Who's going to the Florida show?

[Cleo]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

Actually, I have never understood why folks live in such a harsh climate. Hell if I knew the weather was gonna kick the shit out of me every year, I would move on. Is it economics?

Guess it is your definition of harsh.

Lived in northern California as a young adult and we had fire storms in the dry season and then mud slides in the rainy season not to mention you just never knew when the next big quake would hit.

Lived in Pennsylvania as a child and remember being snowed in and temps of -20 F that could kill. I fucking hate the cold and snow.

Neighbor has family in Oklahoma and they have to back the SUV out of the garage and climb into the tornado shelter in the floor of the garage within twenty minutes of the tornado sirens going off which is a few times of month some months.

Most of the year in southern Florida is paradise with little humidity and temps in the seventies. We have great shopping and dinning and no state income tax plus one of the best homestead tax laws in the US. It is not cheap to live here but not as bad as California or New York. I own no warm clothes and pretty much am able to wear the same clothing year round.

Summer and part of fall is hot and humid but you get used to it and learn to only go outside from the A/C in the evening.

I've lived here for most of my life and only been through five hurricanes. We get lots of warning when they are coming and our houses are built to withstand them. Mostly they are more of an annoyance then anything else since they disrupt utilities and just make a big mess of everything.

Unfortunately the convention is held during the worst month of the year here.