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Key West, Florida

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Location

The Resume

    (1822- )
    Population (2000 Census): 25,478
    Southernmost city in the continental United States
    Located 129 miles southwest of Miami, Florida and 106 miles north-northeast of Havana, Cuba

Why Key West, Florida might be annoying:

    After the US acquired Florida, Spanish naval officer Juan Salas sold the island to two different groups of American investors.
    Commodore Matthew Perry attempted to rename it Thompson's Island after the US Secretary of the Navy, but the new name did not stick.
    For much of the 19th century, the biggest industry was salvaging shipwrecks from the reefs of the Keys.
    Its annual Hemingway Days festival features an Ernest Hemingway look alike contest.
    The Hemingway House is overrun by six and seven-toed cats.
    It declared itself the independent 'Conch Republic' (1982).

Why Key West, Florida might not be annoying:

    It was nicknamed 'the Gibraltar of the West' for its strategic location astride the Straits of Florida connecting the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico.
    It is reportedly the only US city to have never experienced frost.
    Harry Truman established his Winter White House there.
    Hemingway used it as the locale for 'To Have and Have Not,' his only novel set in the US.
    Its official motto is 'One Human Family.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 6 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 8 Votes: 12.50% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 7 Votes: 14.29% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 38 Votes: 18.42% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 7 Votes: 71.43% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 14 Votes: 64.29% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 18 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 25 Votes: 44.00% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 182 Votes: 52.75% Annoying