A Very Special Thanksgiving Roast: Florida, House Trolls & Kentucky Fried Scrotes (FDS PODCAST EP.90)

I had the misfortune of residing in Florida as a young girl for a few years (proud to say I was not from there by any definition) and can confirm the following points. 1) most of the population per town transfers in from the rest of the USA and the world, to a more limited extent, to the deep frustrations of the inherent residents (by inherent, I mean people who are born in FL to parents who were also born in FL; this was a consistent social divide I observed across all ethnicities/social identities and FL locations, urban, suburban, or rural) 2) The inherent residents VS snowbirds (as they refer to the usually wealthier people that transfer into FL) was an eternal unspoken passive aggressive struggle that in most instances would manifest in poorer quality of life in many ways that are not immediately apparent to the casual observer as will become evident in the following points. 3) the wealthy outsiders are attracted by the seemingly cheap real estate and relatively limited individual tax burden, & are motivated to reside in FL to advance their personal net worth because the state has many commercial and residential zone loopholes that every business niche and their internal structures were built to exploit. This is a major problem for the local communities because there are no consistent infrastructures that exist to supply the resources and services that most improve the chances that community members have to gain the skills to improve their own lives as one can usually expect from US states with a HCOL. My local public school library in FL had such a lack of non-fiction books that I read through the entire available collection of this genre within my first school year there. As an elementary school student. There were no books about geometry whatsoever. There were such a lack of walkable spaces in my former small town in FL that alligators were commonly spotted making use of the available sidewalks in my town to the point that PE was the most practiced course in my school and we were consistently drilled to sprint to safety to avoid becoming an alligator’s lunch. Which as one can also suppose, did not bode well for the obesity and poverty rates of my former area as well, bringing me to my last point for this reply. 4) The health care system in FL is also a haphazardly mostly-privatized behemoth that strikes fear into the most fearless minds I have ever known. Most people that ever frequent the public health system are the incarcerated population and the destitute, as related to me by relatives who voluntarily labored in it. Do not ever get sick in FL if you value your existence such as it is. It will trap you within a cycle of poverty if you don't have a sufficient financial cushion to bear the blow.

I am still privately amazed I managed to escape healthy and able to work in my current STEM field at all considering how behind FL education and health is from many other US states. This is but a drop in the bucket of how insane life in FL was for me. I will never live there. Ever. All of the scorn is justified. Because it isn’t FL man that is the true horror, it’s the fact that all aspects of life there solely devote themselves to FL man’s enablement, FL man’s infamy, and worst of all, FL man’s entitlement; whether it is truly intentional or not, I cannot speculate with certainty but urge all of the Queens to read the amusing works of Carl Hiaasen, who actually wrote about FL culture and life at great length and resides within the general geographical area of FL that I did.

What a grab-bag of utter scrotery, nicely roasted to a crisp ladies!

Get well soon Lilith 💗

Did anyone else not like the attitude about trailer parks? Not trying to nitpick but it kind of had a "trashy people live in those" vibe.