I live in FL where both are legal. I stick to the street 95% of the time, and ride as a vehicle. When there is a one way road that I need to travel in the opposite direction of though, I will get on the sidewalk, slow to a moderate pace, yeild to pedestrians...etc. I'll also get on the sidewalk if I need to use a road that is obviously dangerous to share with cars (no shoulder, fast speeds, or an area where motorists are completely unused to bicycles on that particular stretch of roadway) common sense stuff

I ride to stay alive, using common sense and courtesy to get where I'm going. I'm not a representative of anything, I don't live by any cycling ideology. I ride for fun, and I like to keep it that way.