[Pollard]

I lived there for 25+ years. It’s a melting pot within the melting pot that is the USA.

The natives are just rednecks but the climate makes them different in their lifestyle.

Everyone else is from somewhere else.

I came up with a saying regarding the incoming people.

People move to Florida for one of three reasons.

To Party
To make it big financially
To die (mostly talking about retirees)

Some manage to do all three (retired or young)

[Defiant]

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/audience/david-whitley/os-ae-florida-man-alligator-in-convenience-store-david-whitley-0730-story.html

[BTCM]

As a native born Floridian, I will tell you when graduating in the 50’s, a bus ticket out of state was an ideal gift because all the damn yankees retired here bringing their great ideas from which they were fleeing and they received a pension from unions or tax payers were willing to work for Jack/Zit just get to Hell away from a blue haired hellion called, “yes dear”.

[VastRWCon]

I came to FL for 3 reasons.

1. To fish
2. To drink beer
3. To get the hell out of MD.

Love it here.

[HotHunt]

I've lived in Florida for 10 years now. In a rural area, not in a big city.

I would like to add to your list of why people move to Florida.

To run away from the law or trouble of some other kind in their lives.

Seems like every headline you read in the press about somebody doing something crazy, chances are it is about someone in Florida.

[mowowie]

I used to call Florida the deadbeat dad capitol of America.
Seems they all escape to there....