When you move to Florida from another place you're going to change some of your habits
this video is about the 11 ways you know you've become Floridian let's start off with number one
Publix so Publix is our main grocery store here in Florida and it seems like there's a Publix in
every corner now it's a great shopping experience and I'm sure you're going to find your own
local Publix that you're going to know inside and out I love shopping there because it's clean
and the corporation has kind of figured out how to make the shopping experience pleasant
and efficient so you can go through Publix rather quickly number two hurricanes are like snow days
of course it depends on how harsh a mild a hurricane is but let's just assume we have a
milder hurricane coming through in schools they're still deciding to shut down well now all of a
sudden you have a snow day you have to go to work most likely your kids are home and what do a lot
of people do they have hurricane parties whether it's with their families or friends that come over
and you have you know glass of wine cheese and crackers it can actually be a fun experience
unless it's a hurricane like hurricane Irma which came through in 2017 that definitely wasn't fun
number three 65 degrees will feel cold to you of course it's all relative to what you're used to
but if you've lived here for a while you're going to get used to really warm weather year-round in
the summers it's going to be around 95 degrees the winters are going to be milder but it really
doesn't get that cold for the exception of maybe two or three weeks and it's during those two or
three weeks when the weather dips to about 65 and below that it feels really cold and that's when
you find Floridians kind of bundling up they'll have their jackets on and most of them will not
go to the beaches and so the ones that go to the beaches are typically tourists number four
seeing alligators is going to seem normal to you and that is because there's so many alligators
here in Florida typically they're going to be in and around lakes but very often you'll see them
just lounging on grass or sometimes you'll even see them kind of walking through golf courses
more rarely but it does happen the novelty of seeing gator is going to wear off because
there's just so many of them here number five fire ant hills you're going to become so good
at identifying fire anthills possibly because you stepped on one of them and the pain of getting
stung by the fire ants is excruciating number six you're gonna learn to dread love box season
why because you're gonna have many encounters with love bugs what are love bugs love bugs are
essentially flies but during love bug season which is in April in September and lasts for about two
weeks these insects fly attached because they're mating and though they don't sting they don't bite
they do fly in swarms and once your car hits a swarm of these love bugs there's just remains
all over your car and because their bodies are very acidic if you leave it on there for too
long it can actually hurt your car it can hurt your paint and sometimes these insect insects can
also get kind of into the inside of the mechanics of your car and can cause some harm there number
seven your flip-flops are gonna become your best friend you're gonna be wearing these flip-flops
all over the place to the beaches grocery shopping to restaurants hanging out with family and friends
why because it's so socially accepted here and because Florida is a rather casual place people
tend to be very relaxed around here and you want to feel comfortable you're going to fall in love
with your flip-flops of course if you need to go to work or you have a wedding to attend to you
might want to put something nicer on your feet but in general I would say your flip-flops are going
to become one of your most prized possessions number eight summer thunderstorms you're going
to become so good at identifying how far away lightning is from you you know that the number one
weather related killer is lightning in Florida and so what you're going to do is from the moment that
you see lightning you're going to start counting up until you hear thunder let's just assume you
count it up to 10. You then divide it by five and that gets you two that means you're two miles away
from lightning and then there's the 30/30 rule the 30/30 rule states that if you count 30 seconds
or less between lightning strike and thunder the lightning is an immediate threat and you need to
find somewhere a shelter and then you wait about 30 minutes after the last lightning flash
before you leave that safe space that you're now in number nine red tide unfortunately living in
Florida you're going to become very familiar with red tide especially when you live closer to the
coast i must say that red tide can occur anywhere in the world i live in Sarasota and on the gulf
coast right now we're dealing with red tide what is red tide it's when algae explodes into a bloom
and it releases toxin which can be really bad for fish and if you smell it if you're close to the
coast it can be bad for your lungs as well remote laboratory and aquarium which is located here in
Sarasota their scientists are actively involved right now in determining how to lower red tide
or maybe even eliminate it I'm sure scientists all over the world are studying it as well number 10
you're really gonna learn how to appreciate white car here in Florida because you know
how hot it gets here and having a darker car means that there's more heat being absorbed inside of
your car there's been studies done where white cars were compared to darker cars to buy cars
and on average the cabin in the white car is about 15 degrees less than in a black car white car in
Florida is the most popular color to have number 11 you understand the importance of having a lanai
area that's covered why is it important because we have so many bugs a lot of wildlife alligators
for example that can just creep in unless you have an area that's protected outside I live right on a
lake and I have a lanai enclosure and it keeps out gators keeps out bigger insects it keeps out a lot
of the mosquitoes keeps my pool a lot cleaner and also from a home resale value it's only going to
help because most people are gonna wanna have a night covered area for all the reasons that
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