Thread:Mainframebabe/@comment-31592479-20170603172432/@comment-30339728-20170605171334

Miribeth wrote: I've been living in Florida since 2010, and my wife has been here for over 25 years.

It is NOT a great place. It's a festering swamp full of vicious predators. By this I am referring to the cities; the Everglades aren't nearly as bad.

The bad driving isn't the tourists, it's the residents. I commute 70 miles a day, in the Miami area. The drivers in Florida are the worst I've ever known, and I have driven in LA, the Bay area, Boston, and DC, as well as many other less notorious cities.

I look forward to retirement, when I can get away from here!

Things have obviously changed a huge amount. I graduated from college in 1981 and began my adult life moving out of southern Florida. I only went back to visit mom and dad until they moved back to Europe in '95. My memories of Hollywood (the city in which I grew up) are happy ones - colored of course by childhood and teenaged eyes. I will keep those near. I do remember commuting by bus to summer jobs in Miami/Miami Beach and that was tough even back then.

Houston was by far the worst traffic mess I've ever had to deal with and the drivers here in Louisiana need remedial courses in obeying laws.

Where is it that you wish to retire? We get to that point in about 10 years or so and haven't given much thought as to where other than a major metropolitan city with a livable downtown. That is my husband's dream. Me, I am not so sure.

Thanks for making me laugh with your predator line. I appreciate the humor and wit mixed with truths.