Would you rather live in Florida or Iowa?

[dead0man]

Iowa.  I've lived in Florida and I currently live right across the river from Iowa.  I know both states well and it's Iowa by far.  Hurricanes suck.  Old people suck.  Tourists suck.  Red necks suck.  Retired New Yorkers suck.  Spring break sucks.  Sure corn is boring, but it doesn't suck.

[dead0man]

Have you ever lived in a city that had a Spring Break?  I lived in Panama City (not Panama City Beach thank the gods) and it sucked.  Believe it or not, not everybody loves to be surrounded by drunk, 20 year old half wits from the midwest and northeast.  Sure it's fun to make fun of them for awhile, but eventually the traffic and ignorance become to much.

Plus I was married at the time so nailing drunk co-eds was out of the question.

[dead0man]

Why on earth would anyone want to live in Iowa? One medium size city and a bunch of small ones around. In FL, you have Jax, Miami, Orlando, and Tampa.

Why on earth would anyone want to live in Florida?  You have Jax, Miami, Orlando, Tampa and a million red necks.  Not to mention tourists and the elderly.

[dead0man]

Aye.  They say there are Red Necks everywhere.  Trash is trash and all that.  But there is something special about the true Red Necks.  They really get into it.  I've been to a handful of NASCAR races (including Talladega), Red Necks know how to party and eat.

[dead0man]

I love rednecks. I also love the south and sweet tea. What's so great about a bunch of farm land in Iowa?

Have you seen that farm land though?  Especially northern Iowa?  Wow that's some good farm land.  The soil is so black and rich you could grow anything there.  I could barely grow grass in the sandy soil I had in Florida.

..and sweet tea is for girls.

[dead0man]

Jacksonville isn't horrible.....well, for you it would be I suppose.  The rest of the state does suck for a variety of reasons.

Corn>Mickey

[dead0man]

Jacksonville isn't horrible.....well, for you it would be I suppose.  The rest of the state does suck for a variety of reasons.

Corn>Mickey

OMG everything outside of Jax is disneyworld!!!

errrr, I didn't say that, I said "a variety of reasons".  I lived on the RedNeck Riviera for more than 2 years ya know.  Miami, Orlanda, Tampa, Jax and Lower Alabama all suck for very different reasons.  (not that there aren't good aspects of Florida, certainly there is.  Some of the coolest people I've known have been from Florida.  It's just nowhere near as awesome as it's fans like to think it is.  Like Texas.)

[dead0man]

Florida has more tornados than Iowa too.  cite

[dead0man]

cite

Holy crap!  Do you southerners run outside everytime the tornado sirens go off?  It can't just be population density that explains this can it?
Tornado deaths/number of Tornados between 1950-94
MS-386/1039
AR-279/854
Al-275/886
vs
KS-199/2110
NE-51/1673
IA-61/1374

[dead0man]

Aye, that's probably it.  There are a lot of mobile homes here, but nowhere near as many as the south.  The only time I've ever lived in one was my 7 months in Biloxi.
State-tornado deaths/tornados- (percent homes that are mobile)
MS-386/1039-16.6%
AR-279/854-14.9%
Al-275/886-16.3%
vs
KS-199/2110-6.4&
NE-51/1673-5.1%
IA-61/1374-5.3%

[dead0man]

In the south, adults skin their children if they move north of the Mason Dixon Line.  I know it seems weird, but these are the same people that catch Cat Fish with their bare hands and eat the entrails of common farm animals.  They are proud of these things.