I've been to Orlando six or seven times and always in July/August. I was sweating like Clay in a whorehouse the entire time.

Hootie, I enjoy your stories and your carefree persona, but even if you don't tell us about it, it's good to start thinking about some of these issues of health and long term happiness. I think you're smart enough to figure these things out so I have confidence it will work out in the end. You just don't want to wait until you actually have a health problem or a difficult lifestyle situation before you transition into the next stage of your life.

Meh, if a city/town has more than another city/town, it definitely has it's advantages/conveniences. Doesn't necessarily mean you're destined to have a better time there though. A lot depends on what you make of it. I grew up and live in a town of 1500. I've had some awesome times in my home time.

Every year I go to Chicago for Lollapalooza. Just got married in Las Vegas a month ago. Awesome experience and had fun while I was there...but would prefer living in my rinky-dinky home town...and it's not even close. To me, it's a "little dab will do ya" type of thing when it comes to raging in big cities compared to raging in small towns.

LMAO Well yeah, man. That's literally THE WORST TIME to be here. The hottest months of the year and right in the middle of hurricane/ rain season. A typical day here in July is going to be 95 degrees. It'll rain for about 45 minutes anywhere from 3-4 PM like clockwork. The rain goes away and the sun comes out - instant sauna.

It really is a peach from September to May though.

You more than get used to it. Anytime I travel somewhere else (recently Vegas, Colorado, & Minnesota) I can't take the dryness. As soon as I'm back in FL and the humidity hits I feel better.

Worst time to visit.

Younger women may want an older dude who has his shit together, not an old dude who acts like John Belushi.

I like you bro. Come party with me sometime.

Haha. I don't think that would be a good idea. I love being verbally obnoxious and talking about the most offensive tasteless shit in the world... but not in public. I get pretty irate about public idiocy.

In some cases. Younger women can be complicated people though. I know this 40 year old dude who is the epitome of a train-wreck. I mean, Hootie multiplied by 100. Hootie's partying tendencies are perceived as being way more extreme than they actually are, IMO...possibly because a large percentage of what you hear from the guy are the drunken sexcapades...but I know plenty of 28+ people who are more dependent on alcohol use than him.

Anyways, this 40 year old dude who shaves his head, has a beard (that he colors regularly) and just carries on like a drunken 16 year old every night he goes out (which is every night), is able to pull in tail from 18 years on up on a regular basis. And he's a complete loser, but real popular due to being a party dude. And on top of it, he snorts coke. He's STILL able to reel in popular, pretty, respectable girls.

Women are unpredictable and weird, man.

FYP

Cocaine is a hell of a drug, but you're right that there are exceptions. I don't know how "respectable" those 18 year old girls are who are sleeping with him, or if they maintain their respectability. It sounds like this guy you're describing comes across as a high roller, though... even if other adults can see through his bullshit... 18 year old chicks may not.

you'd have a good time

a lot of people I drink with absolutely hated me at first

and then they figured me out

I guarantee if I ever showed up at a CP bash or something...

people on this board (like Phil) who absolutely loathe me would end up thinking, "meh, he's not so bad."

Well, to clarify a bit, the "respectable" ones are ones who have probably heard about him doing it, but believe him when he tells them he doesn't.

Coke is the devil.

He's not really a high-roller...but moreso a product of being spoiled rotten by his parents. His parents still pay his rent/utilities/everything.