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Anonymous wrote:Florida is like the Dollar Store version of California.

No, sorry, Florida doesn’t have tons of homeless people living on the streets.

Um, yes it does. You just don’t see pictures of them hourly on Fox News.
https://tampa.cbslocal.com/2022/05/24/experts-project-increase-in-tampa-homeless-population-hold-meeting/
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/local/2022/03/22/the-need-is-great-orlando-nonprofits-struggle-to-help-growing-homeless-population/
https://www.jacksonville.com/story/lifestyle/magazine/2017/09/21/while-jacksonville-s-downtown-homeless-problem-has-been-around-years-solutions/15372834007/
https://www.miamitimesonline.com/news/the-politics-of-homelessness-in-miami/article_66e2bb08-7c2f-11eb-959e-ef743d6c9d46.html

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Anonymous wrote:Florida is like the Dollar Store version of California.

buuuurn.

To be fair, FLA won't have those problems because it will be underwater.

Also, enjoy Hurricane season, dying manatees, algae blooms, invasive reptiles in your backyard, and condominiums sinking into the beaches. Yeah, FLA sounds great.

Yea, but PP said "buuuurn". So enjoy the burn, I guess.

My healthcare covers burns. So does the ACA.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Florida is like the Dollar Store version of California.

buuuurn.

To be fair, FLA won't have those problems because it will be underwater.

Also, enjoy Hurricane season, dying manatees, algae blooms, invasive reptiles in your backyard, and condominiums sinking into the beaches. Yeah, FLA sounds great.

Yea, but PP said "buuuurn". So enjoy the burn, I guess.

I live in neither place so it's no burn to me, personally.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Florida is like the Dollar Store version of California.

buuuurn.

To be fair, FLA won't have those problems because it will be underwater.

Also, enjoy Hurricane season, dying manatees, algae blooms, invasive reptiles in your backyard, and condominiums sinking into the beaches. Yeah, FLA sounds great.

Yea, but PP said "buuuurn". So enjoy the burn, I guess.

the burn goes both ways, then.. one is literal, the other is figurative.

CA weather is 1000x better than FL, though.

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Anonymous wrote:I find the references to culture to be laughable as if DC is so full of culture. Whenever people claim that some place "has no culture", I just take it to mean that it's not like where they came from. It reminds me of the Yellowstone scene between Kayce and Tate in front of the ice cream store, where they describe how the transplants move to their town and rebuild it to resemble the places that they decided to leave.

Agreed. Like what culture are they referring to in DC, Philly, NY, etc. etc.? Illegal dirt bike riding and shootings? Omg, like anyone is missing out on so much 'culture' relative to the COL and tax price tags. The only culture people miss out from not living in urban cities is the decline of civilization.

Art? What world class artist is NOT represented in NYC? Now tell me what world renowned galleries I can find in rural Oklahoma?

I love when people say oooh the arts, oooh the museums. How often does the average college-educated resident go to a museum? Maybe once every few years.

Exactly.


All these clowns do is get wasted on Fridays and Saturday paying $25 for a glass of wine or cocktail and waste all their weekends hungover.. OooOoo. 'art!'. Pfff....you go to those maybe once a year, if that. Meanwhile, the city of NY is socking you $10k just for the stupid privilege of living in an overcrowded trashy city. All of that money could be used for savings in a retirement account earning compound interest or paying off student loan debt. But nah, gotta have the 'culture'.

It may not be important to you (which is fine). But it is important to some of us that we can take our kids to the occasional show, that they are raised in a multicultural environment and that we can take them to museums etc once in a while on a Saturday morning. My kids are not art critics or anything but they have grown up going to museums a couple of times a year. Like most kids similarly situated on the socio economic ladder wherever they live in the US, they spend most of their time going to school, sports practice, ECs, and perhaps a part time job. But sometimes it’s the 5% time stuff that will stick. At least I hope so.

Hey guess what, you can do that in Florida, too. Jesus, how provincial are people on this free website?!

I posted earlier about moving back to Florida. It was never a consideration when my child was in school. I went to private school in Florida, and it sucked. The quality of teachers there was horrendous.

I do have concerns about the laws. I knew I’d likely have to travel back to Virginia to get my methotrexate RX filled. That is ridiculous, but my job prospects are concentrated in Florida, and my siblings are there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Florida is like the Dollar Store version of California.

buuuurn.

To be fair, FLA won't have those problems because it will be underwater.

Also, enjoy Hurricane season, dying manatees, algae blooms, invasive reptiles in your backyard, and condominiums sinking into the beaches. Yeah, FLA sounds great.

Yea, but PP said "buuuurn". So enjoy the burn, I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I find the references to culture to be laughable as if DC is so full of culture. Whenever people claim that some place "has no culture", I just take it to mean that it's not like where they came from. It reminds me of the Yellowstone scene between Kayce and Tate in front of the ice cream store, where they describe how the transplants move to their town and rebuild it to resemble the places that they decided to leave.

Agreed. Like what culture are they referring to in DC, Philly, NY, etc. etc.? Illegal dirt bike riding and shootings? Omg, like anyone is missing out on so much 'culture' relative to the COL and tax price tags. The only culture people miss out from not living in urban cities is the decline of civilization.

Art? What world class artist is NOT represented in NYC? Now tell me what world renowned galleries I can find in rural Oklahoma?

I love when people say oooh the arts, oooh the museums. How often does the average college-educated resident go to a museum? Maybe once every few years.

Exactly.


All these clowns do is get wasted on Fridays and Saturday paying $25 for a glass of wine or cocktail and waste all their weekends hungover.. OooOoo. 'art!'. Pfff....you go to those maybe once a year, if that. Meanwhile, the city of NY is socking you $10k just for the stupid privilege of living in an overcrowded trashy city. All of that money could be used for savings in a retirement account earning compound interest or paying off student loan debt. But nah, gotta have the 'culture'.

It may not be important to you (which is fine). But it is important to some of us that we can take our kids to the occasional show, that they are raised in a multicultural environment and that we can take them to museums etc once in a while on a Saturday morning. My kids are not art critics or anything but they have grown up going to museums a couple of times a year. Like most kids similarly situated on the socio economic ladder wherever they live in the US, they spend most of their time going to school, sports practice, ECs, and perhaps a part time job. But sometimes it’s the 5% time stuff that will stick. At least I hope so.

Eh... having raised two kids into college, and exposed them to classical culture out their butt - international travel, all the major museums, French wine/cheese making, architecture in Greece/Italy, Japanese temples, food tour from north to south China, I've come to the full realization that culture is anything that provides context to understand what's most important: the people. With that clarity, claims about sophisticated "culture" in big American cities become laughably naive. Art galleries in a big city do not communicate anything about most of the people living in the city - only a minority of the people frequent one. Similarly, Museums are more often visited by tourists than locals. Big fancy cathedrals and churches host only a tiny sliver of the population despite their significant historical significance. In this regard, the galleries, theaters, museums, and architecture are largely interchangeable between all the major US cities and none of it communicates anything about the people living there. "Culture" that does not provide context, does not further understanding between peoples, is merely a plaything for the privileged to claim a false facade of sophistication.

Anonymous wrote:It’s a healthy family environment where the American dream is still possible and government interference is muzzled.

um.. ok. Guess that depends on how you define 'healthy". Florida health systems aren't that great; childhood obesity is like 35%; infant mortality is fairly high; Desantis is meddling in education.

I guess they are better off than, say, LA, but not compared to placesl ike MD.

It’s a healthy family environment where the American dream is still possible and government interference is muzzled.

I know two different folks who moved to FL. Coincidently both to the gulf coast. One is a former co-worker who retired (and happens to be gay and single), the others were my BIL&SIL - one of whom was let go during the pandemic (and who are both Trumpsters and unvaxxed.) I think FL is a hodge podge of folks who like warm weather.

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Anonymous wrote:Florida is like the Dollar Store version of California.

No, sorry, Florida doesn’t have tons of homeless people living on the streets.

I just spit out my coffee . . . . MIAMI has loads of homeless people, hon. Witnessed with my own two eyes.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Florida is like the Dollar Store version of California.

buuuurn.

To be fair, FLA won't have those problems because it will be underwater.

Also, enjoy Hurricane season, dying manatees, algae blooms, invasive reptiles in your backyard, and condominiums sinking into the beaches. Yeah, FLA sounds great.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Florida is like the Dollar Store version of California.

buuuurn.

You know that's not FL, right? We are talking about FLO-RI-DA.

Read the sub-thread you are replying to, dumbass.

Yes I know a family that moved to FL a few years ago. After Trump was elected but before Covid. They are weird homeschoolers and the mom is a wannabe Disney blogger who tries to make friends with the college kids working at the live shows.