I visited the Someshine State four times ( one doesn't count : it was an airline refuel, less awful than Atlanta.) But I did get married in Florida. I had food poisoning for 4 days after the ceremony ( 45min visit to a notary and a licensed other person at the bureau of Vital Statistics). I have seen Disney Florida. I did not buy a bazooka there. Your comparison of Florida and where you are now is too polite. Your magpies, even if carrying military level firearms, are preferable to almost all human society in Florida except old guys who sell pecans boiled in honey along the road near the Georgia border. They're OK.
I found I enjoyed my visits to Florida, but they were pretty low-key and I was traveling with a baby, for example. I didn't 'party' in Miami because that's just not my idea of fun. But I do notice that Americans sometimes talk about Florida the way non-Americans talk about America. The US is somewhat the Florida of the Western World. I actually enjoyed my many, many years in the United States but this is met with incredulity from my relatives here.
I visited the Someshine State four times ( one doesn't count : it was an airline refuel, less awful than Atlanta.) But I did get married in Florida. I had food poisoning for 4 days after the ceremony ( 45min visit to a notary and a licensed other person at the bureau of Vital Statistics). I have seen Disney Florida. I did not buy a bazooka there. Your comparison of Florida and where you are now is too polite. Your magpies, even if carrying military level firearms, are preferable to almost all human society in Florida except old guys who sell pecans boiled in honey along the road near the Georgia border. They're OK.
I found I enjoyed my visits to Florida, but they were pretty low-key and I was traveling with a baby, for example. I didn't 'party' in Miami because that's just not my idea of fun. But I do notice that Americans sometimes talk about Florida the way non-Americans talk about America. The US is somewhat the Florida of the Western World. I actually enjoyed my many, many years in the United States but this is met with incredulity from my relatives here.