43 Reasons Why Growing Up In Florida Was Paradise On Earth
Two words: FUN NOODLES.
3. And you got free cookies at the Publix bakery just because you were a kid!
5. Your driving test was a joke, and you probably didn’t even have to parallel park.
19. After every wave, you knew you got to watch the coquinas bury themselves in the sand.
20. Every Friday and Saturday night: the outdoor mall and a movie.
21. You knew exactly where you and your friends could hang out until late at night.
23. Slow drivers don’t faze you, because you’re used to going 30 behind a huge Cadillac with Ohio plates.
27. You didn’t have to wear a big coat over your Halloween costume…because it was still 90 degrees outside.
29. Learning to plot hurricanes was an actual elementary school lesson.
31. You got to freak northern people out by revealing you’d never seen snow.
32. You laughed when people bought these at shell stores, because you already have a bunch you found (already dead, of course).
34. You and your family knew EXACTLY which side you were on.
35. You knew you didn’t need snow to make it *feel* like Christmas.
36. You had a drawer for your regular shorts and a drawer for your nice shorts.
39. It takes a REALLY big bug to gross you out after growing up with lizards, dragonflies, snakes, alligators, and fire ants.
41. You’re tough with burns, because you’ve touched one of these after it sat in a Florida parking lot for hours.
42. You were always tan, just from walking to and from your house.
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russelc 2 months ago80-90 degrees during October… what’s nice about that!? I left FL and couldn’t be happier. FYI, snow days are SOO much more fun than hurricane days.
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tealchastainb 2 months agoMy aunt and cousin came to Indiana (where I’m from) last month so that my cousin could see snow. As a native Floridian, my cousin asked his grandma if he’d have to “wear the shorts that go all the way down to his shoes” to go up north. LOL
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marylesterh 2 months agoAlways loved the lightning shows, the orchestra of frogs croaking in the distance after a summer rain, the crickets singing in the night, collecting various seashells along the beach and watching the coquinas bury themselves in the sand :), having the choice of going to an east or west coast beach in the same state, seeing the gators swimming in the rivers and all the Florida wildlife for that matter, our usually mild temperatures and beautiful days in the winter/spring months, picking oranges off our orange tree, the afternoon thunderstorms almost every evening in the summer, just to name a few :)
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marylesterh 2 months ago
@ Alexis - the stingray shuffle is shuffling your feet on the bottom of the ocean rather than picking your feet up and stepping down so that if there happens to be a stingray in front of you, you won’t step on him and have him sting you out of reflex. Shuffling your feet gives you a chance to scare the stingray off instead of surprising him :)
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margaretwidmand 2 months agoThey forgot to add the fact that for most of us in FLorida, our camper was a boat. I grew up sailing and boating almost every day and weekend. We would just drop anchor and spend the night all up and down the coast, the intracoastal waterway and the St. Johns River. My kids now - definitely water babies, too. No diss on any other state - we all love our own states and we Floridians love things about yours, too. But this is home. :o)
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Dianaluv101 2 months agoI live in south Florida near Miami :D But im moving to Los Angeles this year :)
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Cates Holderness 2 months agoI wish to god someone had taught me the Stingray Shuffle when I was a kid. When I was 26 I got stung on the top of my foot by a big ol’ sting ray at Topsail Beach in NC. I now have a permanent scar/divot on the top of my foot.
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velvetknight 2 months agoYeah, as long as you’re not the one scraping them off your windshield.
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A.Leigh 2 months ago
I grew up in PA, and got free cookies at Giant Eagle every time we went (they don’t do that anymore, though). People wear flip flops all the time there, including when they went to outlet malls, Perkins, Dairy Queen, and Papa John’s (how are any of those Florida things?). Also, basically every southerner I’ve ever heard say they’ve never seen snow was whining about how they’re missing out. There are literally entire movies revolving around people from warm climates wanting to see snow (at least one DCOM I can thing of, anyway). Besides, snow days are better than hurricane days. Do you get to go outside and play in a hurricane? I mean, I don’t really see Florida as being any better or worse than PA, and I like living here, but half this list has nothing to do with Florida specifically and some don’t even sound like good things, much less “paradise.”
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marylesterh 2 months ago
Yes but do the folks in PA run around in flip flops during winter/spring? :) I know I don’t want snow, visiting it was ok. We really don’t get hurricane days because hurricanes don’t hit us as often as some think. 2004 was a fluke, to have 4 major hurricanes hit us is definitely not the norm. But a lot of our hurricanes that did come through were mild enough to play in. Besides, I’m sure you all have snow days way more often than we have hurricane days. It seems you must find some things “paradise”-like if you like living here right? :)
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mindim 2 months agoI grew up in upstate NY until right before I turned 16 and then moved to Florida. I had plenty of snow days when I was a kid, and yes they were great, but I would rather deal with a hurricane any day of the week. Snow is very pretty when you see it for the first time, or when you are visiting in it, but now when you live in it. Everyone gets excited for the first snow fall of the year, yes, but then they get sick of the cold and having to shovel everytime it snows. I moved to NEPA (North Eastern Pennsylvania) for a year, and I cannot wait to get back to Florida. The weather here sucks, and the economy is even worse. At least where I was in Florida there were things to do.
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David Coffman 2 months ago
What is the stingray shuffle??? U obviously didn’t grow up in Florida…Or never went to the beach.
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