I was born in Miami, grew up and spent 2/3 of my life there before moving to the West Coast. If you know the area, there are beautiful parts of the state. I’m still partial to the southern end – the Florida Keys, the Everglades. I used to lead sea kayak tours in the Keys and coastal Everglades as a side gig years ago.
It’s not the same place I grew up as a kid. You can no longer fish for Snook and Redfish in the mangroves, but there are still some great places down there that haven’t been ruined by millions of retirees from the Midwest moving to FL in retirement and shifting the state’s politics to the right.