I get that no region is immune to the climate crisis, but I just can't fathom moving to or buying property in a place as acutely vulnerable to it as Florida
I live here. The weather SUCKS. Half the year it is inhospitable. 90's with the humidity of the underside of a track runner's ballsack. You walk outside and your pores just expel all the moisture they've ever held onto to in your life. Every day it rains, so it goes from being hot and humid to dumping warm Gulf water on you and being even more humid and just as hot.
Then you pay a high sales tax because we are trying to collectively gouge tourists. Your property taxes suck because we also experience the same housing crisis as everyone else except here we MUST carry flood insurance and nobody wants to insure you and that goes up as housing prices go up as well. Some people pay more for the fucking insurance than their mortgage. Oh, and they are redrawing flood maps again. by 2026 not a single home will be exempt from flood insurance. I rent like all my fellow working class people so fuck em I guess lol.
Every day it rains, so it goes from being hot and humid to dumping warm Gulf water on you and being even more humid and just as hot.
Now you might be thinking, “But wait, I live in a place where it rains, it’s not that bad!” it doesn’t rain there like it does here, unless you live somewhere just as uninhabitable. In the UK, in the Pacific Northwest, hell even in the American northeast most of the time, if it’s raining just carry an umbrella and you’ll be fine. You can walk around London for a whole day while it’s raining and be totally dry at the end. In Florida if you carry an umbrella you’ll maybe be slightly less wet, if it doesn’t just rip the umbrella from your hand.
Every drop of rain here is the size of 20 of your standard English rain drop. It’ll be bright and sunny all morning and then around 1-2pm you’ll suddenly notice the sky darken and in a short time you’ll see what most places would consider too much rain for a month fall over the course of like 30 minutes.
What’s super fun is the rains are also super hard to predict. You know how most rain clouds build over some time and distance, migrating from an area with lots of evaporation such as oceans or forests, so you can track the clouds and where rain is likely? Yeah that’s not where Florida rain comes from. It’s so hot and humid that it just picks up all the water from yesterday’s rain and whatever swamp you happen to be near and drops it right back down on you.
Oh yeah, and you know how sometimes for a while it rains everyday at like 1-2pm. Then in a few weeks that shifts later and later until you get your 30 minute monsoon during traffic? Fun times when that happens everyday for 2 weeks during rush hour.
By the way, did I mention I used to commute everyday on a motorcycle here. I had to ride home one night in tropical storm level rain. I waited 4 hours after work for it to clear up. Finally gave up and it was like 9pm and I'm riding home during 60mph gusts and rain so hard you can't see 20 meters out.
I get that no region is immune to the climate crisis, but I just can't fathom moving to or buying property in a place as acutely vulnerable to it as Florida
MUH TAXES AND GÜD WETHER
are the reasons I hear.
I live here. The weather SUCKS. Half the year it is inhospitable. 90's with the humidity of the underside of a track runner's ballsack. You walk outside and your pores just expel all the moisture they've ever held onto to in your life. Every day it rains, so it goes from being hot and humid to dumping warm Gulf water on you and being even more humid and just as hot.
Then you pay a high sales tax because we are trying to collectively gouge tourists. Your property taxes suck because we also experience the same housing crisis as everyone else except here we MUST carry flood insurance and nobody wants to insure you and that goes up as housing prices go up as well. Some people pay more for the fucking insurance than their mortgage. Oh, and they are redrawing flood maps again. by 2026 not a single home will be exempt from flood insurance. I rent like all my fellow working class people so fuck em I guess lol.
Now you might be thinking, “But wait, I live in a place where it rains, it’s not that bad!” it doesn’t rain there like it does here, unless you live somewhere just as uninhabitable. In the UK, in the Pacific Northwest, hell even in the American northeast most of the time, if it’s raining just carry an umbrella and you’ll be fine. You can walk around London for a whole day while it’s raining and be totally dry at the end. In Florida if you carry an umbrella you’ll maybe be slightly less wet, if it doesn’t just rip the umbrella from your hand.
Every drop of rain here is the size of 20 of your standard English rain drop. It’ll be bright and sunny all morning and then around 1-2pm you’ll suddenly notice the sky darken and in a short time you’ll see what most places would consider too much rain for a month fall over the course of like 30 minutes.
What’s super fun is the rains are also super hard to predict. You know how most rain clouds build over some time and distance, migrating from an area with lots of evaporation such as oceans or forests, so you can track the clouds and where rain is likely? Yeah that’s not where Florida rain comes from. It’s so hot and humid that it just picks up all the water from yesterday’s rain and whatever swamp you happen to be near and drops it right back down on you.
Oh yeah, and you know how sometimes for a while it rains everyday at like 1-2pm. Then in a few weeks that shifts later and later until you get your 30 minute monsoon during traffic? Fun times when that happens everyday for 2 weeks during rush hour.
By the way, did I mention I used to commute everyday on a motorcycle here. I had to ride home one night in tropical storm level rain. I waited 4 hours after work for it to clear up. Finally gave up and it was like 9pm and I'm riding home during 60mph gusts and rain so hard you can't see 20 meters out.
Taxing weather -
Anyone who says Florida has good weather is the dumbest moron on earth. I’d rather the weather of fucking Scotland than this burning swamp.
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There’s new construction happening in Miami
It’s delusional. I don’t know what else to call it. This whole state needs to be evacuating