This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at FSU chapter.
If you know, you know. Whether you love it or hate it, Boca is not just a place, it’s a lifestyle. And everything you have heard about it is probably true.
- The face people make when you introduce yourself and say you’re from Boca…
- Or how 80 percent of people say, “Oh, my grandparents live there!”
- Spending hours at Panera or Whole Foods after school.
- Thinking you were cool as hell for going to FAU parties.
- Knowing you cannot “go out” unless you go to the Ave. in Delray, which is quite the Uber away.
- Always wondering why someone put a Sears in Town Center there and who actually shops there.
- Having to go to the actual Starbucks store because the kiosk line is too long.
- Getting dressed up to go to Town Center, mostly in middle school, but you know you wore jeans, wedges and a “nice top”
- Freaking out as a kid because you might see Ariana Grande.
- RIP Stir Crazy.
- Seeing all the guys you had a thing for in middle school walking around the Tesla store.
- Watching your entire allowance disappear inside Lululemon.
- The variety of private school uniforms is like an episode of Gossip Girl times a hundred.
- Seeing more dogs in strollers than actual babies.
- Seeing twelve-year-olds that look older than you…it’s fine, I’m fine, everything’s fine.
- You can valet literally everywhere: I’m looking at you, Publix.
- Spending every holiday at a boat party in the middle of Lake Boca.
- The real debate: Sloan’s vs. Serendipity.
- Spending all of your time at the beach for two weeks and then giving up and deciding you hate sand.
- Trying to drive down Powerline and knowing you’ll waste half your life in this traffic.
- Hearing about a big storm and knowing your neighborhood is about to be under water.
- Trying to go somewhere early in the morning and getting stuck behind all of the elderly people.
- Trying to go to the beach during snowbird season is Mission Impossible.
- Parking in Mizner.
- Going to Gumbo Limbo for every field trip and holding the clear jellyfish.
- If it wasn’t Gumbo Limbo, it was the Morikami.
- Taking all of your homecoming and/or prom pictures at The Oaks.
- Knowing that the TJ Maxx and Marshalls have all of the good stuff.
- Looking around and realizing there is so much unnecessary landscaping.
- Why are there so many fountains? And Ficus bushes?
- All the guys that just hang out creepily outside of Shadowwood.
- And our good movie theater looks like a palace.
- Feeling like the planes going towards the airport are about to crash into you on I-95.
- Going to Costco during snowbird season and immediately giving up on everything.
- Always having the best “Views” Snapchat story out of all your friends.