Quote:
Originally Posted by LuvNH
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.
|
My "former" state was Florida, and I definitely NEVER "diss" it, I did live in Illinois (and several others during my career, and am guilty of "dissing" the others. Illinois never met a tax it didn't like, including state income tax. Same for several of the others. No I never have "dissed" Florida, but when I spent a few years away, I sure did MISS it, that's for sure. One thing that others might find interesting if they are from much colder states and if they happen to be Christian. During my years out of Florida Christmas was never the same. It was really difficult to think of the birth of Christ in a location with snow, giant deciduous trees, freezing temperatures, every possible opposite of the actual event...but, we managed knowing sand and palm trees were not the focus of that night, but the sight of a manager, set in a location that looked more like a ski resort than Bethlehem was just very "different", but obviously folks celebrate around the world regardless of any relationship to the actual climate location of the event !