FLORIDA!!!!!ALWAYS SUNNY SIDE UP!!!

[Clementine2022]

Hi fellow Floridians,
I'm reaching out in search of a new home for my 8 week old Jersey Giant roo! I can't keep any roosters due to zoning. He is a very sweet boy and I don't want to cull if someone else wants to take him into their flock. Citrus County. I'm willing to meet up within reason.

I wish I could.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Greenfire Farms is in northwest Florida now? Did they move?

I guess its how you define NW Florida. I’ve always known them to be west of Tallahassee. A lot of people consider anything west of the Big Bend to be west Florida (anything from Tally back across the Panhandle).

 

[U_Stormcrow]

I guess its how you define NW Florida. I’ve always known them to be west of Tallahassee. A lot of people consider anything west of the Big Bend to be west Florida (anything from Tally back across the Panhandle).

I agree w/ FL Bullfrog here - Tally to MS border is NW FL.

With the further distinction that if you live on/near the water from about Port St Joe west, you probably say "Panhandle", and if you are on the AL border side of I-10 you are more likely to say "Wiregrass"

Speaking as someone who currently lives there.

"Central" Fl is basically the I-4 corridor +/- around 60 mi. South FL is from the swamp down. NE FL doesn't exist. Its either Jacksonville, or the Jacksonville area.

Or so I believe as one born in the state, lived here four decades+. (Mostly "Central FL", either coast)

P.S. the Big Bend area of FL is also referred to as the "armpit", generally not positively.

 

[Bawkbok]

P.S. the Big Bend area of FL is also referred to as the "armpit", generally not positively.

Never heard that before but makes sense. I just call it the sucking vortex sink drain as we never seem to get rain here --- in the armpit. Always goes north and south of us -- following the rivers I suppose. So distressing. Unless of course it's a hurricane, then we get slammed.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

Never heard that before but makes sense. I just call it the sucking vortex sink drain as we never seem to get rain here --- in the armpit. Always goes north and south of us -- following the rivers I suppose. So distressing. Unless of course it's a hurricane, then we get slammed.

We in the Big Bend do seem to get more tropical systems than anywhere else. That’s why its one of the last places in Florida to be developed. The woods here run on drought/flood cycles.

 

[JPadronMiami]

any Old Enlish Seramas' in Florida for sale? i have a small flock 1 rooster 8 little tiny hens look like wind up toys.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

We in the Big Bend do seem to get more tropical systems than anywhere else. That’s why its one of the last places in Florida to be developed. The woods here run on drought/flood cycles.

We considered property there. There was a very attractive wood and glass home set on the edge of the national? forest there at a really good price. One of those log cabin looking things with essentially a n almost two story tall glass wall on one side looking out onto the forest. OK, great price. Gorgeous view.

Flood zone, completely uninsurable. Also no nearby work, no cell signal, no ability to get satellite internet, no nearby jobs, no nearby infrastructure, no nearby groceries of reasonable size. Its a wonder how they got it built at all.

I don't regret not buying it, but I'm not likely to forget it.

 

[Florida Bullfrog]

We considered property there. There was a very attractive wood and glass home set on the edge of the national? forest there at a really good price. One of those log cabin looking things with essentially a n almost two story tall glass wall on one side looking out onto the forest. OK, great price. Gorgeous view.

Flood zone, completely uninsurable. Also no nearby work, no cell signal, no ability to get satellite internet, no nearby jobs, no nearby infrastructure, no nearby groceries of reasonable size. Its a wonder how they got it built at all.

I don't regret not buying it, but I'm not likely to forget it.

My family is 2 centuries deep in the Big. Bend. Ain’t changed much. It has had boom towns in the past from turpentine and logging that have since dried up. It was pretty desolate in the 80s and 90s when I was growing up. Its where I learned to hunt and be a woodsman. It seems developed by my standards today, for the reason you describe. Fancy homes built in the middle of nowhere on carved-up parcels. Its basically an outdoor getaway place for south-Floridians and northerners. But in the grand scheme of things, still desolate compared to the rest of Florida.

The stories I can tell about the Gulf Hammock of 30 years ago. I am glad I got to experience it. I am sad it isn’t nearly as wild as it once was.