What’s the UK’s equivalent of Florida?

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1. Blackpool or Scunthorpe

2. Devon or Cornwall

3. Not in terms of weather but in terms of a place that’s super sketchy *and* popular with retirees, Blackpool and the Fylde

4. I expect similar stories to use ‘Blackpool resident’ or ‘drunk Glaswegian’

5. Play the Florida Man game with your friends!! Google the words Florida man and your birthday

6. Essex man?

7. The UK.

   Seriously. If you reproduced that headline, substituting “badger” for ”alligator”, and “Greggs“ for “Wendy’s”, every town’s Facebook page would be filled with comments along the lines of “Only in [*insert name of town here*].”

8. As a Blackpool native, I knew what I was going to find in this thread

9. Teesside. I live here. Roll up roll up any generation after the 50s never happened. Its like living in the past 🤦‍♀️

10. The Florida man thing came about because Florida’s laws make it easier for journalists to access information on legal proceedings. afaik we don’t have that much variation in information access laws, and no one place has the same reputation for wacky hijinks.

    Also, the Florida man meme came about long after we were already completely subject to US pop culture through the internet and social media. I’d say the UK equivalent of Florida Man is… Florida Man. We’ve been as familiar with the joke for as long as Americans have.

11. Having had the displeasure of visiting Blackpool almost weekly for a good year, and having spent a good amount of time in Florida, it’s gotta be Blackpool.

12. Surprised Norfolk hasn’t been mentioned, or are we reserving that for UK’s Alabama?

13. Jersey isn’t it? Either that or Essex.

14. Blackpool or Brighton

15. there isn’t somewhere directly comparable any similarities will be minimal and or applicable everywhere

16. In deep depths of Gloucestershire, perhaps the Forest of Dean has the weirdest reputation

17. Essex.

18. Swansea

19. Blackpool!

20. In terms of weirdness? Newport, South Wales. Look up Goldie Lookin’ Chain.

21. Y’all need to goto Skegness for real

22. * Great Yarmouth enters the chat *

23. Blackpool

24. London

25. Torquay Devon. It’s the English Riviera and a shit hole like Florida

26. Definitely Bradford it must be the lack of oxygen getting to everyone’s brains because the city is so high up

27. NFN sometimes written on hospital charts when encountering extra toes or webbed feet etc = normal for Norfolk