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Comment by sanskritabelt | Hacker News Reader

One of the main problems w/ Florida is you're living among Floridians.

Former Floridian who've lived all over the country and couldn't agree with you more. It's not just it's in the South. Texans are far better and nicer than the average Floridian. There's something very, very wrong with that state. People there are so cynical and always assume the worst about everything. More often than not though, they are right.

As a native S. Floridian I just want to point out that most Floridians are from the NE. I'm an immigrant myself but in school half the population were Cuba and Haiti. Some were from Florida and the rest were from Brooklyn, Mass., upstate NY, and NJ. The kids from the NE, collectively, hated Florida, hated their parents, and wanted to move back.

Chances are you are meeting the adult version of the cynical kids I grew up with. Some of them tried to move back to NYC, Boston, NJ and found the neighbourhood had changed and no one remembered them or cared.

Could you elaborate a bit more on this? Genuinely interested.

see the Florida tag on Fark

http://www.fark.com/topic/florida

"Have you ever been to Florida? It's basically a criminal population. It's America's Australia." - Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock

A lot of weird stuff goes down in florida. The pan handle is deep south. Its basically an odd mix. (My college roomate lived in Tampa after graduating umass)

Collecting the weird stories has become an internet meme.

That being said the everglades national park is one of the most beautiful places I've been. (Just don't go during mosquito season)....

edit: I can't believe I was the second reference to fark on this thread....

My favourite one:

>Disgruntled ex-boyfriend left thousands of voicemails on his ex-girlfriend's phone, adds sound effects like gunshots in the background for that added criminal charge[1]

[1]Sun Sentintal

Search for "Florida man" on Google News.

Or read one of the aggregators:

https://twitter.com/_FloridaMan

http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/tag/florida-friday

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