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by boxfiddler 1 view

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I don't like about Florida:

1. Spiders so big and oogly I'm afraid to step on them.
2. Prices during Snowbird season.
3. Driving during Snowbird season.
4. Eating out during Snowbird season.
5. Going to a movie during Snowbird season.
6. Fire ants.
7. Cannot escape sand.
8. Sulphury well water.
9. Crunchy grass during Snowbird season (which just happens to generally correspond with the dry season).
10. Business places that think 60 degrees is comfy.

(Just for you, robo_dev. :^0 )

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by ansugisalas

I don't know what snowbirds are, but if they can ruin that for those that enjoy that sort of thing, then I call for swift eradication! :p

by nicknielsen

People that live in snow country and move to Florida (or the south in general) during snow season. Usually older. Usually retired. Always a pain in the ass.

by boxfiddler

does to hospitals and rehab units is ridiculous, too. Health care overload. And do you think these idiot administrators have sense enough to build larger and hire more staff? If you do, think again. X-(

by ansugisalas

how that can ruin cunnilingus though.
Except in the public space, but that's then probably a matter of taste... as are all things cunnilingus :p

by jaqui

a lot of them snowbirds are the senile canadians from the province of Ontario. ;)
[ and senile is the norm, par boiled brains in summer and freeze dried in winter causes it by age 4. ;) ]

by jamesrl

Funny movie La Florida http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106931/

Its about snowbirds from Quebec, who decide to buy a motel in Florida catering to snowbirds....

Its been a while but I find it funny.

Some Americans may complain about snowbirds, but lets face it, they spend money and keep people employed.

With the price of Florida real estate, I think the trend will continue.

by jaqui

getting away from the bitterly cold winters to Florida for them is much easier on old bones.
less risk of pneumonia, slipping on icy sidewalk and breaking bones.

and yeah, a few thousand people spending money there for months on end isn't going to hurt the Florida economy at all.

by boxfiddler

it's the massive crowding everywhere during 'the season', in addition to the obscene, across-the-board price hikes.

by nicknielsen

They build their storm drains to handle the average rainfall, conveniently forgetting that the average rainfall usually happens in a five-minute period. Five minutes of rain, 2 hours of flooded streets until the storm drains catch up...

by ansugisalas

An army brigade-size medical wing on wheels, following like a swarm of locust-medicating locusts after the locust swarm of snowbirds ;)
It can go swarm other hotspots at other times of the year, like LA rush hour or Woodstock Mk XXXXVIII...

by av .

I'm with you on the spiders and those dastardly Palmetto bugs that are everywhere. How anyone learns to live them is beyond me.

AV

by boxfiddler

little black snake, to be specific. Guess it overwintered in the glasses case I disturbed today. :0

Splanes the seeming lack of palmetto bugs. :^0

by jasonhiner

It's basically a swamp.

I actually like Florida a lot, but when I fly in and I see how much water there is everywhere, I realize, "this really is just a swap."

by jamesrl

We have some of both - some swampy regions, some areas full of lakes that have big rocks between them. The cottagers choose the latter. Both get mosquitos, the swamp areas get many more mosquitos. When you drive down the road and you see people wearing mosquito netting over their hat just to walk the dog, you know its bad.

by ansugisalas

Now that you're hanging out here, do you see what we mean about not finding things, and not know where things are going on?
Because, we're really not getting used to it, so if we need to clarify the problem, just give us a sign.

by ansugisalas

I was beginning to think maybe I was being extraordinarily crass AND not getting the semantics right either ;)

by charliespencer

I can never figure out if it's the seventh New England state, the 14th Canadian province / territory, or the sixth borough of New York City.

by jamesrl

You won't find many snowbirds there in July.

BTW since the Canadian dollar is strong, and our housing market means we all still have decent equity in our houses, a number fo entrepreneurial Florida real estate salespeople are holding seminars across Ontario to try and get us to buy more Florida real estate. I don't have that kinda cash, but the prices do seem to be low, so someone is going to bite, thus perpetuating the snowbird cycle.

by cmiller5400

They are just starting to come out now. The only thing I hate more than spiders is fly's. I can't go to sleep until they are all dead.

by peconet tietokoneet

Being up all night and swatting those flys just to get some shuteye. get a anti-fly machine gun and set it up onto automatic mode, make sure you have a silencer attached to keep the noise down. :)

by ansugisalas

We get the rocks too, I think otherwise the place would just drain off into the ocean, but it seems like everything is a valley, lake in the middle, swamp all around and a rocky tree line on both sides to cut it off from the rest of the world.
Great terrain for stopping an advancing tank force using only infantry... not so great for agriculture.
The whole place was just a huge mess of archipelago and fjords a thousand years ago... it's been rising up from under the ice-age burdens for ten thousand years. Crazy to think about.
There's a steep hill near here, where they've marked the sea levels at various points in time, all the way down to 1AD, and further back too. There's a little platform at the top where the sea level was at 8k BC, if I recall correctly... the time of the first Jericho, before its oasis moved.

by jamesrl

Called "Rocks and Trees" by the Arrogant Worms.

You can find it on youtube, can't access it from here (work).

My country's bigger than most,
And if asked I boast.
Cause i'm really proud,
So I shout it loud.
Though our numbers are few,
We will welcome you.
Although we don't have history,
Gold medal winning teams,
Heroes or prisoners, world famous volcanoes,
Still what we've got's glorious.

Cause we've got rocks and trees, and trees and rocks,
and rocks and trees, and trees and rocks,
and rocks and trees, and trees and rocks,
and rocks and trees, and trees and rocks,
and water.

(All right, everyone!)

We've got rocks and trees, and trees and rocks,
and rocks and trees, and trees and rocks,
and rocks and trees, and trees and rocks,
and rocks and trees, and trees and rocks,
and water.

In Canada, Canada, Canada, Canada, Canada, Canada,
Ca-an-a-da, Can-a-da.
Canada, Canada, Canada, Canada, Canada, Canada,
Ca-an-a-da, Canada.

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