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That's the same reason I love living in north Texas. It's hot hot hot, then not so much, then hot again.

Of course, the down side is that you live in Florida.

Intern Rusty: Not to put too fine a point on it, but the trees don't actually die, they just sluff off their leaves so they can grow new ones in the spring, just as dogs & cats shed, and all of us are constantly sluffing off skin as new cells replace used up ones.

That's the way life works. I have to admit, I'm unfamiliar with south Florida, having never been there, but do those palm trees never lose any palms?

-Ralphie

So Cal is wonderful, I don't even have to light a cig when watching the sunset since we hotbox 15 packs a day (thanks smog.) Right now I am in Honduras visiting my fiance's family and let me tell you, it never ceases to amaze me when I see Negros speaking Spanish. Shit is crazy, with all the gunfire singing me to sleep at night and people offering to sale me drugs during the day it almost feels like my neighborhood back in LA.

@Gamal, those Sambo Creek people (boy or girl, it doesn't matter) are hot as fuck though, no?

Fuck the seasons. I lived in La Jolla for years, and though I couldn't stand the people, I loved every single day of that flawless weather. Never too hot, never too cold, clear, beautiful days...it was great.

"I couldn't live here; I love seasons too much"

"Me too, that why I live in a place that skips the shitty ones"

Personally, this Canadian is excited as fuck about fall.

Not to be a douchebag, Ralphie, but it's spelled "slough," not "sluff."

That said, Fall is awesome because you can wear enough clothes to hide your hibernation weight.

I'll take the ability to handle basically any kind of weather over the chance of either earthquakes or hurricanes, tyvm :P

Figgy, let me tell you, today is especially lovely down here in La Cieba. I wish I didn't have to go back to San Pedro Sula tomorrow. Honduras aint too bad. Although I still refuse to go out at night. Some of these folks are just waiting for some foreigner to slip up. Not even my blackness has an effect.

I live in Central Florida. Here are 6 things you should know about Florida trees:

1. Live Oak trees keep their leaves all through winter, but they fall off in the spring when the new leaves push the old ones off. It happens in a single day, like in the cartoons where leaves all fall off the trees at once on someone's head.

2. I can always tell when Christmas ads for Florida are done by MadMen up north. They invariably show palm trees with lights strung up in the leaves / palm fronds. That's not how they string lights in Florida. Down here they wrap the lights around the trunk of the tree as far up as they can reach or until they run out of lights. The leaves / fronds are untouched. This makes everyone's lawn look like they've been invaded by giant glowing tubeworms.

3. Even green trees and brush will catch on fire and burn like you've poured gasoline on them. Firefighters from up north are always caught off guard by how flammable palmettos are.

4. Live oaks cannot be cut with a chain saw.

5. Laurel oaks will fall over if you blow on them really hard.

6. For some strange reason, palm trees and palmettos will not blow over in hurricanes, despite having rootballs the size of a soccer ball.