Horsham felt like the most quintessential American town, ever. I liked what I saw.

Similar feelings towards Alpharetta. It has that new development in the South feeling.

But I do prefer New England over both

Moved to California for just shy of 5 years. Made great money and rent was cheap where I lived. I came back because I didn’t like the people and I was burned out in my career (auto body). The increasingly worse fire seasons didn’t help. My car also got stolen 2 months before I left.

Funny enough I grew up in Pembroke Pines and planning to move to Cheshire next month. Rent/homes are too pricey and I love the "country" type of homes

Route 19 in some parts of Florida makes 95 in Stamford look like kindergarten

I’m moving to Texas tomorrow. Not looking back, I loved growing up here but there’s nothing for me in CT anymore. The town I grew up in is not the same. Trumbull. The mall is closing down, it’s getting more violent, way too expensive. I was gonna stay to raise kids but it’s not like how it was when I grew up there.

Born and raised in Milford. Moved to Michigan for 10 years. Never leaving again. This is home. Hard to change.

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Speaking as someone who was born and raised in FL, moved to CT at 21, and has been here for over a decade now…can confirm. FL is an awful place to live.

Grew up here, went to college in New Hampshire, lived in a suburb of Atlanta, Suburb of Philadelphia, and Tampa.

Suburb of Atl (Alpharetta) was nice. I could’ve made a life there but I was young and not ready to settle.

Horsham PA was not bad but it didn’t feel like home. I didn’t like Philadelphia as a city. Id isn’t know it well but it did not feel safe.

Florida is not New England. I love New England suburbs, neighborhoods, towns. Each town in CT has a feel to it that I can’t describe but it’s safe, beautiful, quiet, warming. Also CT fall is better than any weather out there. Late August through October is unbeatable. I couldn’t stand the Florida heat. It never leaves. Christmas doesn’t feel like Christmas.

I don’t know… hard to describe but CT just feels right. I get the same vibes in MA, VT, ME also

Your sentiment is very kind, but as someone in healthcare, healthcare workers are not allowed to accept monetary gifts for any reason. They'd probably appreciate some unusual food gift, not pizza because that's been so overdone. Maybe a platter of Italian biscuits, or a big box of pastries.

Cape Coral

Where in FL did you live?

Yeah, I agree with this. If I could do the snowbird thing I totally would

Wife and I moved to Florida in 2015. We enjoyed our time there but decided to come back for several reasons. The biggest thing was family, we have two kids now and everyone we know lives in CT. Aside from that though, the allure of Florida eventually wears away and you start seeing all the negatives. Terrible infrastructure with no real public transit anywhere in the state, underfunded schools with horribly unqualified teachers that seemingly get worse every year, and the low cost of living we enjoyed is no more since Florida is now one of the most expensive places to live.

Also, while I prefer warm weather generally, years of it always being hot wears on you. I am thankful for cool weather now. Finally, it's so darn flat and there are no real trails to enjoy.

There are some aspects that I'll miss about Florida but I'm happy to be home.

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Moved to Florida for 6 years. I didn’t necessarily regret it but I missed home and family. I had several nieces and nephews born in that timeframe and I felt like I was missing out on spending time with them. Also, the traffic and humidity were both absolutely INSANE. Glad to be back

Can concur. Native Texan here who spent 40+ years there before moving here last fall. I LOVE it here. I don’t miss Texas at all. In fact, I’ve been avoiding a trip to visit my dad because I dread going back there so much. So many problems on so many levels, and the heat/weather sucks.

This is the correct answer.

Pembroke Pines

I’m sorry for your loss

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you for the resource!

eh, you might live in a crappy town. So what if the weather man exaggerates, really with the trash on cable news you complain about the weather man? Good help post covid is hard to get period, no matter where you live, and drivers have always sucked, but yeah they are worse now. The food variety is great if you know how to look for it. Pan handlers are not everywhere, in fact they are illegal in my town. Seems like your only happy when it rains bro....

I initially thought only the third shift people were nice, but I soon learned EVERYONE was nice.