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In reply to the discussion: state by state speak your mind about...florida [View all]The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)I found Florida to be an interesting place. They say "the further south you go in Florida, the further north you get." I find that to be at least somewhat true. Tallahassee is just a few miles from Georgia, and I saw little difference between the socio-cultural/geographical/climatological setting of Tallahassee and southern Georgia or Alabama. However, going to Orlando or even Gainesville seemed a lot more "northern" in feel (the climate, of course, was not very northern!) I found that life in my part of northern Florida was much slower, to my perception, than SW Missouri is. Though I am back in Missouri now, and much of what I experienced in Florida is happily behind me now, there is also much that I miss. I miss the beautiful Spanish-moss-draped old live oaks, the beautiful flowers and the cultural diversity of the Tallahassee area.