My biggest surprise with respect to eating out was how inexpensive it is relative to where we were from. As long as you stay away from the national chains which tend to have uniform pricing, eating and drinking out is quite affordable. The other day we were eating at a place that had happy hour prices: two beers for the price of one. The price of one beer was only $2.10 so each beer during happy hour (which appeared to run most of the day) was $1.05. I can't even buy it in a liquor store that cheaply.
A negative surprise was the lack of quality produce. Perhaps my expectations were too high. I had assumed that since much of the nation's produce comes from Florida, that when you were actually in Florida that it would be that much better. Not true.
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