What Do You Like /Love about Living in Florida?

Wow that’s so nice to know a fellow Tallahasseean 'Naut. After they really started kicking the remaining artists out of Railroad Square Art Park, and the Florida State entertainment venue Club Downunder (temporarily) closed down, things really died off with the music scene and area, for a while (besides the hardcore punk scene, which has always been thriving regardless.)

Now however, post pandemic, the Club has reopened, we have a solid venue called The Bark, and another decent sometimes venue/stage at Play of Sunlight Mushrooms (a giant mushroom growing warehouse that sells their yields across North Florida.) Finally more indie, electronic, jazz, and experimental music happening again. Good restaurants have been opening and in general the town seems to be looking up. Great place to visit or live.

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I’ve been here for almost 50 years and every year I get less accustomed to the summers and humidity. :sweat_smile:

November thru March is generally pretty glorious unless it’s an unseasonably warm year. This year has been really great.

Having been here my whole life I’m really over the beach and ocean (don’t even start on hurricanes). I’d trade it for mountains, hiking, lakes and more varied seasons in a second. Again though, I completely get how the beach and ocean is an absolute paradise for some.

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Agreed on a lot of counts. Well before I moved things were moving fairly rapidly towards gentrifying the small pockets of life, and Miami’s always been engaged with trash money (recently trying to scam people with “Miamicoin” and NFT/crypto conferences) as all the ephemeral aspects I loved were bulldozed.

Florida’s a beautiful place, run primarily for the benefit of the nouveau riche and “aspirational” image/narrative heavy douchenozzles, who are not bringing work and better quality of life for residents.

There are a few establishments remaining that I will always love and will refrain from mentioning out of fear :slight_smile:

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It took me a long time to become acclimated to the trash and the rednecks, and a long time to realize they are not always the same thing… an important lesson in my life.
I can’t speak for Florida, but as far as Jacksonville, it is a melting pot… and sure they’re are a lot off backwards ideas, but we all seem to get along ok. I think people here are very accepting. I see trans people next to backwoods folks you think might hate each other, then find out we all just want to be accepted really… but most of all the thriving feeling from everybody is to have a good time… and I like that. We have fun here!!
And also, it has just big enough to feel like a city, we have just about everything any city has almost, and growing crazy every day, but little enough to feel like a big family too. Jacksonville will make you humble, beat it out of you, it is the dirty south, it will beat you for learning how to suffer, but after you have lived here long enough… you become a real native and you get it… shrug off crazy heat, confederate flags, Jurassic Park animals, learn to love it all… then you realize how special and beautiful everything really is here.

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sounds very romantic in the worst way :grin:
don’t think I could go inside a voting booth and vote for the confederacy and the ideals I was raised with at the same time, but several people I’ve talked to recently have got me to put Jacksonville on my list next time I’m out that way so I am def lookin forward to checking it out.

oh shoot I just realized I’ve also been to Orlando, cause that’s where Disney world is, I liked Disney world much more than I like Disney land

Per Wendler is from Florida.

I liked south FL. The ocean and the culture. The food too.

Leaving FL I realized how bad of an infrasture it has if you like to cycle or be outdoors. The rail from orlando to miami will be a huge thing though. Still, I do not mind paying a state income tax to have better infrastructure.

But I also hated how much it rained, just constant rain and humidity.

I hate driving but love driving vids

how’s the skating out there?

As someone who has visited Florida let me point out the elephant in the room for y’all.

Q: What’s great about Florida?
A: It is as far away from California and New York as you can get on continental USA.

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I eat at Versailles in LA a lot!

It’s always sounded funny that it’s called Versailles, which is a palace in France. So once I asked them why it’s called that, and apparently there’s another Versailles on Calle Ocho in Miami and the LA restaurant is a nod to that one.

Why is a Cuban restaurant on Calle Ocho named after a French Palace? I still don’t know the answer to that one. Great chicken though! Although, I’m more of a fan of the Lechon

what’s wrong with California and New York, aren’t most people in both places from Florida? :smile:

@lowph yeah man can’t get enough of it, now that I know they’re named after the one in Florida I’m gonna have to try it out
I love the coconut smoothies too

Yeah, Versailles in Miami is on my list for sure. I haven’t been to Miami in a minute… I think the last time was 05 or 06, which was way before i knew about the origin of LA Versailles

One might say that’s what’s great about NY and CA :wink:

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One might. But in light of the hard facts of current migration data one would also be in the minority.

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So are you going to tell us how California and New York hurt you? :laughing:

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speaking from California regarding the current migration data I can tell you that California is still anxiously waiting for all of those migration videos to come to fruition… people keep promising to leave the state and free up the housing like they make promises to secede the nation and free up the country but it hasn’t happened yet lol, c’mon tell your friends we need the housing pretty bad lets get this show on the road :rofl:

florida is beautiful though, definitely a nice place to visit

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When traditional propagandist networks like CNBC or rags like the LA Times are writing stories on it backed by CENSUS data or the US Department of Finances. You can be pretty sure at this point it is an actual thing. Even with an open border California’s population has dropped year on year… You can not deny the facts.

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you can’t deny the housing problem either

um… relevance? when did I?

do you know how many porn stars from florida support their families by sending money back home from California , for that alone California’s a saint

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