Florida is worse than a third world country

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter just graduated from college and got a job in Miami. She said it’s pretty bad there now. Nothing like she expected. Luckily her whole company is going to relocate to California so she only has another year there.

She’s in one of those high-rise apartment building like the one that collapsed due to failed inspections and I hate it! Nothing changed after all those people were killed.

Sure she’ll be able to afford a nice tent in Cali.

No one calls California “cali”, PP. The salary increases will cover the differences in rent - and for apartments that don’t fall down! Imagine that!

I’m not taking sides in a California vs. Florida debate. They both have their pros and cons and are large enough to have better and worse areas. However, I have to question the assertion that apartments don’t fall down in California, proving its superiority, when California is known to have earthquakes that can topple buildings, including apartments. I think in both states, the incident rates of toppling apartments are relatively rare, but subjectively, lacking hard data, I’d worry more about it in California.

Are you that dumb that you cannot understand human error vs earthquake? If Florida had the earthquake risk that California had, hardly anyone would be alive down there. California has building codes for many types of earthquakes, except the Big One, which no technology can protect us from.

Florida building codes are actually pretty stringent given the hurricane risk. The condo collapse was an awful tragedy, but I’m not sure you can peg that on the state. I do wonder why people are so determined to hate Florida though. It’s pretty amusing.

Correct. Florida has some of the strictest building codes in the country. Unfortunately, that older condo building was not the only building to ever collapse in the country. There are buildings like that up and down both the East and West coasts.

I'm also reminded of the Skyline Towers building that collapsed on top of all the workers while it was being built in the early 70s due to shortcuts the builders took.

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Rural poverty is pretty bad near my hometown up north, too. It’s shocking to see it for those who never have. This article could be written about any state.

I recently returned from a vacation in southwest Florida. Construction was booming and it was beautiful. It was nothing like this.

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter just graduated from college and got a job in Miami. She said it’s pretty bad there now. Nothing like she expected. Luckily her whole company is going to relocate to California so she only has another year there.

She’s in one of those high-rise apartment building like the one that collapsed due to failed inspections and I hate it! Nothing changed after all those people were killed.

Sure she’ll be able to afford a nice tent in Cali.

No one calls California “cali”, PP. The salary increases will cover the differences in rent - and for apartments that don’t fall down! Imagine that!

I’m not taking sides in a California vs. Florida debate. They both have their pros and cons and are large enough to have better and worse areas. However, I have to question the assertion that apartments don’t fall down in California, proving its superiority, when California is known to have earthquakes that can topple buildings, including apartments. I think in both states, the incident rates of toppling apartments are relatively rare, but subjectively, lacking hard data, I’d worry more about it in California.

Are you that dumb that you cannot understand human error vs earthquake? If Florida had the earthquake risk that California had, hardly anyone would be alive down there. California has building codes for many types of earthquakes, except the Big One, which no technology can protect us from.

Florida building codes are actually pretty stringent given the hurricane risk. The condo collapse was an awful tragedy, but I’m not sure you can peg that on the state. I do wonder why people are so determined to hate Florida though. It’s pretty amusing.

Correct. Florida has some of the strictest building codes in the country. Unfortunately, that older condo building was not the only building to ever collapse in the country. There are buildings like that up and down both the East and West coasts.

I bet hurricane codes and earthquake codes are not the same.

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If someone did an article about the poverty stricken areas of Virginia and Maryland would we then have a DCUM post that those states are like a third world country?

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Yeah, this isn’t where I go in Florida. Where I go there are beautiful sunsets, golf courses, magnificent homes, and wealthy attractive people.

Why is this the “real Florida” just because some photographer grew up there? The place I grew up is also shitty, and I didn’t even live in a trailer. But no one would come along and be like “oh the REAL Massachusetts is a third world country.”

You sophisticates are so dumb.

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I grew up in Florida and I'd never want to move back just for how terrible the schools were. I literally took math in a windowless classroom that was so crammed with desks we literally had to climb over them. We had classes in portables that were out of date and leaked in the rain (which is pretty much every day in Florida).

And I lived in a "good" suburban area outside Orlando.

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I've worked in Perry on DOT sites and done some business with the correctional institution there.

There is nothing wrong with the folks in Perry. They are salt of the earth people.

Honestly you must not have ever driven around Maryland or Virginia much?

Ever driven through Baltimore City? Somerset County Maryland? Wicomico County Maryland? Accomac County Va? I've seen far worse scenes in these areas than in Perry, Florida.

My male hairdresser is from Perry and my nail tech is from Perry.

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Wow, having actually lived in “third world” now called developing countries the cluelessness is mind boggling.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of snobs enjoying their poverty porn as usual. Hate to tell you, but someone could compose the same pretentious prose and worse about Baltimore or SE DC.

Or PA, or rural Oregon, or Bakersfield, or eastern Washington, etc. The writer and probably OP sound like they have not seen much of the US. And I think more people moved to FL over the past 2 years than any other state. I think some people just can’t accept that lots of people want to live there? I’m not sure. It’s like they need a whole state to punch down at to feel better about their choices. I grew up there — some parts are amazing, and I guess some parts are like this. But that’s America.

Yeah, agreed. I actually found the photo essay weirdly nostalgic because it had such a weird same-but-different feel to the rural part of PA I grew up it that's also pretty economically depressed. I remember thinking the same when I took a Greyhound through Texas a few years ago -- the rural US has common vibes, even though it's wildly different culturally.

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I like Florida.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, having actually lived in “third world” now called developing countries the cluelessness is mind boggling.

OP… I hope in your next life you are born in South Sudan so you can truly understand poverty….hint, you’re not going to find it in Florida

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter just graduated from college and got a job in Miami. She said it’s pretty bad there now. Nothing like she expected. Luckily her whole company is going to relocate to California so she only has another year there.

She’s in one of those high-rise apartment building like the one that collapsed due to failed inspections and I hate it! Nothing changed after all those people were killed.

Sure she’ll be able to afford a nice tent in Cali.

No one calls California “cali”, PP. The salary increases will cover the differences in rent - and for apartments that don’t fall down! Imagine that!

They do on DCUM. Very annoying.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, having actually lived in “third world” now called developing countries the cluelessness is mind boggling.

Op here - I’m from a third world country. No, poverty is different there because back in said third world country you Atleast had deep rooted customs, traditions, native culture, traditional food natural and unsullied from additives etc.

If you have third world roots you know what I mean.

Florida is the worst of both worlds — that’s what the New Yorker is trying to capture.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of snobs enjoying their poverty porn as usual. Hate to tell you, but someone could compose the same pretentious prose and worse about Baltimore or SE DC.

Or PA, or rural Oregon, or Bakersfield, or eastern Washington, etc. The writer and probably OP sound like they have not seen much of the US. And I think more people moved to FL over the past 2 years than any other state. I think some people just can’t accept that lots of people want to live there? I’m not sure. It’s like they need a whole state to punch down at to feel better about their choices. I grew up there — some parts are amazing, and I guess some parts are like this. But that’s America.

Yeah, agreed. I actually found the photo essay weirdly nostalgic because it had such a weird same-but-different feel to the rural part of PA I grew up it that's also pretty economically depressed. I remember thinking the same when I took a Greyhound through Texas a few years ago -- the rural US has common vibes, even though it's wildly different culturally.

Uhh where in pa are you from that looked like the pics in the article.

Im from central pa - I’m familiar with pa. Even the worst places in pa do not look like this.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, this isn’t where I go in Florida. Where I go there are beautiful sunsets, golf courses, magnificent homes, and wealthy attractive people.

Why is this the “real Florida” just because some photographer grew up there? The place I grew up is also shitty, and I didn’t even live in a trailer. But no one would come along and be like “oh the REAL Massachusetts is a third world country.”

You sophisticates are so dumb.

The worst parts of central or western mass don’t look like this tho

Be honest.