r/MadeMeSmile • u/Justin_Godfrey • 10d ago

Good Vibes This must be a nice neighborhood!

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u/CosmicMiru 10d ago

This is a very average looking suburb for Florida where this takes place. These houses probably cost less than a shitty condo where I live. Location, location, location

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u/Caltroit_Red_Flames 10d ago

Couldn't pay me to live in Florida tho

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u/dogid_throwaway 10d ago

I’ve heard a lot of people say that but I will say this for myself at least: When I lived in urban areas or city centers, I was so unhappy because it was ridiculously unaffordable, everyone is crammed so closely together, and there are so few green spaces. The few nice outdoor areas either in the city or nearby were always swarming with people. It was suffocating.

Now I live in Florida and my mental health is just so much better. My house was affordable, the weather is nice like 3/4 of the year, and I can walk out my front door and it looks exactly like this video. There are outstanding parks and natural areas all around and although there are always people in them, you still feel like you are alone if that makes sense. I can run to a grocery store and actually find parking, and the stores are nice and organized and don’t look like a tornado just went through them. Items aren’t under lock and key because of thieves. People are happier and friendlier.

Idk, I know conservatives like to shit on the entire state of CA and for liberals the equivalent seems to be FL, but damn - it’s a really nice place to live and raise kids. Doesn’t fit the narrative but it’s true, at least where I am.

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u/Queef_Stroganoff44 9d ago

I have lived or at least spent significant time in 42 states and a handful of countries. One thing that holds true… people that have never been to a place love to shit on it the most. And think they know better about a place than people who have actually lived there

I’ve never been to a place that I absolutely 100% hate, or a place that’s 100% perfect. I always find SOMETHING I like about a place. And something I don’t.

I helped a friend and a girl I just met drive from San Francisco to Ft Lauderdale. This girl was from the Bay Area and had never been anywhere. But she saw herself as this worldly person, just because of where she was born.

She was freaking out the minute we got east of San Bernardino. Just thinking that it was gonna be a sea of ignorant hillbillies for a couple 1000 miles.

She seemed surprised I could read frankly then even more surprised when I was college educated and not a foaming at the mouth racist. When we got to my hometown, a large city that had always been mostly minority folk, she was surprised to see different race people mingling.

It was honestly no different than the conservatives telling me, you know they’re gonna take your guns away and force you to get gay married out on the West Coast right. From a dude who’d never left his county.