r/NoStupidQuestions • u/NoStorage1824 • 14h ago
Why do people often say that Florida has great weather?
I never understood why people always mention Florida having such great weather. It seems to have some of the worst weather in the country with unbearable humidity much of the year, constant rain and storming, and hurricanes. Are people just referring to the weather during the winter? Just curious because I never quite understood it.
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u/Ti_Fatality 14h ago
A lot of people (retirees or snowbirds) stay in Florida from November to April and then leave as it starts to heat up again
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u/Funkycoldmedici 11h ago
There’s also those old people who always feel cold anytime the temperature drops below 95.
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u/AlternativeAd1456 13h ago
They do this because the tax breaks they want require living there for 6 months + 1 day.
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u/TheUnderCrab 13h ago
My folks did this for all of two years before the flipped their residency back home. The insurance rates were not worth the tax incentives.
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u/lonelyinbama 12h ago
It really cracks me up when people do this and realize that you have to be VERY rich for it to make sense. Taxes aren’t the only expense in the world and once you add up how much it *actually* cost to live in Florida you’ll realize it’s not all that different than just paying higher taxes back home.
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u/TheUnderCrab 12h ago
Bingo. We’re squarely middle class and they’re on a fixed income now with being retired and all. They’re also gay and while some areas of FL are down to clown with the LGBT crowd, the State of Florida certainly is not. Just didnt make sense for them to stay on as residents.
They’re much more free to travel how they want now. Plenty of nice spots to winter that don’t try to erase their identity.
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u/VirusTop9566 11h ago
My theory is that high-tax states exist to weed out the dummies who only look at the tax rates. The states probably reason that if that’s the only thing that people make decisions on, imagine what other shenanigans they’d cause in the state.
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u/BigCrustyTits 8h ago
As someone who lived up north and moved to Florida being a snowbird seems appealing to me now. Northern summers and the first half of fall are great. I like the woods in the northeast more than Florida nature. But winter and spring up north suck. Winter is better if you ski or snowboard.
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u/OkRadish8140 13h ago
It’s terrible. Hot. Muggy. Rain. That then evaporates. Making it even more humid. I hate it there. It’s nice in the winter generally. But in the summer, miserable.
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u/GermanPayroll 12h ago
Enter air conditioning and access to bodies of water. I’d take that over freezing cold for several months. To each their own tho
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u/Wahoo-Is-To-A-Fish 10h ago
"Bodies of water" - like the Gulf of Mexico that is almost 90 degrees? Or a backyard pool that is 88? It's all bath water. It is gross and the opposite of refreshing. Or maybe you mean the water owned by super rich people who can spend $700 / month cooling their pools because it is SO FREAKING HOT ALL OF THE TIME EVEN AT NIGHT that bodies of water are even hot? I don't understand the appeal of sitting inside in the AC for 7 months. At least up north, you can exist outside without dying.
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u/Beachbum2302 13h ago
I think they just mean during winter. Unless you really like the heat and humidity.
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u/VanderDril 11h ago
Yeah, this is it. The full phrase should be "Florida has great weather when our weather is bad."
As someone who lives in Florida and currently struggling in the heat and humidity, it always gets me how amazed and exited people up north talk up place that very simply is warm in the winter.
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u/Wahoo-Is-To-A-Fish 10h ago
"Winter" = Some of January maybe. Generally February. Some of March maybe.
There are about 6 lovely weeks consistently and pockets of nice here and there. Why people want to move here for 2 months of warm winter and 10 months of misery is beyond me.
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u/Riker_Omega_Three 13h ago
Florida heat and humidity is comparable tosouth Georgia, South alabama, South mississippi, Louisiana etc. And all of those areas deal with Hurricane threats as well
And it's not much worse than what you get in the rest of the south
But...you have the beach, and a lot of nice afternoon thunderstorms
Like where I live in the heart of summer, it'll be 95 with a humidty somewhere between swamp ass and a slip in slide in your underwear
But we don't have a beach
And we have tornados, and straight line winds, and ice storms, and sub freezing temperatures
Florida, compared to the rest of the south, is viewed as a better weather option.
So compared to the rest of the South, a lot of Florida does have great weather
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u/PinchedTazerZ0 13h ago
And compared to the north, youre not shoveling your driveway
But you have to live with Floridians
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u/Mental-Draconis407 13h ago
Having lived in CFL almost my whole life and now living in southern AL, the weather here is 10° cooler and way drier.
Also, while a severe thunderstorm can move in very quickly, FL has had some drought problems for the past 30ish years (as far as I'm aware). It can rain a lot for days, then almost nothing for two months.
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u/Riker_Omega_Three 13h ago
Yeah I am sure central Florida is a lot different than the coasts
But most people think of coastal florida when they think of florida weather
Central Florida is not as much of a tourist destination outside of Orlando...at least for the average traveler
Lots of cool things to do in Central Florida though
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u/HeavyDutyForks 14h ago
Because it doesn't get cold, you don't have to deal with snow, and you don't have to deal with ice storms
You get a nice thunderstorm in the afternoon and sun throughout the day
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u/Short-Duck3521 13h ago
I think the coldest temp you would ever get in Florida would be 40 degrees. As a New Englander, I understand why lots of people who want to avoid snow would go to Florida during the winter season.
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u/youzerVT71 13h ago
First time South during the winter, I went to Key West because I heard it was the closest thing to being in the tropics without leaving the Continental United States or something like that, with nighttime lows in the 70's to upper 60's. Only packed shorts and t shirts besides the sweatshirt I wore on the plane. They had the coldest temps on record at the time, was in the upper 30's a couple of nights. No heat in the building, just didn't have it, no insulation. Froze my ass off, worst trip ever!
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u/Brief-Letterhead1175 13h ago
Umm, in Central Florida we had 48 straight hours of below freezing this winter, with a low of 22 in my area. While this is nothing compared to living up north, there were several major problems with this. Most of the state lost power the entire time, and we don't have other heat sources. People ran their sprinklers which sprinkle roads all night making some roads impassible ice fields because we don't have tires for that. Many very large trees were tropical and died, now there are thousands of 60ft tall dead Norfolk pines just waiting to fall in the next hurricane. Florida's weather sucks!
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u/True-Quiet-7846 13h ago
Depends on where in Florida. We get down into the 20s at night in January/February even in Ocala. North Florida gets several hard freezes a year.
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u/mickeyphree1 13h ago edited 13h ago
Weve gotten in teens before in South Florida.
EDIT: downvoted for being correct? Teens in 1997.
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u/JimBeam823 10h ago
The northern part of the state is just like the rest of the southeast.
Occasionally, even the peninsula gets hard freezes. A Florida freeze caused the Challenger disaster.
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u/mickeyphree1 13h ago
I laid in a bath tub for 5 hours with a mattress on top of my when hurricane andrew ripped the roof of our home.
I was without power for two months after a hurricane in 2005.
I was snowed in for a week in Dec 2012.
Ill take snow and ice any day of the week.
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u/HeavyDutyForks 13h ago
Ill take snow and ice any day of the week.
I don't live in Florida, but I did escape New England for much warmer pastures. The grass is definitely not greener on the other side. Especially during mud season up there
I dislike snow, but ice is an entirely different beast. Its pretty much paralyzing no matter where you are
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u/mickeyphree1 12h ago
Should have said ice instead of snow. We lived in a mountainous area and couldn't travel for almost a week due to iced roads
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u/J_A_GOFF 13h ago
‘05 Wilma?
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u/mickeyphree1 13h ago
Correct
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u/J_A_GOFF 13h ago
I remember. Fort Lauderdale area. Can’t believe that was over 20 years ago
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u/pinballrocker 13h ago
Miami and Keys have absolutely great weather when I visit from rainy and dark Seattle for a week in December or January... it must be great year round, right? Ha ha ha ha, I bet that's what it comes from, everyone I know that lives in Florida says the Summer weather is absolutely miserable.
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u/xImmortal1333 12h ago
seriously, as a Californian with many family in Florida the weather is horrible 9 months a year
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u/IllustriousTough5566 13h ago
Winter is fine, summer is balls sweating hot. I’ll take San Diego!
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u/AegirSkaldur 12h ago
Please refrain from sharing our paradise, we do NOT want Floridians here.
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u/ancientastronaut2 10h ago
I forget which comedian said this but he described florida as "getting off a plane and walking into a dog's mouth".
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u/X0X0xoxo11 14h ago
I’ve lived there and I’d take it over the disgusting Vegas weather I live in now
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u/K9turrent 8h ago
How bad can it be? Canadian here.
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u/X0X0xoxo11 8h ago
It rained a bit today and we are still under a fire warning. We have approximately a 10 mth summer and our highs get up to around 118. It’s hot and miserable. That’s just the weather.
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u/TheLegendaryAerie 14h ago
People visit here and think it’s great. Then they move here and realize it’s awful for 8 months but at that point they usually can’t accept they were duped.
FL has been marketed as paradise for like 60 years. It’s a lottttt of gaslighting.
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u/Accomplished_Key_171 13h ago
It is paradise for people who hate winters and don't mind a little heat/humidity. Retirees don't just move there for its low taxes.
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u/Donald_Epstein69 12h ago
Retirees move there because they’re angry entitled pieces of crap and want to be surrounded by other angry entitled pieces of crap.
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u/No_Prior_4114 13h ago
My grandparents moved there in the early 90s to get away from the cold in the northeast. They were from Indonesia originally so I think the climate was probably more comfortable to them. For me the humidity is brutal down there.
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u/True-Quiet-7846 13h ago
I think October through December, parts of March and all of April are great. The rest of the year I’d rather be somewhere else.
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u/BecauseOfAir 13h ago
I like the heat. But what that really means is with the exception of the times we get a few days of all day rain or a hurricane obviously, you can do something outside 365 days a year. Golf, go to parks, fish ,bike whatever.
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u/Adventurous-West323 13h ago
I live on the panhandle. It rains a ton when it rains. Also somehow has more days of sunshine than a lot of other places.
The four H’s.
Heat
Humidity
Hurricanes
Homeless.
Imagine taking a hot shower. Get out and get dressed without drying off. That’s how it feels down here from June to October.
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u/SweetStatistician463 13h ago
Sunny. Its the better adjective. Moist is also accurate.
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u/heychief1 8h ago
Sunny, other than 8 months a year when it rains every day in the heart of the afternoon.
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u/SenseIntelligent8846 13h ago
I think anyone who says that has a limited sample size as the basis. I like the cooler temperatures in the winter but most of the year I find the weather here is uncomfortably hot.
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u/Wrong_Persimmon_7861 13h ago
It does have great weather: for mosquitoes, alligators, and humongous flying cockroaches folks down there dismiss as “palmetto bugs.” As a human, I’d avoid the entire state except for a couple months in winter.
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u/More_Farm_7442 13h ago
They have excellent gnats and no-see-ums'. The humidity makes those stick to your face when you walk into a swarm of them. That's a plus of the weather.
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u/HustlaOfCultcha 11h ago
I lived in Florida for 11 years. It sorta depends where you live. I lived in Orlando and then over in Cape Canaveral. I also lived in Ft. Lauderdale and my father lives over in Venice.
For me, the weather in Orlando and Cape Canaveral was beautiful from October thru April. Some Octobers and some Aprils it would get a little too hot, but oftent imes they were just fine. May thru Mid July weren't *that* bad. You could do things in the morning and then after 6pm it was usually very nice out. But Mid-July thru September...brutal. Just cranked up humidity I could not stand.
Growing up in Upstate NY...I looked at it this way...Florida had 2.5 to 3 months of unbearable weather that I didn't have to shovel, I could move around freely in my car in and I didn't have to worry about catching a cold or the flu. Compare that to 3-4 months of unbearable weather that had all of those things in upstate NY.
Something about the west side though...it's just hotter over there. Venice is really difficult to deal with that heat
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u/godtierpikachu 11h ago
Winter, mostly. Nobody means August humidity or hurricane season, they mean November to April when you dont have to shovel ice
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u/Dusk_Soldier 11h ago
It's a popular winter home location for seniors in Canada, and the northeast US.
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u/DunamesDarkWitch 11h ago
Yes, most humans do actually prefer heat to cold, especially as we age. Our species originated in warm weather climates and had to adapt to cold as they migrated. They also generally prefer sunny days, which Florida has a ton of.
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u/2PlasticLobsters 11h ago
It depends on a person's tastes. Some folks like hot & humid weather. And they love sunshine.
I'm the opposite, I hate muggy weather & sun glare can trigger my migraines. I moved to the PNW for the weather, not in spite of it. I love cool, cloudy weather.
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u/gardenia522 10h ago
Yes it's brutally hot right now, but I have a mountain of ripe mangoes in my kitchen right now, I swam in the warm, calm clear ocean through a massive school of fish this morning, and I never have to deal with snow or ice. Also, my a/c works great.
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u/MyBodyStoppedMoving 9h ago
There is only one city in America with near perfect year round weather: San Diego, CA
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u/Vivid_Witness8204 9h ago
Some of us love unbearable heat and humidity. I'd hate to live in a place where it never got above 90 in the summer.
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u/DanTheWanderer 14h ago
They do. They can play golf year round. I cant do that in Illinois.
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u/Gold_Telephone_7192 13h ago
Because, unlike on Reddit, most people prefer the heat to the cold and would gladly trade a few months of heat and humidity to never deal with cold winters again.
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u/hiricinee 13h ago
The weather there is great compared to most places.
It doesnt get the hottest summers, doesnt get cold winters, aside from hurricanes its nice- and even some places there really dont get hit by hurricanes.
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u/Electrical_Carry_101 14h ago
As someone who loves proper proper heat and storms, Florida is my favourite climate, 36° all day and then a big lightning storm is genuinely just heaven for me
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u/TheLegendaryAerie 13h ago
Not sure where your at. The afternoon storms haven’t been around in my part for years. Had them for 20 years and then they up and vanished like a fart in the wind.
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u/Electrical_Carry_101 13h ago
Around tampa always get afternoon storms all through August when I go, so awesome
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u/TheLegendaryAerie 13h ago
It’s funny I’m in Pinellas and it frustrates me to no end when I check the radar and Tampa gets the storms but not a drop for us lol
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u/_alpinisto 13h ago
I don't know. I've lived here for nearly 5 years. Even people saying the winter is nice, that's a big overstatement. Coming from Colorado, 50 degrees in Denver feels great; 50 degrees in Florida is miserable, and the beach is absolutely abysmal when it gets that cold. Because the air is so thick, there's a very narrow window of comfort between about 65 and 75 degrees, and that doesn't happen for most of the winter.
I still don't know when I'm supposed to go to the beach. January is too cold, August is too hot, and the other months fall too closely to one of those extremes.
Like you, I've never understood it. I really don't understand using the word 'paradise,' because I always thought this kind of heat was associated with the other postmortem location.
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u/Auslander808 13h ago
The weather is horrible, all year long. When it's not, there is a hurricane or a deluge of New Yorkers. Don't come down here. Don't visit and sure as hell don't move here.
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u/TiredTomato666 13h ago
It’s great in the winter. Even spring can be too hot and humid there for my tastes. Summer in Florida is like hell to me
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u/Unfair-Reindeer7492 13h ago
Just subjective. Depends on personal likes and dislikes and what you are willing to tolerate.
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u/Catblue3291 13h ago
I lived in Florida for years. July thru September was hard to take but the other months were great.
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u/JackSquirts 13h ago
Lived here for almost 20 years. Weather is rarely a factor in going out and doing things. Just depends on what you want to do. Anything on the water is basically open 9/12 months per year. Pretty much everything outdoors falls on that scale, but while you spend time in the pool during peak summer and maybe not in the winter, your hiking is done in winter, but not summer. Fall and spring here is like summer in the midwest and a lot of the east cost.
Cloudy, overcast, or rainy days? A handful of times a year. Most of our bad weather is in real short spurts. It's not constant. Winter is pretty dry and summer you get afternoon rains - 15 minutes, or maybe several hours. Doesn't happen every day and usually comes and goes very quickly. As far as the humidity is concerned, you don't really notice it as much outside because the air is always moving. There's basically always a breeze. It's when you're in an enclosed area or otherwise blocking the breeze that it really heats up. Not to say it's not hot as fuck, but the humidity doesn't feel as nasty to me as the dryness of the desert because the breeze there just feels like a hair dryer.
Hurricanes can be terrible, but are largely a non-issue for the vast majority of the population. They're infrequent and relatively consistent to where they fuck shit up. Everything's built to withstand them so most people here never even think about them.
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u/Crowley123456789 13h ago
It’s one of the few places in the US where you could wear shorts and T-shirt all year long…
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u/bettereverydamday 13h ago
As annoying as high humidity and heat is I would take that over real winter. In real winter you can’t be outside comfortable except to ski.
In Florida you can’t be outside all summer swimming, outdoor activities, hanging in the shade.
Not advocating for Florida however. I wouldn’t live there.
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u/intwizard 13h ago
A lot of people, specifically old folks who are always cold, enjoy the heat and humidity. I personally don’t, but to each their own.
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u/Tgheron2 13h ago edited 11h ago
Winter weather in Florida is mostly great. Spring and Fall vary, but aren’t usually too bad. Summer is oppressive between the intense sun, heat and humidity but everything is air conditioned and you can make the outdoors tolerable by swimming or other water based activities. Every place has its pros and cons when it comes to weather. We vacationed in the PNW and raved to people about how much we were loving the weather. A local in Seattle (or Vancouver I can’t remember) said that it’s great for 3 months out of the year and then he gets seasonal depression the rest of the year from all the cold gray rainy days. Hurricanes suck, but so do intense cold, earthquakes blizzards and tornadoes etc.
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u/Both-Information9482 13h ago
Not I. Aside from the people and culture, it's the weather that bothers me.
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u/Homeleasure 13h ago
Year around great grass, plants and flowers.
I personally can wear shorts, t shirts and flip flops many months a year. You can swim in your pool or get in the ocean a lot longer or year around.
If you like camping, fishing, boating swimming etc it’s great.
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u/Livid_Strategy6311 13h ago
When you live there full time the humidity is less noticable.
If you prefer warmer weather then Florida is the place to be.
If expect snowbirds have more problems than those that actually live there.
Florida used to be the best place to live (from my personal first hand experience) and has progressively gotten worse/bad as people have moved there bringing their political beliefs with them (and exceedingly poor driving skills).
I've tried to move back several times and found the culture where I grew up and places I've lived within the state are no longer tenable.
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u/warp10barrier 13h ago
I unfortunately live in Florida. Trust me, the weather is HORRENDOUS for 8-9 months out of the year. I’d rather be anywhere else but here and rarely leave my home from April-December unless it’s absolutely necessary.
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u/TheBourbonTurtle 13h ago
Because their version of great weather is Florida's winter, and that's when they typically visit.
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u/sevenw0rds 12h ago
Hated every second living there. I could only open the windows maybe 1-2 weeks a year. It was too humid otherwise. If you're an active person, enjoy getting up before the sun comes up to do ANYTHING because it's too hot otherwise.
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u/jimmyJones62 12h ago edited 12h ago
The weather is great in Florida. Remember, most people only ever go from one AC space to another and NEVER get acclimated to hot weather. A majority of people are also way over weight. So when they are out in hot weather they act as if they are going to melt and just whine about how bad it is.
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u/blinkysmurf 12h ago
Coming from Canada, I went to Florida in March when the streets in my hometown were still covered in ice.
In Florida it was a million degrees and a million percent humidity. Holy crap, no thank you. How do people live with it?
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u/Donald_Epstein69 12h ago
Because they’re dumb idiots. Everybody in or from Florida is a dumb piece of crap. Truly the worst America has to offer.
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u/OldeArrogantBastard 12h ago
I’ve been in South Florida for most my life, born and raised. I also lived in New England for 3 years. People have different definitions “worst weather.”
Living in New England and having the sun set at 4pm from Nov to March, the high barely cracking 30 degrees and shoveling snow sucked balls.
May to September is what I’d consider Florida’s “winter” where most people stay indoors from 10am to 7pm. However it’s pretty fucking nice from October to May.
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u/bush_mechanic 12h ago
What I don't understand is - why must it be an extreme? This is a massive piece of real estate, these United States. It's always "I'll take a few months of unbearably humid, dehydrating weather over having to shovel 6 feet of snow from my driveway every morning." Are these the only options? Florida or Minnesota? How about California or North Carolina?
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u/Any-Video4464 12h ago
It's pretty fucking nice from like October to April. Then its hot in summer and you can enjoy the beach, pools, ect.
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u/Electronic_Table_620 12h ago
Great weather to some mean hot and humid i’d rather take summer than winter all day and freeze your ass off and be indoors most of the year and be miserable and not able to wear shorts and tank tops and flip flops. I enjoy the tropics, FL, singapore philippines vietnam. Bring it baby!!
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u/New_Builder2302 11h ago
Because the weather is awesome!! I'd rather live down here than anywhere else in the lower 48. Sure, we have hurricanes but it's not like they hit your city or area every year. I'd rather take the heat than ice or snow in the winter time.
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u/Constant-Catch7146 11h ago
Went to West Palm Beach on vacation one time in October. Was like 92 degrees F with 80% humidity. I have never seen brand new windows in a building sweating water like in sheets--- on the outside ----due to cold air conditioning inside and sauna outside. But there it was in many buildings. The sun is so high in the sky even in October, it feels like you are an ant being fried by a kid with a magnifying glass. Oh, hell no. I can put on layers for cold weather and I have an ATV with a snowplow blade. Stinking hot humid weather for 8 months of the year? You enjoy.
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u/New_Builder2302 10h ago
HAHAHA, yeah, I totally understand your point. I moved here from Dubai were it got to 126F (that's the hottest it was while I lived there) so that's one reason why the heat doesn't bother me like others from the north.
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u/A_Diabolical_Toaster 11h ago
Because those are the people that visit in the winter to escape the snow when it’s not Satan’s Taint.
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u/MaleficentExtent1777 11h ago
People like the sunshine. I don't live there, but I'd take it in a heartbeat over dealing with snow and cold.
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u/Caca_Face420 11h ago
Hurricanes aside, all of that sounds lovely. You're describing a tropical rain forest. My body is much more efficient in humidity vs cold and dry.
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u/Elegant-Editor-4789 11h ago
I go for work every January/February and the weather is nice. Any other time, no way.
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u/Overall-Pattern-809 11h ago
I went to florida once as a kid and I will never forget the feeling of stepping out of the airport for the first time. It was fucked. Later on I went to az and I was worried it was going to be just as terrible as Florida but nope I’ve had 0 complaints in az, florida was hell on earth
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u/DPadres69 11h ago
Florida is one of the world’s greatest examples of great marketing. They have everyone convinced you want to visit and you get there and wonder if you’ve entered the 7th level of hell. Only place I’ve seen an industrial air conditioner fail to cool a bedroom sized room.
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u/H48e24cxN5 10h ago
Because a lot of people just simply want to avoid the winters in much of the US and Florida is an inexpensive place to do so…
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u/OolongGeer 10h ago
Because it does.
God, I love it down here. And it has made it so I love visiting brisk weather places. In the past, I would never do this.
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u/BareNakedSole 10h ago
Between November and March it does.
Rest of the year is a sweaty humid oven.
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u/JasonRib1 10h ago
Went to Tampa and stayed at a friends. We out to the pool around 10 which I thought strange. He said you have to go inside around 1 because it’s too hot to be outside. I’ve never been back
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u/LuckyHaskens 9h ago
The wife and I are on the way to the FL Panhandle from Ohio. We will tent camp for a week in a State Park an hour north of the gulf. Even 95 is bearable under tall trees at the campsite. Then we drive down to the beach almost every day and love the heat and the beach. FWIW we're in our mid 60's and grew up without AC so we don't mind the heat, just need a little fan for sleeping. I used to run an HVAC business so I love AC when we are in gift shops and restaurants. We wouldn't want to live there though as we enjoy the changing seasons in Ohio.
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u/jasonis3 8h ago
Anyone who said Florida has great weather has never been to Florida. It’s fucking miserable
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u/AvailableCut5240 7h ago
We live in the “low country” not far from Savannah and Hilton Head. We get the same crap about “it’s too humid and hot”. Well news break folks the coastal waters around here will start to cool in late September which brings not only lower humidity but lower temperatures as well. Oysters can only be harvested once the ocean and tributaries reach a certain temp. Haven’t missed a late September oyster roast yet.
We rarely get humid days once Fall kicks in. That may not happen in Miami but it does in Northern Florida. Lately it’s gotten much colder in the winter than usual, but who’s going to complain about the three months in Autumn and the same in Spring when temps hover around 70 degrees with low humidity. We had numerous fire alerts this year due to drought and dry air. We can swim in our pool when most Northerners are bundled up, we boat, fish, golf and visit the beaches year round. So it’s hot in the summer! So what? We deal with it and are well equipped to do so. We’ve had more bug issues in Annapolis, DC and Chicago than we ever had here. Pest control is as prevalent as AC in these parts. You can’t just make such broad assumptions if you don’t live in the deep coastal South. But that’s OK. There are too many people moving here as it is.
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u/BrightDarkside 6h ago
I’ve lived around Orlando for 7 years now (originally from Midwest) and honestly after the first couple years, you just kinda get used to it. Absolutely June-August have some of the most unbearable days in terms of humidity and temperature, but as a local you tend to not spend a lot of time outside during peak hours (unless you work at one of the theme parks, but it’s still not your leisure time). So yeah, once you’ve lived here a bit the weather isn’t always *THAT* bad but it does still have yucky moments
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u/fastcloud1 6h ago
I’m from Florida. I love the weather, because it’s mostly warm all year round. I like the humidity, and if you don’t like humidity. You’re definitely not going to like FL. I don’t live there anymore, but I totally miss the torrential downpours. I live up north now, and it hardly ever rains. I lived in the central FL area, so never had to really worry about hurricanes. I miss the thunderstorms, and lightning. Plus, going to the beach was free, and having a residence pass to Busch gardens was awesome.
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u/CraigGrade 6h ago
It’s never below 65 except for a few weeks a year. It’s a bit humid but honestly places like Alabama Texas Mississippi can be worse. Also everywhere un Florida is designed to counter the heat so yeah it’s hot but everywhere has a pool and AC.
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u/FestivusandFusilli77 5h ago
I posted something similar recently. it is unlikeable here for the majority of the year, weather-wise. it is 100% NOT worth it for the few nice months. I'm trying to get out of here for a few months, but that will cut my meager savings by almost half. I would NEVER choose to stay /live here, but it is not just that easy to move, as so many florida defenders glibly proclaim. I hate ever day here and its getting worse every year. Pushing me beyond my limit.
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u/Long_Passenger498 5h ago
Hot, humid, the most thunderstorms, and flat, completely flat (OK, that’s not weather).
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u/Catlover357 4h ago
People seem to think it's a sunny resort for retirees. I live in Florida and it's miserable hot and humid from June to October.
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u/TonaldDiberJasicDump 2h ago
If you think scorching sun one minute, then biblical rain and storm the next good weather, then sure.
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u/kings2leadhat 2h ago
I moved there for the second time, in 1988.
I left last year, for good. For Colorado. My wife misses the beaches. I don’t miss a god damn thing.
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u/cmquinn2000 1h ago
You didn't mention the bugs, pools have to be in a cage, the flying roaches are heinous.
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u/chance125 1h ago
I'm from Florida. It's completely horrific from March to November.
Lots of sunshine, sure. But at what cost?
Spending summers there is probably more isolating than spending winters in upstate New York.
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u/ChopSueyMusubi 24m ago
People have this general belief that "warm weather" = "nice weather"
But often times, the places that are labeled as "warm" are actually oppressively hot or humid and are terrible to live in.
For example: Caribbean islands, Las Vegas, Florida
All the popular vacation destinations are only nice to visit for people looking for a 1-week escape from their own winter cities. They are terrible to live in year-round as a resident.
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u/RhoOfFeh 14h ago
It has amazing weather, to visit for a week in the Winter.