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Originally Posted by DAVES
I am an ex-new yorker. I laugh when people complain on talk of the villages. They have no comprehension to what bad is. When we moved to Florida I was shocked. We filed for a Florida Drivers License, Florida car plates, to vote, tax exemption it took roughly one hour.
NY the line to be told what line to wait on next takes like an hour and a half. A boat on a trailer, you get to go through the lines at least twice.
As far as conceited carry in NY. Interesting, I carried cash and could not get one. I expect it was not in the five boroughs. Your gun being denied? There is a list of what they approve. The issue is the number of bullets it will hold.
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Amen. Pretty much the same back in Minnesota.
Minnesota is constantly trying to fix things that aren't broken. The Driver's License application and renewal process worked well enough, though VERY slow. So they put a new system in, in place of the one that worked. All it accomplished was to make a relatively slow process a painfully slow process, often to the point of stopping. The system was backlogged by at least three months, if not more. When we got to TV and applied for our Florida licenses at the Tax Collector's office (love that Florida isn't into cute euphemisms), I asked, at the end of the data-entering process, just how long we'd have to wait before we received our licenses. The data collector looked at me kind of oddly; I added that the usual wait in Minnesota was around three months. She laughed and said "you'll have it in your hand when you walk out of here".
Car plates too. THAT was backed up at least as long. Odd, being that the plates were manufactured at the State prison less than an hour way from the license bureau in St. Paul. But that wasn't the only problem. There were stories going around (knew one guy personally who had it happen) to the effect that not having your plate displayed was in violation of the law. One guy took it to court because he got ticketed for not displaying a current plate, claiming (rightfully) that he had abided by the lawful process and requested his replacement plate as required. The judge found against him, his reasoning being (in paraphrase) that a citizen cannot avoid legal penalties just because the government didn't fulfill its obligations in a timely manner.
Florida, in so many respects, is a breath of fresh air.