When I bought down here, I got the old "Did you know, TV is the STD...." routine. To which I dispelled it immediately.
That said, I've had friends come to visit us and they come away with "Now I understand".
The best was when my wife's parents stayed at our rental property for a week.
They have been all over Florida for the past 60 years, and my FIL's parents moved to Fort Meyers at some point in the 70s. They know Florida quite well.
They were astonished by TV. They simply had NO IDEA. They weren't the old trope/gossip types, they just figured my wife and I moved to a place with some pools and a couple golf courses.
Now they're planning to come back. It only took us 4 years to convince them to come, now they want to come back
. They are in their late 80s, so travel is tiresome for them, but they can come when they want.
The fact remains, you really can't judge TV until you've spent some time here.