Why do people like Florida?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm going to say the unpopular thing that I know many have privately thought.
We were miserable in DC during the pandemic. Schools closed, rec space and playgrounds shuttered, challenges of winter, businesses and people closing and leaving.
Many Floridians had the CHOICE of getting kids back to in person school quickly, living relatively normal lives, not being cooped up inside during cold weather.

My best friend in Ft Lauderdale had her kids back in person school by Fall 2020, was able to live pretty normally, and was vaccinated 2 months before we were able to get appts in DC. We lived on different planets. I was jealous. We all ended up in the same place- vaxxed and boosted. Yet the road to get there was so vastly different.


There is no prize for being more miserable...

This. DC is ground zero for political identity liberals. They're livid that people want to move to a state even though DeSantis is Governor. The fact is he got it right and DC and other blue states got it wrong. Now the DMV has an entire generation of public school kids with trauma and burnt out parents (mostly moms), but the progressives refuse to admit it. So they start stupid threads like this and scream at everyone who said eff it I'm moving to Florida.

Preach.

I can understand the frustration with decisions that were made during Covid, but that’s the past. I find censorship, Don’t Say Gay, and the Stop WOKE act as detrimental, politically motivated decisions. You might not like left wing virtue signaling, but this legislation is just unnecessarily cruel and adds ZERO value to society.

How is it unnecessarily cruel to not allow teachers to instruct students on gender reassignment? Sorry but most parents don’t want that going on at school. It’s inappropriate.

[Anonymous]

Florida sounds normal these days which is concerning. Prioritizing education for kids, not talking about gender reassignment in schools, not allowing teachers to discriminate against kids of a certain race. How did we even get to this point that people think not teaching about gender reassignment to elementary school kids is a bad thing??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to say the unpopular thing that I know many have privately thought.
We were miserable in DC during the pandemic. Schools closed, rec space and playgrounds shuttered, challenges of winter, businesses and people closing and leaving.
Many Floridians had the CHOICE of getting kids back to in person school quickly, living relatively normal lives, not being cooped up inside during cold weather.

My best friend in Ft Lauderdale had her kids back in person school by Fall 2020, was able to live pretty normally, and was vaccinated 2 months before we were able to get appts in DC. We lived on different planets. I was jealous. We all ended up in the same place- vaxxed and boosted. Yet the road to get there was so vastly different.


There is no prize for being more miserable...

This. DC is ground zero for political identity liberals. They're livid that people want to move to a state even though DeSantis is Governor. The fact is he got it right and DC and other blue states got it wrong. Now the DMV has an entire generation of public school kids with trauma and burnt out parents (mostly moms), but the progressives refuse to admit it. So they start stupid threads like this and scream at everyone who said eff it I'm moving to Florida.

Preach.

I can understand the frustration with decisions that were made during Covid, but that’s the past. I find censorship, Don’t Say Gay, and the Stop WOKE act as detrimental, politically motivated decisions. You might not like left wing virtue signaling, but this legislation is just unnecessarily cruel and adds ZERO value to society.

How is it unnecessarily cruel to not allow teachers to instruct students on gender reassignment? Sorry but most parents don’t want that going on at school. It’s inappropriate.

It’s creating a problem where there isn’t one. If nothing has changed in the schools, as you claim, then what was the point of the legislation?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Florida sounds normal these days which is concerning. Prioritizing education for kids, not talking about gender reassignment in schools, not allowing teachers to discriminate against kids of a certain race. How did we even get to this point that people think not teaching about gender reassignment to elementary school kids is a bad thing??

You could always send your kids to a Christian school. I’m sure there are several close to Nocatee.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved DC and it is way different here but i love it here in florida too. I am close to the beach and have my kids at the beach every day in the winter. They learned to surf and respect the environment at an early age. We can afford extracurricular like horseback riding and sailing that we could not afford up North. The kids also are eligible for free private school tuition because their dad is a first responder. They will get free in state college tuition if they maintain good grades. We are close to grandparents and good hospitals (we have special needs).we bought a huge 5 br 3 bath house with a pool for less than my little 850 sq for ranch in Alexandria.

Ok but why are you still hanging out here? You're like the guy who graduated last year but hangs out in the parking lot after school.

NP. I don't live in DC anymore. Moved away 5 years ago (not to FL, but that's beside the point). DCUM is ultimately a parents' message board. I come here to discuss topics that I'm interested in, and I have stayed despite not living in DC because I like the format, find the moderating to be generally good, and interspersed among the crazies, find that there are many people on here capable of nuanced, interesting takes that I like to engage with. No different than people going on Reddit, Babycenter, twitter threads, or [insert your preferred medium] to discuss topics of interest. Yes there are some DMV centric threads I obviously don't participate in, but there's other topics like family travel or toddler bedtime routines or flattering swimwear or how to balance elementary aged-kids extracurriculars that are pretty universal. It's not like there's something so special or unique about toddlers in the DMV that necessitates only people from the area chime in about what bedtime routine worked for them.

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Those who question why people who live out of the DC area visit DCUM just prove how limited their mental capacity is. Even people who live in Florida are smarter than that!

Do you actually think this board is only for parents who live in the urban parts of DC? Do you think that's what Jeff wants?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would anyone ever want to move to Florida? Vacation during the winter sure, but actually LIVE there?

It's constantly got hurricanes which they are never prepared for, you'd think after so many hurricanes they'd put together a response plan or infrastructure that works, the summers are horrible and humid, there's all kinds of crazy people and crazy politics, there's a lot of crime, the schools are terrible, and now it's getting more expensive. Oh, and the traffic.

The traffic? Are you seriously throwing that out there as someone who is in the DC area?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Florida sounds normal these days which is concerning. Prioritizing education for kids, not talking about gender reassignment in schools, not allowing teachers to discriminate against kids of a certain race. How did we even get to this point that people think not teaching about gender reassignment to elementary school kids is a bad thing??

You could always send your kids to a Christian school. I’m sure there are several close to Nocatee.

I don’t need a religious school. I just don’t want my kid’s teacher talking about sex changes. That’s all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Florida sounds normal these days which is concerning. Prioritizing education for kids, not talking about gender reassignment in schools, not allowing teachers to discriminate against kids of a certain race. How did we even get to this point that people think not teaching about gender reassignment to elementary school kids is a bad thing??

You could always send your kids to a Christian school. I’m sure there are several close to Nocatee.

I don’t need a religious school. I just don’t want my kid’s teacher talking about sex changes. That’s all.

And St John’s County Schools were teaching that previously?

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Anonymous wrote:Climate change and the horrible weather for half the year deters me.

I think there are some nice cities there -- Tampa, St Augustine -- but I don't think those places will last long with climate change.

Bet me $1,000 dollars those cities won't be there in 10 years.

Rube.

Np. I live in Tampa Bay and work in Tampa in a historical area. I always wonder how it hasn't washed away but the structures are over 100 years old so I guess they were built well and in a good spot. I do think we got really lucky with Ian, I thought that was going to be the big one.

That being said, I chose to live inland (about 15 minutes to the beach) and not in a flood zone. I do love it here! This area is diverse, vibrant and growing fast. Would I choose to live in very rural Florida? Not. Miami? nope. I'm in my good place.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine living in a place with no seasons.

I can't imagine ever wanting to live in a place again with winter. Nice to visit for a few days. But never having to deal with ice, snow, coats, gloves, etc. Heaven

To each their own.

I'll take a glistening coat of snow and getting cozy by the fire and hot cocoa, and appreciating the spring and summer warmth when it arrives, then getting out in the fall colored leaves and pumpkin patches.
You can have the hurricanes.

You do know that places with fall and snow, can have hurricanes right? Sandy, Irene, Gloria...to name a few.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I loved DC and it is way different here but i love it here in florida too. I am close to the beach and have my kids at the beach every day in the winter. They learned to surf and respect the environment at an early age. We can afford extracurricular like horseback riding and sailing that we could not afford up North. The kids also are eligible for free private school tuition because their dad is a first responder. They will get free in state college tuition if they maintain good grades. We are close to grandparents and good hospitals (we have special needs).we bought a huge 5 br 3 bath house with a pool for less than my little 850 sq for ranch in Alexandria.

Sounds great to me!

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Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine living in a place with no seasons.

I can't imagine ever wanting to live in a place again with winter. Nice to visit for a few days. But never having to deal with ice, snow, coats, gloves, etc. Heaven

To each their own.

I'll take a glistening coat of snow and getting cozy by the fire and hot cocoa, and appreciating the spring and summer warmth when it arrives, then getting out in the fall colored leaves and pumpkin patches.
You can have the hurricanes.

... that's what you're getting in DC? A "glistening coat of snow" then "summer warmth" that you'd write odes to?

I just laughed out loud. replace glistening with "black oily tire slush"

"black oily tire slush" is a million steps up from FL.

Just as all of the DMV is not covered in rats and homeless tent cities, Florida is not 1 single place. Watercolor, Sarasota, Gainesville, Miami, Anna Maria Island. Logan Circle, Annandale, Pimmit Hills, Burke. All very different places.

And yet, so many of the very people bashing continue to vacation and escape to various parts of Florida for holiday breaks year after year....

Still a cesspool of humanity.

The STD of America.

And yet, people continue to move there in flocks while many of the states you likely consider acceptable are the ones that are losing population. So...maybe it's just you

It’s not like it’s attracting the best and the brightest. You can keep all of those people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm going to say the unpopular thing that I know many have privately thought.
We were miserable in DC during the pandemic. Schools closed, rec space and playgrounds shuttered, challenges of winter, businesses and people closing and leaving.
Many Floridians had the CHOICE of getting kids back to in person school quickly, living relatively normal lives, not being cooped up inside during cold weather.

My best friend in Ft Lauderdale had her kids back in person school by Fall 2020, was able to live pretty normally, and was vaccinated 2 months before we were able to get appts in DC. We lived on different planets. I was jealous. We all ended up in the same place- vaxxed and boosted. Yet the road to get there was so vastly different.


There is no prize for being more miserable...

This. DC is ground zero for political identity liberals. They're livid that people want to move to a state even though DeSantis is Governor. The fact is he got it right and DC and other blue states got it wrong. Now the DMV has an entire generation of public school kids with trauma and burnt out parents (mostly moms), but the progressives refuse to admit it. So they start stupid threads like this and scream at everyone who said eff it I'm moving to Florida.

Preach.

I can understand the frustration with decisions that were made during Covid, but that’s the past. I find censorship, Don’t Say Gay, and the Stop WOKE act as detrimental, politically motivated decisions. You might not like left wing virtue signaling, but this legislation is just unnecessarily cruel and adds ZERO value to society.

How is it unnecessarily cruel to not allow teachers to instruct students on gender reassignment? Sorry but most parents don’t want that going on at school. It’s inappropriate.

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