[pavel_lishin]

> A nice relocation package to a sunny climate would be pretty attractive to many qualified U.S. residents in the northern states.

The weather-climate might be nice, but the political climate is less so.

And frankly, depending on the time of year and where you are in Florida, the weather climate is atrocious, too.

> and near-incomprehensible accents.

Where do you work that none of your coworkers have accents?

[happytoexplain]

>Where do you work that none of your coworkers have accents?

How did you make this jump?

[pavel_lishin]

> Many of us have had to suffer through college lectures of dubious real-world application and near-incomprehensible accents.

From here; the implication seems to be that it's only in college lectures that people are faced with strong accents.

[happytoexplain]

Not at all - I can't see how you're coming to that assumption. And even if that were the case, it still doesn't follow that somebody who has coworkers with (I'll charitably add a word for you: Strong) strong accents can't have an opinion that strong accents are a problem in critical communication.