The snowplow drivers love to bury cars in huge mounds of snow.
OK, I’ve had it. I’m out of here.
This is what happens when your garade door malfunctions in the middle of the night. I think that I would need to do more than call AAA to get my new porsche back on the road.
Why people don’t move to Florida:
why some people move to Florida
This is a great thread.
someplace I will avoid if I ever visit Florida:
Something I will avoid if I ever visit Florida:
Ahh, the gators…
Florida Alligators are everywhere: I had several close calls with gators while riding my mountain bike through the trails at Morris Bridge and Flatwoods in Tampa. A number of domestic dogs get eaten by gators every year, since the gators can be found in nearly every pond and lake in Florida. Alligators are very cool though, when observed from a safe distance.
And yeah, a little snow is nothing compared with a hurricane hitting you. Besides, most northerners whine like babies when the temperature gets above 85, let alone when the temperate spends months in the 90’s, with high humidity.
Loren
I was thinking I would like to visit the Florida Everglades and the Gulf Coast of Florida after reading a really great trilogy by Peter Matthiessen that takes place in that area. I started looking at places to go and they were saying things like be careful of alligators on the trail. And then it showed people putting in a canoe and a sign talking about alligators in the water. And a man was talking about the Visitor’s Center having a huge alligator in front of the door (just on that day, it wasn’t a permanent thing I guess 
) and it couldn’t be disturbed so people were having to jump over it to get out of the building. It sort of disturbed me I must say! My husband seemed very lukewarm about the whole thing, so I didn’t get very far.
Edited to say Hi Lamby!
Why people leave Florida: These things.
…But if you do visit and weary of all the tourist hype, don’t miss the Real Florida: Century Village. 
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No real need to delete this, Dubh has preserved it for you.
You’re starting to sound more like Cranberry every day.
Slan,
D. 
Gators is one of the many reasons I love Florida, and will most likely remain here for a good long while.
AMEN!!! You’re my new best friend.
Hi Loren. You’re right. Anything over 80 with a dewpoint above 60 is just cause to cry like a baby around here.
I forgot yet another reason not to live in Florida: Palmetto Bug.
Ugh. I couldn’t bear to post a picture.
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Well, it could be worse: Gators are quick over short distances, but they’ll rarely chase after you, unless you find yourself nearly right on top of one. Gators aren’t likely to try to break into your home either. Move to Alaska however, and you have to deal with the Bears, who can out run you over just about any distance short of a marathon, and they break into homes all the time. Then you have the moose, which will stomp you to a bloody pulp if you get too close and piss them off. And of course you have the avalanches, earthquakes, and mosquitos the size of helicopters…
Florida is really pretty tame, as long as you dodge the gators, hurricanes, and Drug smugglers, 
The palmetto bugs are pretty disgusting though, and they’re everywhere. 
Other than all of that…plus the really old, and terrible drivers, it’s a nice place to visit…if you don’t mind endless miles of strip malls, run down trailer parks, rude people, and bad restaurants…You really should go visit some time 
Loren
My real reason for living in Florida… my soul mate.
Joseph, that’s sweet.
I think Tom got the short end of the stick when I made him move back to Ohio from Seattle…
I was told I should run in a circle if I was chased by an alligator. Of course I don’t know how small a circle and I really can’t run worth a darn anyway .
I’ve never gone where they have grizzlies but I am scared of bears too. I really couldn’t live somewhere that they tried to get in the house. And moose. We often vacation in Minnesota and were telling someone how we saw two moose come up out of the lake when we were canoeing. I didn’t know they could swim. The woman told us that the year before one had come up right under a kayak and tipped it over. But the guy was fine, it was just a weird coincidence. I can’t believe all the things there are to be scared of 
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I definitely whine like a baby when it is hot and humid, I’ve been known to kick and cry like a baby, in fact. We go up to Minnesota in the winter as well as in the summer. I think it is in my Swedish genes or something.
Dang, you are just so darn contrary! That picture of you in the golf cart makes it look like you lost one of your legs to one of your large-mouthed buddies. I really don’t wish any harm at all to alligators, I just don’t want to get up close and personal with them.