield east. Exact same way they drive... 10 under the limit in the fast lanes when they're in NY too... Makes me wonder at times whether the only requirement to obtain a license down here is like mass, just have the ability to read an eye chart and have a pulse... But you have to laugh (reading it made me giggle a little)

Affordable housing is abundant, jobs that pay, not so much. Which again makes no sense... Companies/industries charge the same for services and goods that they do in NY/MA/CT but pay workers 1/2 what they do in the north.

Adressing Aldi, they were all over Ny state, they carried Dole and Chiquita brand fruits 1/4 the price of Shop Rite Price Chopper IGA. Just had to leave the bananas on the table to ripen, they usually were on the green side. Most of the food is hit and miss in my experience. Thier pork tenderloins that are pre marinated can be good or downright bland and/or rubbery.

I miss having acres to play on, shooting, riding dirtbikes quads. Winding back country roads, carving corners, picking apples and berries. Snow. Trails to ride quads and dirtbikes. Stock car Racing. Three things I'd only change-abundance of race tracksteaching people how to drive, and improve wages. Put some industry in aside from customer service retail and HVAC. Aside from that I like it.

I am shocked, a state like this would do excellent if every county had a race track, dirt or asphalt with a drag strip behind it like lebanon valley speedway. Year round race weather! Hurricane permissible hehe.

Make no mistake about it. There are certain aspects of where I lived that I will forever miss. I don't ever intend on going back to that socialist/extortionist hell hole that is NY. Cityiots that came upstate, trying to change everything to what the city areas are like (including politics) bringing their self entitled holier than thou attitude as if the world revolved around them, being rude especially rude to people who served them food/drinks. Lack of common sense, fear of the dark and any noises made between a tree branch snapping to a coyote or bobcat howling.

Having to arm thier annoying god awful car alarms that always seemed to go off past midnight for half an hour at a time. 5k a year in property taxes, every year having to fight with assessors because another farmer sold a plot of land to be subdivided for half million dollar homes to go in. 120 a month for garbage collection between the services and bags you needed to purchase. Just what I paid in garbage alone my sister pays a year in property taxes and her garbage is included in her tax Bill... Having to deal with leaves every fall and spring.
Propane for heat $$$. State revenue generators (you won't see troopers patrol areas of high crime that's up to the local PDs and sheriffs, only agency that enforces the safe act, they rather stop people for a plate light/tail light, 6 over the speed limit, check points for seat belts, expired state inspections, having tinted windows, only agency kept out of court for traffic ticket disputes so if you want to argue it, it's a long drawn out and expensive process god forbid court takes place after 530, 3pm not like people work for a living. Extortionists.) heroin epidemic and enabling it by allowing pharmacies to hand out clean needles/syringes, preventing police from making arrests for showing up to an OD scene could be 3 junkies and 1 out cold, the other 2 don't get locked up. Junkies always sneaking about late at night stealing to support their drug habit. I hate NY. I like living in America! (Florida is America. NY is it's own country of F'ed-upness.)

(Sorry didn't mean to hi-jack)
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Old 01-02-2017, 03:38 PM
 
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Yeah and when high tide is up on that sea weed you can have a whopping 10 ft of beach to play on! Real amazing

The beaches in this area suck and have been in desperate need of replenishment for years. Unless of course you enjoy sitting in sea grass which is where it is heading.
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Old 01-03-2017, 08:28 PM
 
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Yeah and when high tide is up on that sea weed you can have a whopping 10 ft of beach to play on! Real amazing

The beaches in this area suck and have been in desperate need of replenishment for years. Unless of course you enjoy sitting in sea grass which is where it is heading.
Wanna trade that 10 feet of beach front for 10 foot snow banks? I hear upstate NY is great this time of year

Lakes in NY don't have alligators so you can swim in them no problem, to combat the seaweed, they had huge paddle boats with sickle bar mower attachments on the front they'd go around chopping the stuff up and spitting it on the ground to be picked up by dump trucks. And stink!!!

You haven't smelt funk til you've had a pile of that crap near your house. Due to waves surely this task would be rendered impossible...
There's nothing wrong with the beaches. If you think there is, go to California Venice beach to be exact, their beaches from what I remember, were not flat one bit. Steep as could be.
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Old 01-03-2017, 08:53 PM
 
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You should familiarize yourself with false equivalence.

Plenty of nice beaches in Florida, the video you posted isn't one of them.
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Old 01-05-2017, 04:51 AM
 
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No it doesn't need replenishment.. it needs to be left alone as it is.. its natural and wild and not generic man made crap that you see on the Gulf coast

Hutchinson Island is over 20 miles of beach.. lots of vacationers go there and its one of the nicest stretches of beach in the entire state.. keep smoking your drugs







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Old 01-05-2017, 04:03 PM
 
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Sure thing champ, no replenishment, no more beach. Enjoy, it will probably even happen in your own lifetime. Better enjoy the 10 ft of beach while you can because in one storm the rest of it can be gone.
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Old 01-07-2017, 09:51 AM
 
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Hutchinson Island has been there since the Spanish galleons were ship wrecked on it in 1715 - 300 years ago.. its not going anywhere..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1715_Treasure_Fleet
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Old 01-07-2017, 03:36 PM
 
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Yeah and when high tide is up on that sea weed you can have a whopping 10 ft of beach to play on! Real amazing

The beaches in this area suck and have been in desperate need of replenishment for years. Unless of course you enjoy sitting in sea grass which is where it is heading.
I believe the beaches on Hutchinson Island have been replenished in the past couple years but this year the combination of Hurricane Mathew followed immediately by the King Tides took a toll on the beaches. I think what you see is a result of the unfortunate fall season we had rather than a lack of commitment to the areas beaches.

If you want to talk about an area that has done a poor job of managing their beaches then you should look at Miami Beach and Dade County. Dade County has already run out of sand reserves to replenish their beaches and are now looking for new sand sources. The Army Corp of Engineers has even considered using the sand off Hutchinson Island to replenish the Dade County beaches.
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