The solution to the suckiness of Florida

[graywarrior]

A Showtime documentary series needs your help. Send us your photos and stories that demonstrate why Florida sucks.


http://floridasucks.tv/

[Shine]

1. I spent a summer in Naples, FL back when I was 21.

I'll never forget how my boss at the time, a young guy....not that much older than me...spoke about gay people and blacks as if they were SUB-human. At first, I assumed he was kidding, b/c he was sooo outrageous in his comments, but then I realized he was serious and I was pretty blown away. :wow:

I was shocked b/c I was visiting from the liberal west coast and had never experienced, first-hand, such blatant prejudice. I guess I was a bit naive at the time.

The thing is, he wasn't that unusual. :eyes: I found a lot of Floridians to be incredibly conservative and backwards in their thinking.

However, I'm sure there must be SOME people there who a conscious and aware. I hope so, anyway.

[graywarrior]

2. Well, I must say that I recently moved into a community near

New College and the Ringling Museum. This neighborhood runs along Bay Shore and Indian Beach. The majority of people here are liberals, easily recognized by the dem politcal signs all over the neighborhood lawns. The fact that I ended up here is nothing short of a miracle. In addition, there are gays and mixed cultures all over the place here. I could actually like Florida if I stayed in this area.

[Shine]

3. Good to hear. Mind you, my story was from over 20 yrs ago.

I'm sure things have changed in Florida since then. I hope so!

Good luck to you in Florida! :hi: Why is it a miracle you ended up there? :shrug:

[graywarrior]

4. I had a different path that changed very quickly and called a friend

who I had no seen for awhile. She's a retired military dem and called around to her friends and we ended up here. Most of this area is very republican and I could have just as easily ended up in a conservative area. Being here is such a relief.

[Shine]

7. Onward and Upward, my friend.

:toast: Be well. :hug:

[InvisibleTouch]

5. Allow me to defend one of my favorite places in the world....

...I'm particularly fond of the extreme southwestern part of the state - though admittedly I'm less enamoured of the panhandle, and Jacksonville gives me the creeps from a mile away. In the southernmost regions, though, you have tropical beauty beyond comparison, a diversity of wildlife like nowhere else, and almost everyone I've met in my numerous journeys has been amazingly friendly. I should also point out that the gulf coast barrier islands are overwhelmingly liberal. I drove through there after the hurricanes of '04, and poking up through the downed vegetation and clean-up in process, was one Kerry/Edwards sign after another.

[graywarrior]

6. True.

I just have a conflict with mountains vs. flat.

[Taverner]

8. Well My Aunt and Uncle moved from the OC in CA to Tampa...

Because they were afraid of "those damn Mexicans."

[GCP]

9. Go to fark.com

It's a 'news' website, but like matcomnews. It's not news, it's fark.

They have tags for their posted links, tags like Obvious, Stupid, Asinine, and guess which is the only state to have its own tag?

Florida.

[datasuspect]

10. The solution to the suckiness of Florida?

fire cleans EVERYTHING.

[graywarrior]

11. Works for me.

But I have to admit, I'm the asshole here. I keep coming back.

[flvegan]

12. Easier to demonstrate why Showtime sucks.

At least Florida has SOME good qualities.

[SoyCat]

14. Thank you!

[VeggieTart]

13. I grew up there.

I was a junior in high school during Reagan's second presidential campaign. I got a lot of crap because of course I wanted Mondale and Ferraro to win. We had a mock election, and of course Mondale got creamed, and my classmates howled with laughter at me. Of course, I got a lot of crap for just being weird and different. The only thing I liked about high school was graduating. I had no true friends.

It's stinking hot six months of the year. During the summer, at least when I was younger, you could almost set your watch by the daily rainstorm. Chain restaurants galore in the Orlando area. Public transit SUCKS in Central Florida. I am not kidding when I say that the Bay Area in car-crazy California had a better public transit system than shitty Lynx (which is what they named the bus system). My sister's congressman is all but a shill for crappy restaurants with monster portions and crappy food. I think Ric Keller is Rick (Center for "Consumer" Freedom) Berman's wet dream. The further north and west you go in Florida, the scarier it gets.

I may get a snow dump ever few years here in DC, and it gets bitterly cold in the winter, but at least we have freaking seasons. We may get humidity in the summer, but it's not the thick blanketing stuff you can put on a freaking spoon the way it is in Florida. And if it weren't for my family living there, I would never go back again.

[graywarrior]

15. Having no seasons makes me feel like I'm on another planet

Course, living amongst the conservatives here makes me feel that way, also. Glad you got out.

[cwydro]

16. Hey,

it's nice here in the Keys...and we're the blue jewels at the end of red state madness...

[graywarrior]

19. I'm always awed by keys people. They're just so damn cool.

[cwydro]

23. HAH!

The Keys are cool, but the people are pretty much the same as anywhere....though for the most part we have much more of a "live-and-let-live" attitude than other places. And that is a nice thing.

[graywarrior]

24. Kinda like P-Town on Cape Cod.

[Skittles]

17. they'd get a lot more responses if it was Texas

yes INDEED

[graywarrior]

20. I've been to Texas once. Scared the hell out of me.

[RebelOne]

18. I lived in South Florida in the Miami area

most of my life, except for brief periods of living in Alabama, NJ and California. I finally wised up and moved up here to the Atlanta area in 1989. Smartest move I have ever made. South Florida sucks. Constant heat and humidity, big bugs, lots of crime and no one speaks English any more.

[graywarrior]

21. Bugs....that says it all.

[Blue_Tires]

22. Florida has been going downhill since Spurrier left!

[raccoon]

25. For years it was my life's dream to live in Florida.

My family went there on vacation when I was a pre-schooler and I guess the enchantment never left me.

Somehow in my mind, I guess I thought of Florida as a Shangri-La, an eternal vacation land, which of course it wouldn't be if I lived there, because I'd still have to work.

But now I don't want to move there. Nothing against Florida, but SC is hot enough, thank you very much. And Florida is SOOO expensive.

But even now, somehow FL sort of fascinates me.