We love California, but we’re cool about it. We act like we’ve been here awhile; don’t slobber all over ourself and our birth state. We’re comfortable with California’s superiority over the other states. Really, if there’s a competition at all, it’s between us and New York.

But our love for California looks like chilly ambivalence compared to Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s embarrassing adulation of our Golden State. The guy is starting to come across as full-blown stalker with his repeated trips to California to enjoy a break from his horrible, horrible state and hang out on our brilliant beaches, basking in absolutely perfect weather.

Don’t misunderstand it. We don’t blame him for visiting. If we had the miserable bad luck to have to live in Florida, we’d go to California every time the change jar got filled. But he has the cheek to call his latest three-day California getaway, which kicked off on Sunday, a “trade mission.” Which means he got to write the whole thing off as a business trip.

In fact, it’s another of his job-stealing assaults on California in which he tries to lure businesses out of the country’s most glorious state and into one of the U.S.’s least desirable places to live by almost every measure a person wishing for a comfortable life would care about.

Scott’s spiel this time, the worm he’s dangling in front of who he hopes are avaricious corporations who care so little about their employees that they’re not at all concerned about moving them from paradise to hell if it’ll save a few hundred bucks. He’s pointing out that while California’s minimum wage is $10 an hour, Florida’s is a darned attractive $8.05 an hour. That’s a $64.40 for an eight-hour day in FLA vs. $80 in CA. Now, either way, your impoverished workers aren’t making out like archdukes, but at least in California they can enjoy the climate and increase their living space by going outdoors to the park or the beach or even just sitting out on the porch in a Rubbermaid chair. In Florida, on the other hand, you can’t go outdoors at all. Ever. In the summer it’s utterly uninhabitable, with the humidity surpassing the state’s median IQ. Plus, you’re going to get a couple-three world-class hurricanes tearing off big chunks of the state. Or, you could get eaten by an alligator or crocodile (we forget which is which on account of it’s nothing Californians have had to worry about).

They have mosquitoes in Florida the size of SPAM cans that can suck all of the blood out of a child in 30 seconds. There are thousands of sinkholes in Florida that swallow whole neighborhoods.

The state of Florida is easily the No. 1 state to visit if you’re trying to cross “struck by lightning” off your bucket list. Between 1959 and 2013, there were 468 deaths by lightning strikes in Florida, which is far ahead of the braggart state of Texas, which follows with just 216.

The state leads or comes close to leading the country in health care fraud, identification theft, public official corruption convictions, pain-pill addiction and home foreclosure. The website Thrillist, in ranking the 50 states from best to worst, awarded Florida the No. 50 spot.

We’d tell Gov. Scott to take his carpetbagging act and go home, but we can’t blame him if he refuses.

Contact Tim Grobaty at 562-714-2116, tim.grobaty@langnews.com, @grobaty on Twitter.