A word in yer ear...

[DrEntropy]

..about "Florida".

It's over-rated. There's mosquitoes here biting us even NOW. Possibility of malaria, West Nile disease... humidity like a sauna, sweating has no benefit. Ants... FIRE ants. And termites! Giant lizards run wild! Beware the iguana!

Softball sized fruit can fall from trees with NO WARNING! It'll put ya on your knees: "Mangoes". Veerry scary.

Concrete everywhere ya look... OH!! And free range chickens, hurricanes, swamps, alligators, mold and spores... The list is endless.

All-in-all a place to be avoided at all cost. Save yourself! Keep clear of th' place.


This PSA brought to you by Chaos & Mayhem PTY, LTD. in the interest of your safety.

:smirk:

 

[GregW]

Get a bunch of transplants movin' in the hood recently?

 

[Steve_S]

I was there most of this month. There was hot and sticky, and there was freezing wet. But you're still having better weather than us.

 

[vagt6]

Just goes to show ya', there's no utopia . . .

I love the weather down south, but as you say, bugs, disease, pestilence, etc. to deal with.

Up here in old Virginny, it's kinda nice to have four distinct seasons. Winter ain't too bad, cold weather for about three months, then a glorious springtime.

Methinks the lucky folks who live in SoCal have it made. Mediterranean climate, convertible weather all year, with only an earthquake or mudslide to ponder, occasionally.

Again, no utopia weather-wise, but SoCal seems the best to me. Or, maybe Provence . . .

 

[GregW]

with only an earthquake or mudslide to ponder, occasionally.

You left out the one we get most often.

 

[tony barnhill]

hehehehehe........

 

[vping]

I think about a new place to liver every day. Tired of "surviving" on Long Island but I've been a New Yorker all my life. I need lots of land and privacy but need to be close enough civilization to do things, and don't want to spend a fortune living there. Is it too much to ask. As soon as middle kid is off to college, I'm hoping to bail on this heck hole. Probably the rudest people in the world here and it ain't my kinda living.

Gee where did that come from?

 

[tony barnhill]

hehehehehehe.....

 

[1965_MGB]

..about "Florida".
It's over-rated.
All-in-all a place to be avoided at all cost. Save yourself! Keep clear of th' place.
This PSA brought to you by Chaos & Mayhem PTY, LTD. in the interest of your safety.
:smirk:

The same goes for Palm Beach County, save yourselves, stay where all things including pizza, stores, air, water and trees are better. Oh, and if you want to move Grandma back to Queens, please be our guests, her condo in Century Village will rent out for sure. :wink:

 

[tony barnhill]

hehehehehehe....but, I'm not saying anything.

Oh, Ron, I have neighbors who recently sold their Century Village condo - his brother still lives in one...I even looked at them at one time...too many old people there!

 

[Gliderman8]

Anywhere has got to be better that living here in my neck of the woods. I have to content with dodging "exhaust" from these machines that proliferate our roads....

 

[tony barnhill]

Why do you guys stay in those places if you <span style="text-decoration: line-through">hate</span> dislike them so much?

 

[weewillie]

Anywhere has got to be better that living here in my neck of the woods. I have to content with dodging "exhaust" from these machines that proliferate our roads....

but just think what the driver faces including the occasional spray

 

[Sherlock]

Well... You can keep Florida guys, I love where I live! One of the most beautiful places in the world

<span style="font-weight: bold">Here in Calgary:</span>

... to the west the beautiful Foothills leading up to the mountains of Banff and Jasper

... to the east the Prairies, flat as they are there is a real beauty to them, they aren't as boring as people like to think

... also just to the east of us are the Drumheller Badlands, a beautiful place to explore, gorgeous rock formations


... and I love the open spaces of western Canada, the fact that I can drive for hours through open countryside on secondary highways, without having to dodge too many cities and towns, and often having the road virtually to myself, what a great feeling that is, something I never truly appreciated until I lived in southern Ontario for three years (ie. a town or settlement every ten minutes on the highway) <span style="font-style: italic">disclaimer: nothing personal against southern Ontario, just not my kind of place</span>



I think about the only thing we're missing here is a large body of water, all of our <span style="font-style: italic">so-called</span> lakes are merely excuses for water

My friend, poet Sheri-D Wilson says it best, just listen to Track 4 "Big Sky Alberta"... https://www.kerfmusic.com/vmchk/60sheri-dwilsonw/russellbroom

 

[Steve_S]

So Cal does have fantastic weather and climate, but the very best in my opinion is San Diego (100 miles south of LA). It has the most moderate and stable weather of any place I've ever been.

Still, if I were going to live anywhere in So Cal (or possibly in North America), it would be north rather than south. I'd live in the Santa Barbara area (100 miles north of LA). Still the great weather but there is a bit more humidity so you occasionally get fog.

Mind you this is a petty rant since I'm talking about a few days of fog per year in a place with beautiful, sunny weather year-round!

The coast:

Looking the other way, at the city:

 

[GregW]

Still the great weather but there is a bit more humidity so you occasionally get fog.

Heck Steve, you just be on the wrong side of the hill. We get fog over here, not soupy thick, but enough where a block and a half down the road buildings disappear entirely. I'm not knocking SB thou...

 

[Steve_S]

We get fog here as well, but not nearly as often as you. I'm only ten miles from the Pacific Ocean but there are 1,200-foot hills between it and I. This blocks most of the humidity, fog and cold in Winter. It also blocks much of the off-shore breeze in the Summer which means it's 15-degrees hotter in the summer than on your side of the hill!

 

[bugimike]

Cemetary Village?? Hehehe....Good advice for those contemplating visit, eh Doc.!

 

[Brooklands]

I too would hate to lose the four distinct seasons. We still have some snow on the ground the day after Christmas, and when I get sick of the cold, the spring will bring me back out doors. Then summer is the time to drive top down any dry day, and when I am sick of heat (which is worse than cold to me) the crisp days of fall and the leaves turning are just what is needed again. I love to travel and visit all over, but home is where I plan to stay until they scatter my ashes in the memorial garden at church.

 

[DNK]

Seattle has 4 distinct seasons. A lot of rain, a bit less rain, sun and fog ,and more rain