We are all Americans BUT

[amyren]

I was born in Orlando, Fl. Moved to Jacksonville when I was 6. I am now 47. The joke here in jacksonville is that we are not really Florida we are Georgia. Some one just drew the state line in the wrong place. lol

yep - That sounds about right.

 

[Minnesota!]

"You have a baby.....in a bar!"

Mine is everyone in Maine says, "Auyuh"

I have always wondered how this is pronounced...??

My thoughts on other states:

WA/OR - granola crunching hippies, always wet

So CAL - fake, beautiful, nasty traffic

AL/MS/GA/TN/KY/FL - backwards hicks. Slow moving, slow thinking. Lots of bugs, reptiles, and nasty heat.

New England - uppity, cold (weather and people), too congested, compact.

Midwest - beautiful, open spaces, miles of corn fields (which I find beautiful!), nice people.

Dakotas/plains - pretty much the same as the Midwest but even better scenery and even more open space!

 

[SandrA9810]

Florida - people are way to laid back and and like to do things at a slower pace. Oh wait and I cannot forget at least in Miami and south your way to friendly. lol (I have relatives all around Southern Florida from Miami to the keys and when I was a kid it kinda creeped me out how friendly everyone always was). I'm freaked out by the city planing I don't get how I can be in-front of a mansion one minute and in the slums the next.

Friendly?? Laid Back?? Slower?? Are you sure you were in Florida and not Ohio??

Miami traffic is horrible, awful, and always slow to a crawl at rush hour, horrible drivers who are ready to rip your front end off. It took over a year of living in Orlando to get away from my bad "miami driving habits". Now I can't even stand to think about going back there.

Most the time I had people look at me like as some crazy wacko for not speaking spanish. And they won't even give you the time of day. The greeting is always in spanish and they won't acknowledge your existence after telling them you don't speak spanish.

It is true about one block will be pretty and the next with bars on the window. When I lived in Hollywood, it was very apparent crossing the railroad tracks, and then crossing US1, then crossing A1A when you're driving on Hollywood Blvd.
It was even apparent in my neighborhood growing up. 17th Ave was the edge of the city of North Miami, and you knew you were in a different part of town when you crossed the street. There's a million other places like that too.

The only thing I do miss about the city, is how easy it is to find an address. There's very few street names, (coral gables is an exception) so you can find any building or house relatively easy.