Reply #51: I feel your pain! I've been here since 1998, I'm north of Clearwater.

[recoveringrepublican]

I don't see the Jesus stuff so much (though much more so than my lovely Minnesota and North Dakota....sigh good times). It is striking in the differences on how people treat each other down here, though I wonder if it's because Florida is filled with so many transplants that have no real connection to the area. Growing up in ND and MN, while far fro utopia, it seemed like people just cared about each other more. Not that I haven't seen that down here, it's just different. The gap between the rich and poor is much more apparent than MN. The cost of living (at least in Pinellas) is so far above what the wages actually are it's ridiculous!

Can you podcast some sports talk?

If it wasn't for my Florida born Husband and all his family we would be back in MN, I wouldn't even pack, I would just leave.