Why do people like Florida?

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Anonymous wrote: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?

This discussion isn’t about “out of the DC area”. We are talking about one specific state - FL.

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Why do people like air?

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FL is disgusting in so many different ways.

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Anonymous wrote: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?

This discussion isn’t about “out of the DC area”. We are talking about one specific state - FL.

So you also think you are the only ones on DCUM who say, If you don't live in the DC area why are you here?

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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.

Other than the "constant hurricanes" which is ridiculous, your entire rant sounds exactly like DC.

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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.

lol...florida has the highest in-migration of high earners than any other state...

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My brother who is Now 62 bought a vacation place in Florida in 2017. His wife hated Florida and only agreed if could keep primary home in retirement.

Well they are selling their DC area home now.

In Florida people are more their age, similar religions, similar work ethic, similar political views, most people newly retired or WFH with kids out of HS. No state income tax. Better weather. He likes to golf a lot, she likes to garden and swim. Plus they both like to go out maybe 3-4 times a week.

Up here everyone busy. Plus new neighbors in DMV are sad people. Meaning in 1990s block had SAHMs, most kids home during summer, moms went to pool club together.

Now it is an empty block of dual income coupled with illegal nannies and kids sent to camp. Other than lawn service you would not know people live in the houses. Who would want to retire there. They could care less of a corpse was lying on floor for months.

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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.

I remember taking my kids down to see my folks for Christmas of 2020. We got off the plane, and didn't see more than a handful of masks the week we were down there. Everything was open, kids had been in school all fall, with few, if any, restrictions. Everyone was basically living like it was 2019. It was like a different world compared to our NW neighborhood where people where other people (not us) were still wearing masks outdoors.

When we flew back, it was like coming back to some dystopian hellscape full of beaten down, scared, people.

I despise the mask mandate but please. You need therapy if that's what you felt like.

People in this area, especially in places like NW DC and the close-in Maryland suburbs, went really deep into pandemic paranoia. By brother-in-law didn't let his family interact with anyone outside of their household for 18 months. Weirdos would scream at you for not wearing a mask at the park (well, they'd scream at my wife, not me. I'm a big guy). People around here got really, really weird.

there are weirdos everywhere, but those pandemic fearing weirdos aren't as dangerous as the Florida Man weirdos who have access to a sh1t ton of guns.

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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.

I remember taking my kids down to see my folks for Christmas of 2020. We got off the plane, and didn't see more than a handful of masks the week we were down there. Everything was open, kids had been in school all fall, with few, if any, restrictions. Everyone was basically living like it was 2019. It was like a different world compared to our NW neighborhood where people where other people (not us) were still wearing masks outdoors.

When we flew back, it was like coming back to some dystopian hellscape full of beaten down, scared, people.

I despise the mask mandate but please. You need therapy if that's what you felt like.

People in this area, especially in places like NW DC and the close-in Maryland suburbs, went really deep into pandemic paranoia. By brother-in-law didn't let his family interact with anyone outside of their household for 18 months. Weirdos would scream at you for not wearing a mask at the park (well, they'd scream at my wife, not me. I'm a big guy). People around here got really, really weird.

there are weirdos everywhere, but those pandemic fearing weirdos aren't as dangerous as the Florida Man weirdos who have access to a sh1t ton of guns.

and yet, the gun violence rates in FL, MD, and VA are virtually the same. soo...

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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??

Oh man, thank you for reminding me why I have no desire to live in a place like Florida.

And, if you wouldn't mind, please provide any evidence you can for your claim that teacher are teaching about gender reassignment in schools? I'm so curious to find out which school system has this as part of their core competencies.

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Anonymous wrote:We moved here four years ago. I came kicking and screaming for all of the stereotypes listed here, but we came to be near aging parents. Within a year, I absolutely loved it, but I think it has more to do with the community I found myself in. I have a better circle of friends than I ever have had in my adult life. I mean, the kind that drop everything when someone needs something. My kid likes her school, and it's a good district - my condition of moving here.

People who move here by choice have the attitude of "I'm just happy to be here." There is a sense of relaxation, flip-flop attitude that's nice. We have a pool that we use regularly and we just enjoy life here. The no taxes are a bonus.

Say what you want about the conservative politics - I tolerate it because it exists. I'm a Democrat and there's space for me here. And I vote. I hope that helps in November.

I've lived in 13 different states all over the country with varying cultures, and I've loved something about every single one. Florida is no different. I find it just so bizarre how much hatred can be directed at a state. People are people, everywhere you go. Just be kind, enjoy your life, and everything will be OK.

Where are you in FL? I'm a Miami native, and I find FL to be nuanced, but ultimately very self-centered and fake. Honestly curious about the community you've found. Sounds great.

We're in Orlando, on the east side. It is great, but growing very quickly.

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Anonymous wrote:There are many people who love hot weather and hate cold weather.
There are many people who like having no income tax.
It is a lot cheaper to live there than in most northern states.
There are those who love living within easy drive of many, many beaches and having year-round weather where you can go to the beach.

All of this.

I have liberal relatives who live there. They love sun, beach/pool life year round, low taxes. One has kids in a very affordable private school, the others moved there after their kids graduated high school.

Lived in DC for 15 years and finally moved back home to South Florida. Never been happier!
-no income tax
-cheaper
-no winter
-currently looking out the window at a view of the bay and the ocean in the distance.
-my family is here
-i have no idea what most of the parents do for a living in my kid's class. work and connections are not the leading talking point.
-i have no idea what the political affiliations are of the parents in my kid's class. this is so refreshing to me after life in DC, where tribalism rules.
-10 minute drive to the beach. DH and I will take a day off from work, spend the day on the beach- swimming, having delicious seafood and drinks, and back home for daycare pickup by 530. Feels like we left the country.
-2-4 hour nonstop flights to central and south america have changed the possibilities of long weekend trips
-rats are not taking over the city
-almost perpetual blue skies and sunshine. the way those things alone affect your mood and day...priceless
-i am happiest among color. colorful clothing, buildings, people, design, textures etc. the dc uniform of grey, black blue and brutalist architecture was challenging for me
-i love latin and caribbean culture, music, food, etc.
-a lot of people just walk around HAPPY AS F. particularly in winter. because it's a beautiful day. because the color of the water is gorgeous. because in so many ways, life is objectively so much easier than in northern states. because you live where people vacation. whatever your reason is.

I miss my friends in DC and the museums. And Rose ave bakery. And the Obama years.

sounds just about perfect

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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.

lol...florida has the highest in-migration of high earners than any other state...

I said "best and brightest". Are there a lot of high-earning DBs? Yes, there are.

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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.

lol...florida has the highest in-migration of high earners than any other state...

I said "best and brightest". Are there a lot of high-earning DBs? Yes, there are.

Evidence of your “best and brightest” attraction to what state(s).

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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.

lol...florida has the highest in-migration of high earners than any other state...

I said "best and brightest". Are there a lot of high-earning DBs? Yes, there are.

so who do you consider the "best and brightest"