@@bkg8r978 Think for yourself if you’re going to engage in conversation with me instead of saying something that’s been said a million times before on the internet. Try again.
@@MCCamels I went to college down there. Most of the people I met were Florida Transplants. I would ask them “where are you from?” They’d may say Fort Lauderdale or Miami Then I’ll ask them, “where you’re really from?” Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Baltimore, NYC or New England.
@@VistaGTVRWell yes and no, Jax used to be a major paper processing city with multiple paper mills. Since the clean air act passed from the help of mayor Tommy Hazouri in the late 80s they've all since disappeared. Jacksonville has since diversified with heavy industry, banking, high technology and education
The only issue with north florida that i agree on is the worse and sometimes lack of infrastructure. Most specialized healthcare centers and professionals are stationed south.
You do realize that one of Mayo clinics three national centers is in Jacksonville, right? People come from all over the country to get treatment there.
@Bowling_Dude Yeah you have to make it down to Orlando or South to find anything comparable... Three main areas larger than jax Orlando Tampa Miami....
@@ArnoBrecker Thats a HELL NAH for all 3 of those ,especially with all beautiful Latinas and black women in the Miami metro and Tampa, you aint gotta lie like that. Maybe better parties like in the sticks, or mud holes or even cook outs but if we're talking big parties and big events, Southern Florida does that better, i'll say northern Florida has better beaches and nature overall. Also its better Caribbean food down here and more variety in food (unless we're talking Jacksonville)
The peninsula South of Orlando is Southern Florida not Southern New York. And this is coming from someone who has lived in both areas. They're nothing alike.
I’m from North Florida right here in Destin. I moved down to Northern Miami to see what life was like down in that party city. Rent on a Studio apartment was 840 a month. That was with water and electric with it. That was back in ‘09 I can only imagine it being much higher currently. I have since moved back after being there just 2 years.
Yeaah. I live in the middle brother.. I'm paying $1,200 a month for a ratchet ass single wide the landlord pays the water we pay the electric. It's got electrical problems water comes in in certain spots.. yeaah owned by a snowbird out of Connecticut too ..
@@atreyuwilliams9394 Good move going back to Destin/panhandle where true native Floridians live, not to mention the most beautiful beaches in the continental U.S. and still the redneck riviera, though way up north yankees have been invading our little paradise for the past 20 years
Wow, people working at McDonald’s get like 18-22 in Denver. That’s not true of all of Colorado though. I think 16 would be like somebody’s very first job here. Like at 14 years old.
not true ppl get paid 12-14 a hr for fast food jobs, and pay about 1300$ for 1 bed 1bath i got a 2bed 2bath for 2500$ a month in palm beach county. you would never survive without a roommate or help of some sort.
@@ericgentzke4635 Colorado real estate prices are crazy & a scam....Yes western Colorado has beautiful scenery. But even flat dull boring eastern Colorado has crazy prices. They think Colorado is some Hawaiian paradise. Home prices in some parts of Colorado are literally as bad as Hawaii. $1 million for a modest average home. That would only cost $60,000 in small town IL, Iowa, Indiana.
Jacksonville here. It rains like half the year and very humid. Most days are hot. It's cooling down now tho (highs are upper 70s, lower 80s. Lows are 60s). Winter does get very cold. Not as cold as Jersey, but once your body gets acclimated to Florida climate it will feel as cold, going from super hot all year to almost freezing temps. It never snows tho.
@@Nikosakii you shouldn’t move here unless you have an established career. The job market is terrible and any job you find here in relation to your college major will not pay enough. Also, housing is extremely expensive as of right now.
Come to the Ormond Beach area 🏖️so beautiful here weather is so nice great beaches no direct hit from an hurricane from 2004 every thing is an hour away,no traffic I love it here 😊
Just lived through hurricane Milton, Helen, and Ian. 3 major hurricanes in 2 years! Think about moving to South Florida now? I know people who are born and raised here and are finally moving north, the constant heat, humidity, and 3 hurricanes in 2 years was the last straw. ✌
But Jacksonville is the largest city in Florida lol but in all seriousness North Florida is more Southern ( Dixie) than South Florida which has people came from or descents of people from the East Coast, Mid West, Latin America and The Caribbean. Also Florida got two timezones as well
Largest by land area in the mainland US, but not the largest metro in FL. Miami metro includes Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties and has a population of just over 6 million compared to Jacksonville’s just under 2 million.
When you talk about Jacksonville JUST the city we have double the people that Miami has. Don’t try to bring the metro shit into because now you’re adding cities that y’all don’t normally claim. West palm and Broward are their OWN places and they do not claim Dade. And yall don’t claim them either until it suits you. 😂 standing on its own, Jacksonville is WAY bigger and has WAYYY more people than any other Florida city.
@@stevencrawford6924 but it is constant city from south Miami all the way north palm beach. There is no separation between them. But even if you just include Dade, Broward or Palm Beach as separate entities, they are all individually larger than Jacksonville, they just havent consolidated like jacksonville did to make the county lines into the city limits.
Can't beat the super cold and impossible swim temperature during the winter in the north. Can't forget the coconuts tgat DONT grow there just because how cold it is. Don't forget the way stronger rip currents with Panama City beach being one of the most dangerous beaches in the world. Grow up, whoever told you it's better lied
@@toronto_devv8401dude what the gulf water here is warmer in the winter than california water in the summer it doesn’t go below 60°. Not to mention our sand has no shells, and its nearly pure quartz sand and its white.
@@jaredelliott5778 north Florida ses temperatures are not swimmable in the winter and just because it's the Gulf of Mexico doesn't mean that it's automatically that warm. That's like saying the Atlantic costs of Europe are just as warm as Africa's in the summer..stupid logic..I don't even know why I'm replying to your stupid comment because sea temperatures are available online so go look for yourself...do your research kids
Northern Florida’s weather is more like GA’s where we even got snow back in 2018 in Tally. Miami & Ft. Lauderdale floods from a rainstorm with ease. When I lived in Tallahassee they had their first hurricane in 30 years…so there’s a bit of an exaggeration on the weather topic in this video…& that’s coming from someone who lived through Hurricane Andrew in Miami. It’s just a different vibe culturally in S. FL. North FL from Gainesville on up gives sundown town vibes.
You’re a real Floridian! 100% true! And the sundown vibes are real! Justice Thurgood Marshall said in all of his civil rights and criminal defense work, throughout the south, he never feared for his life except in Florida when he had to be in Groveland. He’d drive from Atlanta to Groveland in Central Florida and be fearful for his life the whole way. Theres a lot of history behind why it feels that way. A lot of dead bodies hung from those moss trees over the years.
Yeah, I feel like the real answer is the drug trade and immigration led more people to settle in Miami and Tampa. Everything built up around that. In the 1950's, I wonder how the populations compared... Probably not so different?
@@floridadude8382Yes. Stuff like that happened in different ways all over that area. Especially in and around the orange groves aka plantations. Even into the 60’s, certain kind of folk were forced to work the orange groves. They would arrest people on false charges just to get them sent to prison, where they would be made to work for the citrus industry, who of course, supplied kickbacks and a lot of other money to the municipalities where they were located. People travel g to see family would suddenly disappear and never be heard from again driving through that area. I grew up in Tally in the 70-80’s. I knew not to stop for gas or anything else u til I reached J-Ville. In 1992, I had to stop at a gas station in the back woods one night. Jesus knows I prayed the whole time! And the way those men stared me down - it felt like Jesus himself decided to shield me that night! I’m female, but “that weren’t no” attraction stare. It was “who the hell let her in?”
Dang. i didn't know that. Ive never been to south florida. Im already aggravated enough from the congestion in places like Pensacola, Destin, Panama city, and Tallahassee. I can't imagine how much worse the congestion in South Florida is.
There's about a 1 in 4 chance a hurricane expected to hit Florida turns north and southern Florida is about twice as likely, 1.7 to 2.4 times as likely to get hit by a hurricane than the other two regions of Florida. Around 70 of the 120-130ish hurricanes to hit Florida have hit southern Florida. About 40 have hit central and 30 northern.
My favourite part of Florida is St. Augustine, up towards Jacksonville. St. Augustine, a very old historical place, is where my husband first proposed to me. I find it so romantic, fascinating and rich with history. I can’t wait to go back to that place again.
You get more truer Floridians in north Florida. Also Jacksonville accounts for over 1 million people of northern Florida. My home city! It’s also very country and northern parts of Florida and central parts.
@ People that were actually born and raised Florida! Southern Florida has a lot of people from up north or different countries which is great but different from Northern Florida.
I was born in Southeast Florida. I saw the out of hand development and influx of people from the north east. I move to North Central Florida in 23’. In the south, I felt confined or even claustrophobic. In the north, I feel freer with more open spaces. With that said, a lot of people from South Florida are unfortunately moving north west. The Villages, Ocala, ect. 😢
The Villages...known for two things: Being the largest retirement community in the country, and.. Having one of the fastest increases in the infection rate of STIs.. those balls do be hangin' low and swingin' wide, LMA🤣
If I would live in Florida, I would go to the panhandle . I was stationed there in the Air Force about 1980. Fort Walton Beach/Destin area. I would go to a dive bar and have oysters on the half shell. I learned to water ski in the bay.
@@johnlacey3857 J'ville is right in the middle of the Artic jet stream as it sweeps down south before headed back over the Atlantic towards Greenland. This proabably explains the cold blasts they experience. Coupled with high winds coming off the ocean AND high humidity the temperature snd weather in Jacksonville typically rival that of Mt Everest, which is nothing however compared to Mt Denali up in Alaska which is located near the Artic circle. It just receives its aftermath effects. But still, you would not think of any where in Florida, the OJ capitol of the world, to be so freezing cold it can barely sustain any form of larger than microbial life but yet it does. There are even surfers in J'ville who go out into the frigid Atlantic in late August to catch a wave. I think J'ville even has a golf course ⛳️ which is pretty wild. Mt Denali doesn't boast a golf course, or surfers. So what does that tell you? 🤔
@ What that tells me is that you are cherry picking the data. I have lived in Jacksonville and it’s hot and humid as hell. It’s absurd to compare it to Everest or Denali, let alone San Francisco or Seattle.
Just a slight correction on the tropical geography of Florida illustration listed at 0:22, central Florida is primarily only sub tropical, with some exceptions from its costal areas. However, specifically bottom South Florida is straight tropical. From my personal perspective, once you hit I’d say somewhere between vero beach and West Palm, the best geographic tropical section of Florida starts to flourish. South Florida isn’t for everybody especially with its crowds now, but I truly believe it’s one of the most beautiful tropical lands on the planet along with its wildlife.
I can't stand hot humid weather for the entire year. The place used to be in the 30 during the winter months in the 1980s. How did it get to be tropical? Hot weather causes big hurricanes. Every year the weather is different to the year before during the few winter months in South Florida. In the year ending for 2000, it was very cold on Christmas Eve. I remember because I worked for the Pearl Jam concert . On my way there, I was able to see the frost from my breath. I will never live in a place with out at least a space heater here.
@@ZeezusSource it may feel like it is tropical now but it wasn''t always that way. It snowed in Miami in the 1970's . Look it up and in December 1989 the temperature dropped into the 20s on Christmas Eve.
What's even crazier is when you realize out of that 3.75 million in north Florida, 1 million is in Jacksonville alone and probably around 500,000 near Tallahassee, leaving circa 2.25m left. North Florida is vastly rural outside of Jax, Tallahassee, and the Pensacola area.
@@jaredelliott5778even parts of the coast are still very rural. heck, look at Apalachiacola, Port St Joe, Alligator Point, etc. wouldlove to visit one day
Much of the Southern population is from Miami Metro (which really extends to Palm Beach), Tampa, and Orlando Metro. Miami and Tampa had some advantages from trade with since they are closer to some islands (maybe ship to Miami and then trains to the rest of the country a century ago). Cuban/hispanic immigration helped both along at different times. Miami had great weather because both the Everglades and the ocean generate a nice breeze. Then Miami and Tampa have good sized bays. Biscayne bay over a century ago had fresh water from springs in it. Then Orlando was developed largely due to Walt Disney World.
Have lived in Florida 24 years, had more Hurricanes living in Loxahatchee Fl than living in Ocala. South gets more storms by far. Beaches are nicer south due to gulf stream being closer to shore. And south is Sub tropical like others have pointed out.
@JJuu-i7r house princess weren't bad, I lived in Loxahatchee from 2000-2005 paid 130k for 3 bed 2 bath CBS home on 1 1/4 acres. In 2005 sold for over 350k. Today homes are pricey. And that house was only 1280sq feet
Yea idk what he's smoking saying y'all get less storm then us up in northern FL, whenever I hear about a new hurricane my first thought is "Miami and Tampa are gonna get whacked again for sure"
He’s saying major hurricanes. South florida gets storms regularly but they’re generally tropical storms or low grade hurricanes. Also mentioned its true ever since Andrew hit the infrastructure has been improved significantly. Majority of new home developments are built outside of flood zones and with hurricane garage doors and windows. There are plenty of companies who will install hurricane shutters as well.
It's really not that small on size. Wanna hear something crazy? Over 8 MILLION people live in New York City. Now THAT'S a lot of people for a small land size!
The Deep South is very uncomfortable as far as weather. Sticky humidity makes for long summers. The weather is actually more mild in the SUB-tropical south of Florida (tropics don’t start until south of Florida quite a ways, like Bahamas and Cuba). Ocean breezes from the western coast, similar to California, make Florida not nearly as hot as South Carolina, despite it being much further south. I tell this to everybody but it doesn’t get to be 100 degrees in Florida. Everybody tells me I’m stupid but I’m from Kansas where 105 is normal in July, trust me, Florida is not hot. Go to Louisiana and you’ll understand why south Florida is so popular. Fun fact: Tampa has objectively better beaches than Miami. Whiter sand and bluer water because of the lack of the Atlantic currents.
I wish I could travel up to Northern Florida more. I'm a native of Polk County. Its refreshing to get away from here sometimes. St Augustine was very cool. My dad told me great things about the Panhandle.
In comparison to Miami? Lmfao come on now. Stop it. Also that’s not so much culture it’s just the same fishing community country ass social climate that all of rural Florida has.
@Tsumami__ Yeah, we have decent, friendly, down to earth people here and you can trust your neighbors. Miami is for strippers, drug dealers, gang members, con artists, and crooked businessmen. That's why those million dollar condo buildings fall apart.
Everything you said is true. But that’s not why. The reason is that represented the freeze line. It doesn’t freeze below that line. It MAY get into the 30s once in a while but it doesn’t freeze. Actually the freeze line is a little closer to tampa
I lived in Gainesville. 90 degrees in early December but 6 degrees the next January. Not all winters are that way. It never snowed. But once someone saw snow on the eighth floor but by time it reached the ground, it was rain. One night I looked up and saw snow clouds. That night I was taking the bus to South Carolina. Woke up 7 AM, Snow everywhere in Georgia and South Carolina. Another sunny day in Gainesville.
@@kaaronhudson8112 , Palm Beach is sub tropical. Gainesville is a 4 hour drive from the South Carolina border. That’s closer than it is to Palm Beach County.
Ok, let's make it simple. The tropics are located between the tropic of Capricorn and the tropic of Cancer. They are about 22.5 degrees North of the equator to 22..5 degrees South of the equator. Florida is outside that zone.
Been in South Florida my entire life. My parents are from up north and they told me my area used to be significantly less developed back then, but now so many people moved here. I will never understand why anyone would want to move here. The heat, the humidity, the bugs, the storms, and the lack of snow that I've desired since childhood. I've got more northern blood than my actual parents cause I cannot handle the heat. Got a heatstroke just recently and also had one when I was younger.
Jax in NeFl is coming along fine, no need to rush people here, we love our wide space & cool ocean breeze esp during the summers eating freshly caught fish & seafood like, the other night dinner of 20 grilled jumbo shrimps, 2 sides & a tall glass of refillable sweet tea for $12.99 at St Mary's Seafood in Mandarin, can't beat that!! Oh, super delicious!!!
Yeah …. I love the Emerald Coast of Florida which is located on the panhandle of Florida. It is breathtakingly beautiful. Additionally who wants it suffocatingly hot?!
It’s far better than other areas of Florida, though. It exists, for starters. Some parts of this state don’t even have a basic bus system because the towns aren’t big enough. Things like Uber pooling or light rail are like a pipe dream for rural Florida ppl.
@Tsumami__ for some people it's "better" but for the working class that don't have transportation it'd a different story. When I lived with my biological mother we had to ride 2-3 buses in order for me to go to the doctor so I missed the whole school day
As some one who currently reside in one of the "big" cities in Northern Florida, this video is absolutely correct, I live in the state capital, even the highway system to get from A to B around town is better in south & central Fl compared to the northern cities besides Jacksonville, rush hour is ridiculous here for a city its size 🤷🏿♂️
Northern Florida is almost entirely tree preserves and privately owned tree farms for paper mills. 50 years ago paper was a huge market, and companies bought thousands of acres of land just for trees. Now it’s just unused land for the most part. This is why you see perfectly even rows of trees as you drive through Florida and I10
This reminds me of the old saying, “it is better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you are a fool than it is to open it, and remove all doubt! “
I lived in Florida for years in both regions. There isn't a person that I met that talked about flooding, extreme weather, as reasons for not living in the North. In fact, I met a number of people who moved up North to avoid the flooding and hurricane buzz that affects more people in the higher population Southern region. The panhandle, being hit by the most hurricanes per region is a notable exception. Still, compared to the Southern regions, the number of Hurricanes is less. The Northeast coast historically is far less likely to be hit by a Hurricane than any other region. Experience and research tells me that overall the weather in the North can be different but not "more extreme". If one is not counting the panhandle, one could easily flip the story and state the Northern region is actually safer, especially further from the coast where the distance and terrain differences (flat lands become hilly, more forest etc.) weaken large storms. There are also rivers that flood in the North, though this largely affects rural areas, homes near the bank that are typically built to handle this. Personally, I enjoyed the weather up North (I hoped the humidity would much better, but still found it to be oppressive). PS I lived ~9 years up North and ~24 years in the South. If not for the Army Corps engineers etc. there would be no comparison, the South would be a flood haven. In the process, there was also damage done to the ecosystem. This has been and is currently being adjusted/mitigated/corrected to the degree that one can without causing the previous issues to return.
I live in the 84% (Palm Beach County) and I hate it! It's crowded from old snow birds who flee their state for the winter and can't drive, running over everybody and New Yorkers who always complain about Florida but never wants to go back to New York, it's expensive to live here (2K for a 1 bedroom), it's hot as hell! Not the regular type of hot where you're like gee willikers I think I'll have an ice cold lemonade, oh nooooo, it's drenched in sweat, clothes soaked humid hot. It's either raining really bad or scorching. The cops down here are always bothering somebody like that have quotas every day and the GODDAMN LINE TO GET W PUBLIX SUB IS ALWAYS WRAPPED AROUND THE DELI DEPARTMENT WITH OLD PEOPLE SITTING IN THE MOTORIZED CARTS!! Other than that, it's wonderful down here.
I dont think central Florida should be considered "south Florida." Im a Polk County native. Its a bummer to be between Orlando and Tampa sometimes. It seems to be getting more crowded daily. I rarely travel out of this area,but when I do,its a breath of fresh air. Sarasota, St Augustine,and Gainesville are pretty nice. Would love to visit the panhandle one day.
same. i’m raised in west palm beach, don’t get me wrong, it’s beautiful here. and can’t wait to leave. lived here for 16 years. i’m starting to head up to gainesville every chance i get to gators game and it’s like a breath of air. I’m heading to Jacksonville for Florida/Georgia this saturday
Yeah but if Orlando was above the southern line it would have made the northern line a lot more popular. North Florida and South Florida aren't really that much diff In climate other than southern Florida being warmer in the winter time and that's pretty much about it.
It's not above the line because that's the freeze line. Sure it freezes in the winter sometimes below that line but it's pretty reliable. It's why when you hit Brooksville (also on that line) you notice the foliage changes. Old timers that built the towns knew all this, so they built south of the freeze line. It's that sinple.
@hensley2931 that's not the reason. The reason Disney is below that line is because Walt Disney bought up a lot of swamp land near Orlando for cheap right off of interstate i-4. It was all strategically planned, to buy up a lot of cheap land near an interstate in Florida and it so happened to be in that area. It had nothing to do with that line. And we know this because when Walt Disney was looking for land to build Disney World in Florida he was also looking at locations in north Florida near interstate 10, but he ended up getting the best deal on the land where Disney World is now.
@hensley2931 it's not lore it's documented in the Disney World documentaries. Orlando was a small grove town before Disney. There was nothing in Orlando before Disney. Disney made Orlando what it is today. You're acting like Orlando was like Miami before Disney world came along or some stuff.
@@BadgerBabe89 I lived there in 2004 when hurricane Ivan hit that area. Right now I live in Clearwater, Florida. I can't seem to escape hurricanes anywhere I go.
@@BadgerBabe89I lived in the south and now I live in California and there’s no earthquakes, I haven’t happened in a very long time but guess what? It’s been 108° here for over two months and dry as hell. I don’t think anywhere in America is nice anymore, maybe Idaho I don’t know… it seems that people are right about the weather change. It’s been crazy the last year or two.
I wish I lived in the northern part of Florida. I live in deep south Florida and the people here are self serving, disrespectful, Don't follow any of the laws of the roads. It's over populated and many areas, including the one I live in now were nice areas and are now expensive toilets. I have a few more years to retirement and I'm out of here.
I’m from south Florida but now live in central Florida just south of that line and life styles are so much different I also live in the most growing city in Florida
I wish that were true. We could finally divide the state so that everyone actually gets what they want. Sadly the Republicans migrated south (or north from Cuba.)
I’m from an Air Force Base in North Florida and infrastructures are absolutely built for natural disasters. We get hit by hurricanes every year… All of our houses would be in the water if they didn’t have proper infrastructures. There are the few people whose homes are directly on the beach… They have no problem rebuilding and letting another storm take down their house every year. Just so that they can live on the water. It’s crazy.
As a snowbird I gotta say I don't like going to Florida because all the fellow tourists there are the worst and everything is designed as a tourist trap. I'd much rather go to fuckin Montana or something.
I live in the northern part in 14 years had 0 floods while the south been flooded just about every year and barely any damage from any storms 0 damage to my house so this is false information
Don't forget the impossible to swim cold temperatures of the water in the winter! Dont forget coconuts can't grow there just of how cold it is while the palm trees are fit for harsh winters. Don't forget it having one of the most dangerous beaches in the world
@@toronto_devv8401 I have date Palm trees in my yard and they grow fruit even banana trees in my yard mango Pypyas and they don't die in the winter here and I swim in the ocean in the winter it only gets to 70 degrees in the winter the ocean water
Maybe better infrastructure in the southern portion but given the population how well will it handle an evacuation? I will admit that I am a fan of Pensacola.
As someone born and raised in south FL
Northern fl and south fl are pretty much two different states for many reasons
West and east also different state and vibes
But they’re not. They’re apart of 1 state. So you’re wrong.
@@bloodclaatlol it’s not that deep
@@bkg8r978 Think for yourself if you’re going to engage in conversation with me instead of saying something that’s been said a million times before on the internet. Try again.
@@bloodclaatthat's why they said pretty much
"The Further South you go in Florida, the less southern it gets."
Because so many people from the north moved down there.
Al generated bs
Not my original words lol. Don't go blamin me!
@@MCCamels I went to college down there.
Most of the people I met were Florida Transplants.
I would ask them “where are you from?”
They’d may say Fort Lauderdale or Miami
Then I’ll ask them, “where you’re really from?”
Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Baltimore, NYC or New England.
This is true.
Northern Florida is dedicated to farming and timber/logging. Southern Florida is for retirees and tourism.
Northern Florida has a lot of ranches. Those Floridian cowboys
My great uncle in law had one. He would hire outlaw cowboys to work his farm.
And crazy how tallahassee which is their capital and jacksonville are there (prob rely on the lumber stuff)
@@VistaGTVRWell yes and no, Jax used to be a major paper processing city with multiple paper mills. Since the clean air act passed from the help of mayor Tommy Hazouri in the late 80s they've all since disappeared. Jacksonville has since diversified with heavy industry, banking, high technology and education
@@casanovafrankenstein8538 Idk i agree but idk about florida i live in detroit
I live in Jacksonville, Florida, and I have to say the weather argument has got to be the stupidest reason ever.
Yeah. The weather is very good here. I'm not sure why everyone hates Jacksonville. I grew up here and don't plan on going anywhere else.
The only issue with north florida that i agree on is the worse and sometimes lack of infrastructure. Most specialized healthcare centers and professionals are stationed south.
You do realize that one of Mayo clinics three national centers is in Jacksonville, right? People come from all over the country to get treatment there.
Yeah I live in Jax too, and one thing he didn't say is that Jacksonville itself is the most populated city in florida.
Jacksonville is an exception
3.75 million people and 2 million of those are in metro Jacksonville.
You aint lying. Try getting on i10 from 295 it's insane. People stop moving to Florida we don't want you here.
1,733,937 That's the Metro
Jax native. everywhere else in north florida seems like a small town compaired to us.
I think this is the real answer, people move to urban areas, and the cities were established for tourism and snow birds.
@Bowling_Dude
Yeah you have to make it down to Orlando or South to find anything comparable... Three main areas larger than jax
Orlando Tampa Miami....
I think 10 million of those people just live here in Miami. It's so overcrowded now! 😢
the amount of people that live in the city limits of miami is 450k people. the entire metro area is around 6.3 mil
Icould imagine...I moved to kissimmee in 2021 and it got ridiculous between then and now
That "LINE" also represents the FROST LINE of the state, a topographical phenomenon I experienced while going to college there...
and most of Miami residents aren’t even here legally
@@toastisntedible.not true
They say you gotta go north in Florida to find the true south
Ehhh
Nobody says that💀
Its true, thats also where the better BBQ is
@@diodelvino3048and better women, better seafood, better parties… everything’s better in north FL
@@ArnoBrecker Thats a HELL NAH for all 3 of those ,especially with all beautiful Latinas and black women in the Miami metro and Tampa, you aint gotta lie like that. Maybe better parties like in the sticks, or mud holes or even cook outs but if we're talking big parties and big events, Southern Florida does that better, i'll say northern Florida has better beaches and nature overall. Also its better Caribbean food down here and more variety in food (unless we're talking Jacksonville)
62 years old born and raised in north Florida and it's now becoming more and more crowded so please y'all stay in south Fla .
I’m in south Florida north Florida still looks empty to me south Florida is packed
just because you said that Im moving up to north florida
ur time is almost up old man
@@djbillybool8173 yours may be you never know do we
@@jakehernandez5236 just leave the Democrat politics down south
The panhandle is South Alabama. The peninsula north of Orlando is South Georgia. The peninsula south of Orlando is South New York.
No we are North East Florida. Don’t speak for us.
@@frontlineaffairs3142 The Jaguars are Georgia's second NFL team.
The peninsula South of Orlando is Southern Florida not Southern New York. And this is coming from someone who has lived in both areas. They're nothing alike.
and Kissimmee is north puerto rico
@@holasoyalejandro9822wepa 🫶🏽🙌🏽The New BX
I’m from North Florida right here in Destin. I moved down to Northern Miami to see what life was like down in that party city. Rent on a Studio apartment was 840 a month. That was with water and electric with it. That was back in ‘09 I can only imagine it being much higher currently. I have since moved back after being there just 2 years.
The beaches argument is stupid with Pensacola and Destin. Both having awesome beaches...
I left lake city af 5 years 2200 mi west rn.
Expensive.
Yeaah. I live in the middle brother.. I'm paying $1,200 a month for a ratchet ass single wide the landlord pays the water we pay the electric. It's got electrical problems water comes in in certain spots.. yeaah owned by a snowbird out of Connecticut too ..
That exact same apartment is probably around 2-2.5x that price you listed. Depends on location.
@@atreyuwilliams9394 Good move going back to Destin/panhandle where true native Floridians live, not to mention the most beautiful beaches in the continental U.S. and still the redneck riviera, though way up north yankees have been invading our little paradise for the past 20 years
Don’t come here for jobs starting at $16hr and rent $1600 for 2bed and 1 bath.
If this is true everyone needs to flock there. It’s more like 2k for an efficiency
Wow, people working at McDonald’s get like 18-22 in Denver. That’s not true of all of Colorado though. I think 16 would be like somebody’s very first job here. Like at 14 years old.
not true ppl get paid 12-14 a hr for fast food jobs, and pay about 1300$ for 1 bed 1bath i got a 2bed 2bath for 2500$ a month in palm beach county. you would never survive without a roommate or help of some sort.
@@ericgentzke4635 Colorado real estate prices are crazy & a scam....Yes western Colorado has beautiful scenery. But even flat dull boring eastern Colorado has crazy prices. They think Colorado is some Hawaiian paradise. Home prices in some parts of Colorado are literally as bad as Hawaii. $1 million for a modest average home. That would only cost $60,000 in small town IL, Iowa, Indiana.
Thats cheap, daytona beach is $2000 all day for a 2 bed 1 bath in a not so good area.
I love, North Florida❤ great people , cooler weather ,less traffic, less expensive, safer , my favorite St. John’s county!!!
What is the weather like on average? I’m in New Jersey and looking to relax ate after I finish college.
Jacksonville here. It rains like half the year and very humid. Most days are hot. It's cooling down now tho (highs are upper 70s, lower 80s. Lows are 60s). Winter does get very cold. Not as cold as Jersey, but once your body gets acclimated to Florida climate it will feel as cold, going from super hot all year to almost freezing temps. It never snows tho.
@@Nikosakii you shouldn’t move here unless you have an established career. The job market is terrible and any job you find here in relation to your college major will not pay enough. Also, housing is extremely expensive as of right now.
Come to the Ormond Beach area 🏖️so beautiful here weather is so nice great beaches no direct hit from an hurricane from 2004 every thing is an hour away,no traffic I love it here 😊
St.Johns is the wealthiest county in the state of Florida. Also, one of the fastest growing areas in the country.
Just lived through hurricane Milton, Helen, and Ian. 3 major hurricanes in 2 years! Think about moving to South Florida now? I know people who are born and raised here and are finally moving north, the constant heat, humidity, and 3 hurricanes in 2 years was the last straw. ✌
Don’t forget Idalia and Debby
And Nicole.
Those hurricanes all hit North Florida, did u think they just stopped?
The constant heat and humidity is disgusting
@@MichaelSweet-u7r and Beryl
But Jacksonville is the largest city in Florida lol but in all seriousness North Florida is more Southern ( Dixie) than South Florida which has people came from or descents of people from the East Coast, Mid West, Latin America and The Caribbean. Also Florida got two timezones as well
Yeah, Jacksonville is also the ghetto 🤣 no one who wants to be in Florida wants to be in Jacksonville
Largest by land area in the mainland US, but not the largest metro in FL. Miami metro includes Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties and has a population of just over 6 million compared to Jacksonville’s just under 2 million.
When you talk about Jacksonville JUST the city we have double the people that Miami has. Don’t try to bring the metro shit into because now you’re adding cities that y’all don’t normally claim. West palm and Broward are their OWN places and they do not claim Dade. And yall don’t claim them either until it suits you. 😂 standing on its own, Jacksonville is WAY bigger and has WAYYY more people than any other Florida city.
@@stevencrawford6924 but it is constant city from south Miami all the way north palm beach. There is no separation between them. But even if you just include Dade, Broward or Palm Beach as separate entities, they are all individually larger than Jacksonville, they just havent consolidated like jacksonville did to make the county lines into the city limits.
RAHHHHH JACKSONVILLE DUUUUUUVAAALLLL OHHH WHAT HAPPENED TO WPB OHH HE CRY LIKE A BIIIIITC
I find it crazy how Florida is the 3rd most populated state in the US right behind Texas and California
Can't beat the beautiful emerald beaches of the panhandle
Or the brown ones too
Can't beat the super cold and impossible swim temperature during the winter in the north. Can't forget the coconuts tgat DONT grow there just because how cold it is. Don't forget the way stronger rip currents with Panama City beach being one of the most dangerous beaches in the world. Grow up, whoever told you it's better lied
@@toronto_devv8401dude what the gulf water here is warmer in the winter than california water in the summer it doesn’t go below 60°. Not to mention our sand has no shells, and its nearly pure quartz sand and its white.
@@toronto_devv8401 if you think north florida gets cold then youre delusional. also the gulf is as warm in the winter as the atlantic is in the summer
@@jaredelliott5778 north Florida ses temperatures are not swimmable in the winter and just because it's the Gulf of Mexico doesn't mean that it's automatically that warm. That's like saying the Atlantic costs of Europe are just as warm as Africa's in the summer..stupid logic..I don't even know why I'm replying to your stupid comment because sea temperatures are available online so go look for yourself...do your research kids
So the southern side of Florida doesn’t get any natural disasters😂 it’s all about the pretty beaches, huh?
Ian
Yea all normal here last then again I saw some odd Chinese beetle drag a panther into the air one time in the Everglades might be concerning
Debby @@susiehulcher1494
Miami had a bathsalt zombie
5,000 bottles of water found in hurricane milton, 1 fell down and now there's 4,999 bottles of water found in hurricane milton
The oldest city in USA, it is Sant Agustin, we are still here after many,many centuries, Florida is awesome!
Saint Augustine sucks chocolate milk water and a bunch of drunk idiots
Learm how to spell, first of all.
That’s only because of Ponce de Leon discovered the fountain of youth there so if it wasn’t for him, it would be a hut of villages.
@@roberthein2156lol a village of huts?
Nope, they landed in pensacola first
Northern Florida’s weather is more like GA’s where we even got snow back in 2018 in Tally. Miami & Ft. Lauderdale floods from a rainstorm with ease. When I lived in Tallahassee they had their first hurricane in 30 years…so there’s a bit of an exaggeration on the weather topic in this video…& that’s coming from someone who lived through Hurricane Andrew in Miami. It’s just a different vibe culturally in S. FL. North FL from Gainesville on up gives sundown town vibes.
You’re a real Floridian! 100% true! And the sundown vibes are real! Justice Thurgood Marshall said in all of his civil rights and criminal defense work, throughout the south, he never feared for his life except in Florida when he had to be in Groveland. He’d drive from Atlanta to Groveland in Central Florida and be fearful for his life the whole way. Theres a lot of history behind why it feels that way. A lot of dead bodies hung from those moss trees over the years.
Yeah, I feel like the real answer is the drug trade and immigration led more people to settle in Miami and Tampa. Everything built up around that. In the 1950's, I wonder how the populations compared... Probably not so different?
@@tamaraross7927Makes me think about the movie Rosewood based on the town not far from Gainesville which was wiped off the map after a race riot 😮
I reckon Cuba will invade Miami during WWIII.
@@floridadude8382Yes. Stuff like that happened in different ways all over that area. Especially in and around the orange groves aka plantations. Even into the 60’s, certain kind of folk were forced to work the orange groves. They would arrest people on false charges just to get them sent to prison, where they would be made to work for the citrus industry, who of course, supplied kickbacks and a lot of other money to the municipalities where they were located. People travel g to see family would suddenly disappear and never be heard from again driving through that area. I grew up in Tally in the 70-80’s. I knew not to stop for gas or anything else u til I reached J-Ville. In 1992, I had to stop at a gas station in the back woods one night. Jesus knows I prayed the whole time! And the way those men stared me
down - it felt like Jesus himself decided to shield me that night! I’m female, but “that weren’t no” attraction stare. It was “who the hell let her in?”
Tallahassee gets cold asf in the winter, you will forget that you're in Florida
It's not cold. I live in Chicago. Trust me. Whatever you're going through during a Florida winter, it's not cold...
Dang. i didn't know that. Ive never been to south florida. Im already aggravated enough from the congestion in places like Pensacola, Destin, Panama city, and Tallahassee. I can't imagine how much worse the congestion in South Florida is.
Right I'm 35 miles outside of Pensacola and can't stand to go there most days.
Yea don’t come to south Florida. It sucks down here
Floridian here. Huh? What you talking about Willis
This is sooooo stupid.
@@JonnyDee-uh1eo who?
@@godawgzsicem The video. Not you.
exactly, this man’s clearly never been to florida
Happy you said it bc I was like I think he’s just making shit up rn
Better infostructure? Try getting out of South Florida when a hurricane is due to hit...
Infrastructure
@@delainewilliams2991 oh shit I didn't even notice I spelled that wrong
putting aside the major cities, infrastructure is shit
Why would you want to? Odds are the storm will wobble and suddenly it is heading up in your direction.
There's about a 1 in 4 chance a hurricane expected to hit Florida turns north and southern Florida is about twice as likely, 1.7 to 2.4 times as likely to get hit by a hurricane than the other two regions of Florida.
Around 70 of the 120-130ish hurricanes to hit Florida have hit southern Florida. About 40 have hit central and 30 northern.
My favourite part of Florida is St. Augustine, up towards Jacksonville. St. Augustine, a very old historical place, is where my husband first proposed to me. I find it so romantic, fascinating and rich with history. I can’t wait to go back to that place again.
I'm going to retire there.
It’s becoming a dump 😂
@@rolandthethompsongunner64 I was down at the pier on Anastasia and did notice a few homeless, shady, druggie types hanging around.
@@rolandthethompsongunner64 wow, we were there 2022, it went downhill fast in just under two years. Homelessness is a global problem.
You get more truer Floridians in north Florida. Also Jacksonville accounts for over 1 million people of northern Florida. My home city! It’s also very country and northern parts of Florida and central parts.
@ People that were actually born and raised Florida! Southern Florida has a lot of people from up north or different countries which is great but different from Northern Florida.
I was born in Southeast Florida. I saw the out of hand development and influx of people from the north east. I move to North Central Florida in 23’. In the south, I felt confined or even claustrophobic. In the north, I feel freer with more open spaces. With that said, a lot of people from South Florida are unfortunately moving north west. The Villages, Ocala, ect. 😢
Jacksonville is turning into NE New Jersey.
Yeah , I live in Jacksonville, and work for att, trust me when I say this , ALOT of ppl from Orlando tampa and Miami are moving to Jacksonville,
The Villages...known for two things:
Being the largest retirement community in the country, and..
Having one of the fastest increases in the infection rate of STIs.. those balls do be hangin' low and swingin' wide, LMA🤣
Why does that make you upset? If the overcrowding was your issue then you should be happy people are spreading out.
@@richardcruz2001crazy.
If I would live in Florida, I would go to the panhandle . I was stationed there in the Air Force about 1980. Fort Walton Beach/Destin area.
I would go to a dive bar and have oysters on the half shell. I learned to water ski in the bay.
The most slept on area in the U.S
Destin is sooooooo underrated. just went there for a weekend & it’s so beautiful.
Agree
Not to small now 😂❤
Peg Leg Pete's
Here in jacksonville we havnt gotten a full on hurricane since many years ago But it sure can get freezing cold here!!
Freezing cold??? In JACKSONVILLE????
🤣🤣🤣
How cold typically in Jan / Feb? Is it hot there in the summer? I hate heat.
You better come up to Ohio and see where freezing cold feels like.😂 the first few years I was really really mad and missed florida
@@johnlacey3857 J'ville is right in the middle of the Artic jet stream as it sweeps down south before headed back over the Atlantic towards Greenland. This proabably explains the cold blasts they experience. Coupled with high winds coming off the ocean AND high humidity the temperature snd weather in Jacksonville typically rival that of Mt Everest, which is nothing however compared to Mt Denali up in Alaska which is located near the Artic circle. It just receives its aftermath effects. But still, you would not think of any where in Florida, the OJ capitol of the world, to be so freezing cold it can barely sustain any form of larger than microbial life but yet it does. There are even surfers in J'ville who go out into the frigid Atlantic in late August to catch a wave. I think J'ville even has a golf course ⛳️ which is pretty wild. Mt Denali doesn't boast a golf course, or surfers. So what does that tell you? 🤔
@ What that tells me is that you are cherry picking the data. I have lived in Jacksonville and it’s hot and humid as hell. It’s absurd to compare it to Everest or Denali, let alone San Francisco or Seattle.
Northern Florida feels more like “the south” than southern Florida 😂
And that's why I live here.
Just a slight correction on the tropical geography of Florida illustration listed at 0:22, central Florida is primarily only sub tropical, with some exceptions from its costal areas. However, specifically bottom South Florida is straight tropical. From my personal perspective, once you hit I’d say somewhere between vero beach and West Palm, the best geographic tropical section of Florida starts to flourish. South Florida isn’t for everybody especially with its crowds now, but I truly believe it’s one of the most beautiful tropical lands on the planet along with its wildlife.
I can't stand hot humid weather for the entire year. The place used to be in the 30 during the winter months in the 1980s. How did it get to be tropical? Hot weather causes big hurricanes. Every year the weather is different to the year before during the few winter months in South Florida. In the year ending for 2000, it was very cold on Christmas Eve. I remember because I worked for the Pearl Jam concert . On my way there, I was able to see the frost from my breath. I will never live in a place with out at least a space heater here.
@@ZeezusSource it may feel like it is tropical now but it wasn''t always that way. It snowed in Miami in the 1970's . Look it up and in December 1989 the temperature dropped into the 20s on Christmas Eve.
North florida is fine with me.
It's not geography but economy. Miami is a major economic hub and its metropolitan area has grown to include West Palm Beach. Follow the money.
As a South Floridian I never knew this was the reason I lived in the South.
What's even crazier is when you realize out of that 3.75 million in north Florida, 1 million is in Jacksonville alone and probably around 500,000 near Tallahassee, leaving circa 2.25m left. North Florida is vastly rural outside of Jax, Tallahassee, and the Pensacola area.
im from right outside pensacola and the entire area is still very rural if you dont live within a few miles of the coast
@@jaredelliott5778even parts of the coast are still very rural. heck, look at Apalachiacola, Port St Joe, Alligator Point, etc. wouldlove to visit one day
1.5 million*
FYI, that "southern" part includes both Central and South Florida. South Florida starts after Lake Okeechobee (the big blue dot).
Northern Florida is more chill, the winters are still warm
@@e.7.2521it does not snow in North Florida. Lived here all my life.
It does not snow in North Florida. I’ve lived here all of my life.
It snowed it Jax in the 80s I think look it up on google there is pictures
It doesn’t snow but it gets cold and feels colder because of the humidity
@@e.7.2521 only on extremely rare occasions
For goodness sake, the saying goes:
In florida,
the further south you are,
the farther north you seem.
Also, long live the Conch Republic!
Destin, FL is one of my favorite places to visit.
ur from the north
@@SultanAmir68
No. Texas/Arizona/California.
@@Tall-Cool-Drink yeah cali
Much of the Southern population is from Miami Metro (which really extends to Palm Beach), Tampa, and Orlando Metro. Miami and Tampa had some advantages from trade with since they are closer to some islands (maybe ship to Miami and then trains to the rest of the country a century ago). Cuban/hispanic immigration helped both along at different times. Miami had great weather because both the Everglades and the ocean generate a nice breeze. Then Miami and Tampa have good sized bays. Biscayne bay over a century ago had fresh water from springs in it. Then Orlando was developed largely due to Walt Disney World.
Rip to the 13 people who lost their life’s from hurricane Milton 🕊️🕊️😞
It was right down the street from where I live in Stuart FL
Have lived in Florida 24 years, had more Hurricanes living in Loxahatchee Fl than living in Ocala. South gets more storms by far. Beaches are nicer south due to gulf stream being closer to shore. And south is Sub tropical like others have pointed out.
You are rich if u lived in loxa
@JJuu-i7r house princess weren't bad, I lived in Loxahatchee from 2000-2005 paid 130k for 3 bed 2 bath CBS home on 1 1/4 acres. In 2005 sold for over 350k. Today homes are pricey. And that house was only 1280sq feet
@@bernardzoppina4171 it's a millionaires neighborhood now every house there is at least 2 mill
Yea idk what he's smoking saying y'all get less storm then us up in northern FL, whenever I hear about a new hurricane my first thought is "Miami and Tampa are gonna get whacked again for sure"
He’s saying major hurricanes. South florida gets storms regularly but they’re generally tropical storms or low grade hurricanes. Also mentioned its true ever since Andrew hit the infrastructure has been improved significantly.
Majority of new home developments are built outside of flood zones and with hurricane garage doors and windows. There are plenty of companies who will install hurricane shutters as well.
18 million in that small amount of land, that’s more than 65% of Australia’s population
It's really not that small on size. Wanna hear something crazy? Over 8 MILLION people live in New York City. Now THAT'S a lot of people for a small land size!
Australia is mostly barren desert, so that's not exactly surprising.
@@imdonewithyallimagine how many there are when you count all the undocumented and refugees as well…
Florida is surprisingly similar to Australia.
The Deep South is very uncomfortable as far as weather. Sticky humidity makes for long summers. The weather is actually more mild in the SUB-tropical south of Florida (tropics don’t start until south of Florida quite a ways, like Bahamas and Cuba). Ocean breezes from the western coast, similar to California, make Florida not nearly as hot as South Carolina, despite it being much further south. I tell this to everybody but it doesn’t get to be 100 degrees in Florida. Everybody tells me I’m stupid but I’m from Kansas where 105 is normal in July, trust me, Florida is not hot. Go to Louisiana and you’ll understand why south Florida is so popular. Fun fact: Tampa has objectively better beaches than Miami. Whiter sand and bluer water because of the lack of the Atlantic currents.
As someone from northern Florida, we have the most unique culture around. It’s pretty fun up here you’re not gonna lie.
I wish I could travel up to Northern Florida more. I'm a native of Polk County. Its refreshing to get away from here sometimes. St Augustine was very cool. My dad told me great things about the Panhandle.
In comparison to Miami? Lmfao come on now. Stop it. Also that’s not so much culture it’s just the same fishing community country ass social climate that all of rural Florida has.
@@Tsumami__ in other words it’s boring.
@Tsumami__ Yeah, we have decent, friendly, down to earth people here and you can trust your neighbors. Miami is for strippers, drug dealers, gang members, con artists, and crooked businessmen. That's why those million dollar condo buildings fall apart.
As someone who lives in north florida. All The beautiful women are all in south florida
Thanks, Miami princess
Most beautiful beaches are on the panhandle.
Everything you said is true. But that’s not why. The reason is that represented the freeze line. It doesn’t freeze below that line. It MAY get into the 30s once in a while but it doesn’t freeze. Actually the freeze line is a little closer to tampa
I lived in Gainesville.
90 degrees in early December but 6 degrees the next January.
Not all winters are that way.
It never snowed. But once someone saw snow on the eighth floor but by time it reached the ground, it was rain.
One night I looked up and saw snow clouds.
That night I was taking the bus to South Carolina.
Woke up 7 AM, Snow everywhere in Georgia and South Carolina.
Another sunny day in Gainesville.
6° in Gainesville,tf you talking about
@@kaaronhudson8112 , yes it was 1983.
Yes, I know it’s 40 years ago.
@@terrancethomas9792 I'm sorry.omg I live in Palm Beach county I couldn't fathom it being that cold anywhere in Florida
@@kaaronhudson8112 , Palm Beach is sub tropical.
Gainesville is a 4 hour drive from the South Carolina border.
That’s closer than it is to Palm Beach County.
@@terrancethomas9792 Do you remember how it felt to be outside during that time
As a non-Floridian and NASCAR fan, that 17th beach is at Daytona. You're welcome.
No I don't think so brother, pretty sure it's Panama city beach
@hensley2931 Then it looks like the video was misinformed.
**draws line at 80th parallel**
"wHy DoEsN't AnYbOdY lIvE nOrTh Of ThIs LiNe??????"
South Florida is Sub Tropical, NOT Tropical.
it is tropical
@@ProffesionalTweaker OK Jessie Pinkman, that's why you failed Mr. Whites class!
Thank you 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. The tropics are further south than Florida.
S. FL is subtropical. We have winters where plants go dormant. This does not happen in the tropics. The growing season is all year.
Ok, let's make it simple. The tropics are located between the tropic of Capricorn and the tropic of Cancer. They are about 22.5 degrees North of the equator to 22..5 degrees South of the equator. Florida is outside that zone.
Central Florida got missed the people, but northern Florida doesn’t do bad. They don’t get drowned out as much as people think.
I've been in Miami since 1971 you don't want to come here.
why
@@alexbg7878Overpopulation, traffic, stupid drivers, stupid people, unnecessary amount of traffic lights
@@alexbg7878Overpopulation, bad drivers, traffic, unnecessary amount of traffic lights, 1 bedroom places going for 2k+ a month. Thats not even it
How did it survive Matthew? The big coastal cities always has a cheat code to make atleast one building survive a surge.
@@AtmSmackanot to mention the high crime, drug, and gang issues…but every liberal city seems to have a surplus of those things 😬
I live quite literally dieectlty on the border of those two sides, and I regularly pass through both sides daily; including today..
But what about now?
@@jadude119 I just passed between the two quite literally 10 minutes ago going to an event
@@TYavaJ Okay, but what about... Now ish?
@@jadude119 I'm in my house (north)
Been in South Florida my entire life. My parents are from up north and they told me my area used to be significantly less developed back then, but now so many people moved here. I will never understand why anyone would want to move here. The heat, the humidity, the bugs, the storms, and the lack of snow that I've desired since childhood. I've got more northern blood than my actual parents cause I cannot handle the heat. Got a heatstroke just recently and also had one when I was younger.
I left and moved to Montana.
Jax in NeFl is coming along fine, no need to rush people here, we love our wide space & cool ocean breeze esp during the summers eating freshly caught fish & seafood like, the other night dinner of 20 grilled jumbo shrimps, 2 sides & a tall glass of refillable sweet tea for $12.99 at St Mary's Seafood in Mandarin, can't beat that!! Oh, super delicious!!!
Anyone from yullee??
How is it?
Yeah …. I love the Emerald Coast of Florida which is located on the panhandle of Florida. It is breathtakingly beautiful.
Additionally who wants it suffocatingly hot?!
Southern Florida doesn't have good transportation
Better than Northern Florida transportation
When I visit the moment I leave the condo its a nightmare to try to go anywhere. Its a hassle just to go to places down the road.
It’s far better than other areas of Florida, though. It exists, for starters. Some parts of this state don’t even have a basic bus system because the towns aren’t big enough. Things like Uber pooling or light rail are like a pipe dream for rural Florida ppl.
@@YouCanCallMeReTro Tbf traffic in Miami-Dade is crazy in general, if you’re near that area
@Tsumami__ for some people it's "better" but for the working class that don't have transportation it'd a different story. When I lived with my biological mother we had to ride 2-3 buses in order for me to go to the doctor so I missed the whole school day
As some one who currently reside in one of the "big" cities in Northern Florida, this video is absolutely correct, I live in the state capital, even the highway system to get from A to B around town is better in south & central Fl compared to the northern cities besides Jacksonville, rush hour is ridiculous here for a city its size 🤷🏿♂️
Northern Florida is almost entirely tree preserves and privately owned tree farms for paper mills. 50 years ago paper was a huge market, and companies bought thousands of acres of land just for trees. Now it’s just unused land for the most part.
This is why you see perfectly even rows of trees as you drive through Florida and I10
And we don’t even consider a large portion of THAT to be “southern” Florida.
I'm a lifelong Central Florida resident and I don't know why the narrator didn't acknowledge this as its own region of the state.
I live in Lakeland. It's not in south Florida. I feel that this short was kinda half assed.
@@marcus813Same here. I wonder where he got his facts from.
This reminds me of the old saying, “it is better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you are a fool than it is to open it, and remove all doubt! “
There's really three sides to Florida. The Panhandle region is significantly different even having it own time zone.
It's in both the Central and Eastern Time Zones.
"There are almost over 18 million..."
Ummm...come again? "Almost over"?
I lived in Florida for years in both regions. There isn't a person that I met that talked about flooding, extreme weather, as reasons for not living in the North. In fact, I met a number of people who moved up North to avoid the flooding and hurricane buzz that affects more people in the higher population Southern region. The panhandle, being hit by the most hurricanes per region is a notable exception. Still, compared to the Southern regions, the number of Hurricanes is less. The Northeast coast historically is far less likely to be hit by a Hurricane than any other region.
Experience and research tells me that overall the weather in the North can be different but not "more extreme". If one is not counting the panhandle, one could easily flip the story and state the Northern region is actually safer, especially further from the coast where the distance and terrain differences (flat lands become hilly, more forest etc.) weaken large storms. There are also rivers that flood in the North, though this largely affects rural areas, homes near the bank that are typically built to handle this. Personally, I enjoyed the weather up North (I hoped the humidity would much better, but still found it to be oppressive).
PS I lived ~9 years up North and ~24 years in the South.
If not for the Army Corps engineers etc. there would be no comparison, the South would be a flood haven. In the process, there was also damage done to the ecosystem. This has been and is currently being adjusted/mitigated/corrected to the degree that one can without causing the previous issues to return.
They can keep it. I like it where it gets cold. Freezes out the riffraff.
If you like cold...try Upstate New York. Sometimes we get down to below 0 and that's not including wind chill.
Cold in FL? The NE and upper midwest laugh at what Florida calls cold
@@peterroberts4415 You're right. 60 degrees F is considered cold in Florida and that's pretty much summer weather in the North apparently.
@@jeffsaxton716, Miami of Ohio University town in Ohio.
I live in the 84% (Palm Beach County) and I hate it! It's crowded from old snow birds who flee their state for the winter and can't drive, running over everybody and New Yorkers who always complain about Florida but never wants to go back to New York, it's expensive to live here (2K for a 1 bedroom), it's hot as hell! Not the regular type of hot where you're like gee willikers I think I'll have an ice cold lemonade, oh nooooo, it's drenched in sweat, clothes soaked humid hot. It's either raining really bad or scorching. The cops down here are always bothering somebody like that have quotas every day and the GODDAMN LINE TO GET W PUBLIX SUB IS ALWAYS WRAPPED AROUND THE DELI DEPARTMENT WITH OLD PEOPLE SITTING IN THE MOTORIZED CARTS!! Other than that, it's wonderful down here.
I feel the same way. I live in Sarasota and it is the same.
I live in Florida, South Florida.It's a hellhole a zoo a prison
As a person who lives in North Florida it’s getting more crowded but the north is like Minnesota and the south is like Hawaii
I dont think central Florida should be considered "south Florida." Im a Polk County native. Its a bummer to be between Orlando and Tampa sometimes. It seems to be getting more crowded daily. I rarely travel out of this area,but when I do,its a breath of fresh air. Sarasota, St Augustine,and Gainesville are pretty nice. Would love to visit the panhandle one day.
same. i’m raised in west palm beach, don’t get me wrong, it’s beautiful here. and can’t wait to leave. lived here for 16 years. i’m starting to head up to gainesville every chance i get to gators game and it’s like a breath of air. I’m heading to Jacksonville for Florida/Georgia this saturday
Met a lot of great people from Florida…
Or….like me, 3rd generation Floridian…..it’s not what it used to be now with all the people, I greatly prefer north Florida rural towns.
Northern Florida does not get as bad disasters than south Florida the last 3 hurricanes dominated south Florida while we have barely gotten hit
Damn, Florida has like 86% the population of Australia 😂😂😂
that other 16 % must be all in jacksonville. it's nuts here
Yeah but if Orlando was above the southern line it would have made the northern line a lot more popular. North Florida and South Florida aren't really that much diff In climate other than southern Florida being warmer in the winter time and that's pretty much about it.
It's not above the line because that's the freeze line. Sure it freezes in the winter sometimes below that line but it's pretty reliable. It's why when you hit Brooksville (also on that line) you notice the foliage changes. Old timers that built the towns knew all this, so they built south of the freeze line. It's that sinple.
@hensley2931 that's not the reason. The reason Disney is below that line is because Walt Disney bought up a lot of swamp land near Orlando for cheap right off of interstate i-4. It was all strategically planned, to buy up a lot of cheap land near an interstate in Florida and it so happened to be in that area. It had nothing to do with that line. And we know this because when Walt Disney was looking for land to build Disney World in Florida he was also looking at locations in north Florida near interstate 10, but he ended up getting the best deal on the land where Disney World is now.
@@chazzx7897 that is Florida lore 101 but Orlando existed before Walt Disney son
@hensley2931 it's not lore it's documented in the Disney World documentaries. Orlando was a small grove town before Disney. There was nothing in Orlando before Disney. Disney made Orlando what it is today. You're acting like Orlando was like Miami before Disney world came along or some stuff.
@chazzx7897 also nobody even mentioned Walt Disney are you some kind of bot
Less opportunity for decent paying jobs.
BIG BIG FACTS
And I'm trying like hell to get out of this miserable State.
Does anybody have a house in North Carolina they want to trade?
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You don't want to move there anymore (NC). There are no roads and everyone is watching their cars float by.
@@BadgerBabe89
I lived there in 2004 when hurricane Ivan hit that area. Right now I live in Clearwater, Florida. I can't seem to escape hurricanes anywhere I go.
@UA-camShadowBansMAGA maybe move further upstate? You'll have to deal with drought, wildfires or earthquakes 🫤 I guess chose your poison 😉
@@BadgerBabe89I lived in the south and now I live in California and there’s no earthquakes, I haven’t happened in a very long time but guess what? It’s been 108° here for over two months and dry as hell. I don’t think anywhere in America is nice anymore, maybe Idaho I don’t know… it seems that people are right about the weather change. It’s been crazy the last year or two.
Pensacola gal here, the weather argument is slightly understandable. Although my fondest memories of home are the hurricanes "parties". 😅
There is still no public transportation. The traffic is soooooo bad here. Florida cannot handle this many people.
That line is so inaccurate it's crazy.
When I saw that line, I thought, "Hold up...Florida's geography doesn't work like that."
I wish I lived in the northern part of Florida. I live in deep south Florida and the people here are self serving, disrespectful, Don't follow any of the laws of the roads. It's over populated and many areas, including the one I live in now were nice areas and are now expensive toilets. I have a few more years to retirement and I'm out of here.
It's all the Latin Americans living in Miami Metro. Lots of them come from countries where most people still get around on mules.
Northern Florida *is* deep south Florida.
Got it, moving to the south...aka northern florida...
I’m from south Florida but now live in central Florida just south of that line and life styles are so much different I also live in the most growing city in Florida
hurricane milton: i say do you wanna fight meee??? do you wanna catch these handsssss????
Long story short: the south side is the fun side. We have hurricanes, mosquitoes, humid and rainy weather, interesting people, and swamp puppies.
Swamp puppies also abound in the rivers of the northern half of FL
Which part of FL has the herpes 🐒 🐒?😅😂
Ones the Republicant Side, Ones the Democratic side.
Not anymore. There are only pocket. of libs in fl now
Facts 😂
I wish that were true. We could finally divide the state so that everyone actually gets what they want. Sadly the Republicans migrated south (or north from Cuba.)
And - do not move to florida .. just don’t - and ESPECIALLY the developers… stay OUT!
"Its warm and humid weather.." sir the humidity here is HELL lol
I’m from an Air Force Base in North Florida and infrastructures are absolutely built for natural disasters. We get hit by hurricanes every year… All of our houses would be in the water if they didn’t have proper infrastructures. There are the few people whose homes are directly on the beach… They have no problem rebuilding and letting another storm take down their house every year. Just so that they can live on the water. It’s crazy.
Yankees/snowbirds,forineers 😂😂😂
Spot on
As a snowbird I gotta say I don't like going to Florida because all the fellow tourists there are the worst and everything is designed as a tourist trap. I'd much rather go to fuckin Montana or something.
I live in the northern part in 14 years had 0 floods while the south been flooded just about every year and barely any damage from any storms 0 damage to my house so this is false information
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Don't forget the impossible to swim cold temperatures of the water in the winter! Dont forget coconuts can't grow there just of how cold it is while the palm trees are fit for harsh winters. Don't forget it having one of the most dangerous beaches in the world
@@toronto_devv8401 I have date Palm trees in my yard and they grow fruit even banana trees in my yard mango Pypyas and they don't die in the winter here and I swim in the ocean in the winter it only gets to 70 degrees in the winter the ocean water
The Northern side is Flobama
Florala
I'm one of the 84%. Born and raised here and I love the weather. I tried living in other places up north, out west, but nothing beats here.
South Florida is the best basically
Best for natural disasters 😂😂😂😂
Florida to expensive to hot
*too
california 👀
southern fl girlie born and raised. i want so badly to get out of here and either life in south ga or north fl
Im born and raise in Miami but most of my family are from Cuba
Maybe better infrastructure in the southern portion but given the population how well will it handle an evacuation? I will admit that I am a fan of Pensacola.
Life long Floridian here. The North part of Florida has too many Blacks. Especially Jacksonville. That is why no one wants to settle there.