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Originally Posted by dhdallas
It is really worth it? Look at all you get!
Heat
Humidity
Snakes
Alligators
Cockroaches
Cubans
Big bugs: mosquitoes, fire ants, large flying roaches
Swamps
Hurricanes
Tornadoes
Sinkholes
Millions of tourists and snowbirds
Limited public transportation
Bad traffic and bad drivers
Higher crime rates
Inflated housing prices
Algae blooms
Mold
Expensive insurance costs
High sales taxes
Rising sea levels
Falling iguanas
Shark attacks (Daytona is the Shark Bite Capital of the World)
Yes, all this and more await you in beautiful sunny Florida!
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Interesting list. But it all depends where someone comes from. Most of the items on the list are probably true, more or less, of most of the southern states. For the ones that aren't--well, to my mind it has been a good trade for me.
Heat and humidity? Took me about three days to acclimate to that. But it's all relative. The part of Minnesota where I come from has more 100 degree days per year than does The Villages, but we also had a LOT of cold. As in -30 or lower, with snow on the ground six months out of the year. And tornadoes? Tornadoes in Florida rarely reach F2: up where I'm from they get a whole heck of a lot bigger and more powerful. The St. Peter tornado, back in 1998, devastated the city of over 12,000 residents but what a lot of people don't realize is that the St. Peter storm was only one of SEVENTEEN tornadoes in that cell. And cells like that aren't all that rare.
The other stuff? Granted, the traffic can get exasperating and Florida certainly has more than it's share of bad drivers, but the number of drivers, real estate prices, etc. etc. reflect the fact that people WANT to be here. And I certainly cannot blame them for that.