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Coasterphreak posted:Why does anyone still voluntarily live in Florida If my Aunt is an indicator, there is a large faction that lives there because they "like the politics".
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Living on the coast during hurricane season is like playing russian roulette
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ASAPI posted:If my Aunt is an indicator, there is a large faction that lives there because they "like the politics". Every single, right leaning dissatisfied, older white person, I have met in Rhode Island Pines for moving to Florida one of these days and it’s their most frequent threat. Any time the state looks sideways at some tax policy. It’s pretty common for snowbirds here to have a house down there as well and some of the people that do that have come in and noted that they aren’t getting good medical care in Florida and have to come back to New England for that.
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Aug 28, 2023 14:51
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Coasterphreak posted:Why does anyone still voluntarily live in Florida Moved down here because we were in a bind, and my wife's family lived down here and had yet to go full chud. Now, we haven't spoken to them in years, and we can't afford to move because our rent keeps rising every year while our apartment complex gets passed around from LLC to LLC like a joint at a Phish concert. 5 different companies have owned my apartment complex since I moved in 3 years ago. If that isn't a bad omen, I'm not sure what is. Edit: the number of New Yorkers who go on and on about NYC being the greatest city in the world, yet they have lived in Tampa for ~20 years is astounding.
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pseudosavior posted:Edit: the number of New Yorkers who go on and on about NYC being the greatest city in the world, yet they have lived in Tampa for ~20 years is astounding. They're the first to whine about it too, without fail. Usually involves racism!
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pseudosavior posted:Moved down here because we were in a bind, and my wife's family lived down here and had yet to go full chud. That sucks. I hope y’all can get out of there sometime soon.
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Aug 28, 2023 15:17
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What gets me is that my area's homeowner's insurance is around $900, and the equivalent for Florida is around $6000. But even that has an asterisk, as you have to find an insurer in the middle of a near-exodus going on. And the wild bit is how the state Congress is like "blame the woke lgbtq libs in your middle schools and the insurance companies are woke too" and from an outsider, it seems like that works.
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Aug 28, 2023 15:22
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Blame the ((bankers)) is the next step.
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Aug 28, 2023 15:25
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Yes, the surprise upgraded forecast has ruined my morning. We are sending a crew to Mobile to wait out the storm and collect imagery afterwards. Both the Euro / ECMWF and GFS are at least agreeing that the track will go up near Cedar Key, but the whole gulf coast of FL is going to get raked with onshore flow winds and storm surge. There is also increased risk of tornados on the NE side generally. Intensity forecast has been creeping up in the models as well. They have yet to find a good way to present the track uncertainty, so people look at a track and think that outer bounds and shaded areas are just where they will feel any impacts or wind or whatever. The eye of the storm can still go right over whatever the outer bounds are so somewhere like Tampa is still at risk of a near direct hit with all the fun that causes. Some of the people that died in Ian looked at the track, saw the centerline going to Tampa and thought they were good. It trucked right down that outer bound of uncertainty and wrecked Fort Myers instead.
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That Works posted:Every single, right leaning dissatisfied, older white person, I have met in Rhode Island Pines for moving to Florida one of these days and it’s their most frequent threat. Any time the state looks sideways at some tax policy. I was shocked how high my brother's property taxes were in CT vs. mine here on the gulf coast, but then when we included homeowner's insurance too we were paying about the same and he had much much better services and public schools etc. than around here.
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pseudosavior posted:Moved down here because we were in a bind, and my wife's family lived down here and had yet to go full chud. The Florida economy is hosed. Turns out the same economic policies that ostensibly exist to keep cost of living attractive to retirees gently caress over everyone who has not already saved up enough money to move to Florida. Likewise so much of Florida's economy is just low wage service and agriculture jobs. If you don't already have money it can be very hard to make enough money to leave Florida. In grad school in Florida, I worked for a program that did K-12 STEM outreach. One of the legislature's stated aims was to keep more students graduating with IT and CS degrees in state. "But we have no income tax" they scream, despite the cost of living adjusted salaries being well below national average. Also a lot of the students I worked with in that program were minorities or queer and ultimately their motivation for studying computers was the realization they could get a job out of Florida.
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Coasterphreak posted:Why does anyone still voluntarily live in Florida Checking on the motivations of the daughter of a close family friend who elected to sell their Seattle area house they’d never be able to afford again & move to Orlando with milquetoast husband & two small kids, in this case it’s a combo of: -a month long Disneyworld vacation last November. It’s silly but this person legit didn’t seem to realize Orlando weather differs between November & summer, and has been constantly flying back to Seattle for week long visits. -being absurdly bad at long term planning/money. Another reason for the Seattle visits is to attend MLM juice selling meetings at a resort. -also didn’t seem to care that living near grandparents who watched their kids each day for free then abruptly moving away would be upsetting, and that Florida doesn’t offer free childcare. -DisneyDisneyDisney
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M_Gargantua posted:Yes, here in CT we have public services still somewhat functional. still kinda suggests wrongly that floridas ever were
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https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1696182093460513178?t=yI8kMsj6-fZPQTSU5q-o7w&s=19 Government wanted January, Donnie wanted 2026, so lol Donnie's people are going to be filing bazillions of motions to try and get this thing delayed via paperwork.
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Milo and POTUS posted:still kinda suggests wrongly that floridas ever were
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Can’t wait for Florida to offer state run homeowners insurance once everyone else pulls out. It’ll be wildly successful and people will love it while simultaneously screaming about the evils of socialism
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Hyrax Attack! posted:DisneyDisneyDisney Disney people will always send chills up and down my spine
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fknlo posted:Can’t wait for Florida to offer state run homeowners insurance once everyone else pulls out. It’ll be wildly successful and people will love it while simultaneously screaming about the evils of socialism LMAO will never happen. You either have enough money to recover, pay expensive insurance, or it'll continue to be gently caress You, Got Mine. Florida would need a change in leadership for that to happen.
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Soul Dentist posted:Disney people will always send chills up and down my spine Yeah coworker got engaged at Disneyland, honeymoon will be Disneyland, the wedding theme & every item on the registry… you get the idea. It’s a bit creepy talking to them as their only goal is to return to Disneyland or acquire more Disney products, zero else.
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My girlfriend speaks highly of having a pass back when she lived in the LA area and went to Disneyland at least once a month. I just can't wrap my head around wanting to go stand in crowds and lines that often. Sure I had fun when I went to Disneyland, but I was in 3rd grade.
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Arrath posted:My girlfriend speaks highly of having a pass back when she lived in the LA area and went to Disneyland at least once a month. My wife swears there's been some improvement to the line technology and special needs children and their families get fast passes so it's not quite so terrible. I might go to Disney Land next year after a 20 year hiatus but my wife took/is going to take one of each of our kids. The next trip is on the October spookfest day. Separate passes and less people in the park overall.
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de-lurking to post they apparently figured out who was buying up all the land around that one air force base. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/26/silicon-valley-elites-buy-800m-land-new-city https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/business/land-purchases-solano-county.html quote:After weeks of local speculation, the purchaser of 55,000 acres (22,000 hectares) of northern California land has been revealed. The group Flannery Associates – backed by a cohort of Silicon Valley investors – has quietly purchased $800m (£635m) worth of agricultural and empty land, the New York Times has reported. Its goal is to build a utopian new town that will offer its thousands of residents reliable public transportation and urban living, all of which would operate using clean energy.
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Arrath posted:My girlfriend speaks highly of having a pass back when she lived in the LA area and went to Disneyland at least once a month. The point to having a pass is that you can pop in for 30 minutes at weird times like near closing when there are no lines. Naturally Disney had to get rid of that type of thing so passes don’t work like that anymore
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Hyrax Attack! posted:Checking on the motivations of the daughter of a close family friend who elected to sell their Seattle area house they’d never be able to afford again & move to Orlando with milquetoast husband & two small kids, in this case it’s a combo of: As someone that grew up and lived in Florida for 15 years of my life and now lives in Seattle, your friends daughter is one of the dumbest mother fuckers on this planet. Like I cannot even loving imagine how anyone could compare the two and think FL wins out. There are a lot of stupid fucks around Seattle that are extremely ignorant of the world outside of the PNW though. Like Soylent Pudding mentioned, the economy of FL is completely hosed for anyone that isn't mid career or retired. She's setting her children up for working poverty wages and living at home well into their 20s, unless they decide to become nurses and earn one of the few decent incomes in the state. Easily the worst choice my dad ever made was moving our family to FL and then retiring from the military there. 15 years of my life spent there and I can't think of anything nice to say about that hick infested shithole. I'm including the New Yorkers and New Englanders with that, since they largely end up adopting that irritating FL hick culture no matter where they come from.
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My wife surprised me with a trip to Hollywood Studios/Galaxy's Edge last year for my birthday. It was my first time at any Disney park, we only went for a day, but I did have a lot of fun. Though I have zero desire to return on a regular basis. Maybe in like a few years because she wants to see Animal Kingdom but we're also prioritizing overseas trips over a trip to Disney because lol. Mustang posted:I'm including the New Yorkers and New Englanders with that, since they largely end up adopting that irritating FL hick culture no matter where they come from. Everyone I know from New England that moved to Florida has become some variation of Florida man. gently caress that state, it should only be kept open as a honey pot along with Texas for morons whining about taxes or libs or whatever other bullshit they're on about. Handsome Ralph fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Aug 28, 2023 |
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fknlo posted:Can’t wait for Florida to offer state run homeowners insurance once everyone else pulls out. It’ll be wildly successful and people will love it while simultaneously screaming about the evils of socialism They already have a government owned insurer of last resort - Citizens. It is by far the largest insurer in the state, and will soon be basically the only insurer.
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fknlo posted:Can’t wait for Florida to offer state run homeowners insurance once everyone else pulls out. It’ll be wildly successful and people will love it while simultaneously screaming about the evils of socialism They already do.
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You know that ladies journey sounds a lot like a person i know out here but they managed to move back. Dude is some sort of golden child and all the bosses like him. He gets promoted to GS11 then gets a job overseas in Bahrain for big bucks but quits before he starts due to refusing to get the covid shots. So he uproots his family to move to Florida because his wife loves DisneyLand. I guess that got old because he managed to move back to Seattle region and get a private sector job. Comes sniffing around for his old job but it's filled. The boss offers him a GS12 position but he turns it down because he wont take less than GS13. The boss says no thankfully. Dude is way too flighty even if he is a great worker. Also lol antivax.
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Erghh posted:de-lurking to post they apparently figured out who was buying up all the land around that one air force base. Have they heard of California City
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Arrath posted:My girlfriend speaks highly of having a pass back when she lived in the LA area and went to Disneyland at least once a month. My wife and I have discussed taking the kids to a Disney park. She argues for World and I argue Land. Her arguments: it’s closer, it’s got more stuff My arguments: gently caress Florida weather gently caress Florida politics
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hobbesmaster posted:The point to having a pass is that you can pop in for 30 minutes at weird times like near closing when there are no lines. They came up with Fast Pass as a way to get people on rides while still maximizing the amount of time to get their eyeballs and feet in front of stalls. Then they charged extra for it because the sort of people who can afford to buy realistic lightsabers can afford the $50 pass too.
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hobbesmaster posted:The point to having a pass is that you can pop in for 30 minutes at weird times like near closing when there are no lines. Oh yeah I listen to comedy podcasts based in LA & sounds like it used to be fairly common to have an annual pass maybe a decade ago as it got used enough to be a decent value, especially for single young people living nearby who can get there during off peak months. Seems like the prices/lines are up enough it’s not as popular now among that crowd. Mustang posted:As someone that grew up and lived in Florida for 15 years of my life and now lives in Seattle, your friends daughter is one of the dumbest mother fuckers on this planet. Like I cannot even loving imagine how anyone could compare the two and think FL wins out. There are a lot of stupid fucks around Seattle that are extremely ignorant of the world outside of the PNW though. How can you say that when I didn’t mention spending six figures that required multiple mortgages to become an unemployed life coach or how this person has four MLM schemes on their FB profile page? Especially ridiculous as this family was doing ok as the husband who appears incapable of vetoing anything that will ruin his life has a good job & all they had to do was stay the course & would have been fine. Maybe set aside two weeks a year & a few thousand dollars for mom to go to Disney as a safety valve.
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I would have loved old epcot as an adult, when it was all retrofuture optimism. Apparently they did away with all that poo poo and it's all frozen and crap from movies I never bothered to watch. I hate the state but it's an extremely well run theme park. Busch garden's is a lot of fun too.
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Wife and I were going to go to Disneyland and Galaxy's Edge last time we were visiting family in SoCal, but it became clear that it was going to be a several hundred dollar day when you factored in parking, ride passes, and me getting my very own lightsaber for being the goodest lil' Jedi ever. So we decided to plan better and well in advance for the next time we're in town, and instead we spent the day surfing and lounging on the beach instead. I haven't been to Disneyland since 2007 and I'll bet my next visit will hold me for like another 16 years. I really don't "get" Disney adults at all.
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I was at Disney World in the January just before Covid. Someone else paid for the trip, since it was technically a hosted corporate event. But it was worth every one of their pennies. I did the math out since I'm a nerd and the price of the lodging on the campus was more than made up for by the value of not having to rent a car or pay for gas or wasting time getting too and from the parks and parking. Turns out having functional mass transit in their little city is a huge time and cost saver for the everyday person, what a commie idea!
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M_Gargantua posted:I was at Disney World in the January just before Covid. Someone else paid for the trip, since it was technically a hosted corporate event. But it was worth every one of their pennies. I did the math out since I'm a nerd and the price of the lodging on the campus was more than made up for by the value of not having to rent a car or pay for gas or wasting time getting too and from the parks and parking. Turns out having functional mass transit in their little city is a huge time and cost saver for the everyday person, what a commie idea! oh yeah we stayed at xmas once back in the 90s at the contemporary hotel. Train ran right through the goddamn building. Honestly more impressive than the rides. I enjoyed it, and I'd go again pretty easily. I just don't understand disney adults. That poo poo is baffling
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CommieGIR posted:LMAO will never happen. You either have enough money to recover, pay expensive insurance, or it'll continue to be gently caress You, Got Mine. Citizens Property Insurance is a thing. And guess who owns it. Instituted by the GOP government too. Socialism for me but not for thee
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