God's University, THE University of Central Florida, to add beach bar to their OCS Brighthouse Network Stadium

[Triple B]

My anecdotal evidence having lived in Seattle and New York, among others, and given countless people advice on their FL trips - many of whom own condos or time shares ~45 minutes away on the Space Coast - must be significantly worse than your guys. I apologize.

 

 

If the majority of people you talk to about Orlando are in that category it's understandable where you'd get that impression .... but the overwhelming majority of everybody else will equate Orlando only with theme parks.

[JTrue]

 

My anecdotal evidence having lived in Seattle and New York, among others, and given countless people advice on their FL trips - many of whom own condos or time shares ~45 minutes away on the Space Coast - must be significantly worse than your guys. I apologize.

 

 

If the majority of people you talk to about Orlando are in that category it's understandable where you'd get that impression .... but the overwhelming majority of everybody else will equate Orlando only with theme parks.

 

If they own a condo on the water in FL, how do they not know where Orlando is?

[Triple B]

 

 

My anecdotal evidence having lived in Seattle and New York, among others, and given countless people advice on their FL trips - many of whom own condos or time shares ~45 minutes away on the Space Coast - must be significantly worse than your guys. I apologize.

 

 

If the majority of people you talk to about Orlando are in that category it's understandable where you'd get that impression .... but the overwhelming majority of everybody else will equate Orlando only with theme parks.

 

If they own a condo on the water in FL, how do they not know where Orlando is?

 

 

Follow the smell?

[The Great 8]

Sigh. Guys, it doesn't matter *where* you mention. In my experience one of the following *will* be brought up in regards to Florida in a conversation greater than 10 minutes.

 

1. The weather

2. Beaches

3. Theme parks

4. Old people

 

Regardless of whether you're talking about Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Jacksonville, Gainesville, Tallahassee, etc.

 

I don't think some guy from Iowa is going to see this "beach" and point and laugh to all his boys chowing down on corn "HA HA HA THAT'S NOT GEOGRAPHICALLY ACCURATE, THEY'RE 45 MINS AWAY FROM THE BEACH" - which, by the way, is infinitely closer than 90% of the rest of the country.

Edited January 27, 2015 by The Great 8

[Triple B]

I don't think some guy from Iowa is going to see this "beach" and point and laugh to all his boys chowing down on corn "HA HA HA THAT'S NOT GEOGRAPHICALLY ACCURATE, THEY'RE 45 MINS AWAY FROM THE BEACH" - which, by the way, is infinitely closer than 90% of the rest of the country.

 

Agree completely. I probably should have suggested you change your assertion from At least people think "beach trip" when they hear "Orlando" to At least people think "beach trip" when they hear "Florida" and all this back and forth could have been avoided .... 

[JTrue]

Sigh. Guys, it doesn't matter *where* you mention. In my experience one of the following *will* be brought up in regards to Florida in a conversation greater than 10 minutes.

 

1. The weather

2. Beaches

3. Theme parks

4. Old people

 

Regardless of whether you're talking about Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Jacksonville, Gainesville, Tallahassee, etc.

 

I don't think some guy from Iowa is going to see this "beach" and point and laugh to all his boys chowing down on corn "HA HA HA THAT'S NOT GEOGRAPHICALLY ACCURATE, THEY'RE 45 MINS AWAY FROM THE BEACH" - which, by the way, is infinitely closer than 90% of the rest of the country.

In the spirit of accuracy, its closer to 60%.

[The Great 8]

60% of the country is a coastal state? News to me.

[Danm1983]

Sigh. Guys, it doesn't matter *where* you mention. In my experience one of the following *will* be brought up in regards to Florida in a conversation greater than 10 minutes.

 

1. The weather

2. Beaches

3. Theme parks

4. Old people

 

Regardless of whether you're talking about Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Jacksonville, Gainesville, Tallahassee, etc.

 

I don't think some guy from Iowa is going to see this "beach" and point and laugh to all his boys chowing down on corn "HA HA HA THAT'S NOT GEOGRAPHICALLY ACCURATE, THEY'RE 45 MINS AWAY FROM THE BEACH" - which, by the way, is infinitely closer than 90% of the rest of the country.

 

Ironically we are all pointing out the geographical inaccuracies of a themed area inside a stadium, and yet we attend(ed) a university that was never truly geographically accurate, and became even less culturally/socially geographically accurate after the 1970s.

 

BTW, surfing is definitely possible in some parts of the east coast of the state (and any area of the state's coasts when tropical storms are present), but I don't equate surfboards with Florida, or really any of the east coast of the United States. I usually think California, or Costa Rica or Hawaii.

[Triple B]

 

Sigh. Guys, it doesn't matter *where* you mention. In my experience one of the following *will* be brought up in regards to Florida in a conversation greater than 10 minutes.

 

1. The weather

2. Beaches

3. Theme parks

4. Old people

 

Regardless of whether you're talking about Tampa, Orlando, Miami, Jacksonville, Gainesville, Tallahassee, etc.

 

I don't think some guy from Iowa is going to see this "beach" and point and laugh to all his boys chowing down on corn "HA HA HA THAT'S NOT GEOGRAPHICALLY ACCURATE, THEY'RE 45 MINS AWAY FROM THE BEACH" - which, by the way, is infinitely closer than 90% of the rest of the country.

 

Ironically we are all pointing out the geographical inaccuracies of a themed area inside a stadium, and yet we attend(ed) a university that was never truly geographically accurate, and became even less culturally/socially geographically accurate after the 1970s.

 

BTW, surfing is definitely possible in some parts of the east coast of the state (and any area of the state's coasts when tropical storms are present), but I don't equate surfboards with Florida, or really any of the east coast of the United States. I usually think California, or Costa Rica or Hawaii.

 

 

No, we aren't ... we've just been pointing out that most people don't think "beach trip" when they hear "Orlando".

[Triple B]

60% of the country is a coastal state? News to me.

 

Not sure how you got that. Looks to me like what he's saying is 40% of the country is 45 minutes from the beach ... and in this case, I don't think "country" is being used in the geographical sense ... so that may well be more accurate.