The Florida Thread • Page 3

I'm a sucker for a philly cheesesteak

 

Born and raised in Miami (Baptist Hospital represent) til I was 13, then forced to live in VA til I could return to this gloriously humid and sun-drenched land for college. I've lived in the Tampa area since 2003 and enjoy it, traffic can be ridiculous but never as bad as the nightmare that is driving in Miami where a bunch of my family still lives and I get to play the game of "what's the stupidest thing that driver could do here?" and most times they end up doing it.

 

Florida drivers are the fucking worst

 

Lived 45 minutes north of Tampa all my life until 8 months ago.

Living in Oregon now and missing Publix subs every god damn day.

 

I had an Ultimate for lunch. Bonus points for being on sale this week.

 

Ultimate on wheat is my shit

 

Picked up Publix subs to take to the beach tomorrow. Hitting up Indian Rocks Beach Fest tomorrow with the family.

 

Just ordered the book "Weird Florida" from Amazon. Hyped to read it.

 

I miss publix subs so much

I've tried Safeway subs at various stops on the west coast but they're not quite the same

 

Any Orlando people here on Chorus?

I have a potential job there that I'll have a hard time turning down if things work out.

 

I'm in Orlando! Have been for basically my whole life.

 

Awesome

I'll probably have quite a few questions for you if I end up there, especially about places to live.

 

I'd be happy to answer. Renting is tough here, things get rented so quick. Where is your potential job at?

 

I'll be teaching English and coaching football at a high school.

What you're saying about renting scares me a little bit. I was looking at some places near Winter Park a few days, but I haven't really done much research yet.

 

It is hot as fuck out. The summer sucks here unless I'm at the beach or pool.

 

Oh, nice! Yeah Winter Park is a really nice area with a lot of interesting restaurants and cool places to go. It is also super hot here already so prepare yourself if you're coming in the summer.

 

I lived at Orlando's beach the majority of my life. I miss publix more than anything. The grocery stores in the north east are the worst.

 

It's 93 degrees out and I'm about as far north as you can get in FL

 

Tampa bay native here. I do love the location. Florida is crazy sometimes and I do find myself wanting out...but I still appreciate it. I love tampa bay/pinellas county because it's a peninsula.

 

Hope everyone here is safe in Orlando. Have a ton of friends there. Situation is so fucking awful.

 

The Christina Grimmie thing hit close to home because I've gone to so many shows here and stayed after for meet and greets so many times. But I've been to Pulse countless times and I was just at Pulse last weekend and last night we were talking about the next time we'd go back. Something you'd never think would actually happen in your backyard.

Hope everyone's loved ones are safe.

 

Rick Scott just declared a state of emergency for the entire state.

 

Stayed in downtown Orlando last night after the Thrice show and woke up to a bunch of texts from friends and family, then my Facebook app demanding to know if I was safe or not because my location had me in an "unsafe zone" because I was a mile and a half from what happened.

 

It's so awful. Two shootings in a week.

 

I almost panicked in the morning because the club is near the hospital my uncle has been at for the last few days. Still can't believe these last two days.