Florida is worse than a third world country

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The snakes and alligators aren’t just in the statehouse!

Florida is the stinking foot of our country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Florida has a horrific state government. It’s got the climate and land to be another economic powerhouse like California but never quite gets it together. Most of our citrus is coming from Mexico now.

This. I’ll never understand why Florida went so pathetically bad. It has geography and climate on its side not to mention international shipping. It really should have been an economic giant.

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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.

Dude, that condo complex in Miami just fell apart. There was no earthquake, no hurricane, not even a blustery day. It simply collapsed from sub-standard material and exceptionally poor government oversight.

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 We had classes in portables that were out of date and leaked in the rain (which is pretty much every day in Florida).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

Does McLean hire veterans and their spouses with some college credits and a 2.5 GPA to teach students in the public schools?

[Anonymous]

I hate Florida. And I do think it just keeps getting worse.

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Anonymous wrote:Florida has a horrific state government. It’s got the climate and land to be another economic powerhouse like California but never quite gets it together. Most of our citrus is coming from Mexico now.

This. I’ll never understand why Florida went so pathetically bad. It has geography and climate on its side not to mention international shipping. It really should have been an economic giant.

[phone]. This really is true when you think about it. Florida could have been Hawaii or California. Instead they chose to be a sad part of a dying south.

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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.

Um, I’m a Nova teacher in a windowless classroom that leaks. The desk are so crammed in they are touching and you can barely walk between the rows. We have a mice issue too. What you described is public education. Crowded classrooms that need maintenance.

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Anonymous wrote:Northern Virginian here and personally I can think of 5 families who have moved from this region / NY / NJ since 2020 to Florida.

Another Nova here. I know a family that moved to Fla during pandemic. My cousin and his family. They just moved back to Va. Lost money unloading their house of 2 years. Fla is a hot mess, including that knucklehead governor.

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Anonymous wrote:The snakes and alligators aren’t just in the statehouse!

Florida is the stinking foot of our country.

LOL! Florida is the stinking feet of the US!

[Anonymous]

Sweetie,
Have you actually been to a 3rd world country? Niger? Chad?

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Anonymous wrote:Northern Virginian here and personally I can think of 5 families who have moved from this region / NY / NJ since 2020 to Florida.

Another Nova here. I know a family that moved to Fla during pandemic. My cousin and his family. They just moved back to Va. Lost money unloading their house of 2 years. Fla is a hot mess, including that knucklehead governor.

There's no way anyone who sold a house in Florida in the past year that they bought in 2020 lost money on it. I suppose it's possible they way overpaid in 2020 but that would kind of make them a hot mess, not Florida.

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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.

I have to agree with this. I parachute in here from an affluent town in a western state admittedly due to my own issues which include procrastination, schadenfreude and voyeuristic tendencies. I should be doing something healthier with my time instead of indulging in DCUM "striver porn".

[Anonymous]

Have you been to Mississippi?

[Anonymous]

Florida is a weird place... I live here, so I would know. I'm sorry, but there are many dysfunctional, dumpy, dud people who live here who would be chased out of major cities and civilized places. A lot of the people here are crazy, very "middle american" and just unhinged

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People act like DC is some high end area, it's a fake ass place with random transplants passing through. I am born and raised in nova.