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My wife likes the beach. Since she's from Canada, she considered Florida to be Mecca.
I took her to Florida a few times. Then I told her I would show her a real beach,.....took her to the Outer Banks of North Carolina.
I had to do something. I couldn't tolerate many more Florida vacations.
Personally,...I don't need any more vacations off somewhere else. I like it here just fine.
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nothings wrong with FLA. so long as you don't mind some drunk guy from Montana sleeping it off in your front yard. Again
Last edited by RichardAustin; 07/13/19.
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A lot of the hate toward Florida stems from jealousy.
Trump being classless,tasteless and clueless as usual. Sorry, trump is a no tax payin pile of shiit. My young wife decided to play the field and had moved several dudes into my house
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nothings wrong with FLA. so long as you don't mind some drunk guy from Montana sleeping it off in your front yard. Again
Yea I gave my son and his wife a heads up on that. Told'em he's harmless.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Don't migrate to Floriduh, we're plumb full up with idiots.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
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Florida sounds like it’s got some characters.
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My only real association with Florida was 6 months stationed at Pensacola in 1968. I loved it there. I’m sure it’s changed.
Mathew 22: 37-39
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I really liked Pensacola when I lived there as well. Panhandle was a nice area.
Sounds like it’s slid more than a bit though.
“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
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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.
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Ok in the “why so many tags” thread.. a bunch of guys said “NEVER AGAIN”... about Florida, and only non-hunters live there.
HUH ? ... I wandered through it once on a work run, but only stopped for key lime pie.
So - what’s wrong with Florida (beyond the crazy as bat chit posts I see of people arrested in Florida that is).
No clue. I find it quite pleasant. And I for one appreciate that. I don't want Florida to vote blue. Thank you sir.
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I went on a biz trip to Atlanta in August 1987. I was there to straighten out a customer, Marconi, because they had unreplicatable acceptance tests on military electronics. I was wearing a necktie.
It was 90 degrees and raining.
Like being in a shower.
I was sweating like a pig.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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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.
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Campfire Oracle
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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.
There's people on Florida's beaches. Find a place to pull off the road about halfway between the ferry landing and Ocracoke village and you can see the Atlantic coast like Columbus found it. There's nobody on Ocracoke Island except for the residents of the village,..and 99% of the people who vacation there don't venture more than a mile north of the village. The barrier island is about 16 miles long and if you check out any beach area a few miles up the road from the village you're probably not even going to see any footprints. A lot of North Carolina's Outer Banks are like that. There's quite a few more people out there than there was back when I first started visiting back in the 70's,..but there's still long stretches of secluded National Seashore between Oregon Inlet and Ocracoke village.
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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.
There's people on Florida's beaches. Find a place to pull off the road about halfway between the ferry landing and Ocracoke village and you can see the Atlantic coast like Columbus found it. There's nobody on Ocracoke Island except for the residents of the village,..and 99% of the people who vacation there don't venture more than a mile north of the village. The barrier island is about 16 miles long and if you check out any beach area a few miles up the road from the village you're probably not even going to see any footprints. A lot of North Carolina's Outer Banks are like that. There's quite a few more people out there than there was back when I first started visiting back in the 70's,..but there's still long stretches of secluded National Seashore between Oregon Inlet and Ocracoke village. +1 I agree completely. NC beaches are a treasure.
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It seems the term FLORIDA MAN is a media boogie man like gunman.
With an average "Florida Score" of 46, South Florida is home to the best of Florida Man. Highlights include tossing an alligator into a Wendy's in Palm Beach and assault with a reptile in Broward County. The Tampa Bay area claims the most spots on the Top 10 Florida Man articles list. It is home to incidents such as public molestation of a stuffed animal in Hernando County and stolen police cars in Pasco County. North and Central Florida see less of Florida Man, but make their marks with incidents like driving an SUV off the showroom floor in Marion County and biting off a thumb en route to a Taco Bell in Brevard County.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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Few beastiality arrest around here [livestock lovers] .
PRESIDENT TRUMP 2024/2028 !!!!!!!!!!
Posted by Bristoe The people wringing their hands over Trump's rhetoric don't know what time it is in America.
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There's people on Florida's beaches.
Not all of them. Take Shell Island off of Panama City, last time I was out there we were the only ones on the island, had to ride a jetski to get there. https://www.visitpanamacitybeach.com/things-to-do/beaches/shell-island/Johnson Beach on Perdido Key outside Pensacola is part of the national seashore so the kiddies don't want to pay the entrance fee. It's on a peninsula and I think the national seashore is about 10 miles long, the road only runs in about 5 miles. You drive as far as you can go and park then you can walk for miles without seeing another person usually, and the beach is beautiful. Mississippi has several barrier islands that take a boat to get to. The beaches are fantastic on them and the water is clear because they front the Gulf to the south, not the Mississippi Sound like the beaches on the mainland. Horn Island is over 10 miles long and on a weekday sometimes I won't see another boat out there. You can easily find a stretch of beautiful beach where you're the only people for miles. There are plenty of secluded beaches around the Gulf, especially for those with a boat. The beaches are prettier and the water is nicer than anywhere on the Atlantic in my opinion.
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Few beastiality arrest around here [livestock lovers] . Got any pitchers of the livestock? Asking for the Montana boys.
_______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
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The panhandle beaches really are spectacular.
Seems like a lot of bacteria in the water lately in that area though. Just saw where another person died from necrotizing fasciitis due to vibrio in the area.
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