➡ Peggy Hall discusses her experiences in California and Florida, sharing her thoughts on the differences between the two states. She also shares comments from her followers about their experiences in these states. Some people have left California due to crime, communism, and other issues, while others still love it despite its problems. Peggy encourages everyone to find their blessings wherever they are and use them to bless others.
➡ The text is a collection of comments from people discussing their experiences living in different parts of the United States, particularly California. Many express their love for California despite its issues, while others have moved to other states seeking better conditions. The author, who is also a Californian, shares her love for the state and its people, but dislikes its politics and the problems it faces. She also hints at sharing her experiences in Florida in the future.
➡ The speaker shares her experiences of living in Florida compared to California and Texas. She enjoys the clear blue skies and humidity in Florida, which she finds beneficial for her health. She also appreciates the availability of plastic bags, which are banned in California, and the lack of crowds and waiting lines in Florida. She and her husband love being near the beach, which is easy in Florida due to its peninsula shape.
➡ The writer shares their experience of moving to Florida, highlighting the friendly atmosphere and slower pace of life compared to California. They mention the welcoming nature of people in grocery stores and the sense of camaraderie among those who have also moved to Florida. The writer also notes the absence of certain restrictions they faced in California, which has reduced their anxiety. They conclude by sharing a positive interaction at a gas station, emphasizing the approachable nature of people in Florida.

Hey friends, Peggy hall, back with you from thehealthyamerican.org yes, this is a picture of sunny Southern California. Remember when the sun used to be yellow when I was in kindergarten and we had to draw pictures? I remember drawing the sun yellow, not white. I shared this picture in a previous broadcast where I spoke about why I left Florida and what’s great about California because there are some great things. Look, not necessarily the skies. In fact, here in Florida, this pretty much is what the sky looks like in Southeast Florida. So many of you responded with comments to my substack and also to my video.

So I’ve got another video for you today about fleeing the crime and the communism and the chem clouds of California. And it’s a video that I did broadcast a few months ago and there were some things that I pointed out that I didn’t include in my previous couple of videos. So I thought it would be a perfect add on for you. First, let’s look at some of your comments. This comes from Heather and she said, I lived in southern California for 25 years. This is a comment on my substack from Yesterday. Remember it’s free. Peggy hall.subsack.com she said, I loved every single minute of it, but all the unsavory things you mentioned about it are why we left and moved back to Texas.

I love Florida too, but I don’t like the tropical weather. Unlike me, I really love it. So I moved to a dry area of Texas up in the Panhandle since I got spoiled in California by the lack of humidity. We are very free here compared to California. For example, I hardly ever saw anyone wearing masks here and officials complained that we were non compliant on the vax too. I see signs in the town. I’m near saying things like don’t vote for anything that costs you money. Oh my gosh, you would never see that in California. She writes.

And we also have no state income tax, so we got the same raise that you did, meaning in Florida there’s no state income tax. So immediately you’ve made more money. She writes. All that said, if I ever leave Texas again, it will be to Florida. Here’s another one. Oh, that’s just a beautiful picture of Florida and the tropical weather. All right, that was Heather. And let’s see. This is Sky. Sky says I am in California and despite everything that is wrong with it, I love it here. I live in a gorgeous small town in the Santa Ines Mountains.

If you’re not from California, friends, that is near Santa Barbara. It’s basically in central California and it is gorgeous. She says. It’s heaven for my family. I hope never to need to move but would if I needed to give my children a better or safer life. Sounds like Florida wouldn’t be a bad place to consider if it comes to that. You make it sound amazing. Well friends, everyone has different tastes and desires and preferences and personally I really love it. Some people have said, peggy, stop talking about Florida. More and more people will move there. Well, doubt they’re going to move on my recommendation.

It’s expensive to move. You should pray about it, do some soul searching and of course decide what is best for you. Sky I agree with you. I lived in Santa Barbara for several years. It is breathtaking and I do love California. I will continue to fight for it and let’s have another one here. Basehound said, I left home state California in 2023 for the Southwest and I still spend some time in Looney California Central Coast Interesting is the other picture now looking at the Central Coast. We just heard from a subscriber that loves it there and this commenter said the Central coast is becoming more UN right United Nations a 21 Agenda 21.

Of course now we’re into Agenda 2030, 2040, 2050. It’s becoming more UN addicted every week. Main differences I notice is the human attitude. Move to an area where people overall just more content, happy and friendly. Visit California. So I don’t know where Bass Hound has moved but Bass Hound writes visit California and and people are not friendly, they’re grumpy and unhappy. Since coming from California lib areas I lost hope for California to ever recover. The California percentage of liberal liberal minds over freedom lovers is probably 2 to 1 if not higher. The Paul Preston group for a New California friends that was called New California State and I did connect with some people from his group back in 2020.

He has really been doing a lot of work for many years and it’s true as this writer says, this group for a New California has failed to expand their ideas to enough state residents to be successful. California is cooked but still does have the best eats around, especially Los Angeles, ranging from incredible Thai food to Mediterranean and anything in between. I have to agree with you there Bass Hound. California is amazing when it comes to food. Here’s another one. Mark, a fellow Floridian says, I arrived In Florida in 2011, new employment position and haven’t looked back.

I have absolutely no intention of heading back to the Midwest. Many of the reasons are obvious. I also love SoCal for the weather and beauty along the Napa region. Mark, I have to applaud you for using the correct phrase native Californians. I don’t know if you know this, friends. Native Californians never say Cali. That came from hip hop or the east coast or something. It has slowly made its way, I guess into popular culture. But native Californians that have lived in SoCal, which is Southern California, or NorCal, which is Northern California, or the Central coast or the Valley or whatever area you’re from, we don’t call it Cali.

Just to let you know. And I applaud you, Mark. He says we vacationed there many years but haven’t been back to the left coast since 2019. I truly appreciate the freedoms we have in Florida, but those ideals are under threat. The current gubernatorial administration has done many things right, but DeSantis’s second term is about to run out at the end of next year. The ongoing clown show in New York City and really elections across the country tell me that any election can be rigged at any time. Joe Biden did not get 81 million votes in 2020.

So I will drop the mic right there. And I do want to make a comment, Mark and others that we are the day after the elections and now we’ve got the very left minded governor, I’m sorry, mayor in New York City and the very left minded governor in Virginia. That was really I was very sorry to hear that. And you’re right, Mark. These elections are nowhere fair. People know. And here we go. As Mark says, Dr. John Coleman. I’m not familiar with Dr. John Coleman, so I haven’t vetted that person. But Mark, who I Trust, says Dr.

John Coleman gave a speech in 1994 unequivocally stating we do not elect our presidents. They are selected for us long before we have ever elected heard of them. Both Clinton and Obama come to mind as obvious examples and I’m sure we can go down the list and agree with you on that, Mark. So I want to thank everybody for replying to my substack again. It’s absolutely free and this is the one I did about why am I in California? Plenty of comments. They’re so grateful. Friends right now, if you haven’t subscribed to that substack, do so after I play this video for you which is all about fleeing the crime and the corruption and the chem clouds of California.

I really appreciate all of your comments and asking me for more content about moving. My hope and prayer is that wherever you are, you will find your blessings. Let Those blessings work in your life and use those blessings to bless others. All right, let’s dive in to a top hit that I broadcast several months ago, sharing with you additional insights as to the differences between California and Florida. Let’s talk about what it’s like to be in Florida. I hope that you watched my other video, which is titled am I Still in California? And I’ll give you the punchline, yes, I’m part time in California, part time in Florida.

And I hope that you will watch that video because I go into a great deal of detail about everything that’s been going on, and I’m not going to repeat that in this one, but I am going to tell you some of the most impactful, impactful things that occurred to me and what I experienced. And then I would like to hear from you as well. I’m going to share some of your comments from that previous video about whether you left your home state, if you’ve moved somewhere else, if you’re staying put, and why. I find that fascinating.

So thank you everyone for sharing. Friends, I love hearing from you. And there were so many great comments on my YouTube video, which was titled am I Still in California? And I just gave you a very detailed bit of information about what I have been doing lately. And the shorter version is that I am part time in Florida, part time in California, taking a break from the crime, from the corruption, from the chem clouds, from the communism, oppression, tyranny, danger, anxiety, all of those things that seem to be very present in California. Did I miss anything there? Well, you have so many great comments.

I wanted to just offer a couple and then I’m going to share with you some of my experiences in Florida, because you’ve been asking about that. So we’ve got a viewer here that says, staying in New York City. It’s my home and I’m not handing over my city. The Berliners who survived the bombing dug themselves out and picked up a shovel. New York needs us. We cannot abandon her. That is so encouraging to hear. And I know there are probably plenty of New Yorkers who feel the same way. Here is another one, Gazelle says, still in Southern California for now, this is where I belong, born and raised.

My job of 27 years is here. And I love my state, the weather, the mountains, the beach, the desert, etc. So far, staying here, fighting the good fight. I can always leave later if things get worse. Okay. And another viewer says, I live in Northern California. Our sheriffs and officials are not in line with what’s happening in other parts of the state. We have no issues here, but we do roll up the sidewalks at about 9pm most nights. OK, let’s see. Someone else writes, I’m still in Comforia only because God has not called me out of here.

I think he is keeping some of us here to fight the good fight. And there’s Nancy says, I agree, that’s why I’m here. Karen says, we are the light in this darkness. I think that is amazing and I agree. Here’s Another viewer said, we left California during the oppressive hogwash on an RV trip all around the country in the hopes of finding a new home. We went to 33 states, but we didn’t find a new home. Despite the California insanity, no other place felt like home. Many states are very ugly. Oh my gosh. I have not found that to be the case.

Have horrible weather or bugs, tornadoes, hurricanes, culture shock, low wages, high crime. I met wonderful people along the way, but California is my home. This viewer writes, everyone I know who moved away eventually misses it, and many are coming back. I’m still home hoping it will turn around. Another viewer says, my parents took us kids and left California, and that was back in the 60s. They saw the writing on the wall way back then. Another viewer writes, I moved out of California in 06. I don’t miss it. I was raised there, but I wouldn’t be caught dead there now.

It’s a beautiful state if not for the culture that pervades it. Someone else writes, we’re in Georgia now because we can’t afford California. I only miss my friends and family and having things close by to we moved to a rural area because we know that when things hit the fan, you don’t want to be in a big city. My older son moved to Florida, so we moved closer to him so we can see him more. My only regret is that it’s so far from home. I’ll live anywhere as long as I have my kids nearby. We couldn’t afford to be in Florida, but I’m glad I can be in a safe place for now to go to when there are hurricanes.

All right, let me read one more and I hope that you will go back if you’re interested, because these comments are so great. I love my healthy Americans. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Repeat after me. I have the best audience on YouTube. You’re supportive, you’re smart, you’re sophisticated, and you’re a little snarky from time to time, as am I. Someone writes, we left California In October of 2021, moved to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. I miss my home of 53 years, this viewer writes. I was born and raised in California and I’m a California girl through and through.

We lived in La Crescenta during the con vid and it destroyed our small community and our state during this time. We are political refugees. I tell people don’t judge that we escaped it it she writes. It was sad. I felt like I lost everything that I loved. My friends, my family, Mexican food. Oh, I can agree with you there. My favorite beaches, my foothill mountains, the dry climate and rugged and varying terrain, the quality food, restaurants, etc. But what I don’t miss, she writes, is ridiculous mortgage payments, utility payments, hearing about the smash and grabs, high fuel cost and crazy gruesome getting used to our new world now.

I met a great group of people at church. I went to Washington D.C. this weekend for an all day call to prayer. We touted Richmond, Virginia and had so much fun learning my way around. We I’m sorry we toured Richmond, Virginia and I had so much fun learning my way around this place. I’m glad my family is with me and I really love that comment. I want to comment on that comment. And then someone said I someone wrote Peggy should run for governor of California. It would be great having some common sense and strong values with her as a leader.

I really appreciate that comment. I was interested in politics from a very early age. I was interested in just society and how communities functioned. And I always was a person that kind of saw things in black and white like right and wrong. And I was wondering why some of these laws were outrageous and I wanted to change them. So I always was a person really for the underdog I thought. I wanted to be an attorney and I got my bachelor’s degree in political science. Kind of interesting. I went on to grad school. I didn’t go to law school, but I did go on for a degree in international policy because I thought I’d have the answers to Fix the World.

Sometimes I still think I do. That’s just a little humor here friends. But nobody wants to really follow my advice. So I really appreciate that, but I’m not interested in politics. I actually don’t care for the backstabbing, the two faced approach. I am in favor of diplomacy, meaning figuring out a way to get things done. But politics is not for me. I actually feel I can be more effective as an educator. That’s what I am. And I’m an encourager. I love to inspire and elevate and uplift and just I’m an optimistic person and I am full of determination as well.

So I did want to read maybe just this last one. She writes, I’m born, I was born and raised in Northern California. I’m now living in Texas. The heat is pretty brutal. I do miss the weather in California. I like the affordability and freedom here. However, I would not visit the hospitals here or anywhere. Oh my gosh. Erica says we moved two years ago from San Francisco Bay, which is bringing back the suffocation devices to Texas. She said, I did it for my young boys. I miss California and my family and friends so much. The heat here in Texas is terrible.

However, I’m grateful for the freedom we have in this conservative area. I know this demonic agenda is slowly but surely spreading, but my heart will always be in California. I never thought we would actually leave. Wow. I can just really resonate with so many of these comments and I’m so grateful. You can leave a comment here for me as well. And I can really relate to what people wrote about being a California girl through and through. You know, California is in my blood. I love the state. I have driven the length of the state many times.

Well, a few times I was a passenger with my parents when I was a child. We drove all over, camped all over California. I mean, top to bottom, east to west, mountains to deserts. California is incredible related to the topography, the diversity in just the land itself. California feeds most of the country. It is the number one producer in so many things. In terms of nuts, yes, I know we talk about the fruits and nuts from California, but it’s true. I actually have a great amount of civic pride in the state itself. And when I traveled over the Hogwash years, the cootie years when everything was shut down, we drove to Sacramento.

I spoke at different events all around California, but I’ve met people from all over the state. Many people came from other states to come to our beach church in California, which is now on hiatus. But the fact is I love California and I love Californians. I hate the politics in California. I hate the intentional decline and the just the decrepitude that is creeping in. And I don’t want to make this be a whole litany of all of the things I don’t like about California. I’ve spoken about that in other videos. But I did want to talk about some of the interesting things that I experienced in Florida and actually outside of California because I remember being in Texas.

And I would say one thing people always are talking about are the bugs in Florida. And I’m very happy to say that I don’t have any issues with bugs. We are not in an area where there are bugs. I don’t know if they’re spraying the skies to get rid of mosquitoes or whatever, but I’ve gotten mosquito bites in California and I’ve had a few here, but it’s nothing like I thought it would be. But in Texas, oh, my gosh, it was unbelievable. It was like I was doing this the whole time. And there were all kind of bugs I had never seen before, tiny ones.

I know there’s no seams, which you can’t see, but there are all sorts of other flying things. And I felt like I didn’t care for that at all. People are talking about how hot it is in Texas, and people will say to me here, oh, my gosh, what about the heat? Well, I’m like. I’m like an orchid. I thrive in the humidity, but there’s also a desert. And I lived in the desert and I lived in the desert. I actually lived in the Palm Springs area for a while. And I love the desert. But my skin and my eyes and my nose and my throat do not like the dry air.

Give me a thumbs up if you can relate to that. I thrive in the humidity. My skin feels so much better. I sleep better. I don’t wake up with a dry mouth. My eyes are so much better. I have not been sick since I’ve been here. I don’t get sick, really, anyway. But I am thriving in the heat. My husband and I are coastal people. We love being in an area where you are close to the beach. And in Florida, I think it’s like you’re two and a half hours, if you’re even in the center of the country.

Feels like another country. In the center of the state, you’re very close to either coastline. And it’s so unique because Florida is a peninsula. So you’ve got water all around you. And because of the land and it being a peninsula and there being a lot of wind, maybe it’s just where I am, but there’s a lot of wind. So if they try to spray in the air, it doesn’t stick around where I am. So I would say for both me and my husband, experiencing blue skies in Florida is unbelievable. Let me share with you a couple of pictures.

Okay. This is just a random video that I think I took while my husband. Let’s get it in focus. This is a random video that I took. I think we were on the Freeway as my husband was driving. It’s showing a little faded for some reason. It is a clear blue sky with white puffy clouds. I don’t know if those are engineered clouds or not. This is at the beach. Clear blue sky. You never see that in Orange county at all. It’s always a milky sky. I do not recall the last time that I saw a blue sky.

Not only in Orange county, but pretty much anywhere in California. This is California. This is September 3rd. I took this on the freeway. You can’t see it, but there are actually. That’s like a hill right there, completely shrouded in a milky gray, smoky. And this is September. And anybody who’s a lifelong Californian, like I am, you know that September, that’s like the clear, crisp, just cool, bright, clean, sparkly weather. This is disgusting. And I just really. I lost my ability to tolerate that. My dashboard. That’s the sky that’s right near the beach. So compare this beach to what I just shared with you in Florida.

So this is really depressing. And it is one of the most impactful things that we experienced is having clear blue skies. They actually call this the. The intercoastal, but that’s what it looks like in Florida. That’s a. That’s a picture that I took with my phone of the sky. That’s how I remember the sky when I was a kid. Now, obviously, we don’t have as much humidity in California, so we don’t always have clouds like that. But we did have blue sk. That’s a typical day. Blue sky and white clouds. Now, they do try to spray from time to time, but it doesn’t really stick.

So I’m glad for that. So that was something that I wanted to share with you in terms of a big thing between Florida and California. The other thing that really struck me, and if you live in California, you can really appreciate that. Do you know what this is? You might not know if you live in California because they’re illegal. Yes, spraying in the sky is legal. Cutting off the body parts of children is legal. Actually chopping up children before they’re born is legal. But these are illegal because you know they’re harmful. And this is just a thin little plastic bag.

Now, I’m all in favor of keeping the environment clean. I’m a surfer. I don’t want to have dirty oceans or anything. I’ve never seen a plastic bag in the ocean. I did find a $20 bill once when I was surfing floating by. But the thing is, outlawing this isn’t the right way to go. If you want to educate people about keeping the environment clean, you can educate them instead of regulating it. So what California did some years ago is they got rid of these thin, useful plastic bags. Let me know in a comment what you use these plastic bags for.

And I’ll tell you what I do. They outlawed these because they said it was bad for the environment. And then they replaced them with something about 10 times as thick, like a big. I don’t even have one here in Florida because they don’t have them. But a big thick plastic that you could pay 10 cents for. And then that apparently, I guess degrades more quickly with the logic of California. That’s probably what they think. So I use these for kitty litter. I use these to wrap up leftovers. I use these to put my shoes in if I’m going somewhere.

I use this for my wet bathing suit after I go swimming. I use this for if I want to put my hand in it and touch something. I don’t want to get my hand dirty. I use these plastic bags that’s just right off the top of my head for so many things. And not only are these illegal in California, but the thick ones that they came out with are illegal. And years ago they told us that we should use plastic bags so that we could save the trees. But no, they want you to use the disposable plastic bags, the reusable plastic bags, I should say.

They don’t want you to use the disposable ones, the reusable plastic bags that harbor bacteria that are probably made in China. And then you have to schlep them from your car to the store and back again. Now, if you want to do that, I think it’s fantastic. You’re a better person than I am. Because I don’t want to do that. I’m quick running into CVS or something. I don’t have those bags on hand now. Often if they say, do you want a bag? I’ll say, oh, no, I don’t need one of if I’ve just got a couple of items.

But I use these things now when I go back to California, my sister asks me to collect these to give them to her so she can use them for her kitty litter. And the fact is you can still buy plastic bags online to use for your kitty litter. So it’s kind of ridiculous also that in the grocery stores they still have plastic bags for you to put your produce in. So the weird, that lack of logic and the hypocrisy in California is just bizarre. So I for one am very happy to have plastic bags in Florida.

Now. The other thing I noticed in Florida is that there’s hardly any waiting. So I can go into the bank. And I always recommend. I’ve spoken about that before doing your banking in person. And there’s really not a line. There are really not a lot of cars in the parking lot. There’s just not as many people in Florida compared to California. I know people that are native Floridians or who have lived here for a long time are going to say the opposite, that a lot of people have moved to Florida and that the population is exploding.

And I’m sure that’s true. But for me, my experience coming from a state with 40 million people to a state with about 22 million people, and I know the state of Florida by land is smaller, however, I just don’t see the lines where I am. I remember driving up not long ago to a TJ Maxx and I thought, oh, is the store closed? Because there were hardly any cars in the parking lot. No, the store was open. There’s just not that many people around. It’s amazing to me. And at the grocery stores, I love Publix, by the way.

At the. It’s a family owned grocery store. At Publix you walk in and there are people greeting you. Hello. There is a checker at the cashier at the checkout line and somebody to bag your groceries. Unlike in California where they want everything to be self check, I simply don’t participate in that. The people are friendly. And here’s the other thing. And if you’ve lived in California and haven’t lived or traveled in other places, you may not realize it, but in other states, people, they’re just, just. They slow down, they talk to you, they have a conversation with you in line.

People are friendly. The other interesting thing about where I am in Florida is that a lot of people are here. They are transplants. Somebody put in the comments that they’re a political refugee. I feel like we’re kind of political refugees as well. Many people are here that chose to live in Florida. And there is a shared camaraderie of. Of interest and support and encouragement talking about where you came from and why. It’s really fascinating to have those conversations. I’m going to end up the video with a funny interaction that I had with somebody just today at the gas station.

So I’ve experienced a slower pace of life. People are friendly. They take time. Of course there’s. It’s a Mixed bag. There are friendly people everywhere you go and probably not friendly people everywhere you go. So I’m just going to wrap up. I’ll have many more videos on this where we can talk about the differences. I will say that when you go into cvs, for example, there’s no lock on the bathroom door, meaning to get in, like in Orange county, you have to get a code from the cashier to get in, I guess. So the homeless people don’t go in there.

I have no idea. But it’s so weird, all of that. It just adds a sense of anxiety and hostility and oppression. There’s no sense of freedom anymore. Where I was in Orange county or California, where everything was locked, things were run down, you know, you kind of were worried about the crime and all of that. It’s just so, so sad that that that was happening. And the other thing, you don’t have the all gender bathrooms. Okay. There’s a men’s and a women’s, a gents and a ladies and it’s like that was a breath of fresh air.

Now maybe where you live that’s normal, but in Orange county everything has to be all gender. You know, tampons in the boys bathroom and all. So to be in like a normal environment, it’s unbelievable. The level of anxiety, my anxiety that has dropped. The feelings of hostility and danger that I was fending off, I am far more effective when I take a breather from California. I’m in California frequently and I obviously for the reasons I spoke about and I love so much about California, but I want to end on this note. I thought it was kind of funny.

So I was at the gas station and I’m pumping the gas and some guy comes up, he’s got a motorcycle helmet on. And I’ve been through my personal protection training and so forth. So if anyone approaches me, I’m always a little bit on yellow, meaning I’m on alert, like, okay, what, what’s going on here? I’m just, you know, you just have to be that way, at least in Orange county in California. So this fellow comes up and maybe he looked at me because I was a little bit like getting ready to have my distance. Isn’t that sad that you have to live that way? I guess you don’t have to.

And he said, oh, excuse me, do you speak English? I guess I had my sunglasses on and I said, oh, yes I do. And I could hear he had a little southern accent and he said, I’m just trying to figure out which way I go to go south and so forth. And he was on a motorcycle with his wife and we had a nice little chat about the tornado and the hurricane, hurricanes and so forth. He’s from South Florida, but the central part of the state, and wasn’t really familiar with this area, so it was a good lesson for me also.

It was just a wonderful interaction for me, and I don’t know why he thought I didn’t speak English, other than my little hesitancy probably gave it away. And I really liked that interaction. I love that people come up, strike up a conversation, and it was just added to my day, so. So there’s a glimpse of what Florida is like from my perspective. Thank you, everybody, for being on board. I really appreciate you. Tomorrow I’m going to be sharing some of your stories, your cards and letters, and you’re sharing with me some of the things that you’ve been going through.

So stay tuned for that. I really appreciate having you on board, and I’ll look forward to seeing you in tomorrow’s broadcast. Sam.
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