Do you know people that moved to Florida?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a healthy family environment where the American dream is still possible and government interference is muzzled.

um.. ok. Guess that depends on how you define 'healthy". Florida health systems aren't that great; childhood obesity is like 35%; infant mortality is fairly high; Desantis is meddling in education.

I guess they are better off than, say, LA, but not compared to placesl ike MD.

LOL! Who needs facts when you have conjecture?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/infant_mortality_rates/infant_mortality.htm --> FL Infant mortality is lower than Maryland's

https://stateofchildhoodobesity.org/children1017/ --> as is childhood obesity

good catch, but at least MD expanded medicaid so low income people can get healthcare. I guess FL doesn't care about poor people.

Check your logic, seems that FL people, including the poor ones, have better health.

This.

But the poor ones don't have access to healthcare, and usually, they are the ones who need it most.

Check your logic. If the poor people in FL, who you claim have no access to healthcare, have better health than those in MD, who do have access to healthcare - what doe that say about the health implication of living in MD?

Do you think low income people, irrespective of health, don't need health insurance?

I grew up lower income; we were healthy. But we still needed health insurance.

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Other than if you are 80, I am not understanding how anyone can deal with FL weather in the summer. It's bad enough in DC in the summer, but FL in the summer feel literally like hell.

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NP here - I am “authentically” posting from coastal Central Florida (not a suburb of Orlando but close)I agree with the above poster who said that it is not exactly a cultural fit as we are progressive in a sea of Trumpers but we have learned not to make it the core of our being. We don’t talk about politics anymore now that we are outside of DC. Our kids have access to surf lessons and kayaking and horseback riding and we can bike ride year round. I am middle class (not much) and can easily afford everything - 5br house and good vacations. I actually am respecting the anti maskers a bit more than I used to (although DeSantis is a sh!t but that is a national problem at this point rather than just local) and where I am located I do not need to worry about crowds and traffic and all that. Today I am at KSC waiting for the Artemis launch. Life is good and when my kids go to college, it will be free of in state.

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Anonymous wrote:NP here - I am “authentically” posting from coastal Central Florida (not a suburb of Orlando but close)I agree with the above poster who said that it is not exactly a cultural fit as we are progressive in a sea of Trumpers but we have learned not to make it the core of our being. We don’t talk about politics anymore now that we are outside of DC. Our kids have access to surf lessons and kayaking and horseback riding and we can bike ride year round. I am middle class (not much) and can easily afford everything - 5br house and good vacations. I actually am respecting the anti maskers a bit more than I used to (although DeSantis is a sh!t but that is a national problem at this point rather than just local) and where I am located I do not need to worry about crowds and traffic and all that. Today I am at KSC waiting for the Artemis launch. Life is good and when my kids go to college, it will be free of in state.

The launch was scrubbed over 45 minutes ago. But that was a cool story.

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Anonymous wrote:Other than if you are 80, I am not understanding how anyone can deal with FL weather in the summer. It's bad enough in DC in the summer, but FL in the summer feel literally like hell.

Hell IS DC in the summer. No ocean, no waterways, and those dark heavy suits.

In FL, instead, you can be in the water any time you want, and work in shorts with a nice shirt. Short sleeves of course.

Of course, may I add that summer is only 3 our of 12 months, and the other 9 are true heaven down here

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Anonymous wrote:Other than if you are 80, I am not understanding how anyone can deal with FL weather in the summer. It's bad enough in DC in the summer, but FL in the summer feel literally like hell.

Hell IS DC in the summer. No ocean, no waterways, and those dark heavy suits.

In FL, instead, you can be in the water any time you want, and work in shorts with a nice shirt. Short sleeves of course.

Of course, may I add that summer is only 3 our of 12 months, and the other 9 are true heaven down here

I'm in a suit office. I've always worn suits prior to the pandemic. I've been going in and sneakers and jeans and nobody has said anything... yet.

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Anonymous wrote:Other than if you are 80, I am not understanding how anyone can deal with FL weather in the summer. It's bad enough in DC in the summer, but FL in the summer feel literally like hell.

It's longer but I wouldn't call it worse than DC. Yes, it's more humid. But it's better than Houston or New Orleans or somewhere like that as long as you're relatively close to the water.

Problem here in DC is we have a long cool period that's gray and dark but it never snows and there's literally nothing to do in winter around here... so what's the point.

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Me, i had to move here and am a proud dem. Answered the door the other day to a DeSantis canvasser, only to scowl with displeasure when my eyes fixed on his DeSantis t shirt. He turned around and walked away without a word spoken.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm enjoying the number of DCUM posters who are "authentically" posting from Orlando suburbs in quick succession.

I have older family friends who are Republicans who lived in rural-ish Indiana who moved to the panhandle because their daughter (who had been living in Wyoming) got a job in Alabama near Florida.

As retirees - the move was very good for them.

My friend's daughter graduated from University of Florida a couple of years ago and since that time has had a good job for a Sr. Dem in the Florida senate - but friend's daughter is very politically engaged & understandably wants to spread her Dem political wings elsewhere. She found Florida kinda boring - but obviously Gainesville & Tallahassee aren't the most representative living locations.

Heh yeah those are two small towns that are pretty far from everywhere else in the state. That's awesome your friends' daughter is so politically engaged - I hope she goes big places. Maybe eventually she'll come back to Florida and make her mark here.

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Anonymous wrote:Other than if you are 80, I am not understanding how anyone can deal with FL weather in the summer. It's bad enough in DC in the summer, but FL in the summer feel literally like hell.

It's not really worse, just rains more and lasts a little longer. We trade great winters for miserable summers.

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I am glad all these blue staters moved to red states. Reduces polarization and will make the fall election interesting. I'm not gonna do it of course but good for everyone else!

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Anonymous wrote:I am glad all these blue staters moved to red states. Reduces polarization and will make the fall election interesting. I'm not gonna do it of course but good for everyone else!

I did this and I am constantly thrilled by it. You would not believe what 1.3-2M will buy down here.

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Anonymous wrote:I know a few of my friends that moved to Florida, and only one of them are Republicans, is this an outliers? Are more Republican's moving to Florida than Dems?

FL had a boom during the pandemic, take a guess why. Take a guess why tax free red states like FL and TX had an influx of overtaxed citizens of NY and CA whose states had the strictest Covid restrictions and mandates and most radical social/equity justice reforms. This isn't even about republicans migrating or those who used to be democrats switching their political leaning. It's probably more about opportunism, finally saving on state taxes and RE prices (when you come from most expensive places in the USA) started to make sense with remote work, and unfavorable changes to QOL brought on by their states local Covid policies and going a bit too far to the left in other aspects had pushed them to make that move for greener pastures.

Florida’s been “booming” since AC was invented.

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Anonymous wrote:I am glad all these blue staters moved to red states. Reduces polarization and will make the fall election interesting. I'm not gonna do it of course but good for everyone else!

Florida is a purple state.

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Anonymous wrote:Other than if you are 80, I am not understanding how anyone can deal with FL weather in the summer. It's bad enough in DC in the summer, but FL in the summer feel literally like hell.

It's not really worse, just rains more and lasts a little longer. We trade great winters for miserable summers.

PP here.. I was in FL in July, and it was horrible. We were near the water but during the late spring through summer, you may get the great sargassum seaweed covering your beach, which means you wouldn't go to the beach. That's what happened to us. It was the worst summer vacation, ever. I could not imagine living that way for half the year.

I will say, though, that I am finding that people in their 80s are constantly cold, so they want heat. So, I might consider moving to FL when I'm near 80. But now? I just can't imagine living there.

Also, to the PPs in Orlando, that is central FL. Yes, there are lakes (some man made) but that is not the same as being on a beach with the ocean breeze.