The True Nature of 30 Florida Cities… According to Search Engine Autocomplete

Want to know what people really think of Florida’s cities? We used a variety of different search engines and entered the query “[X city] is…” Autocomplete suggested a variety of options to finish the search and we took the top answer. We discarded nearly all suggestions that were in the form of questions and didn’t record anything for cities lacking a distinct answer. In the end, we came upon these somewhat surprising insights into 30 different Florida cities.

Boca Raton is… heaven’s waiting room

Cape Coral is… it flooded?

Coral Springs is… a great place to retire

Englewood is… up to no good

Fort Lauderdale is… how far from Miami?

Fort Myers is… so boring

Gainesville is… burning drag show

Hialeah is… ghetto

Hollywood is… how safe?

Jacksonville is… boring

Lakeland is… IHOP

Melbourne is… traffic bad

Miami is… doomed

Miami Beach is… where neon goes to die

Naples is… filthy

Navarre is… Basque

New Smyrna Beach is… shark attacks

Ocala is… calling

Pembroke Pines is… a city

Perry is… busted

Poinciana is… a bad area

Port St. Lucie is… walk in clinics

Sanford is… racist

Sarasota is… boring

Sebring is… ugly

St. Petersburg is… on it

Tallahassee is… a big football town

Tampa is… for haters

West Palm Beach is… ghetto

Westside is… Jacksonville

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