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I actually love this state. Florida gets shit on all the time, but its a fucking beautiful state with more diverse ecology than most states. We have the Keys, Dry Tortugas, Lake Okeechobee, Everglades, St. Johns River (one of few that flow north), Indian River Lagoon, Tampa Bay, Lake Wales Ridge, lots of barrier islands and thousands of lakes, rivers and creeks. You can live in a city if you want, or in the country, there's plenty of both.
There is also a multitude of /out/ places to go and things to do. Yeah there's no mountains, but hiking through an open prairie (Ocala National Forest, 3 Lakes CA, Paynes Prairie, Kissimmee Prairie SP) with a thunderstorm building a hundred miles away is quite a site. A sunrise over the 10,000 Islands will not soon be forgotten.
As for wildlife: we have an endemic population of Caracara, which are mostly found in Central and South America. We got manatees, gators, crocodiles, Everglades Snail Kites, gar, panthers, tarpon, snook, bonefish and much more. Florida is either the final destination or a part of the migration journey for millions of birds.
Your typical Floridian (that I meet mostly, living in a rural area) is an awesome mix of redneck and hippy: loves the outdoors, doesn't whine when its 90 degrees, probably owns guns, probably smokes pot, probably owns a boat, self-reliant and are usually very nice people.
Yeah there's stupid people, but most of them came here from shitty New England. And yeah we have a stupid fucking governor, but that happens sometimes, we've had good ones too. And yes, there's old people everywhere... that part I can't deny.
Get out of Miami and Orlando and see the real Florida. Hike through an oak hammock near the St. Johns, kayak up a saltwater mangrove covered creek, bike Shark Valley in the
Everglades, Scuba dive West Palm, Key Largo or Pompano Beach.
Anyways, there's my defense of the great state of Florida. FL fag out.
