I really don't know the attraction (503 hits)
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Submitted by rugbyboy (View user info) at 2003-09-26 19:03:14 EDT
I live in Florida. Currently, over a million people a year are moving here. Thats quite a lot of people. I don't understand why they are doing it. I'm not an eco-nut. Nor am I with the group that advocates cutting down the rainforest simply because its there. But I'm going to tell you guys, since I love you and cherish you all so much, what is going down in Florida now.
Our Public Schools are overcrowded, underfunded, and in a recent news story that any grade or high schooler could have told them, our restrooms are nasty. Some even have *gasp* no soap. The humanity. Get used to it. Its a fact of life. I'm in college now, but I can't remember the last high school, middle school, or elemantary school class that had less then 30 people in it. I had great teachers, and I had poor teachers. But if you move down here, don't complain about the school system. We have something called the internet now, you can pretty much look up figures any school system in the country. Don't be an idiot and expect our schools to be better then yours. I believe we're almost dead last in the nation's education program. Ah well, I can read at or above a fifth grade level, so that means I passed high school. (Sarcasm for the dense. I have been able to read at a college level since elementary school. Never got around to reading the quantam physics books though)
You move down here for the weather? Ahh, the nice sun shine. And well the rain. Thats what we get down here. A lot. Let me think, out of this past week, which is 7 days. It has rained on, well, all of them. Its nice in the morning, and by nice I mean 80 degrees at 8:00 in the morning with a humidity factor of 60%. Which means, you don't sweat. The air around you contains enough moisture to put it on you. Almost rain without the rain. But what about the tempertures? Right now...I can predict the next three weeks worth of tempertures...Ready? Its going to be around 89 degrees, plus or minus 2. With Humidity in the low 60% to 75%. And a good chance of rain in the afternoons. Oh...When it storms, it storms. I mean, flooding, lightning, and sometimes tornados.
Hurricanes...This is what gets me. You buy a trailer near the coast and whine about it later? I'm sorry, what are you stupid? Hurricanes happen. And your trailer, no matter how many tie-downs you have on it, your little precious trailer is going to get sucked up in the trailer and put through someone's roof. But its not your fault. The manufacture should have made a trailer that can sustain winds of up to 200 mph huh? If there wasn't a law against it, you would be dead by now. Another issue that gets me. Florida is sealevel. Well, maybe not exactly sealevel, but its pretty damn close. That means, no hills, no nothing. Just flatness. It gets old fast. That also means flash floods when it rains hard enough, which is basically every day. So please stop complaining that the people who sold you the house that was in a low lying area didn't mention flash flood posibility. They probably thought you were smart enough to realize that. Their mistake, as the guy said "You can never go wrong in underestimating the stupidity of the American public"
Enviroment. This one gets me all jittery. We don't have one. Decades of rampant growth have contributed to our lakes being polluted, to acres and acres and acres of urban sprawl. I'm living in an unplanned area that is pretty big. Its centered around a middle school and elemantary school, that are, Guess what! overcrowded and full of portables. Devolpers and the council love it when they see a nice chunk of land. More people, more taxes. More money to throw around. Lovely. Lake Baldwin is a good example. This guy is building a community or basically a bunch of houses around one of the edges of the lake. The other homeowner's group is complaining that his building there tore up the lake. I got a hint for you. He didn't start it, you did. That algae thats so nasty, is fed by fertilizer YOU put in your lawns. So stop whining. We have a slight water problem. We suck up water through the aquifers and when its not a rainy season, we suck up too much water from them. Then the seawater gets into the aquifers and ruins it. For good. And since we're sealevel, that happens pretty much everytime. Now, I can't understand why people like to water their lawns in the middle of the day when it evaporates before it hits the ground. Nor do I understand them planting grass that dies if you don't water it twice a day. I mean, we live in florida. Its hot, its humid. Cactus works well, so does sawgrass. Mosquitos too. I don't like seeing orange groves getting cutdown to make houses. I like seeing trees once in a while. Maybe a forest? Oh, we have the everglades. Which is being polluted by sugar companies using migrant labor at cheap rates. Sorry...forgot to mention that.
Traffic. With Population comes traffic. Basically our situation sucks. Orlando doesnt have a center. Its a big circle, a lopsided circle. People are moving farther out to escape the clutches of rush hour, not realizing that other people had that same exact idea. Example: My aunt and uncle built a house on a nice lake a good 15 minutes away. And 3 years ago, it was in the middle of nowhere. Now, its thriving community and houses go up every day. Now it takes over 2 hours on a bad day to get there. There is a tax ballot coming up, adding a half cent sales tax to the tourists. To build more roads. This is a band-aid. Its not going to fix anything, but I can't see anything else being done. I'm a genius too. More roads create more traffic. But we have a public transportation system that is losing money hand over foot and just stops doing stuff.
Tourists. These are the people that drive our economy. Orlando, Florida is the worlds most visited tourist site. Its great. I love tourists on my roads. I refuse to drive on I-4 (the road to the theme parks) and 436 (Airport to I-4) during this time. Its too bad of a traffic jam. I have seen people stop in the middle of the freeway, back up and go back to an offramp they missed. Yep...I can't tell your a tourist. They give themselves away. I mean, they just gawk at everything. "Hun, come here! These flo-ri-deans don't have a downtown" "Aww, how cute. Take a picture with the local" "Sir, can.......you.......come......help.......up......take.....a.....picture" (Yes, he spoke in long drawn out syllables. So I dropped his camera and acted like a dumb hick) Look, its all nice and good that you people come out here, but STOP. The theme parks aren't that good. I dont' even go to them that much, you people have ruined them for me. Well, Halloween Horror Nights is fun and scary, but other then that. You know its bad when people from other states fund your economy. We have tourists, oranges, and then we have the drug trade in miami. Miami is a whole another subject because its basically another country.
If you read this far, congratulations. You get a prize, my undieing gratitude. I realize this is a tad bit long, but its correct. I hate florida. I'm graduating from college and getting a job in another state. I"m looking at a forest ranger in wyoming. I was there this summer and I loved it. I'll move to Dubois (Pop: 800) and live there. Have a nice ranch house on the foot of a mountain and work in the Shoshone National Forest as a Ranger and not have to worry about all this shit. No traffic jams, as I have a horse to get around. No obscene amounts of tourists. No local economy that goes in the shitter everytime people get too spooked to go anywhere. (Florida is facing a huge budget deficit. We thought the boom would go on forever and spent like a millionaire.)
I'm done...I'm going to kick florida.
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Submitted by Mortimer_Elvis (user info) at 2003-09-27 12:41:31 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I hate Florida. The flooding isn't that bad down here (I live in Broward-Coral Springs for my entire life) but everything else you said hit the nail on the head. Where do you live? Orlando, I'm assuming? In a few weeks I'll be moving up to Brevard County, Palm Bay. Something else that bothers me is the fact that you can shoot your load into your neighbors bedroom from your family room. I mean, the zero lot lines really pisses me off. That's why we are moving up there.
Submitted by Jimmy23 (user info) at 2003-09-26 21:31:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Yeah man, I play rugby for my school. I can't believe I didn't get into this earlier. It is a sick sport. I mean, I liked football and all. But i can barely watch football as its slow now. Its a sick ass sport. Plus chicks dig the rugby players.
Submitted by Nobb (user info) at 2003-09-26 19:58:19 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I didn't actually read it, but +2 for an american with rugby in their name.
Submitted by Snipa (user info) at 2003-09-26 19:48:12 EDT (#)
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I live in Palm Beach, it's pretty crappy herrre too. I'd say I am a lucky one cause my skool is decently clean
Submitted by Kacian (user info) at 2003-09-26 19:45:28 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Heheh! I lived in the Sarasota/Bradenton area for 8 years and I have to admit most of what you said was true then, and most likely true now.
Submitted by Phinch (user info) at 2003-09-26 19:11:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
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