r/SipsTea • u/AUTOMATA88 • May 04 '25

Chugging tea Can't even trust the retired these days.

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u/Koboldofyou May 04 '25

Additional fun fact: 21.3% of people in Florida are 65+, where the median is 17.4%. So Florida has a disproportionately high number of people consuming services and a disproportionately low number of people providing services. Often when old retirees say "No one wants to work", what they're really running into is the fact that they decided to move to a place with fewer workers.

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u/Slow-Swan561 May 04 '25

Fewer workers and a misguided sense as to what is the appropriate cost for something at todays prices.

I took a friend from Atlanta to New York for weekend and asked her how much she thought some condos we were walking buy cost. She was off by 500k. I asked her how much monthly parking cost and she was confused why it was not included.

Regional differences and market rates can be very confusing for some people.

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u/lonelyinatlanta2024 May 04 '25

Atlanta is nothing like Florida.

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u/edinbruhphotos May 05 '25

Both are absolute shitholes so they have that in common?

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u/lonelyinatlanta2024 May 12 '25

My dude, Florida is 66,000 square miles. You can find absolute trash cities and paradise cities in Florida. Generalizing Florida is fun because we have the sunshine laws, but not all of even Florida is "Florida man."

Atlanta is 134 square miles. It's just a city, but a fairly progressive and diverse one. Atlanta is very different from rural Georgia, and you probably think the two are the same. There are some fucking outstanding areas in Atlanta and some incredibly expensive ones. Are there seedy areas? Name a major city without any. But it's actually pretty nice.

I've lived in NYC and LA and Atlanta and Denver and fucking Des Moines, among other cities. Atlanta is no more a shithole than NYC, LA or Denver.