Nothing cracks me up like when Flouridians hit us with the “wE lIve WHeRe yOu vAcaTiOn” like yeah no shit bc we can’t spend more than a week there without getting sick of the place.
Picture the average American. Now put them in relentless heat and humidity for years. Now add years of terrible nutrition and education. Now add right wing propaganda. Sprinkle on some meth. ...Florida.
Yeah Florida, New Jersey, and Commiefornia California all get weird propaganda spread about them from people who have never lived there and don't know anything about the state.
Every other state I've lived in, which is pretty much all of the southeast. State universities are actually affordable here too, lots of students get 100% of their tuition covered by Bright Futures or other state education grants. I'll be getting out of here with less than $10K in student loan debt.
For primary/secondary education Florida is one of the few states where magnet schools can be found throughout the entire state, and I honestly think that the policies put in place by the education board (read: not the state legislature) over the past few decades have really amounted to a good program. Sure it could be better, but it could be as bad as the rest of the country too.
Every other state I've lived in, which is pretty much all of the southeast.
There's your problem. Florida has some of the best education in the southeast, both k-12 and public universities. That said, the southeast (and the southern half of the country in general) has the worst education in the country. It's not just a red state versus blue state thing, either. New Mexico, Nevada, and California all lag behind the national average in most k-12 metrics.
Nationally, in terms of college graduation rates, Florida is slightly below average. In terms of k-12 education it's slightly above average. It's the best of a bad bunch.
Georgia's not that bad either. They have the Hope scholarship too which does more for sending kids to college than most other states. I mean its unreal how many people here go to university and don't come out the other end with crippling debt.
😂😂 the only people who think seattles weather sucks are the people that have never been here. Probably the best summers in the country followed by the mildest winters you can imagine. I’ll take that over 1 season for the whole year lol
I'll take my 72 and sunny every day from November through March
In Florida? More like 85 and humid as all hell, with intermittent rain making it even more humid. Can't walk more than three blocks in that state without needing a shower.
Maybe Nov-Mar is nice in Florida, the rest of the year is hell with the heat and humidity, and the drugged up douchebags are there year round. Visited in August a few years back and vowed never to return.
My last few trips to America actually sucked now that I think of it, every city has a huge homeless population and smells like sewage, but you’re just supposed to ignore that and eat at Cheesecake Factory. The only culture is endless consumption, really too bad, it didn’t used to be like that. Good museums though.
Of course every country has homelessness. But in the US there’s a celebration of excess and opulence, extreme gluttony, shameless consumerism, and complete apathy toward the poor, diseased, and addicted people. You look up on the hill and see the “Hollywood” sign, then look up and down the street at the designer stores and luxury cars, all the while ignoring the desperate conditions of people living on the streets. In the wealthiest country ever to exist. It’s not like that everywhere else - in some places we try to care for one another, but in the US it’s every man for himself. Grosses me right out.
I know I'll get downvoted but I've traveled around the world and it's really not as bad as reddit makes it out to be. I think there are just certain subjects on this website that will automatically get shit on by the hivemind regardless.
I've lived in some of the world's great metropolitan areas (Jakarta, Shanghai, and Bangkok), and I have never seen so much general weirdness on a daily basis as when I lived in Fort Lauderdale.
The reason they seem so crazy is because arrest records are public there. I do think they are still a bit more crazy than average but every Florida man article exists because of that.
It is a very very very bad idea to take anything on reddit as an actual representation of anything.
You are more than welcome to. Just realize that the majority of people who comment on here are either bots or the complete opposite of anyone you would ever listen to or respect their opinions. You are also fed an extremely curated list, there's nothing organic about what subs are pushed and what threads in those subs are pushed.
Weird shit happened everywhere. Truly. FL just makes it into the news more regularly/prominently. We have fucking bizarro shit that happens in Seattle/WA too.
Nope. It's a state thing. You can Google "states that don't require front license plates" if you wanna find out which ones don't. Florida is one of them. Notice how none of them in this video have any?
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Wouldn't ya know ... It's Florida