Please Don't Hate Florida

I just love it when I hear people complaining about Florida. From the Ga./ Fl. state line to Key West, it is 580 miles. Listening to people talk about Florida is like the three blind men describing an elephant. We live in Ocala ( Horse Capital of the world) and our weather is close to south Ga. South Florida is more tropical with the ocean impact and is close to a Hawaii climate. I have been in the Midwest in the summer and have had hotter and more humid weather than in Florida in the summer. The difference I have noticed is that Florida being narrow is impacted by the ocean and gulf weather. As to being crowded, it depends on if you are downtown Orlando, Tampa, Miami or at a small town along the gulf. When I think of crowded, I think of that area of California from Santa Barbara to San Clemente along I-5. ( that's crowded)