For the Florida Haters…

If Florida truly sucked the St Johns River would flow south.

 

I've never figured out how it flows north.

With gravity I thought everything goes downhill.

 

Sure, but they are still going to build The Villages II and Del Boca Vista Phase 18 because T-shirts dont have any power

 

Based on elevation. If you looked at the GIS, Jacksonville is in kind of a basin, the land to the south is a little higher so north it flows.

 

Except that mostly it's New Yorkers that are from the part of the state that doesn't represent them. Basically everything north and west of NYC. If people from NYC are moving here they are moving to Miami. Those people wouldn't survive in Ocala.

 

Thanks. More validation of the theory of gravity!

 

Ocala is weird, rich horse people move there too, they aren't all right-wing Christian types

 

Since the beginning of time …

 

It’s true. You need bumper stickers.

 

All the NYers I know that have moved here are Jewish retirees.

 

All the ones I know are from Binghamton and north to above Syracuse.

 

Half of South Florida seems to be from New York, and that is true since at least the 70’s when I moved here. In fact, I moved here from New Orleans, with a thick southern accent, and as I got older I somehow came to speak more like a New Yorker.

 

How old were you when you moved? Your post caught my eye given that many people from the city of New Orleans (not to be confused with Cajuns or rural areas) are considered to speak the "yat" dialect, which has a resemblance to NY speakers.

New Orleans English - Wikipedia

New Orleans English[1] is American English native to the city of New Orleans and its metropolitan area. Native English speakers of the region actually speak a number of varieties, including the variety most recently brought in and spreading since the 20th century among white communities of the Southern United States in general (Southern U.S. English); the variety primarily spoken by black residents (African American Vernacular English); the variety spoken by Cajuns in southern Louisiana (Cajun English); the variety traditionally spoken by affluent white residents of the city's Uptown and Garden District; and the variety traditionally spoken by lower middle- and working-class white residents of Eastern New Orleans, particularly the Ninth Ward (sometimes known, since at least the 1980s, as Yat).[2][3] However, only the last two varieties are unique to New Orleans and are typically those referred to in the academic research as "New Orleans English". These two varieties specific to New Orleans likely developed around the turn of the nineteenth century and most noticeably combine speech features commonly associated with both New York City English and, to a lesser extent, Southern U.S. English.[1] The noticeably New York-like characteristics include the NYC-like short-a split (so that mad and map, for example, do not have the same vowel), non-rhoticity, th-stopping (so that, for example, "those" may sound like "doze"), and the recently disappearing coil–curl merger.[4] Noticeably Southern characteristics include the fronting of /oʊ/ and possible monophthongization of /aɪ/ (just these features, plus non-rhoticity, often characterize the Uptown accent).

Often, the term "Yat" refers particularly to the New Orleans accents that are "strongest" or most especially reminiscent of a working-class New York City accent,[1] though others use the term as a regional marker, to define the speech heard in certain parts of the city and its inner suburbs. Used in these narrower senses, Yat is simply one of many sub-dialects of New Orleans. The word comes from the common use of the local greeting, "Where y'at?" or "Where are you at (i.e. in life)?", which is a way of asking, "How are you?"

 

Depends on which part of NY you are talking about. It's like two different states. NYC/Long Island talks like all the stereotypes you can think of like Saturday Night Fever. West of NYC and north have a more mid western accent like Michigan or Ohio.

 

Libs destroyed their own states with the socialist policies. Stay there and live in your mess.. Don't move to red states.

 

I was 10 when we moved from NOLA to Hollywood, FL. My friends here mocked my persistent use of y’all, for sure. My classroom was filled with kids from NY (mostly Long Island), NJ (both near NYC and Philly), and Philly, with a scattering of kids from the Midwest. Everyone was a transplant.

 

All these Gators and not a one comes up with the correct answer? The St Johns River flows north because GEORGIA SUCKS!!!

 

Sorta like Santis-like "conservatives" and similar types in several other states are attempting to do to public education in their schools and universities? Governor White Boots has been quite successful in that particular undertaking. Without doubt Florida's public schools, colleges, and universities are set on a steeply declining and destructive trajectory that will end in educational irrelevance. The aftermath will be hundreds of thousands (millions?) of students handicapped by an inadequate education and uncalculable academic losses to a prestigious university.

 

WOW, I moved to Daytona when I was barely 15. I was a fish out of water with my Jersey accent. I went to the guidance counselor's office to change a class and when I talked to the girl behind the desk ( a student I think) she asked me, "Are you a yankee?" In my best Jersey Girl voice, I said "Yeah, what's wrong with that?". She like, "nothing!"
A really cute guy who sat in front of me in Algebra II had this NC accent and I thought he was gay. Found out later he wasn't

I always swore I would never say ya'll, but that didn't pan out.