The Florida weather is awesome. Actually, the weather is perfect all year. Ponce de Leon named it La Florida, Land of Flowers. Living in Vero Beach inside the sea breeze line keeps most of the summer heat and big thunderstorms to our inland west. Folks that don't like Florida and the endless summer should move somewhere that makes them happy.

We have lived here since 1980. I love the weather. Six months of 80-58 f and mostly dry, with 2 months of hotish and damp, then 4 months of 97-80F rain every day and high humidity. Salt water fishing, fresh water fishing, skying, snorkeling, diving, hiking, beach days and nights, shorts for most occasions, bonfires and fireplace fires in Dec and Jan., outside dinning year around, grilling and smoking year around, pools, lakes, flat roads for bikes, fresh water fishing everywhere you turn,,, good, good, stuff. Too many yankees in the winter.

I can get pretty much anything to grow here, plenty of rain and sun for the plants at least. The Sunshine state thing is well, catchier than punishing sun, ultra rainy and humid hurricane state. There are more instances of rain than anywhere else in the continental US. Moved here from Southern California 9 years ago (against my wishes and better judgement) when I hear people say the weather here is great it is usually a North Easterner that is a snowbird or lived in some hellish conditions like death valley and the middle east. IF you are a North Easterner trying to get away from the snow, Arizona is a much better year round destination, Prescott especially has some elevation to it so it isn't nearly as hot in the summer. There are a lot of good people here, but because of the cheap real estate it has attracted many undesirables from other states, at least half the people here came from somewhere else and don't care about a sense of community or take pride in keeping there house, street, city clean or just being a nice human being. Like scum trickling down a drain, the scumbags and child molesters (tons here BTW, I get offenders notices all the time) make their way down, down, down to Florida. Lots of people here with bags of chips on there shoulders thinking they are owed something. So much litigation and people on disability that are fine just over taxing the system, not as many illegal immigrants here than in So Cal, but frankly I preferred the hard working Mexican people than to the leeches we get from the surrounding islands that suck as much aid as they can out of the state. So, Florida is great for raising plants, but you don't want to raise your kids here or even live here year-round. Great place to visit in the winter because Florida hasn't even had a semi decent winter since 09, sometimes we just get two weeks or so of cold weather, then it goes to bearable for a few months, then for about 6-7 months it is just terrible, I feel sorry for the kids growing up here because of the heat and rain they don't get to have a normal summer, I propose the Lawmakers in Florida actually do something about it and make the winter break the long one and the summer break a couple weeks, people can still take summer vacations, but the kids will be able to play outside all day without worry of heat-stroke. I'm just telling it like it is, nothing against the great state of Florida, but I think people need to really know the facts instead of some anecdotal evidence from a winter vacation here.