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Lol, all these commenters taking umbrage to his statement about the lack of beaches and a few of you are saying "shut up already, we know the truth and prefer to keep it to ourselves!"
I was born in Milton but raised in Hawaii. Moved back the area in the late seventies. Moved to Palm Beach and have been here for several decades. Always wanted to move back but the overdeveloped Santa Rosa county is a not go. Will probably move to Jay or Chumukla. That’s where my grandfather and many uncles have cattle ranches and planting farms.
People seem to forget Pensacola Beach, which has been protected from the same hideous development as much of the rest of Florida's coastline. Beyond Panama City, the coast was limited by being downwind from several papermills! Now that those mills are gone, development has been created at a rapid pace. Of course the building has a downside, see Mexico Beach .@@marcus604rsd
The folks in Palatka, Gainesville, Lake City, Cedar Key, Tallahassee, Marianna, Fort Walton Beach, and Pensacola don't mind that eighty percent of Floridians live south of Ocala. Most of 'em like their QUIET and the laid-back, easy Southern living.
@@Chuckinca Good grief, it's the seat of Putnam County, about 40 miles due south of JAX, 60 miles east of Gainesville where the UF is. If you can't "find" it, I doubt the residents of Palatka will go to the trouble to hold your hand.
I just moved up to Homosassa not too long ago. It’s much quieter here but I still wanna go further north and stay on west coast where it’s even emptier
My husband and I moved to North Florida in 2007 to be close to our daughter who lives in southeast Georgia. Our son-in-law's family has lived in Georgia for a large number of generations. They are definitely southern. We chose Florida ratherbthan Georgia to be closer to the Jacksonville airport. We also like that there are no state taxes. We are very happy that we moved here.
@@shanewindhaus8385 You can get a pro wig for direct cheap in Jacksonville. If you are a cue ball bald man, do yourself a favor and get a pro wig in Jacksonville.
That's one of the things I enjoy about Florida. No state income tax. Though it seems nearly every county has employed a county sales tax, though. I voted against it in Palm Beach, Alachua, and Miami-Dade counties. But it seems people bought into it all 3 times. It was more money for politicians (and their friends), not for improvements for constituents.
@@pamjunak2160 Jacksonville is my hometown. My Dad worked for one of the airlines there for 40 years. Good memories, and yes, South Georgia is very southern and a little red neck. 👍🏻
Nice video. One thing not mentioned is that Florida is actually located within two different time zones. Most people don't know that, or find that hard to believe.
That can be a complete pain too! If you stay in certain locations they are in central but go by the eastern time zone. This makes your check-in/out times off by an hour. Where we stay during our June vacation is fully in eastern, and our November vacation is in central but uses eastern.
30% of US states are in more than one time zone: Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida and Alaska
Many states had different time zones. But as a 56-year-old Florida native,Florida has many things to offer that no place on Earth has. First of all it's the state itself and how it's laid out it's really an extension of the Caribbean all the way up into Georgia and Alabama and that's what makes it so unique. In South Florida you're basically an extension of the Caribbean and the island way of life. You'll see people from all over the world there it's like London England and France all rode into one while walking around in a bathing suit lol. Then you have the East Coast where the beach sand is hot but the waves are good and great for surfing. The West Coast has a white beach sands and calmer waters beautiful in color. But a very laid-back lifestyle. Both the Atlantic and the golf offer excellent fishing. Then there is Central Florida which is called the ridge and it starts at the southern tip of Polk county and goes all the way up to North Florida this ridge is visible from space. At one point it was the only part of Florida that was not underwater so the landscape is very different. Lots of rolling hills. Orange Grove's all over or at least they're used to be. Scrub brush and several different types of oak trees. Then there is North Florida with its caverns big rolling hills and an abundance of large pine trees. That is one of many great things about Florida if you want to do something different if you are a native Floridian but then a few hours you can be anywhere in the state and have a totally different scenery. My son just moved from Tampa to Jupiter Florida he said what a world of difference in every way that you can think of so even the cities are different. But then let's talk about some of the other things that most people overlook about Florida. One of them is that is one of the few land mass where you can watch the sun come up out of one body of ocean drive across the land and watch the sunset and another body of ocean all within one day. That there is a rare event have done it many times and it's very cool. We are in a top three of lightning capital of the world. We are the fishing capital of the world. We have more springs in the state of Florida than the whole world combined. With some of the largest springs in the world in huge caverns that scuba divers come from around the world to explore. No place on Earth do you have fresh water alligators and crocodiles together we are the only ones to have that. Nowhere else on earth will you have alligators black bears Panthers bobcats porcupines raccoons snapping turtle and an array of birds all together in one area. We were once the leading capital of cattle before the civil war. Most people when they think of Florida they think of beaches and Disney world. When reality there is a lot of ranching and farming going on here. I can go on and on and of course there's bad things but we don't need to mention those or maybe I should to help drive out all the foreigners and Yankees lol. But one things for sure there's definitely no place like home.
Yea I'm in that small CST sliver but my aunt and cousins live in Tallahassee and it's super annoying because my Aunt ALWAYS goes "oh we did (put random event here) at 7 our time, or 6 your time"- I know how to do basic adding and subtracting 😭. It's a super random pet peeve but I chat with people over in Europe online...so I'm pretty good with timezones lol
A lack of long sandy beaches in the Panhandle? What? The Emerald Coast runs from Panama City to Pensacola with the most beautiful white sand beaches and emerald blue/green waters you could hope to see. It's a bit too cold to really enjoy from November through February though. Obviously you haven't been to the Emerald Coast.
The panhandle actually has some of the most beautiful beaches in the state. I am from Florida and have been all over the state. I love that the panhandle is less crowded and you can get better prices there too. It’s much more peaceful and cleaner than Miami and the people are friendly. I love all the small beach towns in that region. Panama City at one time was ranked as having one of the most beautiful beaches in the country.
From Kansas. Finally got to visit the panhandle this spring and it is a beautiful place. The people were all kind. Had a nice rural Southern vibe to it (yet still plenty of people lol). And the beaches were gorgeous.
@@J.T.Horacek Yes Spring time is one of the busiest times. If you ever have time off in October that was always one of my favorite months. The temperature is still 80 degrees and less crowds on the beach.
Good for you Tiffany, I'm happy for you & your family! I really mean that. For decades now, Tampa has been absolutely horrible for many reasons, including crime. Tampa & Orlando both are dangerous places to live and a terrible place to raise children. I've been living in Melbourne Florida since 1969, and even though our area has also grown by leaps & bounds, it's still relatively peaceful with low crime rates compared to every major city in Florida. Cocoa & Cocoa Beach are just to our north, and they are also horrible & crime ridden. I would love the ability to move someplace like a sleepy town in north Florida. True OLD Florida living, the way it was here in Melbourne back in the 70's. We also lived in tiny La Belle Florida when I was a kid for 2 yrs. ( '71-'72 ) La Belle is located in SW Florida ( but you probably already know that. ) Back then, and even now, La Belle is a major step back in time.
I live just outside of Tampa. Tampa’s a dump. Sure, you have some nice neighborhoods, but generally speaking it’s well below anything special. Definitely not a reason to move to Florida, without a highly specific reason.
You forgot the main reason for the title of this video. Eglin AFB and range takes up a huge chunck of the panhandle, which prevents roads for the increase in population. By-the-way, the beaches on the panhandle are gorgeous.
Creating Eglin AFB on what had been the Choctawhatchee National Forest was the brainchild of Robert Sikes, who represented the Panhandle in the House of Representatives and sat in the Defense Appropriations Committee. This happened after he got involved in a development called Holiday Isle, and when the military went looking for an air base, he knew of unused federal land close by. While Eglin is indeed huge even with the loss of Field #9 (now called Hurlburt), it is only in the extreme western part of Florida that it impinges on development. Many areas would be difficult to develop due to shrapnel, unexploded ordnance, etc. The large land mass also affords security from unfriendly eyes. Developing those barrier islands is a very bad idea, as the sea oats are the only thing holding those glorified sand bars together. Coastal property was considered worthless far into the 20th century; a distant relative turned down a chance to own land near Ft. Walton Beach for 17 cents an acre because she didn't think she could grow crops on it.
Those that are left after the sprawl of homes, condos, and hotels. I grew up here and over 50 years have watched the beaches practically disappear. I used to have a bumper sticker that read, "Thanks for visiting Florida. Now go home."
Actually St Joe Company, a legacy paper product company, owned a lot of the northern panhandle. That also limited some of the development. Having lived there in Panama City, the locals have mostly a hate relationship with St Joe.
A lot of people don't know that the Florida panhandle has the most beautiful beaches in the contiguous United States. Pensacola, Navarre, Destin, and Seaside are a few good examples.
Florida beaches are high quality, but I think California has the most beautiful beaches in the contiguous US. Specifically the ones out in the channel islands, northern San Diego county, the central coast, and the coasts of Humboldt county.
@@turdferguson3475 I totally agree with you!! I’ve been to Pensacola beach and it was hands down the most beautiful beach I’ve ever experienced. I have also been to the Florida keys which are totally different than the panhandle as well as the Miami Beach area. They are all nice but the Pensacola beach as well as the fort Walton beach, Destin areas are just beyond beautiful!
I would add, that another reason the panhandle is part of FL and that Tallahassee is the capital, is that FL was largely an agricultural state back in the 1800s and the best farm land is in the northern part of the state. The population in FL didn't really explode until after the invention of Air condition, which made southern parts of the state, with the great beaches, much more attractive.
As a former north-central FL resident, unless you are on the coast, there is no breeze during the hottest months. All you get is angry-oven-heat, swim-thru-the-air-humidity, skeeters and stagnant air. God forbid you lived in a paper mill town -- the stink just lingered. It was said you could fart on Monday and still smell it the next Monday.
I second the motion on Paper mills stink. Drove through Princeton , British Columbia last month. Even with car AC full blast on, my eyes were burning . Nasty!
absolutely im actually installing ac in my shed workshop to make it useable . I have three turbine exhaust fans and two huge shop fans but it doesn't matter if it's just moving hot air, there is no relief unless it rains BUT as soon as that stops its twice as bad as before . I worked at the prison in raiford near lake butler. THATS hot. insine hot , them guys are cooking.
What isn't mentioned is that the central interior part of Florida has A LOT of rural farm and ranch land that nobody really knows or thinks about. Everyone thinks all of Florida is beaches, but that's only along the coastline. Whether in the north or south part of FL, there are tons of acres of farm and ranch land that hasn't been developed into suburbs yet... but it probably will soon.
Right Osceola county is 1327 sq miles about 250 is developed the rest is ranch Land with a ton of cattle. Deseret ranch was the largest ranch in the country it's in three counties Orange (Orlando), Brevard, and Osceola. It's still the most productive cow ranch in the country and is 300,000 acres. It does have massive plans to be developed through at least major portions of it.
@@seanthe100 All a good many people know of Florida is their vacation in Orlando or Fort Lauderdale. Driving north from Orlando to Gainesville, many will be surprised to see the landscape quickly change to cow farms. The Orlando suburbs haven't yet swallowed all the farms between it and Gainesville, yet.
True and Jax advantages to Miami. (a) 16% less quantity of annual rain. (b) 7 degrees F annual lower temperature (c) half the median house price. (d) no traffic problems. (e) under one-tenth the population density (f) far more convenient drive to other states
@@NateForTree we are full. it's NOT personal or some kind of hate for other people that have us saying this. i live in nowhere north florida about an hours drive from jacksonville the house next door i passed on buying in 2005 for 70 k is an 80s mobile home on 2 acres . they threw on some new siding and sold it last year for 225k in less than one week. Mobile homes depreciate So the price increase was JUST the land. It has gotten insane. A three bedroom apartment in jacksonville costs twice my house payment on a 3/2 on 2 acres . I was wanting to retire down in clearwater/tampa area, that's impossible now. If you could afford a house you still have to afford the insurance and its going up up up. We are full. we don't even have enough water there's talk of building a pipeline from south to north florida to steal our water .
@@NateForTree k I looked your TOWN is yes it's gone up 50% in population from 2000 to 2020. However at the exact same time in Palm Coast Florida the population has gone up over 200%. There's it getting crowded let's move full. Then there is GTFOH your killing our environment Full. Florida is full, not kinda full , full don't move here, you have been lied to about Florida full. .
That's based on the koppen system which is subjective. If you go strictly by latitude, then it's entirely subtropical because it's north of the tropic of Cancer. If it's where winter freezes are rare or absent, then anywhere palms & mangroves are native can also have a tropical climate. Depends on how you define your terms.
@@stevedavenport1202It’s at least arguably tropical depending on who you ask. The average person who doesn’t study climate or geography would consider it tropical. Key West doesn’t get below 50 F anyway so it’s pretty much tropical.
As someone who grew up in Tallahassee, North Florida is really just South Georgia. I've heard people say that North Florida looks more like central Texas with it's miles open land and tons of trees. Also, when people think of Florida, they think of sunshine, warm weather and beaches, but the closest beach to Tallahassee is a good hour plus drive away, not to mention the fact that it can get well below freezing in the winter months.
Central Texas is hilly and most of the trees are short oaks and junipers. Far east Texas looks more like northern Florida, with similar trees and flat land.
There are multiple long stretches of sandy beaches in the NW Florida panhandle. The section of the panhandle from the eastern border of Alabama to Port St. Joe in Gulf county is called the “Emerald Coast” exactly because of this. The rest of the coast of the “Big Bend” is certainly marshy but I do not believe that a lack of sandy beaches is a component of the lack of population in NW Florida. I think something missing is the effect of rail on East/South Florida - Flager’s railway allowed those regions to be more widely developed decades before the panhandle.
Also the location of I-10 inhibited growth in the Panhandle. If I-10 hugged hugged the coast, cities like Fort Walton Beach, Destin and Panama City would be much larger than they are now and would be comparable to SW Florida. Because I-75 is much closer to the coast, it allowed areas like Sarasota, Ft. Myers and Naples to explode in the 1980s.
He speaks about the rich & robust culture of Jacksonville. If anyone was wondering, it's a very unique style of Florida man mixed with drugs, drive-by shootings, & prostitution.
The smart money suggests strongly that this observation be removed. Why? It's inviting to all the wrong types. The best kept things are never mentioned or shared. Honestly miami beach is a good thing? My grandfather built a home just outside of downtown Miami way back when. He had a sawmill across the street. Many of the local residents at the time asked why he built his home in the Everglades? That property is less than a 1/4 mile from the interstate. It's well east of the airport. Development is bad. Very bad. Population relocation is bad. The less that is known the better.
I can’t believe you didn’t ‘state the obvious’. There’s a “freeze line” that runs east / west, below which it rarely (if ever) freezes. The freeze line - right above Orlando - is what separates everything from plant life to population growth.
As a Jacksonville resident, I am very glad we are not like South Florida. The traffic down south is an absolute nightmare. It is more expensive to live there, and you better know some Spanish if you intend on spending a lot of time there. I know of many people moving to North Florida from South Florida. By the way, Jacksonville has not had a direct hit by a hurricane since 1964, Hurricane Dora.
NE Florida is growing. I live in a town call Yulee (just north of Jacksonville) it went from being a small farm town to a booming suburb just within the last decade.
Exactly why I love northern Florida vs southern Florida.I have spent a lot of time in Florida. Have traveled the state from.Destin to Key West. Spent weeks in Miami and Jacksonville. I love Florida but the northern part is my favorite. The last vestiges of the pioneer days in old Florida are there.
Ummm….I live in the Panhandle of Florida and our beaches are known as the Emerald Coast and some of the most beautiful beaches in the world because we have white sand which is more rare. All along the beach areas are tourist towns where many people come to visit every year. In the Northern area of the Panhandle as well as the Northern area of the more Eastern part of Florida we have mostly farmland and timberland…so there are many people who own hundreds of acres of land and that land is not able to be developed. We also have several military bases which own a huge chunk of land in the Panhandle and that land also is not able to be developed. Having a lot of land that can’t be bulldozed down, with houses and apartments and buildings being built on top of each other is why the Northern part of the state is less populated….and thank goodness it is.
My great grand parents owned 40 acres in the panhandle. He was a game warden, farmer and trapper in the Niceville area. The government decided to seize the land for Eglin Airforce Base. My great grandmother's grave, and other family members are inside the base. They paid my great grandfather ten dollars an acre for the land (I have the receipt) and drove all the inhabitants out. So, you are exactly right about the military bases.
The beaches in the Panhandle are quite lovely, it's known as the Emerald Coast. I am surprised you didn't mention Henry Flagler and his role in developing the railroad or the wet foot dry foot policy which had a significant impact on the population
yeah exactly, I live in Fort Walton beach, the beaches are white (made from quartz) emerald waters. Didn't even mention about Eglin Reservation. Like this dude knows nothing about the florida panhandle.
@@quincybirwood2629 no, if you going to present a video on facts need to make sure you get them all correct before making it, He didn't. Loose credibility that way.
A big reason it is “empty” is there are huge military bases in Northwest florida with Hurlburt AFB, Eglin AFB, Pensacola NAS and Tyndall AFB. That encompasses a large amount of land in escambia, santa rosa, okaloosa, and walton counties. The military also limits the height of buildings.
Yea, they could call it the Military Coast instead of the Emerald Coast. You also have the Navy Weapons Research Center and dive school in Panama City as well as a small Army Special Forces presence near Eglin AFB. Ft Rutger not too far away in Dothan AL as well.If not for the military bases the Emerald Coast and Panhandle would only have tourism and logging and the economy would be far worse.
You are obviously not seeing the overdevelopment that is strangling roads in all areas you mentioned. Drive through Milton going west starting at city limits and time how long it takes you to reach Pensacola traveling on Hwy 90.
@@montemasterson9588it would still be well farmed if the government didn’t cripple farmers. You know there are several successful farmers in Your area.
@@Omenowl we in the Panhandle are proud and blessed to have a military presence. Preservation of natural lands and a good source of income for these areas. Win-win.
@@coletanner5193 well I m born and raised in Clermont FL they have absolutely ruined Clermont I presently live in the keys it is being ruined as well. So I bought a piece of land 8 acres in Brandford FL I can't wait to move their on 9 acres with game management land across from my property so no one can put a subdivision with piece of crap HOA near me I will be there soon. I hunt and fish and mind my own business. So I won't give anyone any problems. Trump 2024
@SpottedSharks - I just moved away from that area. I got my 22 years in, retired, escaped. When I got the in 1994, the 13% was really 13%. Now they're the 48%. Day time crime. Day time shootings. Up all night, sleep all day thugs. No siree. Not for me. I'm in Central Florida now. Adios, amigos
@@lindseywalker6925 …So you are in Central Florida Wreaking Havoc now. I heard about you and your constant CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES. They say you were BANNED from South Georgia. I guess you are Projecting by suggesting others are doing what you were doing. Google Lindsey Walker to see his many CONVICTIONS. Please do not come back to South Georgia. Law Enforcement will be waiting for you if you try to return. Please remember that you are Legally “BANNED” and Law Enforcement will aggressively enforce the Legal BAN.
I've lived in Tallahassee, FL for almost 20 years. I think this is a good presentation, but my only criticism is that the beaches from St. George Island (Franklin County) to Pensacola are amazing.
I agree! I've been to Ft. Walton Beach, and it was much nicer than the Atlantic coast beaches I usually go to (Cocoa, Crescent/ St. Augustine & Daytona). And I would go there over any beach in the Miami/ Ft. Lauderdale area, they're way too hot & crowded.
@user-tm2el6xh7e Apalachicola is nice because it's like the commercial fishing capital of the world most boats you see are commercial it's not crowded with fancy yachts and you don't have to pay for parking in South Florida just to go to the beach you have to pay 30 dollars just to park
I’m happy living in the Panhandle. No real traffic, affordable and people are polite - old school southern style. I lived in southern Florida for years - it’s overbuilt and snowbird season makes it overcrowded and expensive.
Just got back from St. Augustine. I vacation every year there. Lower amount of tourists and cool spanish forts made out of small pieces of seashell. I think the Queen of Spain visits from time to time. Very cool place
I enjoyed the video, but to summarize most of the other comments: misleading on some key points. Yes, the lack of major rivers and ports in the panhandle definitely capped growth for a long time. And it does freeze a few times most winters, so anyone wanting to escape winter altogether heads south. BUT... - North Florida historically was the primary economic and population center. It wasn't a random add-on during later negotiations. Mobile and Pensacola, for example, had been passed between the major colonizing powers, but from 1763, the region over to the Mississippi was always West Florida. In 1817, after US military annexation in the War of 1812, Mobile was folded into Alabama, I'm guessing to give the territory access to the Gulf. Still, international claims weren't definitively settled in the Adams-Onis Treaty in 1819. Everything east of that--now the western panhandle--REMAINED Florida, as it always had been. The point is that today we think of north Florida as an afterthought. In reality, it was the most developed part of the state for centuries. The political and economic dynamic completely reversed later. - BY CONTRAST, the peninsula was strategically useful and had ranching and fishing but not much else. Too much disease and too little arable land. You only mentioned the capital, Tallahassee, once. Why is it in the middle of north Florida? That was in the "center" of the state population, between the historic centers of Pensacola and St Augustine, until well into the 20th century. - There are world class beaches from the border to Panama City. The video confuses the Big Bend region with the western Panhandle. I think a more important growth issue, as others point out, have been the major timber plantations and later military bases have made expansive land development difficult. Plus, as you say, without the potential for major ports and only one interstate corridor, the level of growth has been limited. Jacksonville is instructive: it is also in northern Florida, but it has a deep river, decent port capacity and sits at a crossroads for traffic moving north-south as well as heading east. For these reasons, it has has much greater growth potential. - Peninsular Florida, meanwhile, didn't develop until trains, and promoters, could bring people from the north down for vacations, and even then, air conditioning and retirement culture in the postwar world fundamentally changed the state's population demographics. Living below the freeze line that separates north and south Florida was not very desirable until tourism and oranges became major pieces of the economy. - Basically, your video is about halfway there: north Florida, especially the Panhandle, has had limited population growth due to limited ports and its relatively colder climate in the winter, but the real story is south Florida's massive growth starting the first third of the 20th century and then, really, in the decades after WWII, when tourism, retirement, and air conditioning fundamentally changed Americans' relationship with geography.
Panhandle - particularly from Pensacola Beach/GB, Navarre, Destin, Miramar, Alys, Rosemary, Seaside and on to Panama City beaches are all the nicest and most beautiful beaches in Florida. He is clearly describing the Big bend part of Florida when he mentions marshier, less desirable areas or he is just confused. The beaches I mentioned are consistently ranked in the top beaches in the nation. Not just Florida. Stunning sand and Caribbean like water. I’m actually glad he overlooked it and most won’t read my comment - so let’s keep it to just us! The insanely busy and not as nice beaches in the Southern tier is not most peoples idea of relaxing BUT they do have warm winters which snowbirds love and schools break families.
You keep showing the beaches of North Florida when referencing South Florida. North Florida has the best beaches, whitest sand and crystal clear water.
Daytona Beach is trashed now. The water is just horrible in comparison to Clearwater, Tampa, Marco Island, and the Philippines where the water is so much more cleaner.
Yes. I love history and I was really into the Spanish explorers. Pensacola was founded 5 years before St Augustine and then wiped out. Then a fort was built there 30 years later. Pensacola is the Spanish "Roanoke" but later successful.
Thank you I was in the middle of commenting this exactly many people don’t know this fact and I was born in Pensacola and just recently learned about this a few months ago
I've lived in both southern Florida and northern Florida cities. A major difference between the two is the oppressively hot weather. The southern half is brutally hot 8 or 9 months of the year while the northern half only has 5 months of soul-sucking heat and humidity. And winters in the northern part of the state only last 2 or 3 months with temps down in the 40's or 50's at night and up into the 60's or 70's during the day. Once in a while, we will dip into the 30's but you'll only see a hand full of days like that in any given year. Northern Florida basically has beautiful weather about half the year, while the southern portion gives you 3 (or maybe 4) months of that (the major attraction there being they are offering you 75 degree days during Jan, Feb and March when much of the rest of the country is snowed in).
as a multi generational north florida resident i disagree. we have about two weeks a year of beautiful weather. Its either to hot or too cold with a day or two inbetween. Start a winter day in a thick jacket and by 5pm your in a wife beater sweating. I've had people visit in winter and they cannot believe what a 35 degree winter feels like in florida, the humidity cuts right through your jacket with any kind of breeze . Maybe it's better than miami BUT we don't have beautiful weather half the year, we don't have it 1/4 the year. My G/F lives near tampa and is blown away about how much hotter and colder it feels here in north central florida. No sea breeze, No breeze at al sometimes when you do get one its just hot air. Honestly if it is so bad in south florida that people honestly think north florida has beautiful weather half the year i'm surprised people live there at all. My sister left north florida for the deserts of arizona and could not believe how much cooler 110 in a desert is compared to 90 in florida.
@@williambrennan5701 yes, but at what temperature do you sweat, and at what temperature do you shiver? Also, how come needing a jacket or breaking a sweat makes for bad weather? Often times a person would sweat or shiver during a certain time of the day, but other time frames in the same day would feel perfectly comfortable. I heard that there is a saying somewhere up in the North Atlantic that "there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing" If a person were to think about weather like that, then all of a sudden places in the Sunbelt arent as ideal as many would believe. Having never lived south of Louisville, Kentucky I've learned over the years that wearing long socks and a tank top or long sleeve shirt under my tops paired with a hat keeps me comfortable on many days that people become absolutely irate about.
@@chrisleon5918 There's a saying we have down here in Florida as well. The saying is you can always put on more clothes but you can only take so much off. The heat here is ridiculous. I mean when my sister moved from North Central Florida to Arizona she could not believe how much colder 115 in the desert is versus 95 in Florida.
0:30 as others have said, you missed the point of the saying. The farther south, the more “north” it gets is because more Northerners moved to southern Florida, it does not have Southern culture like Alabama, Georgia & FL panhandle.
I grew up in North Florida. It sucks in terms of education, income, tax base, revenue spent on human services. By just about every measure, North Florida is a place of mostly poor, under-educated, overly religious zealots. I still have many fond memories and there are some good people there. But, it's a place people wanted to leave, not go to.
@@shanewindhaus8385 Look at the economic and social measures of Columbia County. It's a poor county with a low achievement level in education, corruption in county and local governments, religious nuts who can't tolerate other points of view, etc. Meth heads walk the streets in Lake City, where gangs rule much of the streets. Sorry, but that is why it's not a great place , imo. Nevertheless, as I stated, I have many fond memories from growing up there, and there are many very good people. There's just little real opportunity.
@SkyNetGeneral- in the panhandle from December thru February you can get some freezing temperatures. About a dozen or so night below freezing where you have to protect plants with highs in the upper 50's to low 60's. Because those cold fronts reach north Florida. Good thing is those cold days usually last only one or two days before a warm up.
@frankgiuliano380 No but I was born and raised in the Panhandle. Born in Chipley, Florida and currently live south of Tallahassee in Crawfordville. Average doesn't yell you everything. Cold fronts reach North Florida and can drop temperatures by 40 degrees. We had two nights in January where the temperature got down to 28 degrees before dawn. However, in a couple days it had warmed up where the lows were in mid to upper 40's. And highs in upper 60's.
@@garyscott4847 Born in Chipley? My older brother was born in Chipley. He was one of the last delivered there... You should always dress in layer working outside in Florida during winter. Like you said, before dawn it will be in the 30s to low 40s. By noon, it will be a comfortable high 60s and to warm for a shirt (depending on job.)
@garyscott4847 I'm from panama city, lived in Chipley for a few years then moved to tallahassee and hopefully moving to live oak where I bought property. This guy is obviously not familiar with the beaches in the panhandle
I would strongly disagree with the notion that the panhandle of Florida lacks sandy beaches. On the contrary, the beaches west of Apalachicola are amazing. Sugar white, soft sands and turquoise waters. The non-sandy beaches description applies to Florida’s Big Bend region (which is partially in the eastern part of the panhandle). This area is almost shockingly sparsely populated compared with the rest of the state.
I’m a yankee who moved here in the 70s. I’ve been all over florida as a salesperson. All of florida is beautiful. Made me never want to go back north. But you realize you are in the Deep South in northern florida. I never thought that the KKK would be allowed to March in a parade with Boy Scouts. It blew my mind and I actually saw black and white service station bathrooms and black and white hospital nurseries. Talk about racism!!! I thought this type of bigotry died with the civil war.
@@johnharris8191 That's why every southern state is Republican? The party of Lincolnand and Reconstruction? Work on education in the south is non-existant.
Can we get a redo on this? There are a lot of inaccuracies about beaches in the panhandle, and lack of the importance of Flagler's railroad to South Florida. Also not mentioned was rural electrification. Up until the 1930's many Florida communities were way behind Key West to Jacksonville in electricity to Florida homes and businesses. Metal screens on windows and later Air Conditioning...A lot of people in rural areas couldn't afford it. Those that could, growth was faster.
Jacksonville Florida encompasses the entirety of Duval County. It is the largest city in Florida with a population of 995,000 people. North and Central Florida are growing and there is plenty of urban and suburban sprawl along the I-4 corridor from Daytona Beach to Tampa. There are many sandy beaches in the panhandle of Florida. Some of the most beautiful beaches in the USA are located in the Florida panhandle. I think the TH-camr needs to read up on a guy name Henry Flagler as to why Florida is the way it is. Mr. Flagler established Florida a vacation destination, he is credited for bringing a railroad to South Florida and establishing Miami. Flagler established several hotels in Florida, in St. Augustine and in Palm Beach. Once the railroad was established to south Florida and Miami was laid out as a city, this attracted many people to that part of the state. This then led to the creation of the port of Miami as a major center of trade. That is why the population density is lopsided in Florida.
I fully agree with many of the comments that Henry Flager's Railroad was probably the main reason, why Miami developed faster than the panhandle. He invested over $50 million dollars to connect his many hotels all the way to Key West! 🙂🙂🙂 . A very wise and productive investment! Regardless, of the railroad arm to Key West destroyed by The Labor Day's hurricane of 1935, we still see the positive effects of his visionary quest to this very day! 🙂 . And ... yes, Mr. Geoff Gibson, like many have stated, there are many amazing quartz sandy beaches in the panhandle. 🙂 . The Emerald Coast does exist! 100 miles! And ... it is worth exploring too! 🙂 . Please, research a little better next time. Thank you! 🙂
Do you not have internet access? During the Summer, it is ALWAYS much hotter in the Midwest than Florida. Just yesterday, the heat index was 107 in KC.
@@purplesprigs you don’t have 100% humidity my guy. Just because the temp is higher doesn’t mean it isn’t more miserable than Florida. Arizona 105 is more pleasant than 95 in Florida.
@@purplesprigs Yeah, I know you guys can get 100+ highs, but at least you still have pleasant evenings/nights. I go for walks at night in the summer, but it's still ~85 with 100% humidity. I've lived here all my life, but the older I get, the more I hate it.
@@purplesprigs It is currently 98 degrees here in Tallahassee, with a heat index of 117, with 91% humidity. I’d take the dry heat from Arizona any old day.
I live in North Florida. Don't move here, it's expensive. Georgia, not as much. And Jacksonville doesn't have a "diverse cultural scene.." no shortage of crime though
@@FloridaRaider Jacksonville is one big ghetto, homelessness everywhere, high crime, and a sheriff's office that goes out of their way not to make arrests in an effort to keep their crime stats down. Place is just like DC but with better weather.
My stepdad was from Jax and I went there as a kid on the family trip to his parent's house, and bc of my job, decades later, I've travelled all over the state regularly, so I've seen Jax through the years. Was a great place for him (boomer) to grow up and for his dad (greatest) who worked at the NAS. "A gently decaying city", as how I'd describe it now.
Exactly!! I live in Washington country. In the past 2 or 3 years the number of houses have double on the county road I live on, Douglas Ferry. I live on one end close to 79. Every time I go down past my house (once a month give or take.) I see new houses put in.
Florida seems ok to visit in spring/fall/winter months. But the summer is beyond brutal with heat. It's a very dangerous heat and humidity. Most people have this romantic idea of lounging in a chair with a mixed drink on the beach in the sun. Oftentimes, there are heat advisory warnings to avoid the outdoors from around 10am - 4pm.
As a person from ATL, I can confirm that northern florida is basically just south Georgia/Alabama. You not really in florida til you get to either Panama City Beach, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, or Miami.
South Florida is the best part of Florida county’s like Miami Dade and Broward County, is very popular cities like Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Hallandale Beach which is the fastest,growing city in south Florida got amazing lifestyle.❤
NE Florida (Area north of Daytona to the Georgia line, and inland to Ocala, Gainesville, and Lake City) is booming now after many years in the doldrums. About half the new arrivals are from South Florida and the rest from the North. It's hiller, and a tad cooler and less humid than the lowland regions south of Ocala. Ocala is a high growth area now as Orlando's urban area reaches ever northward. The Gainesville and Jacksonville urban areas are beginning to merge. As prices become unaffordable in South Florida, the migration to the Northeastern area of the state will intensify.
I'm from Central Florida and have visited the Gulf beaches forever and was raised early childhood on the Eastern beaches. I must say we vacationed in the panhandle a few years back for the first time and we LOVED IT!!!!!
That is not what that saying means. "The further south in Florida you go the more north you get" is because that is where all the Yankees move to. I live in Tampa and originally from Texas, and that is two things I hate about this area: Yankees that can't drive and bring their yankee politics down here and Canadians that don't know how to drive because it's not a moose.
The true answer to the discussion of this topic is Henry Flagler. If it wasn't for his wealth, development of south Florida, and the construction of the FEC railroad South Florida would not be what it is today. South Florida doesn't naturally possess sandy beaches or harbors, and its only river (the Miami River) is more of a stream than a true river. South Florida was dredged, dried out, and developed because of Flagler. The Everglades were compromised for urban growth and an arbitrary border was given to the modern Everglades we now recognize. The rest of the state could have followed the same path, ie the big bend region, but thankfully most of north/northwest Florida is now preserved lands.
Henry Plant did the same for the Tampa Bay region. The western Florida peninsula was sparsely populated until Henry Plant built his railroad to Tampa and subsequently to other places on the west coast.
@@victorw2474 Why focus on the destroyer of the everglades and not mention the preserver, Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Florida owes that woman all the thanks for preserving what makes Florida, Florida.
The Panhandle has some of Florida's best beaches-- Panama City Beach, Grayton Beach, Henderson State Park Beach, and Pensacola Beach. Literally 100 miles of the best beaches in the world. Also fun fact, Jacksonville is the larges city population wise in Florida because it and Duval County are the same. All the other cities may have larger metro areas, but as for city proper, Jacksonville is the largest. It is also the largest city in the lower 48 in terms of geographical size.
How many top beaches around the world have you visited yourself? I don’t think too many or close to 0 is what II can get from that claim of yours. I get it, it’s a tribal comment based on your attachment to the area but it is also an uneducated one.
@@alexcruz7719 The claim is based on winning that exact award. Yes, the is an award for the most beautiful beaches in the world, and the beaches of the Florida panhandle have won many times.
Growing up in Tampa, going to college to UF, and living in Jacksonville now, I believe that one could live their entire life in the Florida Peninsula and never go to, or even think of, the Panhandle beyond going on I-10. It's crazy how disconnected it feels from the rest of the state, with the exception of Tallahassee because of FSU.
Tampa has it all. And I think it’s much more safer than Jacksonville. I’ve lived in Panama City for about four years. Very slow growing community. Having lived in. Florida for many years. I prefer Tampa out of all of Florida
There is only a disconnect because Floridians like you exist. I'm a lifelong resident of the panhandle and think the entire state is great. Every area has it's uniqueness that makes it the best state in the nation. A city boy like you probably couldn't handle the southern charm anyway.
@@mischaraine1645 read it how you want. He's basically implying that the panhandle and it's people doesn't exist as part of Florida. You can't see that implication? Weird
The USA purchased Florida because of the large number of fugitive slaves who could not be captured in Spanish territory.. the first Seminole war began because the chiefs wife was kidnapped by slave catchers because she was descended from runaway slaves. The culture was African and indigenous. Notice the faces of the people and the similarities between Seminole clothing and jewelry to west African clothing. There is much scholarship on this. One branch of my family is descended from slaves in Jacksonville Florida.
7th generation Floridian here Raised in South Florida my whole life made a recent transition due to work in North Florida is the most beautiful place on the planet it's the hidden gem
North East Florida is paradise! here on Amelia Island we pinch ourselves every day. My son's have great jobs that they love, they meet for lunch on the beach twice a week, and the people here are amazing. Walked the beach this morning... I was the only one on the beach! the water is 85 degrees.. this is what live should be..
It should be noted that it wasn’t always this way. The cities in the north are older than the ones in the south. And for a long time, the southern parts of Florida were sparsely populated because of its environment.
Northeast is filled don’t move here. Crummy new houses are being constructed quickly in every spare plot left. The roadways are at least 30 years out of date for the population. Don’t move closer than 15 miles west from Jacksonville or St. Augustine.
Lived in St Aug for 30 years. Unbridled growth ruined it. No one who lives there ever goes downtown. That's where tourists are. Traffic was awful. And Coquina is nothing like sand. The water is dark too. I am so glad to back in my gulf. St Aug food was boring too. Catered to tourists-so everything was bland. They have a huge homeless problem. And the crime that goes with it.
I live in Santa Rosa county in far northwest Florida and our population is booming. It seems that many people are discovering how nice this area is. It used to be pretty affordable, but not so much anymore. We do have great schools though.
The author fails to understand the strong and highly significant military presence spanning many hundreds of miles. From Eglin ( largest USAF base in world), Tyndall ( will be the base of the future in defense), Hurlburt ( Trains Rangers), Pens NAS (training), Coast Guard . We are military proud and strong!
If you revisit this topic 10 years from now, Jacksonville will probably look more on par with the rest of the state. This city is currently going through the massive influx wave that the other major cities have gone through in the past which you touched on.
because of an inferiority complex and desire for relevance leading to the city of Jacksonville annexing all of Duval County. In practical real life terms, Jacksonville is much smaller and much less of a city compared to any of the major cities in South/Central Florida.
Florida is the most artificially constructed "paradise" in the world. A tourist destination built on a foundation of air conditioning and drained swamps that made it habitable
Please stay in NY impala.. Artificial.. NE Florida has the largest marsh nature preserves of any state. The Florida Land conservancy protects millions of acres of land a year! we have Natural islands that remain pure, such as Little Talbot and Big Talbot islands. Our ocean is the cleanest in all of the east coast. We have more historic Native American sites in Florida than any other state!. How about clean air.. we never have air pollution, since we don't burn fuel for heat. Our roads are new and maintained.. Seems like you have only been to Disneyworld Impala...
Well, just to make you feel better I will tell you the real reason Florida is "habitable" and a tourist destination. Can you guess? No? Think tons and tons of insect poison sprayed by planes in the air and tractors/trucks in the neighborhoods. Yeah, lost the butterflies that way along with a lot of insect life but can't have those tourists being bitten by the mosquitoes and other biting insects.
@@ClaireMunich Add to the fact that they removed the Seminoles to Oklahoma and probably killed some of the alligators, too--so white people could feel safe
You lost me at the beach comparison. I'm sensing you've never been to the Florida Panhandle. The panhandle has the best beaches in North America in my opinion, and certainly much nicer than the murky water on the Atlantic side of Florida. Also, Florida once attempted to sell the panhandle to Alabama but Alabama turned down the offer. This is a fact. Look it up.
Your statement about the beaches in Florida is correct, but you’ve obviously never travelled the California and Oregon coastline if you think any part of Florida has the best beaches in north America.
@@PTANV-x2g Yes, I've been all over the West Coast. Some great views in some places, but overall it's just cold murky seaweedy water and very overrated.
@@PTANV-x2g Your beaches are different....panhandle beaches have great, white sand and green/blue clear water. Oregon beaches are beautiful in a different way. All in what you prefer, I guess.
You got it wrong when you stated that the NW panhandle dosen't have any good beaches. The area from Carabelle, to Port St. Joe, to Panama City, to Destin, to Ft Walton, to Pensacola have incredible beaches. Being from Panama City, I might be biased, but that part of the state has the most beautiful beaches in the country
This video implied the panhandle doesn’t have beaches. But the pan handle is all beautiful beach from Pensacola all the way to the Apalachee Bay. That’s pretty evident just looking at a map. Destin and Panama City have some of the most beautiful clear blue green water and white sandy beaches in the country.
Came here to say this. Best beaches in Florida IMO. The only downside to these are the cold winters where everything shuts down. Southern Florida thrives in the winter due to the influx of Northerners and Canadians fleeing the cold.
I am from an area just outside of Tallahassee, Florida and currently residing in Jacksonville. I have to give you credit for a pretty good report. There are sandy beaches in the panhandle, but they are not continuous as in southern Florida. As you mentioned a lot of it is swamp but that being said, north Florida has a Georgia and Alabama style climate so it found itself more involved in tobacco and non-citrus agriculture and with cold winters and few beaches it never had a tourist trade which also helped influence its smaller population. The panhandle beaches have proven popular with tourists from Georgia and Alabama giving it panhandle the local nickname of ‘The Redneck Riviera’ 😅. South Florida really became developed thanks to Flagler’s railroad, but that is another story. Jacksonville (named for President Andrew Jackson) used to be considered Florida’s big vacation destination but that was over 100 years ago. I think you did a really good job. Congratulations.
Most of the FL peninsula is empty too, for the same reason, It's all swamp/wetland. With the notable exception of Orlando, almost everyone in Florida lives directly on the coast.
Mostly true, but the video implies there are no beaches on the west coast and Panhandle areas. Some of the best beaches in Florida are on the west coast (Pinellas County south to Naples/ Marco Island), and the Panhandle has beaches stretching from Pensacola to the the Big Bend Area. (Although, the Panhandle beaches are very crowded in the summer.) The interior areas, away from the coast, are surprisingly rural and agricultural. Also, it gets pretty chilly in the central areas of Florida (Tampa, Orlando and points north) during the winter (by Florida standards), with morning temperatures commonly in the 30's and even upper 20's in January and February. But there is no snow! 😊
Accurate information. Anything south of Jacksonville might as well be New York, New Jersey, Cuba or Haiti. It all sucks with the same traffic, over crowded cities full of people with little to no manners. Funny thing is how often you overhear people from New York and New Jersey (obvious northern accent) complaining about Florida and how great it was back up north. Written by someone living in Florida and can’t wait to move out.
I've lived a little north of Ft Lauderdale for most of my life, and it is so over populated now, there isn't enough room or housing available due to lack of land that can be buit on. Want to move north to Port St Lucie or Ocala where it isn't as dense.
I live in the panhandle of Florida. It doesn't get as hot in the summer and is cooler in the winter. No crocodiles and yet beautiful sandy white beaches. Been here 17 years with only one hurricane.
There might not be any Crocodiles but there are plenty of Alligators around Apalachicola. The biggest Alligator in Florida was from the Apalachicola River , over 14 feet long. I love to vacation in the panhandle . I used to like South Florida, but too many pushy Yankees there now.
I think that the different time zone in the Florida Panhandle has a lot to do with things here. In fact, many people often forget that Florida is the only East Coast state in two different time zones. I've always thought that the Florida Panhandle feels like a completely different state compared to the rest of Florida, and culturally feels more like Alabama or Mississippi. Being in the Central Time Zone doesn't give the Florida Panhandle the East Coast vibe that you feel in the rest of Florida. Your time zone actually plays a big role in cultural identity, and the Florida Panhandle is no exception to a time zone difference playing a role in cultural identity. You're also completely wrong about the beaches! The Florida Panhandle has some of the most beautiful beaches in all of Florida!
The further north you go in Florida the more Southern it gets the saying goes.
MIA = NYC south
I lived in Miami in the 1990s, and we'd say you have to go north to go south.
I know this. I live in Lake County, and I hear Southern accents more than when I go to Orlando.
As a brown man who worked in The Villages, I can confirm its real _old-timey-Southerness._ Orlando may not be Norway by any means but it beats that for sure.
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As a Pensacola native I’m glad he said we don’t have beaches. Keep all these people from coming here (;
Lol, all these commenters taking umbrage to his statement about the lack of beaches and a few of you are saying "shut up already, we know the truth and prefer to keep it to ourselves!"
I agree. I went through Naval flight school at Pensacola many years ago and have always loved it from then.
I was born in Milton but raised in Hawaii. Moved back the area in the late seventies. Moved to Palm Beach and have been here for several decades. Always wanted to move back but the overdeveloped Santa Rosa county is a not go. Will probably move to Jay or Chumukla. That’s where my grandfather and many uncles have cattle ranches and planting farms.
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Yes, I don’t get that. Destin is always ranked as one of the best beaches.
People seem to forget Pensacola Beach, which has been protected from the same hideous development as much of the rest of Florida's coastline. Beyond Panama City, the coast was limited by being downwind from several papermills! Now that those mills are gone, development has been created at a rapid pace. Of course the building has a downside, see Mexico Beach .@@marcus604rsd
The folks in Palatka, Gainesville, Lake City, Cedar Key, Tallahassee, Marianna, Fort Walton Beach, and Pensacola don't mind that eighty percent of Floridians live south of Ocala. Most of 'em like their QUIET and the laid-back, easy Southern living.
can't find Palatka on the map
@@Chuckinca Good grief, it's the seat of Putnam County, about 40 miles due south of JAX, 60 miles east of Gainesville where the UF is. If you can't "find" it, I doubt the residents of Palatka will go to the trouble to hold your hand.
I’m actually from Jacksonville
I live in Jacksonville
I just moved up to Homosassa not too long ago. It’s much quieter here but I still wanna go further north and stay on west coast where it’s even emptier
My husband and I moved to North Florida in 2007 to be close to our daughter who lives in southeast Georgia. Our son-in-law's family has lived in Georgia for a large number of generations. They are definitely southern. We chose Florida ratherbthan Georgia to be closer to the Jacksonville airport. We also like that there are no state taxes. We are very happy that we moved here.
Welcome to the Jacksonville area.
@@shanewindhaus8385 You can get a pro wig for direct cheap in Jacksonville. If you are a cue ball bald man, do yourself a favor and get a pro wig in Jacksonville.
That's one of the things I enjoy about Florida. No state income tax. Though it seems nearly every county has employed a county sales tax, though. I voted against it in Palm Beach, Alachua, and Miami-Dade counties. But it seems people bought into it all 3 times. It was more money for politicians (and their friends), not for improvements for constituents.
Can we have a Florida crocodile in the Florida legislature? It'd be more intelligent than most of the "idjots" residing there now.
@@pamjunak2160 Jacksonville is my hometown. My Dad worked for one of the airlines there for 40 years. Good memories, and yes, South Georgia is very southern and a little red neck. 👍🏻
The main point was missed here, without air conditioning Florida's population would never have had much growth.
Arizona the same.
@@overundersidewaysdown True.
Exactly. North Florida was populated long before south Florida. AC is responsible for the pop growth.
Or 75.
You mean like Phoenix🔥😳-???🤔.
Bro has never been to the emerald coast
it is quite obvious.
I was thinking the same... like... dude, the northern panhandle has sugar white sand beaches...
Yep its gorgeous here on the Emerald Coast.❤ The white sand is actually quartz!
@@lotus....how can people make videos like this knowing they have never been there.
Or read a book. Or seen a photo.
Nice video. One thing not mentioned is that Florida is actually located within two different time zones. Most people don't know that, or find that hard to believe.
That can be a complete pain too! If you stay in certain locations they are in central but go by the eastern time zone. This makes your check-in/out times off by an hour. Where we stay during our June vacation is fully in eastern, and our November vacation is in central but uses eastern.
Poor people in gulf county lol
30% of US states are in more than one time zone: Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida and Alaska
Many states had different time zones.
But as a 56-year-old Florida native,Florida has many things to offer that no place on Earth has.
First of all it's the state itself and how it's laid out it's really an extension of the Caribbean all the way up into Georgia and Alabama and that's what makes it so unique.
In South Florida you're basically an extension of the Caribbean and the island way of life.
You'll see people from all over the world there it's like London England and France all rode into one while walking around in a bathing suit lol.
Then you have the East Coast where the beach sand is hot but the waves are good and great for surfing.
The West Coast has a white beach sands and calmer waters beautiful in color.
But a very laid-back lifestyle.
Both the Atlantic and the golf offer excellent fishing.
Then there is Central Florida which is called the ridge and it starts at the southern tip of Polk county and goes all the way up to North Florida this ridge is visible from space.
At one point it was the only part of Florida that was not underwater so the landscape is very different.
Lots of rolling hills.
Orange Grove's all over or at least they're used to be.
Scrub brush and several different types of oak trees.
Then there is North Florida with its caverns big rolling hills and an abundance of large pine trees.
That is one of many great things about Florida if you want to do something different if you are a native Floridian but then a few hours you can be anywhere in the state and have a totally different scenery.
My son just moved from Tampa to Jupiter Florida he said what a world of difference in every way that you can think of so even the cities are different.
But then let's talk about some of the other things that most people overlook about Florida.
One of them is that is one of the few land mass where you can watch the sun come up out of one body of ocean drive across the land and watch the sunset and another body of ocean all within one day.
That there is a rare event have done it many times and it's very cool.
We are in a top three of lightning capital of the world.
We are the fishing capital of the world.
We have more springs in the state of Florida than the whole world combined.
With some of the largest springs in the world in huge caverns that scuba divers come from around the world to explore.
No place on Earth do you have fresh water alligators and crocodiles together we are the only ones to have that.
Nowhere else on earth will you have alligators black bears Panthers bobcats porcupines raccoons snapping turtle and an array of birds all together in one area.
We were once the leading capital of cattle before the civil war.
Most people when they think of Florida they think of beaches and Disney world.
When reality there is a lot of ranching and farming going on here.
I can go on and on and of course there's bad things but we don't need to mention those or maybe I should to help drive out all the foreigners and Yankees lol.
But one things for sure there's definitely no place like home.
Yea I'm in that small CST sliver but my aunt and cousins live in Tallahassee and it's super annoying because my Aunt ALWAYS goes "oh we did (put random event here) at 7 our time, or 6 your time"- I know how to do basic adding and subtracting 😭. It's a super random pet peeve but I chat with people over in Europe online...so I'm pretty good with timezones lol
A lack of long sandy beaches in the Panhandle? What? The Emerald Coast runs from Panama City to Pensacola with the most beautiful white sand beaches and emerald blue/green waters you could hope to see. It's a bit too cold to really enjoy from November through February though. Obviously you haven't been to the Emerald Coast.
Yea
or work for the tourism board
Shhh.
@montemasterson9588 SHUT UPPP!!! We have enough Yankees for god sake. North Florida is the last place we got.
Yeah I am from Panama City Beach and hope no one discovers our secret. We don’t wanna be like Miami
The panhandle actually has some of the most beautiful beaches in the state. I am from Florida and have been all over the state. I love that the panhandle is less crowded and you can get better prices there too. It’s much more peaceful and cleaner than Miami and the people are friendly. I love all the small beach towns in that region. Panama City at one time was ranked as having one of the most beautiful beaches in the country.
From Kansas. Finally got to visit the panhandle this spring and it is a beautiful place. The people were all kind. Had a nice rural Southern vibe to it (yet still plenty of people lol). And the beaches were gorgeous.
Mexico Beach comes to mind
@@lavangadevidasi5926 hell yeah, Pensacola is amazing
@@lavangadevidasi5926 And the panhandle seems to be a magnet for hurricanes.
@@J.T.Horacek Yes Spring time is one of the busiest times. If you ever have time off in October that was always one of my favorite months. The temperature is still 80 degrees and less crowds on the beach.
We live in northern Florida, about 30 mins outside of Lake City. We moved from the Tampa area. Happy we did! ❤
Good for you Tiffany, I'm happy for you & your family! I really mean that. For decades now, Tampa has been absolutely horrible for many reasons, including crime. Tampa & Orlando both are dangerous places to live and a terrible place to raise children. I've been living in Melbourne Florida since 1969, and even though our area has also grown by leaps & bounds, it's still relatively peaceful with low crime rates compared to every major city in Florida. Cocoa & Cocoa Beach are just to our north, and they are also horrible & crime ridden. I would love the ability to move someplace like a sleepy town in north Florida. True OLD Florida living, the way it was here in Melbourne back in the 70's. We also lived in tiny La Belle Florida when I was a kid for 2 yrs. ( '71-'72 ) La Belle is located in SW Florida ( but you probably already know that. ) Back then, and even now, La Belle is a major step back in time.
So it is going to be like Tampa in a few years.
I live just outside of Tampa. Tampa’s a dump. Sure, you have some nice neighborhoods, but generally speaking it’s well below anything special. Definitely not a reason to move to Florida, without a highly specific reason.
Lake City is nice.
@@nibornnyw3185yea I love this whole meth head county with nothing to do but open more places to eat 🤦
You forgot the main reason for the title of this video. Eglin AFB and range takes up a huge chunck of the panhandle, which prevents roads for the increase in population. By-the-way, the beaches on the panhandle are gorgeous.
Creating Eglin AFB on what had been the Choctawhatchee National Forest was the brainchild of Robert Sikes, who represented the Panhandle in the House of Representatives and sat in the Defense Appropriations Committee. This happened after he got involved in a development called Holiday Isle, and when the military went looking for an air base, he knew of unused federal land close by.
While Eglin is indeed huge even with the loss of Field #9 (now called Hurlburt), it is only in the extreme western part of Florida that it impinges on development. Many areas would be difficult to develop due to shrapnel, unexploded ordnance, etc. The large land mass also affords security from unfriendly eyes.
Developing those barrier islands is a very bad idea, as the sea oats are the only thing holding those glorified sand bars together. Coastal property was considered worthless far into the 20th century; a distant relative turned down a chance to own land near Ft. Walton Beach for 17 cents an acre because she didn't think she could grow crops on it.
Shhhhh, don’t tell anyone about the beaches !
Those that are left after the sprawl of homes, condos, and hotels. I grew up here and over 50 years have watched the beaches practically disappear. I used to have a bumper sticker that read, "Thanks for visiting Florida. Now go home."
Actually St Joe Company, a legacy paper product company, owned a lot of the northern panhandle. That also limited some of the development. Having lived there in Panama City, the locals have mostly a hate relationship with St Joe.
Actually I wouldn’t mind if some people living down here would go up there, I just hate the cold 🤷♀️
A lot of people don't know that the Florida panhandle has the most beautiful beaches in the contiguous United States. Pensacola, Navarre, Destin, and Seaside are a few good examples.
I've been all over the Carribean, and have yet to see a better beach than Pensacola.
Florida beaches are high quality, but I think California has the most beautiful beaches in the contiguous US. Specifically the ones out in the channel islands, northern San Diego county, the central coast, and the coasts of Humboldt county.
@@turdferguson3475 I totally agree with you!! I’ve been to Pensacola beach and it was hands down the most beautiful beach I’ve ever experienced. I have also been to the Florida keys which are totally different than the panhandle as well as the Miami Beach area. They are all nice but the Pensacola beach as well as the fort Walton beach, Destin areas are just beyond beautiful!
That’s mostly because the Panhandle beaches didn’t become popular until the 1980s. The South FL beaches have been popular for decades.
Ormond Beach is still nice. Old Florida beach town vibes that hasn't been totally invaded by developers.
I would add, that another reason the panhandle is part of FL and that Tallahassee is the capital, is that FL was largely an agricultural state back in the 1800s and the best farm land is in the northern part of the state. The population in FL didn't really explode until after the invention of Air condition, which made southern parts of the state, with the great beaches, much more attractive.
As a former north-central FL resident, unless you are on the coast, there is no breeze during the hottest months. All you get is angry-oven-heat, swim-thru-the-air-humidity, skeeters and stagnant air. God forbid you lived in a paper mill town -- the stink just lingered. It was said you could fart on Monday and still smell it the next Monday.
You right about the heat in the middle of the state. I live in Miami and visited Ocala and I couldn't stand the heat
I second the motion on Paper mills stink. Drove through Princeton , British Columbia last month. Even with car AC full blast on, my eyes were burning . Nasty!
Yep, coastal living is necessary!
absolutely im actually installing ac in my shed workshop to make it useable . I have three turbine exhaust fans and two huge shop fans but it doesn't matter if it's just moving hot air, there is no relief unless it rains BUT as soon as that stops its twice as bad as before . I worked at the prison in raiford near lake butler. THATS hot. insine hot , them guys are cooking.
It's so hot in the summer the air buzzes .
What isn't mentioned is that the central interior part of Florida has A LOT of rural farm and ranch land that nobody really knows or thinks about. Everyone thinks all of Florida is beaches, but that's only along the coastline. Whether in the north or south part of FL, there are tons of acres of farm and ranch land that hasn't been developed into suburbs yet... but it probably will soon.
Lots of horse farms there. My brother owns one in Alachua county.
Agreed. Apparently, Sebring and Lake Placid don't exist in the popular imagination. Hope it stays that way.
Right Osceola county is 1327 sq miles about 250 is developed the rest is ranch Land with a ton of cattle. Deseret ranch was the largest ranch in the country it's in three counties Orange (Orlando), Brevard, and Osceola. It's still the most productive cow ranch in the country and is 300,000 acres. It does have massive plans to be developed through at least major portions of it.
@@seanthe100 All a good many people know of Florida is their vacation in Orlando or Fort Lauderdale.
Driving north from Orlando to Gainesville, many will be surprised to see the landscape quickly change to cow farms. The Orlando suburbs haven't yet swallowed all the farms between it and Gainesville, yet.
Yep, the cracker cowboys aren't known by many out of state! 🤠
Crack that whip! Yehah!
North Florida is probably the most tolerable part of the state. Im now realizing it’s tolerable because there’s less people
Exactly. Plus some rolling hills & lots forests.
True and Jax advantages to Miami. (a) 16% less quantity of annual rain. (b) 7 degrees F annual lower temperature (c) half the median house price. (d) no traffic problems. (e) under one-tenth the population density (f) far more convenient drive to other states
3rd gen Florida panhandle native here. Florida is quite literally two drastically different states and hope it stays that way 😊
3rd gen is 5 minutes historically.
SC vying to move to North FL, seem like my kind of people!
@@NateForTree we are full. it's NOT personal or some kind of hate for other people that have us saying this. i live in nowhere north florida about an hours drive from jacksonville the house next door i passed on buying in 2005 for 70 k is an 80s mobile home on 2 acres . they threw on some new siding and sold it last year for 225k in less than one week. Mobile homes depreciate So the price increase was JUST the land. It has gotten insane. A three bedroom apartment in jacksonville costs twice my house payment on a 3/2 on 2 acres . I was wanting to retire down in clearwater/tampa area, that's impossible now. If you could afford a house you still have to afford the insurance and its going up up up. We are full. we don't even have enough water there's talk of building a pipeline from south to north florida to steal our water .
@@williambrennan5701 where I’m at is full. Try John’s Island SC high prices and too many Yankees we been here since this whole island was farm land.
@@NateForTree k I looked your TOWN is yes it's gone up 50% in population from 2000 to 2020. However at the exact same time in Palm Coast Florida the population has gone up over 200%. There's it getting crowded let's move full. Then there is GTFOH your killing our environment Full. Florida is full, not kinda full , full don't move here, you have been lied to about Florida full. .
Correction: Only extreme southern Florida (south of Lake Okeechobee) is tropical. The northern 2/3 of Florida is humid SUBTROPICAL.
It's pretty much tropical, but not even Key West is in the tropics.
That's based on the koppen system which is subjective. If you go strictly by latitude, then it's entirely subtropical because it's north of the tropic of Cancer. If it's where winter freezes are rare or absent, then anywhere palms & mangroves are native can also have a tropical climate. Depends on how you define your terms.
I love this channel but sometimes he doesn't do the best research. He got a few things wrong on this one.
Facts... Gets to 100° in N FLo all the time,Miami not so much.
@@stevedavenport1202It’s at least arguably tropical depending on who you ask. The average person who doesn’t study climate or geography would consider it tropical.
Key West doesn’t get below 50 F anyway so it’s pretty much tropical.
As someone who grew up in Tallahassee, North Florida is really just South Georgia. I've heard people say that North Florida looks more like central Texas with it's miles open land and tons of trees. Also, when people think of Florida, they think of sunshine, warm weather and beaches, but the closest beach to Tallahassee is a good hour plus drive away, not to mention the fact that it can get well below freezing in the winter months.
@@JoePez Without the taxes!
True.
and less cotton
Central Texas has trees?
Central Texas is hilly and most of the trees are short oaks and junipers. Far east Texas looks more like northern Florida, with similar trees and flat land.
There are multiple long stretches of sandy beaches in the NW Florida panhandle. The section of the panhandle from the eastern border of Alabama to Port St. Joe in Gulf county is called the “Emerald Coast” exactly because of this. The rest of the coast of the “Big Bend” is certainly marshy but I do not believe that a lack of sandy beaches is a component of the lack of population in NW Florida. I think something missing is the effect of rail on East/South Florida - Flager’s railway allowed those regions to be more widely developed decades before the panhandle.
Also the location of I-10 inhibited growth in the Panhandle. If I-10 hugged hugged the coast, cities like Fort Walton Beach, Destin and Panama City would be much larger than they are now and would be comparable to SW Florida. Because I-75 is much closer to the coast, it allowed areas like Sarasota, Ft. Myers and Naples to explode in the 1980s.
the redneck Riviera
Isn't that coastline of Florida from the Alabama border all the way to Port St. Joe part of what some describe as the "Redneck Riviera"?
He speaks about the rich & robust culture of Jacksonville. If anyone was wondering, it's a very unique style of Florida man mixed with drugs, drive-by shootings, & prostitution.
The smart money suggests strongly that this observation be removed. Why? It's inviting to all the wrong types. The best kept things are never mentioned or shared.
Honestly miami beach is a good thing?
My grandfather built a home just outside of downtown Miami way back when. He had a sawmill across the street. Many of the local residents at the time asked why he built his home in the Everglades?
That property is less than a 1/4 mile from the interstate. It's well east of the airport.
Development is bad. Very bad. Population relocation is bad.
The less that is known the better.
I can’t believe you didn’t ‘state the obvious’. There’s a “freeze line” that runs east / west, below which it rarely (if ever) freezes. The freeze line - right above Orlando - is what separates everything from plant life to population growth.
It freezes at my house in Tampa.
You have the main reason.
This is correct. It also gets really hot away from the water breeze.
@@MarieJackson-sp3be But it doesn't keep. I live at the same latitude. It's around 70 degrees by 2pm. & Hasn't snowed since '76.
And of course there's a city which pretty much corroborates this claim, Frostproof. But, it's also susceptible to freezing.
As a Jacksonville resident, I am very glad we are not like South Florida. The traffic down south is an absolute nightmare. It is more expensive to live there, and you better know some Spanish if you intend on spending a lot of time there. I know of many people moving to North Florida from South Florida. By the way, Jacksonville has not had a direct hit by a hurricane since 1964, Hurricane Dora.
Sounds like Atlanta now.
Killer city 🙄
Floyd & Irma would like a moment to retort
This guy gets it. DUUUUUVAL
NE Florida is growing. I live in a town call Yulee (just north of Jacksonville) it went from being a small farm town to a booming suburb just within the last decade.
Home of the baddest rb to ever play the game.
Bo Jackson?
No he would have to be from Johnson county in Georgia for that to be true.
Wiki Says 8,300 lived there in 2000 now it's at 14000.
Jacksonville is growing because of suburb sprawl. Frankly I wish it wouldn't
Exactly why I love northern Florida vs southern Florida.I have spent a lot of time in Florida. Have traveled the state from.Destin to Key West. Spent weeks in Miami and Jacksonville. I love Florida but the northern part is my favorite. The last vestiges of the pioneer days in old Florida are there.
We're ok with this.....keep spreading this information. Thanks!
18% of Florida lives in 25% of Florida doesn't seem too off..
I mean, half of them are just in the Jacksonville metro.
One county in south Flori-Duh can pay for the benefits needs of 39 counties in north Flori-Duh....
@@Flies2FLLrage bait
Miami-Dade?
North Florida is way better. But opinion.
Ummm….I live in the Panhandle of Florida and our beaches are known as the Emerald Coast and some of the most beautiful beaches in the world because we have white sand which is more rare. All along the beach areas are tourist towns where many people come to visit every year. In the Northern area of the Panhandle as well as the Northern area of the more Eastern part of Florida we have mostly farmland and timberland…so there are many people who own hundreds of acres of land and that land is not able to be developed. We also have several military bases which own a huge chunk of land in the Panhandle and that land also is not able to be developed. Having a lot of land that can’t be bulldozed down, with houses and apartments and buildings being built on top of each other is why the Northern part of the state is less populated….and thank goodness it is.
My great grand parents owned 40 acres in the panhandle. He was a game warden, farmer and trapper in the Niceville area. The government decided to seize the land for Eglin Airforce Base. My great grandmother's grave, and other family members are inside the base. They paid my great grandfather ten dollars an acre for the land (I have the receipt) and drove all the inhabitants out. So, you are exactly right about the military bases.
The whole state of florida has white sand 💀💀
its odd to hear North Florida doesnt have beaches when they literally have the best beaches in the world in my opinion lol.
The beaches in the Panhandle are quite lovely, it's known as the Emerald Coast.
I am surprised you didn't mention Henry Flagler and his role in developing the railroad or the wet foot dry foot policy which had a significant impact on the population
yeah exactly, I live in Fort Walton beach, the beaches are white (made from quartz) emerald waters. Didn't even mention about Eglin Reservation. Like this dude knows nothing about the florida panhandle.
It was a 14 minute video. Give the guy a break.
@@quincybirwood2629 no, if you going to present a video on facts need to make sure you get them all correct before making it, He didn't. Loose credibility that way.
@@topher9507He intentionally leaves information out so that we can discuss it in the comments. His podcasts are much more informative.
@@highway2heaven91 making excuses
A big reason it is “empty” is there are huge military bases in Northwest florida with Hurlburt AFB, Eglin AFB, Pensacola NAS and Tyndall AFB. That encompasses a large amount of land in escambia, santa rosa, okaloosa, and walton counties. The military also limits the height of buildings.
Yea, they could call it the Military Coast instead of the Emerald Coast. You also have the Navy Weapons Research Center and dive school in Panama City as well as a small Army Special Forces presence near Eglin AFB. Ft Rutger not too far away in Dothan AL as well.If not for the military bases the Emerald Coast and Panhandle would only have tourism and logging and the economy would be far worse.
You are obviously not seeing the overdevelopment that is strangling roads in all areas you mentioned. Drive through Milton going west starting at city limits and time how long it takes you to reach Pensacola traveling on Hwy 90.
@@montemasterson9588it would still be well farmed if the government didn’t cripple farmers. You know there are several successful farmers in Your area.
Shhhhhhhhhhhss. Dats posed to be a super secret.........lol
@@Omenowl we in the Panhandle are proud and blessed to have a military presence. Preservation of natural lands and a good source of income for these areas. Win-win.
Northern FL doesn't WANT more people!
@@coletanner5193 Speak for yourself. NE Florida doesn’t mind the growth. NW Florida can stay stale.
@@coletanner5193 well I m born and raised in Clermont FL they have absolutely ruined Clermont I presently live in the keys it is being ruined as well. So I bought a piece of land 8 acres in Brandford FL I can't wait to move their on 9 acres with game management land across from my property so no one can put a subdivision with piece of crap HOA near me I will be there soon. I hunt and fish and mind my own business. So I won't give anyone any problems. Trump 2024
@@natprimus8379 I like it stale
As a Tallahassean, I can confirm I live in south Georgia.
@SpottedSharks - I just moved away from that area. I got my 22 years in, retired, escaped. When I got the in 1994, the 13% was really 13%. Now they're the 48%. Day time crime. Day time shootings. Up all night, sleep all day thugs. No siree. Not for me. I'm in Central Florida now. Adios, amigos
I’m 70 y/o and we’ve always been referred to as LA (Lower Alabama). 😂
Georgia ain't taking nothing from us not a square inch
@@lindseywalker6925 …So you are in Central Florida Wreaking Havoc now. I heard about you and your constant CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES. They say you were BANNED from South Georgia. I guess you are Projecting by suggesting others are doing what you were doing. Google Lindsey Walker to see his many CONVICTIONS. Please do not come back to South Georgia. Law Enforcement will be waiting for you if you try to return. Please remember that you are Legally “BANNED” and Law Enforcement will aggressively enforce the Legal BAN.
I'm in Tallahassee as well. Born and raised, still here. What part?
I've lived in Tallahassee, FL for almost 20 years. I think this is a good presentation, but my only criticism is that the beaches from St. George Island (Franklin County) to Pensacola are amazing.
And the Sand does Not stick to your féet. Sand Free walking back to your abode. G
COOL😊
I agree! I've been to Ft. Walton Beach, and it was much nicer than the Atlantic coast beaches I usually go to (Cocoa, Crescent/ St. Augustine & Daytona). And I would go there over any beach in the Miami/ Ft. Lauderdale area, they're way too hot & crowded.
@JKwazman it's nice but it's too doggone cold 🥶 up there
St George isn't that great, it's too close to apalachicola bay so the water is dirty, it's nicer when you get to panama city beach
@user-tm2el6xh7e Apalachicola is nice because it's like the commercial fishing capital of the world most boats you see are commercial it's not crowded with fancy yachts and you don't have to pay for parking in South Florida just to go to the beach you have to pay 30 dollars just to park
I’m happy living in the Panhandle. No real traffic, affordable and people are polite - old school southern style. I lived in southern Florida for years - it’s overbuilt and snowbird season makes it overcrowded and expensive.
Just got back from St. Augustine. I vacation every year there. Lower amount of tourists and cool spanish forts made out of small pieces of seashell. I think the Queen of Spain visits from time to time. Very cool place
Yes it is I love the old naval fort
Are the beaches good?
@@sm3675They're actually nice, just not sugar white.
@@sm3675absolutely and not crazy packed like other places
I live there and it’s overrun with tourists in the summer.
Hopefully, people will continue to avoid north Florida.
lets run ad's in NY and NJ that north Florida gets 12" of snow a year...they should move to Naples.
@@frankgiuliano380 Let’s run ad’s in NY and NJ that say, “STAY IN NY and NJ!”.
@@MsRoniNikol, Yankee go home!
Let's hope so....way too many people in the Southern part!
I enjoyed the video, but to summarize most of the other comments: misleading on some key points.
Yes, the lack of major rivers and ports in the panhandle definitely capped growth for a long time. And it does freeze a few times most winters, so anyone wanting to escape winter altogether heads south.
BUT...
- North Florida historically was the primary economic and population center. It wasn't a random add-on during later negotiations. Mobile and Pensacola, for example, had been passed between the major colonizing powers, but from 1763, the region over to the Mississippi was always West Florida. In 1817, after US military annexation in the War of 1812, Mobile was folded into Alabama, I'm guessing to give the territory access to the Gulf. Still, international claims weren't definitively settled in the Adams-Onis Treaty in 1819. Everything east of that--now the western panhandle--REMAINED Florida, as it always had been. The point is that today we think of north Florida as an afterthought. In reality, it was the most developed part of the state for centuries. The political and economic dynamic completely reversed later.
- BY CONTRAST, the peninsula was strategically useful and had ranching and fishing but not much else. Too much disease and too little arable land. You only mentioned the capital, Tallahassee, once. Why is it in the middle of north Florida? That was in the "center" of the state population, between the historic centers of Pensacola and St Augustine, until well into the 20th century.
- There are world class beaches from the border to Panama City. The video confuses the Big Bend region with the western Panhandle. I think a more important growth issue, as others point out, have been the major timber plantations and later military bases have made expansive land development difficult. Plus, as you say, without the potential for major ports and only one interstate corridor, the level of growth has been limited. Jacksonville is instructive: it is also in northern Florida, but it has a deep river, decent port capacity and sits at a crossroads for traffic moving north-south as well as heading east. For these reasons, it has has much greater growth potential.
- Peninsular Florida, meanwhile, didn't develop until trains, and promoters, could bring people from the north down for vacations, and even then, air conditioning and retirement culture in the postwar world fundamentally changed the state's population demographics. Living below the freeze line that separates north and south Florida was not very desirable until tourism and oranges became major pieces of the economy.
- Basically, your video is about halfway there: north Florida, especially the Panhandle, has had limited population growth due to limited ports and its relatively colder climate in the winter, but the real story is south Florida's massive growth starting the first third of the 20th century and then, really, in the decades after WWII, when tourism, retirement, and air conditioning fundamentally changed Americans' relationship with geography.
Panhandle - particularly from Pensacola Beach/GB, Navarre, Destin, Miramar, Alys, Rosemary, Seaside and on to Panama City beaches are all the nicest and most beautiful beaches in Florida. He is clearly describing the Big bend part of Florida when he mentions marshier, less desirable areas or he is just confused. The beaches I mentioned are consistently ranked in the top beaches in the nation. Not just Florida. Stunning sand and Caribbean like water. I’m actually glad he overlooked it and most won’t read my comment - so let’s keep it to just us! The insanely busy and not as nice beaches in the Southern tier is not most peoples idea of relaxing BUT they do have warm winters which snowbirds love and schools break families.
Sarcastically, thanks a lot.
No doubt about it
Yeah, I live in Pensacola and I have yet to see a marsh in the area. Beautiful beaches tho
There’s a Miramar in the panhandle? We have a Miramar down here in Broward county.
@@CheapsKate77 Remember, plenty of non-Floridians think Florida means Miami.
You keep showing the beaches of North Florida when referencing South Florida. North Florida has the best beaches, whitest sand and crystal clear water.
Good. Yes it sucks up here in North Florida. Stay south and tell all your friends and family to move to the south.
One thing I would like to say about Florida, is I was never on a beach I didn’t like. No matter where in that state.
Daytona Beach is trashed now. The water is just horrible in comparison to Clearwater, Tampa, Marco Island, and the Philippines where the water is so much more cleaner.
Pensacola is just as old as St. Augustine. It wasn't settled like St. Augustine because of being hit by hurricanes.
Yes. I love history and I was really into the Spanish explorers. Pensacola was founded 5 years before St Augustine and then wiped out. Then a fort was built there 30 years later. Pensacola is the Spanish "Roanoke" but later successful.
Thank you I was in the middle of commenting this exactly many people don’t know this fact and I was born in Pensacola and just recently learned about this a few months ago
125 years ago 90%+ of Florida population lived within 50 miles of the northern border.
I've lived in both southern Florida and northern Florida cities. A major difference between the two is the oppressively hot weather. The southern half is brutally hot 8 or 9 months of the year while the northern half only has 5 months of soul-sucking heat and humidity. And winters in the northern part of the state only last 2 or 3 months with temps down in the 40's or 50's at night and up into the 60's or 70's during the day. Once in a while, we will dip into the 30's but you'll only see a hand full of days like that in any given year. Northern Florida basically has beautiful weather about half the year, while the southern portion gives you 3 (or maybe 4) months of that (the major attraction there being they are offering you 75 degree days during Jan, Feb and March when much of the rest of the country is snowed in).
as a multi generational north florida resident i disagree. we have about two weeks a year of beautiful weather. Its either to hot or too cold with a day or two inbetween. Start a winter day in a thick jacket and by 5pm your in a wife beater sweating. I've had people visit in winter and they cannot believe what a 35 degree winter feels like in florida, the humidity cuts right through your jacket with any kind of breeze . Maybe it's better than miami BUT we don't have beautiful weather half the year, we don't have it 1/4 the year. My G/F lives near tampa and is blown away about how much hotter and colder it feels here in north central florida. No sea breeze, No breeze at al sometimes when you do get one its just hot air. Honestly if it is so bad in south florida that people honestly think north florida has beautiful weather half the year i'm surprised people live there at all. My sister left north florida for the deserts of arizona and could not believe how much cooler 110 in a desert is compared to 90 in florida.
As a Midwesterner it's always amusing to hear what Floridians and Californians consider good or bad weather.
@@chrisleon5918 cool enough to not sweat standing still, hot enough to not need a jacket, not very complicated
@@williambrennan5701 yes, but at what temperature do you sweat, and at what temperature do you shiver? Also, how come needing a jacket or breaking a sweat makes for bad weather? Often times a person would sweat or shiver during a certain time of the day, but other time frames in the same day would feel perfectly comfortable.
I heard that there is a saying somewhere up in the North Atlantic that "there's no such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing"
If a person were to think about weather like that, then all of a sudden places in the Sunbelt arent as ideal as many would believe.
Having never lived south of Louisville, Kentucky I've learned over the years that wearing long socks and a tank top or long sleeve shirt under my tops paired with a hat keeps me comfortable on many days that people become absolutely irate about.
@@chrisleon5918 There's a saying we have down here in Florida as well. The saying is you can always put on more clothes but you can only take so much off. The heat here is ridiculous. I mean when my sister moved from North Central Florida to Arizona she could not believe how much colder 115 in the desert is versus 95 in Florida.
0:30 as others have said, you missed the point of the saying. The farther south, the more “north” it gets is because more Northerners moved to southern Florida, it does not have Southern culture like Alabama, Georgia & FL panhandle.
As a lifelong Tampa Bay resident, I can confirm this.
Right. This is why we coastal Alabamians keep our mouths shut about our paradise. Don't want people to come and ruin it.
I grew up in North Florida. It sucks in terms of education, income, tax base, revenue spent on human services. By just about every measure, North Florida is a place of mostly poor, under-educated, overly religious zealots. I still have many fond memories and there are some good people there. But, it's a place people wanted to leave, not go to.
This statement is ironic because an "educated" person would never make such a broad, generalized and bigoted comment.
@@shanewindhaus8385 Look at the economic and social measures of Columbia County. It's a poor county with a low achievement level in education, corruption in county and local governments, religious nuts who can't tolerate other points of view, etc. Meth heads walk the streets in Lake City, where gangs rule much of the streets. Sorry, but that is why it's not a great place , imo. Nevertheless, as I stated, I have many fond memories from growing up there, and there are many very good people. There's just little real opportunity.
Come on.....one county does not make an entire area.
@@66falcon99what are you talking about high springs is nice place
Because north Florida gets cold in winter and oppressively hot in summer.
@SkyNetGeneral- in the panhandle from December thru February you can get some freezing temperatures. About a dozen or so night below freezing where you have to protect plants with highs in the upper 50's to low 60's. Because those cold fronts reach north Florida. Good thing is those cold days usually last only one or two days before a warm up.
Cold? the January average high is 70's. have you ever lived on the NE coast of Florida? Coastal Fl.orida is zone 9B.
@frankgiuliano380 No but I was born and raised in the Panhandle. Born in Chipley, Florida and currently live south of Tallahassee in Crawfordville. Average doesn't yell you everything. Cold fronts reach North Florida and can drop temperatures by 40 degrees. We had two nights in January where the temperature got down to 28 degrees before dawn. However, in a couple days it had warmed up where the lows were in mid to upper 40's. And highs in upper 60's.
@@garyscott4847 Born in Chipley? My older brother was born in Chipley. He was one of the last delivered there...
You should always dress in layer working outside in Florida during winter. Like you said, before dawn it will be in the 30s to low 40s. By noon, it will be a comfortable high 60s and to warm for a shirt (depending on job.)
@garyscott4847 I'm from panama city, lived in Chipley for a few years then moved to tallahassee and hopefully moving to live oak where I bought property. This guy is obviously not familiar with the beaches in the panhandle
I would strongly disagree with the notion that the panhandle of Florida lacks sandy beaches. On the contrary, the beaches west of Apalachicola are amazing. Sugar white, soft sands and turquoise waters. The non-sandy beaches description applies to Florida’s Big Bend region (which is partially in the eastern part of the panhandle). This area is almost shockingly sparsely populated compared with the rest of the state.
Dont tell them about Mexico Beach...
@@nathanbyd570 Or St. George Islands.
Don't mention Cape San Blas ;)
@@frzstat Shhhhh!
@@janakafka4427 😂
I’m a yankee who moved here in the 70s. I’ve been all over florida as a salesperson. All of florida is beautiful. Made me never want to go back north. But you realize you are in the Deep South in northern florida. I never thought that the KKK would be allowed to March in a parade with Boy Scouts. It blew my mind and I actually saw black and white service station bathrooms and black and white hospital nurseries. Talk about racism!!! I thought this type of bigotry died with the civil war.
Well, you have to consider that Florida is the only Yankee state in the South. Okay? Lol 😄
@@johnharris8191 That's why every southern state is Republican? The party of Lincolnand and Reconstruction? Work on education in the south is non-existant.
Can we get a redo on this?
There are a lot of inaccuracies about beaches in the panhandle, and lack of the importance of Flagler's railroad to South Florida. Also not mentioned was rural electrification. Up until the 1930's many Florida communities were way behind Key West to Jacksonville in electricity to Florida homes and businesses. Metal screens on windows and later Air Conditioning...A lot of people in rural areas couldn't afford it. Those that could, growth was faster.
Jacksonville Florida encompasses the entirety of Duval County. It is the largest city in Florida with a population of 995,000 people. North and Central Florida are growing and there is plenty of urban and suburban sprawl along the I-4 corridor from Daytona Beach to Tampa. There are many sandy beaches in the panhandle of Florida. Some of the most beautiful beaches in the USA are located in the Florida panhandle. I think the TH-camr needs to read up on a guy name Henry Flagler as to why Florida is the way it is. Mr. Flagler established Florida a vacation destination, he is credited for bringing a railroad to South Florida and establishing Miami. Flagler established several hotels in Florida, in St. Augustine and in Palm Beach. Once the railroad was established to south Florida and Miami was laid out as a city, this attracted many people to that part of the state. This then led to the creation of the port of Miami as a major center of trade. That is why the population density is lopsided in Florida.
Daytona beach is beautiful
I fully agree with many of the comments that Henry Flager's Railroad was probably the main reason, why Miami developed faster than the panhandle. He invested over $50 million dollars to connect his many hotels all the way to Key West! 🙂🙂🙂
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A very wise and productive investment! Regardless, of the railroad arm to Key West destroyed by The Labor Day's hurricane of 1935, we still see the positive effects of his visionary quest to this very day! 🙂
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And ... yes, Mr. Geoff Gibson, like many have stated, there are many amazing quartz sandy beaches in the panhandle. 🙂
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The Emerald Coast does exist! 100 miles! And ... it is worth exploring too! 🙂
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Please, research a little better next time. Thank you! 🙂
Yeah, our winters are great, but it's summer now and man do I wish I was somewhere else.
@@DiscoingGD1989 9:30-12 is brutal. It actually feels better after noon because all the moisture burns off.
Do you not have internet access? During the Summer, it is ALWAYS much hotter in the Midwest than Florida. Just yesterday, the heat index was 107 in KC.
@@purplesprigs you don’t have 100% humidity my guy. Just because the temp is higher doesn’t mean it isn’t more miserable than Florida. Arizona 105 is more pleasant than 95 in Florida.
@@purplesprigs Yeah, I know you guys can get 100+ highs, but at least you still have pleasant evenings/nights. I go for walks at night in the summer, but it's still ~85 with 100% humidity. I've lived here all my life, but the older I get, the more I hate it.
@@purplesprigs
It is currently 98 degrees here in Tallahassee, with a heat index of 117, with 91% humidity. I’d take the dry heat from Arizona any old day.
I live in North Florida. Don't move here, it's expensive. Georgia, not as much. And Jacksonville doesn't have a "diverse cultural scene.." no shortage of crime though
JAX is the most boring city I've seen.
@@FloridaRaider Jacksonville is one big ghetto, homelessness everywhere, high crime, and a sheriff's office that goes out of their way not to make arrests in an effort to keep their crime stats down. Place is just like DC but with better weather.
HOMELESS POEPLE ARE EVERYWHERE
My stepdad was from Jax and I went there as a kid on the family trip to his parent's house, and bc of my job, decades later, I've travelled all over the state regularly, so I've seen Jax through the years. Was a great place for him (boomer) to grow up and for his dad (greatest) who worked at the NAS. "A gently decaying city", as how I'd describe it now.
Exactly!! I live in Washington country. In the past 2 or 3 years the number of houses have double on the county road I live on, Douglas Ferry. I live on one end close to 79. Every time I go down past my house (once a month give or take.) I see new houses put in.
Florida seems ok to visit in spring/fall/winter months. But the summer is beyond brutal with heat. It's a very dangerous heat and humidity. Most people have this romantic idea of lounging in a chair with a mixed drink on the beach in the sun.
Oftentimes, there are heat advisory warnings to avoid the outdoors from around 10am - 4pm.
The time to go to the beach is as early in the day as possible. I like to be outta there by lunch time! 😅😅
@@Mr.Martini549 Yeah, but I like early b/c there aren't many people out there early.....too people-y after 12.
@@barbaraletourneau1130 Near St Augustine beaches parking can be an issue too. Early bird gets the spot!
As a person from ATL, I can confirm that northern florida is basically just south Georgia/Alabama. You not really in florida til you get to either Panama City Beach, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, or Miami.
@@lyricsandasmr3984 I would agree with you in principle, but say you reach Florida around Lake City or Gainesville.
PCB is in northern Florida...smack dab in the middle of it.
I've got family that lives in Pensacola and I live in Alabama. Northern Florida really does feel like the rest of Alabama but with a lot more tourist.
South Florida is the best part of Florida county’s like Miami Dade and Broward County, is very popular cities like Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Hallandale Beach which is the fastest,growing city in south Florida got amazing lifestyle.❤
NE Florida (Area north of Daytona to the Georgia line, and inland to Ocala, Gainesville, and Lake City) is booming now after many years in the doldrums. About half the new arrivals are from South Florida and the rest from the North. It's hiller, and a tad cooler and less humid than the lowland regions south of Ocala. Ocala is a high growth area now as Orlando's urban area reaches ever northward. The Gainesville and Jacksonville urban areas are beginning to merge. As prices become unaffordable in South Florida, the migration to the Northeastern area of the state will intensify.
People unfortunately are moving more and more to North Florida. It definitely sucks, miss 1980's Florida
I live in Lake City and this statement is true.
Daytona is a part of the NE
I’m originally from Lake City. Born and raised.
@@geoffreygraham290Really?? That’s my hometown!
I'm from Central Florida and have visited the Gulf beaches forever and was raised early childhood on the Eastern beaches. I must say we vacationed in the panhandle a few years back for the first time and we LOVED IT!!!!!
That is not what that saying means. "The further south in Florida you go the more north you get" is because that is where all the Yankees move to. I live in Tampa and originally from Texas, and that is two things I hate about this area: Yankees that can't drive and bring their yankee politics down here and Canadians that don't know how to drive because it's not a moose.
The true answer to the discussion of this topic is Henry Flagler. If it wasn't for his wealth, development of south Florida, and the construction of the FEC railroad South Florida would not be what it is today. South Florida doesn't naturally possess sandy beaches or harbors, and its only river (the Miami River) is more of a stream than a true river. South Florida was dredged, dried out, and developed because of Flagler. The Everglades were compromised for urban growth and an arbitrary border was given to the modern Everglades we now recognize. The rest of the state could have followed the same path, ie the big bend region, but thankfully most of north/northwest Florida is now preserved lands.
When I went to st augustine I think I heard that name dozens of times. He's like a God down there lol.
Northern terminus was Jacksonville and it went all the way down the east coast
Henry Plant did the same for the Tampa Bay region. The western Florida peninsula was sparsely populated until Henry Plant built his railroad to Tampa and subsequently to other places on the west coast.
@@victorw2474 Why focus on the destroyer of the everglades and not mention the preserver, Marjory Stoneman Douglas. Florida owes that woman all the thanks for preserving what makes Florida, Florida.
@@someAholeComment we learned about her in school - she is the only reason there are a few empty plots of land now, lol.
8:25 The marshes are in the big bend. The best beaches in FL are in the panhandle.
@@michaelgomez3044 Shhhhhhhhhhhh, don’t tell them😎🤫
Im so glad this was the first comment I saw. I was thinking the same thing, paused the video and said outloud “what is he talking about” 😂
Florida tried to sell the panhandle to Alabama after the Civil War. Alabama rejected the offer. Now Alabama has only 43 miles of Gulf coastline.
The water gets darker the minute you hit the Alabama coastline.
Have you ever even been to Florida?... The panhandle has the most beautiful beaches in the world... 🤡
From the comments it's pretty clear Geoff didn't research enough about the panhandle lol
We say South Florida, not southern. Southern is for California.
The Panhandle has some of Florida's best beaches-- Panama City Beach, Grayton Beach, Henderson State Park Beach, and Pensacola Beach. Literally 100 miles of the best beaches in the world. Also fun fact, Jacksonville is the larges city population wise in Florida because it and Duval County are the same. All the other cities may have larger metro areas, but as for city proper, Jacksonville is the largest. It is also the largest city in the lower 48 in terms of geographical size.
Don't forget Destin and Navarre. There is some great fishing here too.
How many top beaches around the world have you visited yourself? I don’t think too many or close to 0 is what II can get from that claim of yours. I get it, it’s a tribal comment based on your attachment to the area but it is also an uneducated one.
Who cares about city proper? Indianapolis is larger than Atlanta by those metrics. It's just a poor way of looking at it.
@@alexcruz7719 The claim is based on winning that exact award. Yes, the is an award for the most beautiful beaches in the world, and the beaches of the Florida panhandle have won many times.
@@arasdeeps1852 First of all, those “Awards” are completely made up to bring customers to the chosen few areas they want to “award” that.. Try again.
Growing up in Tampa, going to college to UF, and living in Jacksonville now, I believe that one could live their entire life in the Florida Peninsula and never go to, or even think of, the Panhandle beyond going on I-10. It's crazy how disconnected it feels from the rest of the state, with the exception of Tallahassee because of FSU.
Less crowds and traffic= happier life
Tampa has it all. And I think it’s much more safer than Jacksonville.
I’ve lived in Panama City for about four years. Very slow growing community.
Having lived in. Florida for many years. I prefer Tampa out of all of Florida
There is only a disconnect because Floridians like you exist. I'm a lifelong resident of the panhandle and think the entire state is great. Every area has it's uniqueness that makes it the best state in the nation. A city boy like you probably couldn't handle the southern charm anyway.
@@mischaraine1645 read it how you want. He's basically implying that the panhandle and it's people doesn't exist as part of Florida. You can't see that implication? Weird
@@mischaraine1645 give us your take on the panhandle.
The USA purchased Florida because of the large number of fugitive slaves who could not be captured in Spanish territory.. the first Seminole war began because the chiefs wife was kidnapped by slave catchers because she was descended from runaway slaves. The culture was African and indigenous. Notice the faces of the people and the similarities between Seminole clothing and jewelry to west African clothing. There is much scholarship on this. One branch of my family is descended from slaves in Jacksonville Florida.
Culturally, excluding the cities in North Florida, the panhandle could be split between Georgia and Alabama.
Mostly Alabama.
Not even Alabama wants the Florida panhandle
The Panhandle is basically LA....Lower Alabama.
Alabama and Mississippi got parts of the panhandle from Florida, so they could have Gulf access for state commerce.
Roll Tide
7th generation Floridian here Raised in South Florida my whole life made a recent transition due to work in North Florida is the most beautiful place on the planet it's the hidden gem
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@@garydumoulin6318 my bad
North East Florida is paradise! here on Amelia Island we pinch ourselves every day. My son's have great jobs that they love, they meet for lunch on the beach twice a week, and the people here are amazing. Walked the beach this morning... I was the only one on the beach! the water is 85 degrees.. this is what live should be..
No need to let people know... :D
As a Native N. Floridian 🤫🤫lol
It should be noted that it wasn’t always this way. The cities in the north are older than the ones in the south. And for a long time, the southern parts of Florida were sparsely populated because of its environment.
Northeast is filled don’t move here. Crummy new houses are being constructed quickly in every spare plot left. The roadways are at least 30 years out of date for the population. Don’t move closer than 15 miles west from Jacksonville or St. Augustine.
@@Seven_Leaf West Central is filled too. In fact it appears the entire state is filled.
@@aliasroseYes, I agree. Let’s just place a sign that says “Closed for business”… 😅😂
Lived in St Aug for 30 years. Unbridled growth ruined it. No one who lives there ever goes downtown. That's where tourists are. Traffic was awful. And Coquina is nothing like sand. The water is dark too. I am so glad to back in my gulf. St Aug food was boring too. Catered to tourists-so everything was bland. They have a huge homeless problem. And the crime that goes with it.
I live in Santa Rosa county in far northwest Florida and our population is booming. It seems that many people are discovering how nice this area is. It used to be pretty affordable, but not so much anymore. We do have great schools though.
Too many people have discovered it!
The author fails to understand the strong and highly significant military presence spanning many hundreds of miles. From Eglin ( largest USAF base in world), Tyndall ( will be the base of the future in defense), Hurlburt ( Trains Rangers), Pens NAS (training), Coast Guard . We are military proud and strong!
If you revisit this topic 10 years from now, Jacksonville will probably look more on par with the rest of the state. This city is currently going through the massive influx wave that the other major cities have gone through in the past which you touched on.
Jacksonville is not just the largest city in North Florida but the largest city in the entire state.
A young - vibrant City.
And the largest city by landmass in the continental us
yes city and county are one.
While being such a huge city, the TV market it's the centerpiece of isn't as big as the markets that Miami, Tampa and Orlando are centerpieces of.
because of an inferiority complex and desire for relevance leading to the city of Jacksonville annexing all of Duval County. In practical real life terms, Jacksonville is much smaller and much less of a city compared to any of the major cities in South/Central Florida.
You have several large military bases that are not big in manning but big for training and gunnery ranges limiting human occupation
Florida is the most artificially constructed "paradise" in the world. A tourist destination built on a foundation of air conditioning and drained swamps that made it habitable
Please stay in NY impala.. Artificial.. NE Florida has the largest marsh nature preserves of any state. The Florida Land conservancy protects millions of acres of land a year! we have Natural islands that remain pure, such as Little Talbot and Big Talbot islands. Our ocean is the cleanest in all of the east coast. We have more historic Native American sites in Florida than any other state!.
How about clean air.. we never have air pollution, since we don't burn fuel for heat. Our roads are new and maintained.. Seems like you have only been to Disneyworld Impala...
All you northern Yankees just stay in the democrat land. The south don't want your crap. Florida is beautiful
Well, just to make you feel better I will tell you the real reason Florida is "habitable" and a tourist destination. Can you guess? No? Think tons and tons of insect poison sprayed by planes in the air and tractors/trucks in the neighborhoods. Yeah, lost the butterflies that way along with a lot of insect life but can't have those tourists being bitten by the mosquitoes and other biting insects.
@@ClaireMunich Add to the fact that they removed the Seminoles to Oklahoma and probably killed some of the alligators, too--so white people could feel safe
@@ClaireMunich excellent point.
You lost me at the beach comparison. I'm sensing you've never been to the Florida Panhandle. The panhandle has the best beaches in North America in my opinion, and certainly much nicer than the murky water on the Atlantic side of Florida. Also, Florida once attempted to sell the panhandle to Alabama but Alabama turned down the offer. This is a fact. Look it up.
Your statement about the beaches in Florida is correct, but you’ve obviously never travelled the California and Oregon coastline if you think any part of Florida has the best beaches in north America.
@@PTANV-x2g Yes, I've been all over the West Coast. Some great views in some places, but overall it's just cold murky seaweedy water and very overrated.
We have our own, thanks.
@@PTANV-x2g Your beaches are different....panhandle beaches have great, white sand and green/blue clear water. Oregon beaches are beautiful in a different way. All in what you prefer, I guess.
Jacksonville is the largest city in Florida by landmass and population
and the nicest people!
But most people drive like crap
Lack of long sandy beaches in the panhandle is very wrong. I live in Pensacola.
People talk about the deep south Meaning Alamaba.Mississippi Bible belt etc.Go to North Florida.Truely the Deep South.
You got it wrong when you stated that the NW panhandle dosen't have any good beaches. The area from Carabelle, to Port St. Joe, to Panama City, to Destin, to Ft Walton, to Pensacola have incredible beaches. Being from Panama City, I might be biased, but that part of the state has the most beautiful beaches in the country
Geoff has obviously never been to Pensacola Beach or Panama City Beach or Destin. These are some of the finest beaches in the world.
All of Florida used to be Southern, sadly
This video implied the panhandle doesn’t have beaches. But the pan handle is all beautiful beach from Pensacola all the way to the Apalachee Bay. That’s pretty evident just looking at a map. Destin and Panama City have some of the most beautiful clear blue green water and white sandy beaches in the country.
There is absolutely no reason to advertise this 🤫
Came here to say this. Best beaches in Florida IMO. The only downside to these are the cold winters where everything shuts down. Southern Florida thrives in the winter due to the influx of Northerners and Canadians fleeing the cold.
I am from an area just outside of Tallahassee, Florida and currently residing in Jacksonville. I have to give you credit for a pretty good report. There are sandy beaches in the panhandle, but they are not continuous as in southern Florida. As you mentioned a lot of it is swamp but that being said, north Florida has a Georgia and Alabama style climate so it found itself more involved in tobacco and non-citrus agriculture and with cold winters and few beaches it never had a tourist trade which also helped influence its smaller population. The panhandle beaches have proven popular with tourists from Georgia and Alabama giving it panhandle the local nickname of ‘The Redneck Riviera’ 😅. South Florida really became developed thanks to Flagler’s railroad, but that is another story. Jacksonville (named for President Andrew Jackson) used to be considered Florida’s big vacation destination but that was over 100 years ago. I think you did a really good job. Congratulations.
Great summary. Gainesville native, 35yrs in SoFla, just moved to NC.
Most of the FL peninsula is empty too, for the same reason, It's all swamp/wetland. With the notable exception of Orlando, almost everyone in Florida lives directly on the coast.
Mostly true, but the video implies there are no beaches on the west coast and Panhandle areas. Some of the best beaches in Florida are on the west coast (Pinellas County south to Naples/ Marco Island), and the Panhandle has beaches stretching from Pensacola to the the Big Bend Area. (Although, the Panhandle beaches are very crowded in the summer.)
The interior areas, away from the coast, are surprisingly rural and agricultural. Also, it gets pretty chilly in the central areas of Florida (Tampa, Orlando and points north) during the winter (by Florida standards), with morning temperatures commonly in the 30's and even upper 20's in January and February. But there is no snow! 😊
Mexico Beach, St. George Island, port st. Joe to name a few places
Accurate information. Anything south of Jacksonville might as well be New York, New Jersey, Cuba or Haiti. It all sucks with the same traffic, over crowded cities full of people with little to no manners. Funny thing is how often you overhear people from New York and New Jersey (obvious northern accent) complaining about Florida and how great it was back up north. Written by someone living in Florida and can’t wait to move out.
Jacksonville has pretty crummy beaches because the St. John’s river ends just north of the beaches, making the water a muddy brown
@@PCrailfan3790 it's also boring
@@Brian00007 honestly, apart from ghost crab hunting, kinda agree
The beaches are far from crummy
I've lived a little north of Ft Lauderdale for most of my life, and it is so over populated now, there isn't enough room or housing available due to lack of land that can be buit on. Want to move north to Port St Lucie or Ocala where it isn't as dense.
anywhere south of Vero Beach is un-livable due to traffic, and crowds.. and most are old folks from NY and NJ which make living hell.
I live in the panhandle of Florida. It doesn't get as hot in the summer and is cooler in the winter. No crocodiles and yet beautiful sandy white beaches. Been here 17 years with only one hurricane.
There might not be any Crocodiles but there are plenty of Alligators around Apalachicola. The biggest Alligator in Florida was from the Apalachicola River , over 14 feet long. I love to vacation in the panhandle . I used to like South Florida, but too many pushy Yankees there now.
Too damn cold for a South Florida Boy...
I think that the different time zone in the Florida Panhandle has a lot to do with things here. In fact, many people often forget that Florida is the only East Coast state in two different time zones. I've always thought that the Florida Panhandle feels like a completely different state compared to the rest of Florida, and culturally feels more like Alabama or Mississippi. Being in the Central Time Zone doesn't give the Florida Panhandle the East Coast vibe that you feel in the rest of Florida. Your time zone actually plays a big role in cultural identity, and the Florida Panhandle is no exception to a time zone difference playing a role in cultural identity. You're also completely wrong about the beaches! The Florida Panhandle has some of the most beautiful beaches in all of Florida!
I’m a Pensacola native. We often call this part of Florida LA (lower Alabama). 😂
We used to leave the bars in appalachicola and haul ass to Port St joe to get in another hour partying in the late 70s and early 80s.
@@MichaelRonquillo-fj5on in the 2000’s we would drive to the Santa Rosa/okaloosa border cus okaloosa sold alcoholic beverages 24/7. 😂
That's very interesting
@@R2D2C_3po central time zone is the worst
Im from Jacksonville and I will say this video does Florida very little justice.