LOL...Wow. I lived in Daytona Beach for 1 and 1/2 years and Miami for six (well I was split between Miramar...which is technically in Broward and North Miami Beach). I came up to Southwestern Pennsylvania in Dec. Whew! Am I glad I made it out boy!
People up here question why I left the Sunshine State to move to the Rust Belt. And I even miss Miami; I mean life just didn't stop there...always embarking on something new (and things change a lot). Plus the weather can't be beat. In fact, I think South Florida really has an edge over every other metro in the Southeast; well let me restate that..."has the potential" to have an edge.
In all honesty, what I think destroys South Florida is the
people. They took something beautiful and stomped all over it. The politicians are ridiculous and like to run things like they did in their Caribbean or South American country they came from; ignorance is rampant...and people are almost proud of it
; selfishness is raised to an artform there; oh and did I mention that no one is happy? True people have a reason to complain...the money they make does not mate up well with the exploding costs of living. But that's because their bosses (also South Floridians most of the time) can give two $H!+s about you really. They'll just find someone else to do what you do.
I did not travel Florida all that much; but I assume it's more like the South (like what I experienced when living in West Virginia). If that's the case, then yeah, I'm sure Southerners are like "good riddance" to South Florida. I always felt we were a suburb of NYC anyway (maybe because of all the cheapo JetBlue fares up to NYC
)
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