Why do people live in Florida?

"Huricane Crock" wrote in message
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puzzled Don't they get tired of having to evacuate every summer, and
having their houses destroyed?

The Floridians, whose Public Schools rank #45-49 out of 50 states in every
survey of schools conducted since 1845, keep hoping that the corrupt
scumbags who run the County and State governments will finally create
Building Codes that are Hurricane Proof. So they keep coming back for
more,
and their houses keep getting blown away.


I'm sensing a lot of anger there, Ted. If you have completed your
manifesto, it's time to get out to the cabin and start licking envelopes.

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"eüphemism" wrote in message
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"Pete Platis" wrote in message
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puzzled wrote in message
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A massive hurricane seems to hit Florida every few years. I really
don't
understand why people continue to live there. Don't they get tired of
having
to evacuate every summer, and having their houses destroyed? Someone
explain
this to me.


Well , hurricanes are one reason but Florida has a host of
others
to
stay away:

1. Cockroaches ......LOTS OF EM ( also known as "palmetto bugs" in
order
to
water down the icky factor, don't be fooled though, they are just larger
roaches......that fly........very well) and a plethora of other pests
that
you WILL come into contact with on a personal level whether you want to
or
not..........this includes scorpions and brown recluse spiders btw, both
poisonous.

2. Staggering humidity ( well not all of florida but anything south of
the
tropical line is brutal)

3. Job market isn't so great.

4. There ain't no mountains, not a one!. There has basically GOT to be
something wrong with that. In fact , the highest point in the state is
only
a measely *345* feet high!.

5. Swamps........hell most of the state is a swamp.

6. Highest percentage of over 80 year olds behind the wheel of a
car.......THAT can't be a good thing.

7. Alot of white trash, yeah I know that can be found in alot of states.
Just seems worse in Florida for some reason though.

8. Basically Florida has one or 2 seasons, depending on where you live
in
the state. For a 4 season kinda guy like me , not a good thing.

9. Alligators coming into contact with people in or near their homes,
killing or maiming them and/or their pets. It's not a good thing. Been
happening more frequently too.


10. FLORIDIANS ARE VOTING-MACHINE CHALLENGED.


In case any of you are wondering, yeah I spent a couple of years in that
awful state.


Enjoy the remainder of your evening.



Were your years in Florida all spent living under an overpass in a moving
box that was infested with Palmetto bugs?


LOL!, actually I spent 6 months on the outskirts of Miami in what you
guys call "Redlands". My uncle is a rich S.O.B. and owns mainly leechie-nut
plantations ( I know it sounds strange but there is HUGE bucks in it) down
there. He's got a friggin ultra modern huge mansion about 1 1/2 clicks
from where his plantations start. Everytime I would turn on the light in the
kitchen the damn palmettos would scatter. It wasn't a matter of filth or
squalor, *everyone* had em in their homes there. Nothing you could do about
it but get used to it. I used to see them flying around outside sometimes
too, disgusting bugs. That's got to be one of the most physically beautiful
and quiet regions of Fla. though. Then I spent 2 years up in Merrit Island.
Not as many of them there but they were still a nuisance. Merit island
sucks btw.





You forgot to mention the fire ants, the tourists and the 6 month anxiety
attack called "Hurricane Season" that results from the shrill and
unrelenting stream of warnings from the media. None of it does any good
either...

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Pete Platis wrote:

2. Staggering humidity ( well not all of florida but anything south of the
tropical line is brutal)

I think effect of high humidity is not only slower evaporation, but the
denser air too, it makes cold days colder and hot ones hotter (

"eüphemism" If you have completed your manifesto, it's time to get out to
the cabin and start licking envelopes.

I will have to get a job so that I can buy the stamps and envelopes. Not
something like the electrical generator that I hooked up to the bicycle so
that I can generate electric by riding my bike. Just getting together the
$10. for my ISP takes all my time collecting aluminum cans for recycling.

"grisgrisfunk" wrote in message
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"ScanMan" wrote in message
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Amen to that. I don't care where you live, you have hazards. Umm,
that's
all
part of the wonderful world we live in.

What's that old song, Your Blues Ain't Like Mine...

A Happy Floridian

I agree... Connecticut is a hazardous state to drive in, and that's an
everyday occurence. People here only know one speed, FAST. Crazy reckless
drivers. Once in awhile a person from Massachusetts will cross the border,
they're even worse. We call them Massholes!

So I agree, every state has it's hazards. I deal with them everyday on
the
road.

Mike R.


If I ever meet a person who doesn't think the drivers where he lives are the
absolute worst in the world, I will eat his seat covers.

The drivers in Florida were the worst until I moved out here to Texas.
Apparently all the real morons moved at just the same time I did, because
the insane and incompetent drivers here are clearly now the worst anywhere.
I offer proof:

I have never SEEN such a bunch of red-light-running maniacs in my entire
life. On top of that, drag racing deaths and high-speed police chases are a
daily occurrence. Just since I have been living here, I have seen numerous
police chases caught on live television... two of them are "classics" that
you will now see on every episode of "Scariest Police Chases." Both are from
just the last two years here at DFW... Perhaps you've seen the one with a
maniac who is running from police while driving a forty-foot flat-bed rig,
dragging a fork truck that has fallen from the bed and the sparks and fuel
set the back end of the trailer on fire? Great stuff... Then there's the
one where the fleeing car thief apparently commits suicide when he realizes
he can't escape and so just drives the stolen pickup right into a concrete
support column - doing about 80 mph. Brutal.

The irony is that many Texas drivers are the most courteous you will find.
Those folks are scattered like the occasional raisin in the maniac muffin
mix of DFW traffic. Just the other day, a Comcast Cable worker pulled out a
gun and killed a driver who ****ed him off. It wasn't even a big story.
Then there was the guy who threw his ex from the 80' overpass into the
traffic below and then jumped himself. Don't forget the woman who impaled
the bum in her windshield and then left him there to die. She was
immediately upstaged by the Houston wife who was caught on video doing
donuts atop her cheating husband in the parking lot of the hotel where the
affair was held.

I don't care where you live... Texas is nuttier.


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"Willcox" wrote in message
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Pete Platis wrote:

2. Staggering humidity ( well not all of florida but anything south of
the
tropical line is brutal)

I think effect of high humidity is not only slower evaporation, but the
denser air too, it makes cold days colder and hot ones hotter (



The McFLT effect?

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People live in Florida because:

Their family is there.
It's fairly cheap to retire there.
Disneyworld is there!!
They move there after living in cold weather places.
They love hot weather.

I am a California native. 99% of my family lives in Cali... (since the
1860s). My hometown area has small quakes every week and now and then a
big quake. It's overpopulated, smoggy at times, costly to live there but
to me it's the greatest place on earth.!! Many years ago I thought about
moving to Florida for a change of pace, but the one thing I disliked the
most were the "gators"..!! So, I guess every place has it's pros and
cons. We often can't imagine why some people live where they do...

A Sat, 4 Sep 2004 17:05:43 -0700, "Peter L"
escribió:
Where else would you want them to live? Twister alley? Earthquake
country? Buffalo?

Knoxville, TN.


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People live everywhere for every reason. The big grib I have is with bd
weather insurance. The ticky-tacky housing in Florida tha blows away in
moderate breezed cause my insurance to go up to pay for this inadiquate
flimsy construction. AND. this kind of crappy building wil just start
all over, paid in large part my my insurance payments.

My house is lift slab steel re-enforces concrete with acpost tensioned
poured-in-place roof. It is guaranteed to withstand 200 mph winds, and
has. In 1976 is sailed through Typhoon Pamela with only a bit of water
under the front door. As long as Floridians continure to allow housing
that will not stand up to any hurricane-force winds, I think that
insurance companies should refuse to cover them.


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People live everywhere for every reason. The big grib I have is with bd
weather insurance. The ticky-tacky housing in Florida tha blows away in
moderate breezed cause my insurance to go up to pay for this inadiquate
flimsy construction. AND. this kind of crappy building wil just start
all over, paid in large part my my insurance payments.

My house is lift slab steel re-enforces concrete with acpost tensioned
poured-in-place roof. It is guaranteed to withstand 200 mph winds, and
has. In 1976 is sailed through Typhoon Pamela with only a bit of water
under the front door. As long as Floridians continure to allow housing
that will not stand up to any hurricane-force winds, I think that
insurance companies should refuse to cover them.


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