Is Florida worth it?
Wondering if moving to Florida if I can work remotely is worth it. Only major concern is probability of getting your house wiped out from a tornado, hurricane, or flood, and the corresponding insurance costs.
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Nope, it's terrible. Don't move there. All full and it's just as bad as you describe only 1,000x worse. NY and CA are way better go there plz
Florida man spotted.
Never, I'm just trying to save people from a mosquito-infested Trump-ruled hellhole. It's horrible. The humidity makes homeless people want to eat your face. There's guns around every corner just waiting to target LGBTQIA2s+ and BIPOC folk. Colorado is a much better choice!
Who would move there? Can’t think of anyone who relocated to FL or has a residence there
Lately, it is difficult to tell if posts and comments are legit or not. Florida is an interesting mix of people. Lots of young people and very old people. If you want to party and like very warm weather, it is the place for you.
Don’t do it. Home prices are now on par with (or even higher than) SoCal. Florida has insane property insurance which wipes out any tax saving. And I would rather spend on taxes which actually help infrastructure, schools, healthcare, etc over insurance which doesn’t add ancillary benefits.
I would recommend the Carlsbad/Encinitas area. Good luck!
Yeah I lived in Encinitas for a year - I love that place.
Florida is a big state, so it depends on which part. Difficult to make a blanket statement for all areas or believe one region is analogous with another. Central FL is quite different from Southern FL on pricing and weather
If you’re looking to reduce CoL, I’d recommend Houston or Dallas. Same benefits but you can also reduce col compared to FL - a 2k sq ft house in Dal would be ~500k, only a fraction of the price of what you’d get for a similar home in Southern FL and a bit cheaper than Central FL
You’d have to see if certain neighborhoods are a fit based on a variety of factors and lifestyle choices, regardless if it’s FL or anywhere else. Some people rent for some time initially to get a sense of the area
This all depends on your income and preferences. Florida is great, NYC is great, CA is great, not many would thrive in all three. TX is overrated. People on here tend to over analyze COL and SALT, if you're on WSO I’ll assume you’re a white collar professional and you can probably make anywhere work within reason (under $10 million house).
Don't listen to any of the positives other people are mentioning they're all lies, go somewhere else you'll thank me!
Depends on your priorities and what you care about. Obviously increasing home prices and the rising cost of actually insuring and maintaining your home is going to be a major factor. If you don't like heat and humidity, that might be a big concern as well. It's just a different all-around lifestyle. If you want to experience of being in a major city like NYC or LA or whatever, my anecdotal experience seems to imply that you won't be pleased. I know a lot of people of various ages who moved there during the pandemic and who have since moved back, because a lot of what makes dense urban areas worth living in is intrinsically tied to that density, and Florida doesn't have that. Your mileage on that may vary.
Also anecdotally (and with a couple minutes of online searching), Florida school systems aren't well regarded, so if you have kids that might factor in, too.
So true, I was so disappointed to learn there aren’t blue haired nut job teachers in FL.
Right on. I guess I also would make this trade, that "maybe once in a while I see someone with a color hair I don't like" versus "once in a while a sinkhole in the swamp will open up and swallow my entire house".
And why is blue hair the measure of someone's sanity? I mean, I ask that rhetorically - I obviously am aware you haven't thought about this, that you don't actually critically think about anything, that you regurgitate whatever you're told in order to "own the libs" in order to feel a fleeting sense of smug superiority that quickly falls into the bottomless pit of your unacknowledged insecurities, but it's worth asking.
Wanting blue hair is no different than wanting blond hair. Or a breast enhancement, or fixing a hairlip, or any other cosmetic change. For someone who apparently thinks that "freedom of choice" is a big deal, your hatred for people who express themselves in a way which you wouldn't is... well, I guess it's perfectly fitting for an obvious bigot. Personally, I think that the nut job teachers are the ones who claim that some celestial dictator speaks to them at night and tells them what subjects are and aren't appropriate to discuss, but that's just me. Delusions of grandeur coupled with voices in the head freaks me out way more than someone who wants to look a little weird for a few months, but that's being a liberal, I guess!
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