Oh sure, I'd vacation there because for some reason that's where all the theme parks are located. I'd rather go to Vegas or something with the dry heat instead of fucking Florida in the middle of summer. Ideally all that shit would be somewhere like California where it's mostly temperate year round.
Hawaii is apparently kind of a shithole to live in. Everything is expensive and you get some sort of "island" syndrome. Most people who move there regret it after a while.
It's America's appendix.
Look, here's the cold hard truth from the rest of America. Every time a hurricane hits Florida we're sad that people die but outside that we don't really feel bad for you all. You live in the path of hurricanes and then wonder why they happen. It's like people who live in flood plains and then wonder why their house floods. I get that not everyone can afford to move but holy shit people keep moving to Florida. It's madness!
As far as the racism goes, I've also heard bad things. My best friend at UMass was Vietnamese. So he and a Puerto Rican buddy of his drove down to Florida on vacation and they said that they never got so many bad looks in their life driving through the Carolinas, Georgia, and north Florida. As the whitest person alive, I get weird looks in the Third Ward sometimes but that's like a few square miles where I can't imagine basically entire states being hostile like that. Shit's fucked up.
