There are several Floridas, the panhandle, central Florida, and South Florida. South Florida is basically New Jersey transplanted, it's where people that hated their lives in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts moved and then proceeded to turn it in a crap infested socialist slum just like the places they ran away from. The panhandle is the deep south, it's just lower alabama and lower georgia with the stuff that goes along with that. You've got some real nice areas and some dumpy ones. Some trailer infested towns, some mostly black towns and the crime that entails, but some real nice ones too. Pick a good area and it's a great place. No, it's not a hunting mecca, but it is great for fishing if that's what you like.
If the beach is your thing then the best beaches in the world are from Pensacola to Destin on the Gulf Coast. The outer banks of North Carolina don't come close.
I've been to every state in the union and most of them are far bigger chitholes than Florida.
Add Central Florida to a list of crappy places to live as well. New Jersey and New York ex citizens are very well represented.
