Let the Florida people go to Florida. They can have that awful state.

Getting worse every year, too. It used to be just a crazy, unorganized clusterfuck of a state. Now they're actively tearing it down.

All in all, seems positive

How so?

How is it awful?

New Britain only having ~50% of their high schoolers graduate in 2010 is wild

The climate is too hot and humid, and its prone to really bad hurricanes. Also, it's become a hotspot for right wing and Evangelical crazies, and it's got a complete monster as its governor, DeSantis.

New London here. Looks like our numbers used to be just as bad. Explains why my kindergartner’s school is so adamant about the kids coming to school even if they’re sick.

Its like one giant DMV line....

We moved to Florida back in 2015 but just moved back this January. It's not all bad there but I definitely see why snowbirds exist. Living there year-round is not great and it's become horribly overcrowded with some of the worst people.

Google “Florida man” plus literally any calendar date (starting w your birthday) and you’ll get the amuse-bouche of Florida’s awfulness. It’s literally nothing but gators, assorted methheads, right-wing loonies, and extremely drunk senior citizens.

New Britain also has the lowest education spending per pupil in the state at around 13k per year.

It's bad there, man. I don't mean necessarily that the kids are bad or anything like that, but I don't think I've ever been in a more bleak building in my life.

I briefly did some tutoring there in college and shadowed a couple teachers. It feels more like a prison than a school in almost all aspects of it.

Gestures broadly at Florida.

imagine living in a liminal space. that’s the only way i could explain my experience living there.

> New Britain only having ~50% of their high schoolers graduate in 2010 is wild

Rules have changed, now you graduate no matter what, so data is skewed. Grads barely know their full name let alone write it.

Suburban hell. You have to get on a mini highway for practically every trip, and the single family sprawl is depressing.

DID YOU KNOW that a great number of mid-20th-century high schools were designed by prison architects

The charts get fucked up halfway down the page

The city is night and day different these days. Great work by the mayor for cleaning up the city and plenty of new developments downtown

Great read

You see that clown DeSantis? That's how so.

The weather and population aren’t the main issue. It’s mostly the politics. If Florida was more like California I would move there in a heartbeat.

Well it's trending the other way and I don't see it coming back. The craziest people from every other state seemed to have flocked to Florida over the past 3 years.

Their latest seems to be actively gutting their educational system and banning books, so...