Tell me about Florida

[RINC]

I just looked up current Phoenix weather. 111 and 17% humidity at 5pm. I think they would shut down my city due to fire hazard if we ever hit 17% humidity. It's 9pm here, and we're still at 80%. It was 80F, dead air and 95% this morning. Dew point is your body. That's common in FL too.

I've also been in dry semi-arid 115F which at the time I thought felt like 90 back home.

Well my dad can beat up your dad.

 

[KennethS]

And not collapse from over exerting in high heat. Win!

 

[Apparition]

I just looked up current Phoenix weather. 111 and 17% humidity at 5pm. I think they would shut down my city due to fire hazard if we ever hit 17% humidity. It's 9pm here, and we're still at 80%. It was 80F, dead air and 95% this morning. Dew point is your body. That's common in FL too.

I've also been in dry semi-arid 115F which at the time I thought felt like 90 back home.

I was in Tucson a month ago when our rental car said 115° came back to Minnesota in the 90’s and high humidity. I’d rather be in AZ. It may be because I despise Minnesota though.

 

[CreepinDeth]

Stay away from the manatees -

38-year-old Florida manatee dies after ‘high-intensity’ sex with brother​

"Hugh died in April after sustaining a 14.5-centimeter rip in his colon."


https://nypost.com/2023/07/27/florida-manatee-dies-after-high-intensity-sex-with-brother/



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Can you just sense the authors homosexuality oozing out of that article pushing an agenda?? Sick Sick world we now live in

Handlers maintain that Hugh and Buffett had been engaging in consensual and “natural” mating behavior for two months leading up to Hugh’s death.

 

[CreepinDeth]

I was in Tucson a month ago when our rental car said 115° came back to Minnesota in the 90’s and high humidity. I’d rather be in AZ. It may be because I despise Minnesota though.

Nah Ive been to Az when its 110+ on vacation and I prefer the dry heat VS say 90 and high humidity which feels worse in Chicagoland

Id rather be dry and in the shade Vs bein in a hot wet thick blanket of air with swamp ass

 

[TJ4Jim]

Really had to laugh.

https://www.newser.com/story/338379...art&utm_medium=earthlink&utm_campaign=rss_top

 

[KennethS]

Do y'all really want to live in this? A day or two while on vacation is one thing, but living in it every day with no end in sight is not really much fun.

 

[BlueC]

Do y'all really want to live in this?

No, no I do not. How's yalls winter temps?

 

[RINC]

No, no I do not. How's yalls winter temps?

Too warm.

 

[P man]

Do y'all really want to live in this? A day or two while on vacation is one thing, but living in it every day with no end in sight is not really much fun.



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Nope zero interest..its the opposite here when it rains for months on end..do you really want to live here? I need something in the middle

 

['05Train]

I lived in Jacksonville in the late '90s. Both parents lived there until they died. Florida's got some decent places to visit, but it's no place I ever want to live again.

No, there's no state income tax, but there's fees for everything. Homeowner's and auto insurance are expensive. It's dead-flat, which just sucks. It's brutally hot and humid. And it's not The South. It's geographically south, and there's pockets of Southern folk there (mostly in the Panhandle), but if you're used to The South, Florida ain't it.

If no state income tax is what you want, look at Tennessee. Nice climate, mountains, great culture, and it's the by-God South.

I'm in SW Virginia, and were I ever to think about leaving, it'd be to Tennessee.

 

[Westtown Willy]

Nope zero interest..its the opposite here when it rains for months on end..do you really want to live here? I need something in the middle

Kensington Avenue in Philly feels like the middle

Not sure what it's the middle of, however.

Oh how our founding fathers are spinning in their graves

 

[Apparition]

Kensington Avenue in Philly feels like the middle

Not sure what it's the middle of, however.

Oh how our founding fathers are spinning in their graves

Looks like zombies. We really need to address mental issues in this country.

 

[Zorba]

I lived in Jacksonville in the late '90s. Both parents lived there until they died. Florida's got some decent places to visit, but it's no place I ever want to live again.

No, there's no state income tax, but there's fees for everything. Homeowner's and auto insurance are expensive. It's dead-flat, which just sucks. It's brutally hot and humid. And it's not The South. It's geographically south, and there's pockets of Southern folk there (mostly in the Panhandle), but if you're used to The South, Florida ain't it.

If no state income tax is what you want, look at Tennessee. Nice climate, mountains, great culture, and it's the by-God South.

I'm in SW Virginia, and were I ever to think about leaving, it'd be to Tennessee.

But it snows in Tennessee.

 

['05Train]

But it snows in Tennessee.

Negligibly, especially around Chattanooga (where I'd go). The payoff is actual seasons, mountains, no Love Bugs, and a great music scene.

I can deal with 2 days of snow a year for that.

 

[Zorba]

Negligibly, especially around Chattanooga (where I'd go). The payoff is actual seasons, mountains, no Love Bugs, and a great music scene.

I can deal with 2 days of snow a year for that.

Tenn is very nice - I used to go to an annual shooting event in s. central Tenn, off of 65 just north of the Alabama state line. Very pretty country. Kentucky would be my absolute first choice, but it snows there too.

 

[Daviddnv]

I'm having a complete re-evaluation about where I want to live the rest of my life. Not sure I've changed my mind. But certainly reconsidering what is out there.

MT has been at the top of my list for some time. But I'm seriously considering living in a better climate. I'm almost 60.

What can those that have lived or do live in Florida tell me about the state?

I'm considering the outer Tampa area. Maybe even as far south as Cape Coral. Or further north up the coast. I don't want to live in Tampa. Other than maybe Bradenton. More looking at coastal areas.

A few areas of concern:

Taxes.
Health, car etc insurance.
Real estate seems reasonable.
Cost of power.
Other costs?
Demographics. What areas around Tampa should I avoid? Meaning crime.
Are there better areas in Florida? I would prefer the gulf coast. I like saltwater fishing alot.

What am I not asking that I should be?

I’ll chime in about Florida. I grew up in Philly, 70s and 80s. FL is better than Philly, but most places are better than Philly, lol.

Florida is big enough to have a different environment depending on where you are. From the people, weather, traffic, insurance, etc. I spent 30+ years in Punta Gorda (Charlotte County), between Sarasota and Fort Myers. Punta Gorda is old (people wise). So if you are near 60 and want to feel young, Punta Gorda works. The southeast (Palm Beach south) is younger, but more crowded and more expensive.

Now, I split my time between Orlando and Daytona Beach, two distinctively different places. Orlando/Orange County is more liberal, but it’s run pretty good for being run by mostly democrats. Daytona Beach is a little weird, kind of liberal but still conservative enough, but the county goes pretty far west and gets rural and conservative. Luckly the Volusia County is mostly conservative, so that helps. I think both places do ok because of the influx of tourist money. Easy to run a place when there is lots of money. I found Charlotte County and Orange County had good schools. Kids went through both. The FL university system is highly ranked (and very affordable), despite what people from other States say.

Weather, it’s different in different places. I think Orlando is less humid than Punta Gorda. The fronts just don’t make it down south as much as they go through central FL. But summers do get hot and humid, everywhere.

All and all, someplace in Florida probably has what you are looking for (other than dry desert like conditions). City life, rural/farm life, beach life… it’s all here.

--David

 

['05Train]

Tenn is very nice - I used to go to an annual shooting event in s. central Tenn, off of 65 just north of the Alabama state line. Very pretty country. Kentucky would be my absolute first choice, but it snows there too.

Kentucky is beautiful, but there's state income tax there. Might as well stay in SWVA if I'm willing to pay that.

 

[Apparition]

Kentucky is beautiful, but there's state income tax there. Might as well stay in SWVA if I'm willing to pay that.

If you get lucky, Kentucky pays you

https://www.foxnews.com/lifestyle/r...cornfield-worth-millions-line-winning-lottery

A cache of more than 800 Civil War-era gold coins were recently unearthed in a Kentucky cornfield — a treasure worth millions that experts are calling one of the greatest finds of the 21st century.

"It's hard to put this in context because there are so few instances of coins of this nature with this level of rarity being found in the ground in the United States," Andrew Salzberg, executive vice president of the Numismatic Guaranty Company’s (NGC) Certified Collectibles Group, told Fox News Digital.

NGC, a third-party grading service for coins, tokens and medals based in Sarasota, Florida, certified the coins — dubbed the "Great Kentucky Hoard" — and valued them at more than $2 million.


"Most of them are gold dollars, which in and of themselves are really interesting pieces of numismatic history," Salzberg said.

In addition, he added, there were some $20 gold pieces — "a couple of which were dated 1863 and graded MS 64, which is the highest grade that has ever been graded," he said.

 

[RINC]

I vote for Sebring for 12hrs a year and Daytona for 24hrs a year.