Florida is worse than a third world country

[Anonymous]

Florida has a lot more to offer than this.

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Anonymous wrote:So you pick the most obscure place in Florida then write an article about how all of Florida looks third world?

+1 and compares it to New England, a pretty much non-doverse area comprised of 80% white residents and fewer low income families. Posters who make these comments prefer a certain kind of lifestyle.

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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!

Earthquakes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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 We had classes in portables that were out of date and leaked in the rain (which is pretty much every day in Florida).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.

Hate to break it to you, but McLean the best rated area has these terrible portable classrooms and is in disrepair check this Instagram account

https://www.fairfaxtimes.com/articles/fairfax_county/instagram-account-suggests-rot-at-mclean-high-school/article_aa46db26-0e92-11ed-87e1-a366d439198b.html

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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.

yes, because it's cheap, and doesn't get cold.

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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.

You’re right- poverty is different there. In Florida if you can’t afford to feed your child you can go to any number of schools, government agencies/religious organizations or charities to get a meal for them. In most third world countries they will simply not eat.

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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!

Earthquakes?

DP.. I've lived in CA for 40 years, lived through two major earthquakes there. No building collapsed to the degree that we saw in Miami. 63 people died in that earthquake but a lot of the casualties were the result of the bridge/freeway collapse.

In contrast, 98 people died in the Miami building collapse.

One was due to nature; the other due to human negligence.

Most of CA buildings and freeways are retrofitted to withstand large earthquakes.

[Anonymous]

You’re just jealous.

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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.

yes, because it's cheap, and doesn't get cold.

It’s ALWAYS been that way, Einstein. But NOW, 1,000 people a DAY are becoming new Florida residents.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in DC and know it to be a cultural backwater populated by money grubbing, social-climbing philistines. The utter vulgarity of all of you people on this idiotic site is stunning and the funny thing is you have no clue how repulsive you are to civilized people.

[Anonymous]

Northern Virginian here and personally I can think of 5 families who have moved from this region / NY / NJ since 2020 to 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!

Earthquakes?

And they still don’t fall down because they actually have earthquake regulations and state inspectors who do their jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in DC and know it to be a cultural backwater populated by money grubbing, social-climbing philistines. The utter vulgarity of all of you people on this idiotic site is stunning and the funny thing is you have no clue how repulsive you are to civilized people.

And you think you’re civilized with your comment. Not to mention that you’re actually one of the people on this site.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in Florida and you couldn’t get me back there. It’s literally a swamp that continues to get worse.

[Anonymous]

The state of newlyweds and nearly-dead’s.