It is a choice of an active lifestyle. We are limited in Indiana due to the weather, always changing, gloomy, yucky snow, cabin fever. We are planning the really active lifestyle all year round!!!!:beer3:

It's all relative--after growing up in Miami and living th the Bahamas, Belize, and Panama, I am looking forward to the wintery weather that TV has to offer. Open windows and not running the AC 24/7 is very appealing right now.

Nothing better than the windows open.....

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If you found someplace in FL without flying insects you best bottle and sell it. I have lived many years in FL it is a great place to retire, but living it FL you live with the bugs I don't care how much you spray. If you think not just stand beside a lawn just after sundown you will soon be found by insects that have been here for years. I live in a city that sprays doesn't do a lot good. Move to FL and enjoy life to the fullest.

Personally I think jealousy is part of the component to these kinds of remarks! We have a couple in our family who, when we announced that we were coming here just how much we'd hate it. Summers are just awful and we surely would hate them. Well come to find out neither one of these folks had ever been to Florida. I just recently heard that they grilled my adult daughter, asking how we liked Florida....she told them we loved it as from her perspective we'd had no complaints! People are funny and will try to let the "air" out of others "balloons" just to make themselves feel better. Either this poster's acquaintances/friends either aren't in the same position (able to retire) or just plain jealous someone else is doing something they aren't.

The reason I heard that from people was because they were 1) jealous and 2) didn't want us to leave. Most everybody who were close to us wished us well. Those who bad mouthed FL will not be invited when the cold winds blow up north

I think summer is the best time here actually