llambo17 t1_jbp3tgk wrote on March 10, 2023 at 5:18 PM

Reply to comment by V1198 in bill to ban gender affirming care for kids currently being debated by comefromawayfan2022

Besides the traffic, I-4, and occasional hurricanes, Florida is doing pretty damn well as a state and is making it's way up to the top. Should go down there some time, Tampa is a beautiful diverse area, and many communities are retired northern folks. Met a few from NH and have actually camped at their campgrounds up here and they love it in FL as do a lot of people I know. Nice place to spend summers as long as the red tide isn't flaring up.

V1198 t1_jbp85py wrote on March 10, 2023 at 5:45 PM

Florida has a Governor that’s way out of control. Up here in NH we like our government small and our Governors in check. Then there’s the whole Florida man thing. That state is basically just bath salts and sunshine, hard pass.

Paper_Disastrous t1_jbp9btz wrote on March 10, 2023 at 5:53 PM

It's a nice place to retire to after you move off the benefits of living up in New England. However if you're gay trans, a woman, a teacher, a student or a younger adult trying to get a job and find a house to rent, you are absolutely f*****.

llambo17 t1_jbpu05k wrote on March 10, 2023 at 8:07 PM

True on that first part and it's a bit cheaper to live down there if you don't make much and like manufactured homes but I would have to disagree with that second part. Not sure on your experience's and how you have come to that conclusion but visiting down there in the winters and talking with my friends and family that live there, some who are middle to very low income have not had many issues, if not at all. Only issues my family has had that was related to the government was trying to get disability which Florida judges are very hard to convince even with solid evidence because of the amount of people who are trying to get it with little to no issues. Also, I don't have any trans friends just one that's gay and he hasn't had any grips about the area, state or jobs. He keeps trying to get me to come down and work with him which I may. Also, there federal laws that protect people from discrimination in the workplace and hiring environment and Florida is pretty diverse, if there was issue like that, I'd think the younger people would be leaving the state, not moving in from places like Cali, NY and New England. Tampa imo is the place to be in the winter. Then NH in the summer.