Pecularities of State Relocation

[miusheri]

* My car's officially a PA resident again, and my driver's license is taken care of, too. It's weird- when I went to NY, they had DMVs there that would take care of everything at once, license and registration. In PA, you have to go to two places: a driver's license center, and then AAA for anything else. So I ended up becoming a AAA member too

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[amethyst_hunter]

Heh. I'll have to relearn everything once I get back to Illinois as well. I've adjusted to dealing with the peculiarities down here. :p

FL only gives you one license plate too; I'd like to keep mine because it's got a cougar picture on it (as an aside, purchase funds from the cougar plates go towards Florida panther conservation, which was one of the reasons I picked that design). I hope they'll also let me keep my FL driver's license; wankers took away my IL one when I got that changed over to FL (reason being is that there is a huge market for DL fraud with truck drivers, so they confiscate old ID so you can't use it).

It will be nice not being anally buttsecksored for car insurance, however: IL insurance cost about $200 - 250 for my car; FL, $500. However, IL likes to get you on the renewal sticker fees (starting at $78). Even so, that's not as ass-rammingly sore as the insurance bullshit.

Alcohol is available damn near everywhere in FL to the point where you almost expect to see them pimping it on street corners. I suppose when you have no place to go and have to sit inside your house baking from the heat (assuming you're one of the unfortunates without air cond), the only thing you can do to entertain yourself is to drink yourself into a stupor or go fishing (or do both at the same time, which isn't an uncommon occurrence!). IL mainly has alcohol relegated to liquor stores/restaurants/pubs.

You can own guns in IL, but you have the 7-day wait period before being allowed to buy one while they run a background on you, and as far as I know there is no legal permit to carry a concealed (which FL *does* have, and it's causing a bit of controversy as they debate whether or not employees should be allowed to bring their guns to work and/or store them in their vehicles).