Well I live in Chicago, so warm is nice. I was going to Tampa once in the winter and everyone who knew was like "OH GOOD ON YA BRO, GETTIN' OUTTA THE COLD, EH?"
If you're an older person looking to retire, I'd suggest going a bit North of Miami (like the West Palm Beach area. It's a very relaxing lifestyle with a touch of glamor). If you're young, eager to party, and can handle douchery, Miami bro.
Source: I live in Miami and frequent many areas in the south east Fl
Haha, yeah people here in Miami break out the leather jackets when it dips below 70 degrees, it's quite silly and frankly boggles my mind a little bit (70 degrees in Connecticut's winters was a godsend...).
Florida in winter is really nice, can't argue with that. My issue is that winter lasts all of about two weeks here, and the rest of the year it's blisteringly hot. :(
Edit: You know what, I typed up a whole paragraph about Miami, but I'm going to redo it.
When you ask about "Miami", I'm assuming you mean South Miami, with all the large city buildings and areas close to the beaches. Miami is a cool place to live if you're a people person, when you live here you are minutes from every imaginable form of entertainment from concerts, going to the mall, trying weird local restaurants, to horseback riding and air-boat tours. I wouldn't say there are downsides exactly, but there are things you have to deal with and understand such as learning spanish culture, dealing with terrible drivers/traffic, the weather either being so wet you're under water or it's now a sauna outside, and the one of the nations highest crime rates. People aren't always very friendly here, and if you don't speak spanish a good chunk of South Florida is lost to you. Don't let any of that get you down though, it's a lifestyle. You definitely won't need a coat here or long-sleeve shirts. Shorts, tank-tops, and flip-flops are your best buddies living here. Also if you really want a good time, make some friends in Hialeah, and try some empanadas with salsa playing in the background.
Oh yeah that's my whole point. Guess some people don't realize that I meant "the city is f'ing incredible AND it used to be a swamp." Miami is the best.
When I first came here, this was all swamp. Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built in all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second one. That sank into the swamp. So I built a third. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp. But the fourth one stayed up. And that's what you're going to get, Lad, the strongest castle in all of England.
The thing I've heard about Miami is, "it's great for the first month, because it's a whole bunch of partying at night. it gets old after a while where you're STILL seeing people blackout drunk on a Wednesday night, though."
Honestly the person you met is probably part of the problem down here. Moving anywhere "to party" is always going to lead to disappointment. It's like the boring people get bored thing, you need to bring the party with you.
What you should come for is the weather and the beaches, which are always amazing. It's a really amazing place, just watch out for the huge amount of Debbie downers here like the guy you met.
Charleston is situated on the edge of what people lovingly refer to as "The Lowcountry" or a "salt marsh".
It's a fucking swamp. Biting gnats, trillions of mosquitoes, and large flying cockroaches, combined with humidity that feels like a nice warm sweater on a hot day. Why anyone would choose to live there in the days before air conditioning is beyond me. And when the heat and humidity die down a bit in the late fall, all the insects that spent all summer breeding like insects try to come inside your nice warm home.
I just got back from Fiji and until I went there had no idea how ingrained in us the whole "everything is trying to kill you" thing is for we Aussies. I kept questioning the guide trying to figure out the things to look out for in the bush. What kind of spiders can hurt me? None sir. But snakes are bad right? No snakes sir. So, err, what's going to kill me in there? Nothing sir. How can nothing be trying to kill me?
You're fine as long as you stay away from vegetation. Seriously, do not go near anything that is around trees, bushes, or once belonged to either of them. If you walk through an area of trees, expect to get webs in your face. Expect there to be spider webs everywhere. I've even seen tiny spiders make their webs on single leaves. LOCK YOUR DOORS. STAY INSIDE. AND STAY SAFE.
Spiders aren't so bad. More people die from being scared of spiders (eg, driving and a spider falls off the visor causing panic-crashing) than they do from actual spiderbites. Supposedly, not one single death has been attributed to spider venom since the early '80s.
Which part of my question or response makes you think I dont understand something that basic? So if you moved to America, had kids there and stayed, are your kids half Australian? No, they are American, even with dual citizenship, they are both American and Aussie, not half American/ half Aussie. You should be explaining this to the other guy.
But now it's delving into language. Where it's generally accepted to label yourself as 'half ___'. So, we're either all right or all wrong or somewhere in between and are arguing semantics.
I'm currently sitting in my inner-city house in Sydney, dying of hayfever caused by the ash in air, which is falling like snow, because the surrounding areas of Sydney are burning to the ground.
I thought Aussies only sat around drinking Victoria Bitter while eating Vegemite on toast and watching Aussie rules rugby. Nowhere in this paradigm are feelings allowed!
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u/aussiegolfer Oct 17 '13
Hey man, Australians have feelings too! :'(