For a native Floridian, Vermont is a visit to Bizarro World

[SecularMotion]

I am a fifth-generation native Floridian, so I'm used to living in a gorgeous state where people trash the joint and treat it like a rented car.

In Florida, we use sinkholes as God's natural graves for old cars and dead refrigerators. A sand dune always looks better with a high-rise condominium on it. Let's go ahead and frack the aquifer because, you know, you can always go out and buy a new fresh-water aquifer.

The perfect metaphor for Florida is Walt Disney World, which paved over a natural swamp and wetland to build an amusement park and a fake version of an African savanna.

"Don't Save It, Pave It," should be the motto of my beloved, crazy, self-hating state.

http://www.tallahassee.com/story/entertainment/columnists/hinson/2014/07/11/native-floridian-vermont-visit-bizarro-world/12537859/

[tech3149]

1. Good read

More people like him in Fla may turn the state sane.

[yeoman6987]

2. Vermont doesn't have any ethnicity but White

I would miss the different cultures. I visited there once from Maryland and found the place incredibly boring.

[flamingdem]

3. You're not wrong

and it can get boring. But it's beautiful and relatively unspoiled, so it's a trade off.

[glinda]

4. Thanks. I enjoyed the info.