Why do people live in Florida?

[Tigers#1]

If there are hurricanes 2-4 times a year, why live there? It's like if you don't get hit by a hurricane in a year, your lucky.

Not to mention about 90% of the drivers are 60+ years old and you won't be able to go more than 15 mph under the speed limit.

It just baffles me.

[Rockin Robin]

My parents, aunt, and cousin are right smack in the middle of Broward County. Very close to where Katrina made landfall. They were three of over 1.2 milllion people who lost power.

Old Jews have to go to Florida when they retire. It's a law. :tongue:

Fortunately my relatives are far enough inland that hurricanes usually have significantly slowed down by the time they get into their area. Usually.

[Thedatch]

cuz the climate is nice :)

[Tigers#1]

The climate is nice in a lot of places, especially in the summer. It's been in the mid-to-high 90's most of the summer in Michigan.

I just don't get how you want hurricanes and killer heat in the summer, and no snow in the winter. As the great Kevin McCalister once said "how can you celibrate Christmas without a Christmas Tree?".

[rockin500]

my parents were in florida when the hurricane went through in late september last year. not sure which one it was. they didnt like it very much!

[rockin500]

im sorry, but i hate the cold up here. while i hate the south hotness in summer ( i used to spend a month every july/august down in lakeland, FLA. up until i was about 12 years old) I do like how their winters are more temperate than up here.

the best policy would be to live in florida from october til may and have a place somewhere up north (or even somewhere like North Carolina) from may until late september.

[Tigers#1]

I hate snow as much as anyone, but you got to admit it gets depressing in the winter without it. Waking up on Christmas morning, or even Thanksgiving for that matter, is just an awful feeling.

[~*TiGeRs f@N*~]

given the choice between florida and michigan I'd chose florida without a second thought. But personally I'd just rather stay in Canada.

[Baseball Guru]

:notme:

Stupid Floridians:hmm:

[rockin500]

I hate snow as much as anyone, but you got to admit it gets depressing in the winter without it. Waking up on Christmas morning, or even Thanksgiving for that matter, is just an awful feeling.
not to me it isnt! :)

[Rockin Robin]

....The best policy would be to live in florida from october til may and have a place somewhere up north (or even somewhere like North Carolina) from may until late september.

The technical term is snowbird. But it's usually November to April. My parents actually look forward to the snowbirders arriving because the activites always increase. Better movies, better entertainers, better lectures, better games of canasta......



Avoiding snow and temperatures in the teens or below is a very good thing! Although I have been in South Florida during Christmastime and it just ain't the same without a chill in the air.

[Durango53]

Why do people live in Cally with all the earth quakes? Why do people live in Nebraska and OK with all the toranados? Why do people live in Wyoming with all the wind?

No matter where you live you have something to deal with. Risk and reward...

[PopTop]

Right on, Shad. People live there because it's home. I've been through a few salty blows living along the Texas Gulf Coast so many years, and I experienced one earthquake in California. I would much rather sit through a hurricane or tropical storm than not know when the next time the ground's going to rumble and maybe split open. But that's just me. Every spot on this earth has some risks and some rewards.

[imgreat95]

That is what I l ike about western, Pa.... we get the occasional tornado. but rare.. i remember two VERY small earthquakes in my life.. like in the 2s... and one inland hurricane... other than that, we've got 4 distinct seasons and that is about it.

[~*TiGeRs f@N*~]

we had a very small earth quake in Windsor about 5 or 6 years ago, only lasted maybe 45 seconds. I was kinda cool actually (since it was tiny). Nobody knew what it was right off as earth quakes around these parts are very very rare.

[Nemmy]

I live in Florida because:

1. Financial reasons
2. You have the good theme parks
3. I don't want to live in California, even if I could afford a condo there, due to the smog, traffic, and crime rate.

Well, I hate it.

[Tigers#1]

Why do people live in Cally with all the earth quakes? Why do people live in Nebraska and OK with all the toranados? Why do people live in Wyoming with all the wind?

No matter where you live you have something to deal with. Risk and reward...
Wind isn't exactly the same as a hurricane. And tornados don't exactly destroy the entire state several times a year.

[rockin500]

Wind isn't exactly the same as a hurricane. And tornados don't exactly destroy the entire state several times a year.
umm, im sorry, but windstorms on the plains can be just as devestating as a low level hurricane. When wind comes howling down at 100 mph off the prairie, you cant protect yourself from that. the only thing to do is bunker down and hope you dont get too much damage. the only reason why it doesnt get as much press as hurricanes is that it affects a low number of people (relatively speaking).

and tornadoes are a VERY big concern here in the midwest, and you would know that if you lived here. ive been through tornadoes, I've been through tropical storms, I've been through windstorms, and i've been through killer snowstorms.

I'll take going through a tropical storm over a tornado any day of the week.

[PopTop]

Wind is exactly what hurricanes are made of (plus weird ass pressures and tide surges), and hurricanes don't 'destroy the entire state several times a year.' At least you get ample warning with hurricanes to board up or evacuate. You get no warnings with tornados or earthquakes, and heavy wind alone, such as what Shad was speaking of in Wyoming, is far more dangerous, destructive and downright annoying than you probably think. The winds blow relentlessly for days at a time at 40-50 MPH in the Texas Panhandle and stir up dust storms that can devastate crops and wreak havoc with everyone's breathing.

Where would you suggest everyone live in order to keep from having to deal with dangerous weather systems or weird Mother Nature?

[Nemmy]

He said tornadoes, but it is true. Hurricanes don't destroy the entire state several times a year. I got hit by Frances and Jeanne (sp?), and Allison and Katrina this year. Damage? Three trees knocked down within the general vicinity of my condo.

[Rockin Robin]

Nemmy, three trees is not exactly the kind of damage people are talking about here. Look at how much damage was done by the multiple hurricanes last year. *That* is what people are talking about.

My parents, my aunt, and my cousin are all in Broward County, but quite inland. Fortunately, they were all only without power and had trees knocked to the ground. But I'm sure others did not fare quite as well.

[Plastic Bat]

The climate is nice in a lot of places, especially in the summer. It's been in the mid-to-high 90's most of the summer in Michigan.


Nice, it hit 102 in Maine!!

[Durango53]

Person talking to person moving into Wyoming in summer "The wind blows like hell here"

Person that just moved to Wyoming in summer "Oh ya I am used to the wind it blew all the time where I was from"

Person that just moved to Wyoming in the spring moving out of Wyoming "When you said the wind blew here all the time I never thought that it BLEW LIKE THIS!!!!! No way I can live here"

The wind here is the Jet Stream blowing though you...

[Tigers#1]

William Faulkner? :confused:

[caughtstealing]

Where would you suggest everyone live in order to keep from having to deal with dangerous weather systems or weird Mother Nature?


San Diego...........

[PissedPrincess]

A better question is why don't more people live in Florida? Perfect weather, beautiful beaches, affordable housing.

I can't wait to move to Florida.

[Tigers#1]

. . .hurricanes, old people, skin cancer, rowdy teenage partiers, Devil Rays baseball, fat ugyl people who feel the need to take their shirts off. . .

[rockin500]

. . .hurricanes, old people, skin cancer, rowdy teenage partiers, Devil Rays baseball, fat ugyl people who feel the need to take their shirts off. . .
i can get everything but the hurricanes up here in chicago. and blizzards can be just as bad as anything.

[~*TiGeRs f@N*~]

You trying to tell me Mi is a glorious place to live??? Detroit alone is enough to make you never want to live in Mi. I can't walk from the bus stop to comerica park without being asked if I want buy anything ranging from tickets, to tv's, to drugs. Or having at least a dozen people hold a cup in my face expecting me to plop something in it. The kicker was during the saturday Twins double header. Nick and I went to the first game, and i had some friends that went to the second. I got a call at 3:30 that night from the police station to tell me that my friends had gone to the greektown casino after the game, left at midnight, got robbed on the way back to thier car and thier windshield shot out WHILE THEY WERE IN THE CAR!!! But thank God there are no hurricanes!

[Baseball Guru]

. fat ugyl people who feel the need to take their shirts off. . .


lol... They do that everywhere:laff:

Ever watch the football games in snow in GB, Chicago, NY, etc??

hurricanes, old people, skin cancer, rowdy teenage partiers, Devil Rays baseball

Spring break, Spring Training, beaches 12 months a year, Marlins baseball, college football, highschool football, etc.. Everywhere has its good and bad points...

[Rockin Robin]

Don't forget white sandals over black knee socks with shorts. :)

[PopTop]

San Diego...........While I've long felt San Diego has some of the most perfect weather in the world (as long as you stay within 15-20 miles of the coast), the only earthquake I've been through was a minor tremble when I was in SD...no thanks. :no:

[imgreat95]

thats why everyone should move to western, Pa..:D

[Tigers#1]

You trying to tell me Mi is a glorious place to live??? Detroit alone is enough to make you never want to live in Mi. I can't walk from the bus stop to comerica park without being asked if I want buy anything ranging from tickets, to tv's, to drugs. Or having at least a dozen people hold a cup in my face expecting me to plop something in it. The kicker was during the saturday Twins double header. Nick and I went to the first game, and i had some friends that went to the second. I got a call at 3:30 that night from the police station to tell me that my friends had gone to the greektown casino after the game, left at midnight, got robbed on the way back to thier car and thier windshield shot out WHILE THEY WERE IN THE CAR!!! But thank God there are no hurricanes!
All of Michigan isn't like that. All big cities are like that. Go to Louisville, it is no different than Detroit other than population.

[Cyberlibrarian]

given the choice between florida and michigan I'd chose florida without a second thought. But personally I'd just rather stay in Canada.


My parents are in Florida in the winter (even though they're not old Jews -- they live in Sarasota, which is on the "Gentile coast") and in Canada (St. Andrews, NB) in the summer.

I'm going to be leaving NY for the "Gentile Coast" of Florida in 2 1/2 years or so. I hate the cold (I love owning a fur coat, but I hate having to wear it), I hate having to slog 10 blocks through snow and sleet and slush to get to the bus or the subway. In the summer, the subway resembles one of Dante's circles of Hell. It is unbearably hot down there, and there are rats, track fires, and now bag checks. And then, after the waiting, there are often cars without a/c.

Feh.