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Originally Posted by Michael 61

So, I’m brand new to Florida, coming from Colorado. I hear lots of people in TV refer to “The North”, or going back home to “The North”. I usually find out they are referring to the mid-Atlantic, New England or the Mid West. Technically, Colorado is north of Florida, but it is way more west than it is north. It seems weird to me to refer to Colorado as “North”. In conversations with people, they seem to refer to any state other than Florida as “North”. Do those of you from Pacific and Rocky Mt states say you are going north, or going west when going back home?

You'll probably receive a variety of answers but seems pretty standard that Floridians (for the most part....LOL !) go NORTH before they go East or West.... it might just be as simple as a colloquial thing to say "north". Come to think of it, last time we went to NOLA I'm sure I said we were "heading north" for a week, when in reality we were driving north and THEN heading WEST... LOL ! Local habit more than precise accuracy probably !