if you’ve never been to florida, the heat is absolutely miserable. and when the power goes out, as it does every time there’s a hurricane, then you’re fucked, and all the food in your fridge is bad the next day, because it’s 90+ inside the house now. plus, thousands of gallons of water that just flooded your neighborhood are now in the air as humidity, make everything exponentially worse.
this is ignoring the fact of being surrounded by asshole floridians
Floridian here and you basically described it to a tee. Why are there so many entitled assholes here? I can’t leave my house for 5 minutes without encountering some of the worst people society has to offer.
The heat and humidity are ultimately what’s driving us away. When summer hits, we basically don’t go outdoors at all because it’s 1000% fucking miserable.
I actually looked this up a little while back while talking to a friend about how impatient drivers are here. There are studies that show this to be the case.
NW FL here. You have to go out and get used to it, and that has to be a commitment. Easier said than done, I’ve failed year after year.
If you’re out every day you learn tricks to stay cool and what to avoid. For example; We walk down to the neighborhood creek a couple of times a week. That trek is about a mile over sandy, slippery washes. You don’t want to go or leave from 2PM-5PM. Be on the water at those times or don’t do it. Best, go after 3PM. Arrive hot and dying, swim and play until past 5PM, walk home when it’s better.
Learn how to dress, learn how to use cooling cloth, plenty of tricks. It’s like Arrakis, but humid.
tl;dr: It’s all good in or on the water.
you’re talking like no one has to go to work and wear specific work clothing that doesn’t take the miserable heat into account. even still, i lived in tampa bay for well over 25 years, and the clothing, cooling cloth and any other “tricks” don’t make it not 95+ degrees outside. there is no amount of money in existence that would convince me to put up with that bullshit ever again
I found hitting the sauna or steam room two or three times a week really helps. Your body learns to sweat more quickly so you’ll start cooling faster, plus acclimating to 120°F and higher temperatures makes the swamp fug feel less awful.
The solution is of course to ban talking about climate change and to discriminate against trans people.
These Florida migrants are gonna terk er jerbs!
Move west, where there is no water.
I left Florida after COVID there’s like 5 people that still live there that I hope don’t drown.