I have to agree with you on this. Being born and raised in Central Florida, it is odd now be in South Florida, or North Florida.
All my life, Central Florida has always been from Cedar Key down through Venice, and from Daytona Beach down through Stuart to include all inland locations withing that box.
It is unfortunate that ALL of the Country, Region, State forums are broken into geographic areas, and yet the Florida Conch Diver's Forum continues to complain that Florida is broken into geographic areas (and even the internal state geographics of "Cave Country/Springs" are geographical unto themselves)
To me it will always make sense to divide the forum into a geographics even if it needed to be 4 different geographical areas
North Florida
Central Florida
South Florida
Cave Country/Springs
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But alas, this is not enough. Venice doesn't want to be part of Central Florida, the Panhandle doesn't want to be part of North Florida, the Keys never did want to be South Florida (Until hurricanes come and they need a place to ride them out
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If everyone had their way it would be something like this:
Florida Conch Divers (Except for the Panhandle/Dixie area)
- Panhandle (Dixie/Lower MS, LA, AL & Some of GA)
-- Panhandlers (We can too afford to dive!)
- North West Florida (Except for the Caves)
- North West Caves (Except for the springs and the caves in the Gulf)
- North West Springs (We have caves too ya know)
- North West Saltwater Springs (Kiss off you pansy inland fresh water divers)
- North East Florida (People Dive here too ya know... just not from reachable areas)
- Central Florida (Except for Venice - They feel special today)
-- The Greater Tampa Happy Hour (Everyone come dive/party with US! Even Venice!)
-- The Greater Orlando Rat Lovers (We drive everywhere!)
-- Venice Shark Bites (We are NOT in Central Florida, D#%%IT!)
- South West Florida (We're different from SE, where you really wanted to dive!)
-- Venice Shark Bites (We are NOT in Central Florida, D#%%IT!)
- South East Florida (Where all Floridians drive for a real dive experience!)
- Upper Keys (Except for Key Largo, they want their own forum)
- Key Largo (We ARE the UPPER KEYS!)
- Central Keys (We don't even use this board, leave us alone!)
- Lower Keys (About time you got here. Now, when are you leaving?)
- The Old Guy's Forum (Everything posted in the above is automatically posted in this forum as well, just not in any particular order... especially if it is geographic!)
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14 Forums under Conch
5 Sub Forums, or groups, or clubs, or whatever you want to call them
And, the ONLY thing everyone agrees upon, is that there should be ONE (1) Calendar.
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Watch, I will get suggestions to add to the list above saying I forgot a group
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I have only one thing to really say.
Set it up however you want it. Leave it that way. I WILL find everything I want to find, as long as you LEAVE IT THAT WAY!
Thanks El!