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Old 10-09-2014, 08:26 AM
 
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I really should not say this because its a well kept secret with us locals. All doctors are required to flag all patients from up north. This allows them to treat them like crap because we know they will just complain about how bad things are here and how much better things are up north. They are also instructed to mark them also (its a secret), So us local business owners can spot them when they come in to our business. We then can treat them accordingly as we see fit.
From what I have seen mostly everyone here is from the north. I have seen very few born and raised floridians. And from what I have seen with doctors most are from New York or India.
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Old 10-09-2014, 10:11 AM
 
Location: Tampa, FL
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I really should not say this because its a well kept secret with us locals. All doctors are required to flag all patients from up north. This allows them to treat them like crap because we know they will just complain about how bad things are here and how much better things are up north. They are also instructed to mark them also (its a secret), So us local business owners can spot them when they come in to our business. We then can treat them accordingly as we see fit.
Thanks ----funny -

My thought was that some people seem to bring on issues more than others because of personality/whining. And we all know that Northern transplants can be the biggest PITAs since The Whiners.

https://screen.yahoo.com/whiners-air...000000188.html
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Old 10-09-2014, 02:07 PM
 
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[quote][From what I have seen mostly everyone here is from the north. I have seen very few born and raised floridians. And from what I have seen with doctors most are from New York or India/QUOTE]

Correct, We locals call this the "Northern Paradox" This is how it works. People from up north move down here and tell us how backwards people are down here (former Northerners). Now the next group of people move down and suddenly the first group become the backwards people, Yet they don't see themselves part of that group, only the newly arrived northerners see them as such. Rumor has it that these transplants can only become part of the first group by moving back up north! This is not
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