Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire So what’s wrong about living in Florida ?

I speak Cracker fluently when necessary.

You a Crackah ass crackah! LMAO

I never knew that was a Florida specific term until I moved here.

question for Floridians : why large number of drivers have their car's right signals always on but not turning ?

The term originated with the genesis of cattle ranching prior to the civil war and that occurred in the general vicinity of where I live at present. Local lads with bull whips herding free range cattle thru the swamps and pine woods. To some of us aware of the history "cracker" is complementary, not derogatory. Most Yankees are ignorant of this.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_cracker

We are trying to keep you on your toes.

They're either drunk or Chinese.

Just walked in the door, WTF is all this BS about Florida?
It was so bad here this afternoon that we had to tank up and dive in 15 ft of water 7 miles out to get our limit of Scallops for the afternoon.

Tried to get back to the dock before dark but a couple of Snook and a Red Drum got in the way, they started hitting like mad along the Saint Martins river right at sunset and for an hour after..

Totally horrible day, stay away. It's really bad down here.....

You're speculating.

Didn't you just move from California?

It's what I do.

Geographically, Florida is awesome. The east coast is boring, but the keys? Come on...where we else can you find that in the United States? The Gulf coast is sweet and fishing is good if you concentrate on the rivers away from the sterile (beautiful) beaches. The panhandle of Florida is Dixie...or at least it was the last time I spent any time there. No different than Texas. Last time I heard, Florida was the largest cattle producer, next to Texas...that's what they do in the middle of the State.

Yes ...it's kinda freaky going into a McDonald's in Fort Lauderdale and being waited on by a staff of 80 year old New Yorkers...but that's not all of Florida.

I went down for the first time back in 2017, during the last week of June/first week of July. My parents had bought a place in Hernando County and I went down to help them get some stuff fixed and do a little fishing and exploring.

As someone else mentioned, go down there this time of year and you'll understand. The heat was unbearable after 10am, and the humidity was, indescribable. It's so freaking hot in the summer, the fish don't even bite.

The town they live in seemed nice to be honest, I guess, if you have to live in town, but their street alone represents 90% of world cultures. It was culture shock for this backwoods homebody. Though admittedly, everyone kinda kept to themselves.

As someone else mentioned, the bugs are enormous compared to home. I seen grasshoppers the size of two of my fingers, and there was some sort of very large wasp/hornet flying around that I was concerned may end my life if I got stung, it was the size of a damn hummingbird. Come to think of it, the place is alive with all sorts of strange and dangerous wildlife... fire ants, alligators, coastal crocs and pythons (further south), aggressive cottonmouths, bull sharks.. you name it.

On the other hand, my daughter had a blast catching these cool little brown anole lizards running around my parents house and crabs at the various little "beaches". I got to see some kind of huge tortoise that called my parents back yard home. I seen alot of birds and waterfowl that I never knew existed. The beaches to the south are nice, and as I later discovered, spring, fall and "winter" fishing is pretty good. I haven't had the chance yet, but I've been wanting to do a hog hunt down that was as well.

All in all, I wouldn't live there, but it's not a bad place to visit. Just not in the summer. Holy schit is it hot.

Oh my Christ.

In many ways, Florida is a really neat state. LOTS to do outside! I have a blast when I’m down there.

One common theme I've detected...men don't mind heat and bugs.

Sometimes when I sneeze, hogs die.

Florida is no different than anywhere else. You got to find a good spots to spend your free time and stay away from the Riff Raff.

The other good side that doesn't affect me anymore is there's plenty of work here. Anybody that says I can't find a job in Florida needs to be put to sleep.

Born and raised in Ft. Lauderdale, lived there until 1986 except for a couple of breaks for the Army and college.

The summer is deathly hot and humid. In July/August you can walk from an air conditioned house to an air conditioned car and be sweating by the time you get to the car. Most every day the thunderclouds build up over the Glades, move east over the coast, rain like a cow pissing on a flat rock for a half hour, then go away leaving steaming roads and more humidity. You can drain the swamp and build houses but the environmental conditions that made it a swamp for a hundred thousand years are still there. If you live even a few miles inland then you're living in a manicured lawn, strip malled swamp. You never really get used to the heat, you just get where you don't mind sweating.

Winter in S. Florida is gorgeous and is why the snowbirds first came and why people move there. The whole outdoors is air conditioned, highs maybe in the 80's but lots of days in the 70's and balmy tropical nights with the moon shining through fluffy cumulus clouds. If you're fortunate to live close to the coast (we lived about 1 mile inland) you get a nice on shore breeze. A cold day is 60 degrees. It does get down a bit colder occasionally, but a light windbreaker is generally all you might need.

The biggest problem with south Florida is that it has no soul, or it lost what it had sometime in the early 70's by my reckoning. So many people came from somewhere else, "home" was always somewhere else, never Florida, so people had no connection to it, they didn't treat it like it was something precious where their roots were. Except for my sister, I was one of only about a dozen people I knew who was born there. Utica, NY filled with umpteen generations descended from Irish, Italian and Polish immigrants has a soul, small farming and ranching towns in ID have souls, Skippyville, AL has a soul. Boise did have a soul but it's pretty much completely Californicated away now.

Like thousands of other towns and areas across the country, S. Florida used to be a really nice place to live. In the 50's and first part of the 60's it was still old south even though it was never a part of the genuine old south, but close enough. Snowbirds came down and snarled traffic for 5 months each year but they brought lots of money so that was tolerated. Now it's Los Angeles East except the gangs aren't Mexican. Last time I was down there walking through a mall I counted several different languages and variations, Cuban Spanish which is distinctly different from other Spanish, various flavors of "other" Spanish which is different from Cuban, German from tourists, Haitian patois, New Yawk, New Joisey, Canadian and old England English. Can't recall hearing any real southern accents, though.

No place in America is like it was. Twin Falls has Muslims. I was planning on moving back to Fruitland, ID when I retired but now I see that the overflow from Boise is even spilling into that area. Old time Boiseans don't like California newcomers. North Carolinians don't like the influx of Floridians moving in to get away from the increasingly crappy areas of SE Florida. The population across the country is only going to get bigger and folks will move away from whatever overcrowded place they live in to find one of the fewer and fewer uncrowded places which is like their home used to be.

If you live in a small town or a rural area, savor it as much as you can while you can.

And that's just the people living here....you should see the critter's! LOL