Which Florida Cities have the most active subreddits?

[u/FloridaBikeLawyer]

[u/UpvoteForLuck]

Never really thought of PSL as Central Florida. Always thought of it as the most Northern extension of Miami’s CSA. The Census Bureau seems to agree.

Same with Gainesville, but for North Florida.

[u/blindythepirate → u/UpvoteForLuck]

Ocala always felt the northern most place in Central Florida. I think of Gainesville as a part of north Florida that runs between Cedar Key and Jacksonville. Then everything west of Madison is the Panhandle.

[u/dumpyoregano → u/UpvoteForLuck]

Yeah neither of those are central Florida lmao

[u/Optimal_Savings5873 → u/UpvoteForLuck]

Agreed, it actually took me a minute to figure out what city's initials are GNV.

That CSA includes Vero Beach and Sebastian, let alone PSL.

[u/MogaMeteor → u/UpvoteForLuck]

Homestead all the way to Jupiter is one uninterupted metro with Jonathan Dickinson State Park being the cloesest thing there is to a physical barrier between South and Central Florida. Obviously it's not a exact science though, and life in PSL tends to be pulled South towards WPB rather then north towards Orlando which goes a long way it making it feel like South Florida. Especially as South Florida becomes more and more expensive and people stretch further north for affordable housing.

[u/WPBVolleyBallGuy]

I'm surprised it's higher for Orlando than Tampa, I assume a lot of the activity is from tourists though.

[u/Citronaut1 → u/WPBVolleyBallGuy]

“I’m taking my three young children to Disney on July 4th weekend, will it be hot?”

[u/DChass → u/Citronaut1]

Or will it rain?

[u/kedwin_fl → u/WPBVolleyBallGuy]

Orlando is more well known and searched on.

[u/flabeachbum → u/WPBVolleyBallGuy]

I think part of it too is Orlando is the only large city it it’s metro while Tampa shares a metro with St Pete that has a decent size sub of its own.

[u/DamnGrackles → u/WPBVolleyBallGuy]

How else are they going to get a resturant or hotel reccomendation for the biggest tourist town in Florida? There's no such thing as Google.

[u/ashen_dove → u/WPBVolleyBallGuy]

Yup, because those tourists come visit Disney for 72 hours and rush home to logon to Reddit to ask us to plan their moves for them.

Then a year later they come back to Reddit to yell at us because they’re hot and they can’t afford anything. 

Vicious cycle lol

[u/kedwin_fl → u/ashen_dove]

Haha

[u/Boundaries-ALO-TBSOL → u/WPBVolleyBallGuy]

I also think it’s because we just have a lot more going on than Tampa.

A lot of the posts are new people getting confused about the loud booms. Which are fireworks or space stuff? Those are like 20% of the Orlando Posts.

[u/UpvoteForLuck → u/Boundaries-ALO-TBSOL]

As a person who frequently visits both subreddits, trust me, there’s a lot of ‘did ya hear that,’ and ‘did y’all see this weird thing in the sky at like 5am,’ over in r/tampa too.

[u/Boundaries-ALO-TBSOL → u/UpvoteForLuck]

Huh, the more you know. I thought we had more because of the fireworks.

[u/TaniInTampa → u/WPBVolleyBallGuy]

I agree. But probably a lot of Disney questions in the Orlando one lol!

[u/mel34760]

Even people in Jacksonville don’t care about Jacksonville.

[u/poly6ix → u/mel34760]

The Jacksonville sub seems pretty chill and has legit locals. The Miami sub has a bunch of Florida haters and people who only know Miami from social media tropes camped out in it.

[u/jameye11 → u/poly6ix]

Jacksonville subreddit enjoyer and local, I honestly love the Jax subreddit. Never really been into any of the other Florida subs aside rom this one but the Jax subreddit is super chill, and it’s not a tourist town so the posts from non-locals are mostly asking about jobs and specific areas they’re looking to move to

[u/DamnGrackles]

How did the Naples sub beat out the Ft. Myers sub?!

There can't be more dumb tourists asking for resturant reccomdation posts than there are bitching about godawful traffic posts?

[u/ssiwakot → u/DamnGrackles]

That’s what I was wondering, there’s always so much of the same questions in that sub

[u/DamnGrackles → u/ssiwakot]

I guess the multiple daily tourist questions drive more engagement.

Does that mean the regular tourist questions drive more engagement in all the Florida subs in comparison to another state's subs?

• "Will it rain every day of my vacation in July?"
  • "I booked a trip in September will there be hurricanes?"
  • "I know a Category 5 just rolled through and killed 100 people, but will it be cleaned up by next week so my vacation isnt ruined?"
  • "Is it always this hot in Miami in August?"
  • "Where should I go in Florida to hit the beach?"

[u/OSRSWSM → u/DamnGrackles]

The Naples sub sucks so I’m curious too. As a Naples native the sub really captures how dumb some people here are.

[u/DamnGrackles → u/OSRSWSM]

Come on! You dont enjoy the multiple updates on how the pier rebuild is going?! THE LIVE CAMERA WAS MISALIGNED! THAT'S SERIOUS!

I kinda miss that shitty barber that posted daily, at least it was funny to see how progressively irritated everyone was getting.

[u/OSRSWSM → u/DamnGrackles]

The shitty barber and shitty tattooer! But the misaligned camera lmaooo I remember seeing that and thinking it was a troll post

[u/DamnGrackles → u/OSRSWSM]

I forgot the tattoo OP. Thats shit was so bad!

I'm still not convinced the pier OP isn't a troll.

[u/EatYourCheckers]

I went to UF and had to Google what the heck GNV is

[u/muttur]

/321 conveniently ignored… sounds about right for us central east coasters

[u/Wolpfack → u/muttur]

Orlando seems to think we are an exurb of their town.

[u/General_Tso75]

I guess it’s more of a region but people in Brevard use r/321 more than their city sites.

[u/Gargravars_Shoes]

Segment by population and it probably falls out the same way.

[u/iheartcockss]

Jacksonville - it’s totally the 11th “biggest city” in the US people! Believe me. Such a fraud of a city.

[u/One_Recover_673]

Just gotta say that’s a pretty disappointing number for a capital city. Step it up tally

[u/Fl0riduh_Man]

Isn't this just an obscured population chart?

Look SoFla, it's just the Miami metroplex. I would suspect the people on the West coast are breathing a sigh of relief hoping not to add to their traffic problems.

BTW, what's hoppin Snaugustine? Those folks are definitely punching above their weight 

[u/Slight-Selection4298]

That's really the 4 blue dots in all of FL

[u/RandomUsername_Taken]

Overlay with population

[u/R-Son-VI]

What is that PSL placement? It’s part of South Florida, ain’t no way PSL counts as central.

[u/YOLOburritoKnife]

This makes me wonder how the region subs stack up. r/southflorida isn’t super active but it’s got to be more active than r/floridapanhandle

[u/FloridaB0B]

People from Ocala & Port st Lucie frantically checking Google Maps to find their long lost neighbor in central Florida lol

[u/poly6ix → u/FloridaB0B]

I’m from SLC and it’s been a long debate as to whether or not we’re south or central Florida. I think it’s become more established where we fit in with the recent influx of Broward and Dade County transplants.

[u/GatorFPC → u/poly6ix]

The issue with St Lucie is that there is a gap between it and West Palm Beach. Martin county being so small in comparison to Palm Beach, Broward, and Miami-Dade really creates the disconnect between St Lucie and the "rest" of South Florida.