Reasons to Live in Florida...

Reasons to Live in Florida

As if the sugar-white sand and the azure blue waters weren't enough, here's just a few more reasons to live in the great state of Florida:

• It's just like the Midwest and Northeast (without the snow, ice and grumpy people)

• Three national championship football teams give you plenty of bragging rights

• Real Key Lime pie

• The Florida Lottery (hey, you never know!)

• Fresh Seafood

• If it can be made into a theme park, we've done it or are working on it

• We're the only state to throw parties for our natural disasters (If you've never been to a hurricane party, you haven't lived! Ever wonder where the drink called the Hurricane came from?)

• How many other states do you know of that have manatees?

• The original Flora-Bama: where EVERYONE swears they used to "hang out" with Jimmy Buffett (and probably did)

• Space Shuttle launches (and Space Shuttle launch parties)

• Bike Week in Daytona

• Fantasy Fest in Key West

• Spring Break in...well, every city in the state

• Floridian doctors have actually been known to prescribe "sailing" for stress relief

• Floridians still know the meaning of the word "neighbor"

• It's probably not raining right now

• If it is raining now, it won't be by the time you're done reading this.

• Shell collecting

• Scuba Diving and snorkeling

• No state income taxes

• Good enough for Hemingway, Madonna, Versace, etc....

• Guavas, coconuts, loquats and bananas come from the trees, not from the store

• From any point in Florida, a beach is only 60 miles away

• "Formal Attire" has a completely different definition

• You don't have to move when you retire