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I really never understood why Florida gets dissed my everyone. I have lived there my my whole life, and it is one of the easiest states to survive in. Lots of food if you know what you are looking for, and with all the growth, there is a ton of stuff out there to keep you going. Look at how Florida was basically the breadbasket of the CSA during the Civil war, when only a few interior counties were being farmed. Its easy to live here, as long as you can fish, ID some wild edibles, and build basic snares. Thats all from me.
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Florida without air conditioning is an apocalypse in and of itself . . .
More seriously, I agree that Florida is an easier place than many to make a go of things with a significantly reduced technology base. That's a plus.
Being full of people who mostly have no clue whatsoever about how to make that work, though, is a death knell in an apocalypse scenario. Starvation and the social disruption and violence it would fuel would tend to reduce Florida to a working definition for "Howling Wilderness" after the nukes fall. Some rural populations might manage to hang on in the face of urban/suburban surge, but they'd be few and far between.
Those who did manage to hang on, as well as those who come into the state from elsewhere in the post-2000 era would probably be able to more rapidly redevelop the state than a lot of places (provided the politics don't interfere), but circa 1999-2000, Florida would be one of the more terrifying places to find yourself in North America. New America's set up in the state, as nasty as it appears to be, is probably a big step up from roving bands of marauders with a penchant for casual cannibalism and xenophobic surviving farmers and such who'd have survived by being even harder and colder than the roving gangs of man eaters.