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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
It's a variety of things. That's a part of it, sure. It's also the weather. I hate Florida weather. My body hates Florida weather, my arthritis hates Florida weather. I have a personal aversion to really big cockroaches. Strangely enough, I don't skeeve out upon seeing a scorpion in my shoe (that happened when we visited Corpus Cristi, TX one year). But if I saw a cockroach in my shoe I'd be traumatized for at least a couple of weeks after the incident.
The division line between the haves and the have-nots. It's so wide. The folks living between "have" and "have not" are few and rare. I find that pathetic, and that window of "inbetween" is growing thinner every week, it seems.
The food. In some small areas of cities near the coast, you can find decent ethnic food of ALL sorts. But from the Everglades to the Panhandle, (except for Orlando), Central Florida is an ethnic food desert. And apparently, the overall population of this region is fine sticking with their choice of Chili's style chain restaurants, or $300/couple ultra-fancy "American wagyu" steaks with truffle sauce and braised avocado with wilted purple kale and shallot foam monstrosities.
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I thought the heat was supposed to be good for arthritis? Is that wrong?
Florida overall is diverse, but the Villages seems to be quite homogeneous. Not many "haves" or "have nots". Its mostly all middle class. 90+% of the homes cost less than $1M. So I don't think the in-between group is small within the Villages.