[yardie]

As a native S. Floridian I just want to point out that most Floridians are from the NE. I'm an immigrant myself but in school half the population were Cuba and Haiti. Some were from Florida and the rest were from Brooklyn, Mass., upstate NY, and NJ. The kids from the NE, collectively, hated Florida, hated their parents, and wanted to move back.

Chances are you are meeting the adult version of the cynical kids I grew up with. Some of them tried to move back to NYC, Boston, NJ and found the neighbourhood had changed and no one remembered them or cared.