nyguy opened this issue on Dec 31, 2008 · 33 posts
Darboshanski posted Thu, 01 January 2009 at 7:27 AM
Quote - I'm so tempted to go somewhere tropical after the holidays are finally over. My problem with the snow isn't the shoveling, it's the idiots whom I have to deal with. If I have to yell at one more person for playing in my front yard I swear I'm going to do it in a way that gets me on the 5 o'clock news. Honestly, they visit winter up here and think any surface covered in snow is a public resource for their own personal use. Never mind the fact that it's someone else's front yard. One of these day's I'm going to head to the sunny part of the state and park my family on one of their front lawns, have a picknick and leave my trash.... it's the same thing I have to deal with in winter.
I grew up in Florida along the gulf beaches (St.Petersburg/Clearwater) Kendra and it was the same there any place there was a beach access, even the private ones, people felt free to use them or to use the term "camp" out until someone asked them to leave. OF course whatever trash they didn't feel like taking stayed behind.
After I got out of the service I tried living back in my home town but couldn't the area exploded with people and 20 story condos and all the things that made my little beach town charming were gone it went totally commercial as a matter of fact the whole county, which at one time was very beautiful, is now nothing but blacktop and concrete. I don't know if there is really a trade off
running the AC 8-9 months 24/7 in Florida a year or the heat 6 months a year up here in NH.
I guess if a person loves oppressive heat Florida sure has it. In the summer everything is so hot you can't touch it if it's been left outside. Your car gets so hot and you can't crack the windows in the summer because of the violent late afternoon thunderstorms that dump rain like a monsoon. Even the sand on the beach is so hot you can't walk through without shoes on then you jump into body of water that is 88 degrees...LOL! Nope I like the 4 seasons I don't think I could ever live in the land of eternal summer again.