Anonymous wrote:We relocated to multiple places in florida, and while it's not perfect, i find it hard to believe that someone could be miserable here unless they were looking to be miserable. Sure, people are less career-focused and educated than DC. But my dh and i are highly educated and (previously) career focused and love being here and balanced by regular people. It's nice to have a lot of things to talk about with people other than politics and our jobs. Like, we are quite chummy with our next door neighbors, and they are both highly educated professionals in the medical field. We have no idea what their political leanings are. We think she probably sways democratic, and he probably sways republican. But we're not sure. But he sometimes texts my DH at 9pm on a friday to say he's getting up at 7am to go stand up paddle boarding, and would my DH like to come, and they have an awesome time. Because it's florida.

Florida is so transient that most people on the coasts just don't talk politics and don't talk jobs. But they are mostly friendly, and genuinely kind and caring. I find it hard to imagine how someone could completely hate it here.... The fact that op hates it makes me think it's more about her, and her relationship with her SO.

Anonymous wrote:Two things I have learned in life:

1. Only boring people get bored.
2. It takes 2 years to get used to a new place, and up to 5 to become acclimated. Give it time.

Anonymous wrote:I live in both D.C. and Naples and I'd take Naples any day of the week. The one thing they have in common is that the summer weather sucks. The only reason I live in DC is because it's where I can make a lot of money that I get to spend in a nice place like Naples.

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Anonymous wrote:We relocated to multiple places in florida, and while it's not perfect, i find it hard to believe that someone could be miserable here unless they were looking to be miserable. Sure, people are less career-focused and educated than DC. But my dh and i are highly educated and (previously) career focused and love being here and balanced by regular people. It's nice to have a lot of things to talk about with people other than politics and our jobs. Like, we are quite chummy with our next door neighbors, and they are both highly educated professionals in the medical field. We have no idea what their political leanings are. We think she probably sways democratic, and he probably sways republican. But we're not sure. But he sometimes texts my DH at 9pm on a friday to say he's getting up at 7am to go stand up paddle boarding, and would my DH like to come, and they have an awesome time. Because it's florida.

Florida is so transient that most people on the coasts just don't talk politics and don't talk jobs. But they are mostly friendly, and genuinely kind and caring. I find it hard to imagine how someone could completely hate it here.... The fact that op hates it makes me think it's more about her, and her relationship with her SO.

This is DC, and to the locals here (even transplants to Florida), anyone not in this hell hole of a bubble is a gun toting, stupid, apolitical (or if you are political, you're a Neonazi with genocidal ideations), toothless and cut-off shirt wearing, overweight heroin addict who voted for Trump. I mean I'm sure I missed something, but there it is.

Anonymous wrote:We relocated to multiple places in florida, and while it's not perfect, i find it hard to believe that someone could be miserable here unless they were looking to be miserable. Sure, people are less career-focused and educated than DC. But my dh and i are highly educated and (previously) career focused and love being here and balanced by regular people. It's nice to have a lot of things to talk about with people other than politics and our jobs. Like, we are quite chummy with our next door neighbors, and they are both highly educated professionals in the medical field. We have no idea what their political leanings are. We think she probably sways democratic, and he probably sways republican. But we're not sure. But he sometimes texts my DH at 9pm on a friday to say he's getting up at 7am to go stand up paddle boarding, and would my DH like to come, and they have an awesome time. Because it's florida.

Florida is so transient that most people on the coasts just don't talk politics and don't talk jobs. But they are mostly friendly, and genuinely kind and caring. I find it hard to imagine how someone could completely hate it here.... The fact that op hates it makes me think it's more about her, and her relationship with her SO.

Anonymous wrote:Everyone I know who moved to Florida and is not a retiree is miserable. It's great if you don't have to work but otherwise it is the pits.

Anonymous wrote:I'd grow citrus in my back yard and have a year-round vegetable garden. I'd lose 20 pounds running on the beach and swimming.

Anonymous wrote:
You have to move, OP. I would have never agreed to go. DC is too warm for me in the summer, and the mosquitoes are a horror, so Florida... blaargh!