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okay, hows this. The general population from Panama city to Jacksonville and down Orlando, Daytona then over to Tampa/St. Petersburg and Sarasota are comprised mainly oh us "damn yankees" how moved here from northern states. Although Jax and Tallahassee are both southern bible belt areas, Daytona to Sarasota are like being in "lower New York" as per population. We are a "right to work state" meaning union and non-union have to same rights per job site/field and those of us who work outside enjoy working all year around and wages are comparable to most northern states. Our homes have to adhere to the Dade County specs meaning most houses are built to with stand cat 2 hurricane force winds state wide. Average temps are 75/95 in the summer and 54/78 in the winter. The biggest draw back to living here is that no one has basements and most don't have fire places. All in All I invite anyone to come and visit some part of florida during the winter. I'll bet my left arm you'll second guess yourself when it comes time to go back.
In my case, you'd be losing the arm. Been to FL more than once and if I left a toothbrush there, it can stay. While it isn't precisely the same as Florida, I lived in SoCal for a number of years, both as a child and adult, and the "steady" weather has no draw from me at all. I will give the edge to California in the area of variety however, since you can go surfing in the morning in February and if your of a mind, hit the slopes in the afternoon for some skiing or boarding. I don't know of very many other places in the world where that can be done. All that aside, I prefer 4 seasons, even if I don't really care for shoveling snow from time to time.