Best places to retire 2018

[dmccarty]

It's all a matter of perspective. Maine is listed at #47 for weather, Florida is #2, edged out by Hawaii. I guess they don't consider things like hurricanes when they do the numbers.

You literally couldn't pay me to live in Florida... Mosquito's the size of a Robin, snakes up the yazoo, and, oh yeah... Gators. No thanks... Not to mention, it's hotter than the hinges on the gates of h3ll...

I am/was a Floridian but I can't see my self moving back to the state. I can deal with the hurricanes. Gators and snakes taste just like chicken. :licking::laughing: Mosquito's, well they are all over the South, so just deal with them and the squeeters are better than ticks. :shocked: The HEAT in FLA is a different matter. Very few people would live in FLA without AC which is why the population explosion happened after AC was cheap and plentiful. Having said that, I can deal with the heat.

What I cannot deal with is the a holes that have moved to FLA. Just to many of them, and as the song says,

They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot
With a pink hotel, a boutique
And a swinging hot spot

Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got til its gone
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot

So much of what I loved about FLA has been drained, bull dozed, and paved so big huge complexes can be built to house a bunch a holes. I don't think they have a clue as to the paradise that has been paved, and if they did, they don't care.

Later,
Dan

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Like they say, "Yankees are like hemorrhoids...a pain in the *** when they come down, but we're happy when they go back up".

Is that like the bumper sticker that was all over SC Alaska in the 70's? (I was living there then)

Anyway it read: "Happiness is a Texan leaving Alaska with an Oakie under each arm" You saw them on LOT'S of cars... lol lol

As for your saying, we pretty much had no use for folks from Anchorage, so it went like this: "Anchoroids are like Hemorrhoids, both are a pain in the azz"...

SR

 

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...What I cannot deal with is the a holes that have moved to FLA. Just to many of them...

And none of them seem to know how to drive...!

 

[dmccarty]

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Anyway it read: "Happiness is a Texan leaving Alaska with an Oakie under each arm" You saw them on LOT'S of cars... lol lol
...
SR

That is really funny. There was a similar bumper sticker in South FLA but I think the Texan was a French Canadian the Oakie was from NY or NJ. :shocked::laughing::laughing::laughing:

Funny thing is, I have not seen a similar bumper stick here in NC. Nor was/is it needed.:thumbsup:

Later,
Dan

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Same way yankees can spot a southerner, they can't drive....

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Is that like the bumper sticker that was all over SC Alaska in the 70's? (I was living there then)

Anyway it read: "Happiness is a Texan leaving Alaska with an Oakie under each arm" You saw them on LOT'S of cars... lol lol

As for your saying, we pretty much had no use for folks from Anchorage, so it went like this: "Anchoroids are like Hemorrhoids, both are a pain in the azz"...

SR

That's funny. At least they left their mattresses there.

 

[Ken]

Same way yankees can spot a southerner, they can't drive....

Problem with this is .They can tell you seven different ways they would do it back North. Then gripe when you remind them they are the yankee here.
Not painting a broad picture of course. Have friends from most states . Some just cannot enjoy what is available .so think it has to be governed or Unionized and needed a permit to build a one hole out house.
ken

 

[Sigarms]

Same way yankees can spot a southerner, they can't drive....

True, but the Garden state parkway seems to have something on Atlanta and DC, and although Charlotte is bumper to bumper, not near as many idiots.

 

[Sigarms]

Problem with this is .They can tell you seven different ways they would do it back North. Then gripe when you remind them they are the yankee here.
Not painting a broad picture of course. Have friends from most states . Some just cannot enjoy what is available .so think it has to be governed or Unionized and needed a permit to build a one hole out house.
ken

Don't get me going on southern drivers.

Throw a yield sign in front of them or come to a newly built round about, and they fricken STOP!

People drive like idiots no matter where you live.

Still remember in Syracuse at a gym and the guy was telling us how great his new 4WD handled on ice.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

People drive like idiots no matter where you live.
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Bingo. We got a winner.


Atlanta was the worse for me, and i have driven in almost every state. But there are good and bad drivers everywhere, has nothing to do with where they are from.