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

I'm not a fan of Cuban food myself.

Key West don't have stray cats but they have hundreds of feral chickens.

So, just replace that cat with a cock in the picture and you'd have Key West.

There ain’t many styles or points of origin who’s food I don’t like.

My azz ought to weigh 300#’s.

Food is more expensive in Florida than in the Midwest, but it is pretty equivalent quality wise I'd say and the seafood is more available. It does rankle me some to pay more for Florida's Natural orange juice about 20 miles from where they make the stuff than we pay for the exact same juice back in Wisconsin. Intra-state trucking costs vs. inter-state trucking cost is how they justify it when I toured their plant and asked. Green Wise choice black Angus tenderloin that we get in Florida is the best that I've ever eaten. Florida pizza sucks though from all the places that we've tried. The marginal tenderloin, but the great pizza in Wisconsin I suspect are both tied to the vibrant diary industry here. Great cheese, but we eat burned out milk cow.

JeffA, tis true that near everyone I know in Florida that can handle a handgun has their CCW permit and down there most of us don't go too far from home without packing something. Thinking folk don't wander around after dark where we live.

I see they closed Dirty Ernie's in Ft. Lauderdale a couple of years ago. That's the end of an era for sure. The place for conch chowder and pulled pork sandwiches on bimini bread as well as tons of other good stuff. It was a genuine dive for the first half of its life. For many years they left the bullet holes in the mirror above the bar where some biker had shot it up. The original owner was a die hard anti-government libertarian and the walls were covered with "radical" slogans as well as a butt load of genuine Florida memorabilia. It was sold and the new owner tried to nice it up and make it more touristy which lost half the atmosphere but fortunately they kept the good food, then he sold it in 2017.

RIP Ernie's, another bit of old Florida lost.





R Donuts closed in 1990. That was the topless donut shop on Federal Highway just a few blocks from Ernie's.

My opportunity will come when I retire next year. I'm selling the house here first, then I'm gone, returning only for funerals and weddings. Gawd I dislike Florida..

Agree on the pizza.

Groceries are the cheapest I've ever seen anywhere.

Eating out is well priced IMO.

There is Cuban food and the rest.....

Maybe it just wears on people but we really like it here.

It's just a matter of taste. I just love the West and most of all the seasonal changes. Spent my entire life here practically and I'm done with the weather. Hurricane-wise, I've been lucky, but wait till the next one hits and you spend weeks without power....I would really like the four corners area out west..

You could always try the Hi-Line?

The Hi Line is nice easy country.

Agreed.

Where is that?

You two are funny...... better be careful, Californians may read this and decide to move

Florida has some damn good food but 'ya gotta look a bit harder. All the transplants visit the same crap they're used to from wherever they came from, Chili's, O'charlies, etc. Hell, my brother in law wanted to take me to Red Lobster! And he's been down there for nearly 50 years. Just not a foodie I guess.
One of my goals on my many trips there is to seek out the old, original, real deal seafood shacks, wholesalers & such. $3.99 a # for crab legs, $3.50 lobster tails, cooked with drawn butter!

With so much diversity of folks it's a challenge to find the real or old Fl. But its a hell of a treat when you do. I used to say I hated Fl. but realized I hate big cities, heavy traffic & overcrowding, & Fl.has it's share. But those minuses are in every state & it's only getting worse.

Get off the beaten path there sometime. It changed my opinion.

lol I think a couple might've tried it at some point. Then they're vajayjays froze and broke, or dried up and blew away and they moved.

the four corners area is mostly rez land, can you say navajo and hopi.
having said that some of the prettiest country you will ever see is that stretch running from grand junction colorado down to cortez and trinidad.
having said that, keep in mine the above ground nuclear testing in nevada years back and the winds that blew that radiation all over the four corners area. Check "downwinders".
I lost a son and a lot of classmates due to that little booboo.
i was sneaking back into arizona one early morning doing about 90 in my diesel. came over a hill and there was a arizona department of public safety officer to light me up. He asked me what the hurry was and i showed him the front of my truck, where i had hit a deer in a blizzard up by meeker. Said deer was stiff as a board due to the cold in the back of the truck. Said officer said he understood, and that was that, no ticket.
he worked for the arizona highway patrol but lived in colorado. perfect job, his bosses were in phoenix, like half a continent away.
my view of florida was tainted by a little misunderstanding. Right after the raid on libya, i was on a naval base at i think called chicken neck, and was wandering around with a navy guy. i climbed up a gang ladder and was looking into the cockpit of an intruder, when some popo type took offense. When they realized i was not a south american, russian, or liberal all was well. The gun ports on the f14's were still blackened.
hot, way too much humidity, bugs, bugs, bugs.
as t o that area of south colorado/arizona, there are a number of small towns in the delores river canyon that are spectacular. 2am in the morning cruising through the ground fog, and seeing a herd of 50deer or so wandering around in the towndown area.

top secret gov stuff.

Florida is full of fantastic restaurants on and off the beaten path. Of course you have to know what Good Food is .