- Joined
- Jul 7, 2020
Florida is a great place to live, in all honesty. Consistent temperature and weather, lots of good food, a variety of entertainment locales from nature reserves to theme parks to beaches to music venues to casinos, cities, suburbs, and rural areas within a couple hours drive of each other in more distinct regions than I can count across the state, low taxes, astounding diversity (ethnic, religious, etc.), a culture where everybody kind of does their own thing (so none of that Yankee "it takes a community to shame you into wearing your virus muzzle" bs), attractive people, lots of sun, tons of unique wildlife (some of which can kill you so you can brag about casually living around alligators to people living in less enlightened parts of the country), a not crazy state government (though there's lots of local corruption), a mix of both northerners and southerners (half my neighbourhood growing up was made up of New York Jews who came down in the past 50 years but across from my middle school was a house with a confederate flag, for instance), lots of interesting history (first North American settlement was at St Augustine, fuck Jamestown), etc.I've been wondering lately how actually batshit it would be to straight-up move to Florida because of this. I don't like heat and I don't like humidity, so I would never have considered it before, but we're a year into this shit with no end in sight. I've become pretty blackpilled about this ever ending but I almost feel like it has to end sometime and I'd feel pretty retarded if everything opened up a month after I moved my entire life to the swamp ass capital of the world.
Although I guess that economic devastation ain't going away fast, either.
There really isn't any place like it. If I didn't like dryer environments then I would never consider leaving. Plus you can't get good Key Limes anywhere but here, and I'm a sucker for Key Lime pies.