Poll of the Day > What's it like living in FL?

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I live in Arizona and I enjoy warm climates. Hate cockroaches though and I bet there are even more of them there than there are here.

I know from my professional background that homeowners insurance is insane

Does anyone here live there and enjoy it? Thinking about visiting next year.

Don't

probably like an episode of Dexter

Pretty exciting I'd imagine

Looks what's currently going on

Positives -

Beaches and little to no cold weather
No state income tax
Wildlife

Negatives -

-It's hot 9 months out of the year
-State is built around retirees and wealthy folk fleeing from Cali and the northeast
-Hiking spots are dog doo compared to everywhere else I've lived
-Awful drivers and poorly planned infrastructure that lags behind growth
-Hurricanes are skyrocketing home owners insurance, making it hard for many to even acquire it.
-Overdevelopment is making flooding worse
-Cultureless unless you go far north or south.

I hate it here and yearn to move to an underpopulated mountain town.

WettyBhite posted...

Negatives -

-It's hot 9 months out of the year

I have once been there, not all that far south, over New Year's. It was very warm and humid on the morning of the 1st of January. Usually if I go, it's in the fall. Over the years I have concluded that traveling to Florida is a matter of avoiding the hurricane season, not "going when it is cooler", because it never seems to be.

Come to think of it, it wasn't all bad, this was Jan 1st 2020. Soon I would not be permitted to visit my fiancee at all for a few years as the USA in its wisdom decided COVID was best fought by refusing tourists, and if she's not your wife, she is not family.

Cons: Much of Florida will be underwater by 2100.

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I really enjoyed it when I went in January, but I can't imagine it's great outside of winter

It's Arizona but humid

Your experience of Florida will depend almost entirely on which part of it you go to. In some ways, it's like four different states. South, East, West, and North (and maybe divide the north by straight north versus the Panhandle for five) all have different cultures, mindsets, and even weather patterns.

If you've never been and are considering moving you should absolutely visit there a few times to see how you feel about it. Go, ask random people how they feel about living there, get a feel for various areas. Don't jump blind.



Sashanan posted...

I have once been there, not all that far south, over New Year's. It was very warm and humid on the morning of the 1st of January. Usually if I go, it's in the fall. Over the years I have concluded that traveling to Florida is a matter of avoiding the hurricane season, not "going when it is cooler", because it never seems to be.

Muscles posted...

I really enjoyed it when I went in January, but I can't imagine it's great outside of winter

The irony is, southern Florida (ie, around Miami) is often cooler in summer than it is in the actual Northeast US. There've been plenty of times when it's mid-70s there while it's mid-90s in New York.

Though speaking of humidity, that's going to be the biggest shock to someone from Arizona. It might be easy to think "Ehh, I'm used to heat, I'll be fine", but it's difficult to understand just how hellish humidity can be if you've never really experienced it. As much as "it's not the heat, it's the humidity" is a trite phrase, it's very much true - humidity is often way worse than just plain heat.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Though speaking of humidity, that's going to be the biggest shock to someone from Arizona. It might be easy to think "Ehh, I'm used to heat, I'll be fine", but it's difficult to understand just how hellish humidity can be if you've never really experienced it. As much as "it's not the heat, it's the humidity" is a trite phrase, it's very much true - humidity is often way worse than just plain heat.

I'm from Southern California, where it's not uncommon to see temperatures over 100F with below 10% humidity during a Santa Ana, and it's hot, but not uncomfortable. Any sweat just evaporates immediately, so you're hot but dry.

Then I moved to the rural Midwest. One acre of corn can pump up to 4,000 gallons of water into the air every single day (that's almost 4 Olympic swimming pools for every square mile), increasing the humidity by 15% or more! I'll be outside, my hair and clothes completely soaked with sweat, and when I look at the thermometer, it's only like 85F.