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Old 05-14-2023, 09:12 AM
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Default Don't know what you are talking about.

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Originally Posted by LuvNH View Post
So many of us have found our way to Florida in our retirement years. The majority of us came from "up north", up north is where we made our living, went to school, made lifelong friends, met our spouse, married and bought a home. We then sold up everything and moved to TV in Florida to live out our retirement years.

I see no reason to diss your home state just because you moved here. Yes, northern winters can be brutal, but many of us continue to go back to family for holidays and have a great time.

We seem to forget that if we had been born in Florida sixty plus years ago we would never have had the quality careers we had "up north", we would never have made the money we made, never have had the opportunity to go to great schools or have great health care. Because sixty plus years ago Florida was known as the honeymoon state or for the nearly dead.

So before you start dissing your home state why don't you stop and think about how fortunate you were to be raised in a state with opportunities available to you and then been able to sell up and move to Florida.
I have lived in FL for almost 60 years, had a great quality career, great health care and we have great schools. I graduared with a BS from one. I know many people who can say the same thing I said about the South. Never have I heard FL called the honeymoon state, Must be somthing people from the north make up. I always thought of FL as the vacation state.