The FL home insurance cost has skyrocketed, while being mandatory by loan from bank. FL state government should provide a basic home insurance at reasonable rate, coupled with strict by-laws that eliminate baseless civil suites.
I'm 54 and my wife and I are VERY worried about our future, gas and food prices rising daily. We have had our savings dwindle with the cost of living into the stratosphere, and we are finding it impossible to replace them. We can get by, but can't seem to get ahead. My condolences to anyone retiring in this crisis, 30 years nonstop just for a crooked system to take all you worked for.
I feel your pain mate, as a fellow retiree, I’d suggest you look into passive index fund investing and learn some more. For me, I had my share of ups and downs when I first started looking for a consistent passive income so I hired an expert advisor for aid, and following her advice, I poured $30k in value stocks and digital assets, Up to 200k so far and pretty sure I'm ready for whatever comes...
@@SantiagoWyatt- The crazy part is that those advisors are probably outperforming the market and raising good returns but some are charging fees over fees that drain your portfolio. Is this the case with yours too?
Lived in Florida for 42 years . Sold out and moved out in 22 . All of the reasons that we loved Florida are mostly gone now . The slow lifestyle , the sense of community . And how relatively inexpensive it was . Now , it's none of those things . While the natural beauty of Florida has been mostly turned into one Giant Construction Zone . With endless Roadwork and massive traffic . I wish i could say that we miss Florida , but we don't .
For those of you that have moved out of Florida: Where do you live now? Is the cost of living cheaper? Are you happier? I’m looking to move out too and would like to know good places to go for a better quality of life. Thanks.
@@ardoario4990- a lot of people are leaving Florida and I am looking forwars to leaving sooner than later....and moving to a less congested towns and cheaper homes and taxes like N E Tennessee bigger homes bigger land and the Carloinas but the cost of food, resturants inflation is still high anywhere you go unfortunately.
For those of you that have moved out of Florida: Where do you live now? Is the cost of living cheaper? Are you happier? I’m looking to move out too and would like to know good places to go for a better quality of life. Thanks.
I wish I could i wish I went to army they don’t pay enough here and auto insurance i got to get less coverage its like I’m driving and brand new car used to be cheaper with monthly payment and insurance
I'm 54 and my wife and I are VERY worried about our future, gas and food prices rising daily. We have had our savings dwindle with the cost of living into the stratosphere, and we are finding it impossible to replace them. We can get by, but can't seem to get ahead. My condolences to anyone retiring in this crisis, 30 years nonstop just for a crooked system to take all you worked for.
I feel your pain mate, as a fellow retiree, I’d suggest you look into passive index fund investing and learn some more. For me, I had my share of ups and downs when I first started looking for a consistent passive income so I hired an expert advisor for aid, and following her advice, I poured $30k in value stocks and digital assets, Up to 200k so far and pretty sure I'm ready for whatever comes.
Northerners aren’t leaving. It’s the locals who can’t afford to live here anymore. Those who moved here brought their high pay checks via work from home, and our prices looked cheap. They drove our prices up and now people who actually work here can’t afford to live here.
This is true! They come from elsewhere and Florida is cheap by comparison. They drive prices up by paying more for almost everything because where they came from costs were way more.
What? I’m a union electrician and don’t have an issue, I also own my home. I didn’t spend my money on wants only necessities and don’t do drugs or drink. Plenty of money to go around. BLUE COLLAR DOING IT RIGHT. Everyone here crying has made bad career choices and has no hustle. Complain complain complain. Life is not about handouts. Sacrifice to make the long run easier. Be self sufficient and live life. Stop complaining and be gone. One more thing didn’t go to college but makes six figures without debt! CHOICES, start making the best choices and stop being a victim
@@ad-cc1sw Union? I didn’t know we had effective unions in Florida. I’m talking about young people who are just starting out, trying to buy a home and start a family on Florida’s wages. Even if you’re proud of your choices, we still need teachers, cops, and other service workers and they can’t afford to live here unless they’re a two income household, and even then it’s rough. This is fact, not whining. We don’t believe in free handouts here.
@ad-cc1sw not everyone has the same situation. I had an ex business partner run my business into the ground recently, now with current state of growing costs it's exponentially harder to recover. Too many ppl are "contractors" now under cutting others etc etc. So good for you but have some sense while patting yourself on the back
I moved to FL in 2022 after 22 years in the military to retire and have low taxes. Bought a brand new built house. After a year a realized I had made a terrible mistake in moving to a crazier than expected State and to an area that you can’t call Florida (Destin/FWB). It’s 100% Alabama. Sold everything and now I live like a king in Tokyo.
@@TheRealBlackula Army and Air Force. Wasn’t stationed at Eglin but decided to retire in that area. Big mistake, lol. I didn’t think I would be living in lower-Alabama-like conditions.
It’s too expensive. Not enough pay. Horrible HOT AF weather. Horrible traffic. Mean impatient people and drivers. Been here my whole life. No idea why anybody would wanna be here.
Same. Used to love my home but it’s been getting progressively worse over the years. Scott and desantis sold us natives out and this place became a shithole maga paradise for those fleeing liberal states. The attitude of the people changed so much and it’s so rare to see other people that have actually lived here longer than a decade.
I’m so happy for all those who are choosing to leave! Being a native of 7 generations I have watched Florida in general be destroyed by the influx of all who want to live here but, let’s change this like it was where I came from. The natural areas of Florida are shrinking do to overdevelopment. Too many people too fast!
I grew up in South Miami in the 50's to the 70's , then I kept going North thinking that it is better , now once my little town of Sebastian has been Invaded by Rude -LIBERALS from Mass , Rhode Island , NY and Jersey , and they brought their NASTYNESS CLICKESS WAYS HERE . Florida has been ruined as once a nice State .
When I lived in Sarasota in the 70s it was almost a small town surrounded by farms and ranches. Those ranches became sprawling double wide mobile home parks and Sarasota is wall to wall buildings and traffic. It's a shit lifestyle and I'm glad I'm up in a small Massachusetts city now. I'll take the snow any day over that heat, humidity and swarms of humanity.
@@AmericanConstellationCongrats on being lucky you didn’t lose everything, or worse, the lives of you or your loved ones. I’m not sure why people brag as if they personally beat a hurricane in a fight.
At 73, I was priced out of my condo in Florida and retired to Europe this year since we could not afford USA. The cost of condo fees has tripled in 5 years. Don t trust real estate agents in Florida condo fees, home/car insurance costs, taxes and repairs on buildings are out of control. Nothing is affordable!!
Traffic is utter hell....high insurance cost....low wages ....unaffordable houses and rents.....no matter where u go it's crowded or under construction.....and getting worse....there is no hell only Orlando
@@kellysnyclife663isn’t it hilarious that people move to Florida and complain about the heat! Didn’t they do even the most basic research before moving?
Even when it’s underwater due to climate change? Are you lucky enough to have homeowners insurance? You couldn’t pay me enough to live there. Not to mention your stupid governor and right wing government. And the stinky swamps. Gross.
I can tell you why. As a Florida native it is so expensive it was NEVER This way. I lived in Palm Beach County for 45 years and had to leave I could not afford it anymore. Plus the schools suck, property taxes are ridiculous. Crime is out of control. Unléss your rich or inherited millions just don't bother. It not a place for the sick poor or single parent.
Unless rich or inherited millions.👐🏾💯 a chunk of civilization that fuels supply as them and demands as their necessity’s while inhabiting the land of earth.
@@SFSbihdnetI moved here 25 years ago with zero money. I am now a business owner and have a paid for house and have more than enough for our family. HARD WORK IS THE ANSWER
I moved from Texas, where I own a house , to Florida and I had to leave after one year. The main reason people are leaving Florida is the shitty economy that create millions of low paying jobs. Florida economy is not strong . It relies on one sector which is tourism that employs millions of low income population.
People have a short memory. Back in the 2008-2011 timeframe Florida had a fire sale of foreclosures and short sales. Our economy is like a roller coaster. There is a predictable boom and bust cycle depending on the money supply and interest rates. There are only so many people who can continue to buy real estate that constantly increases in price. As long as they can get a mortgage houses will sell . It not only supply and demand, it’s the amount banks are willing to lend. Besides interest rates, the cost of property insurance, HOA fees and property taxes have skyrocketed along with greedy developers squeezing the blood out of buyers.
bingo... I've been following real estate trends my whole life. I live in vancouver canada which is very expensive. People always say "it's a boom, it's going to bust". I say it will boom again. And it always does.
It’s not only about money!! People here drive horrible it’s dangerous now and the weather it’s horrible! The land is sinking too !! Florida will be in water soon!!
It’s always been this hot and humid. My poor mother grew up in Florida when they didn’t have A.C or screens for the windows. She had asthma. But the doctors told them to move to Florida so her asthma wasn’t so bad
Born and raised here… and boy has it changed. Use to be land everywhere with orange trees, farming. We’d go by milk from the dairy. We knew every neighbor…going out on a Sunday no traffic, everything was closed except church. You’d drive for hours maybe see one other car going for a drive. We A&W drive in. The drive in movies…I’m sure it’s like that in every small town. People move in you don’t know your neighbor anymore. More and more people come. And you lose your identity. Your niceness. Your quite. Shame
I'm born and raised here and I'm happy to see the growth slow down. The town that I live in wasn't ready for the growth and we are bursting at the seams. Traffic is horrible and road rage is way up. I hope the slow down continues..Thanks for the video
Same in Ocala area. Nothing but nasty people on the road. I'll be doing like 70 and still get passed like I'm going too slow. Hey u wanna off yourself, you go right ahead
I live in South Georgia and commute daily on 75 headed towards Atlanta. I have seen a ton of Florida cars packed with clothing and moving trucks heading north. I always say there goes another Floridian fleeing 😅
a lot of people that moved to make money in Florida found it is not a place to make a living unless tied into people from up north (i.e. real estate, lawyers, etc). the industries there mostly do not pay enough. Have to have money from up north to live there
Oh your 100% right. I was in that hell hole of FL born and raised for 29 years and I had to get the hell out and I did last year. Nonthing but bastards and old cruel people. And the nice ones like myself are moving away for the better or hiding. I was too nice for FL.
@@gravethebeyond I left in 1990 don't miss it one bit, the population was less than half of what it is now, I must admit when I first moved there in 1984 my plan was for a short time, it did grow on me and I kinda had a good life down there. Now I don't even visit anymore.
@@lrobie123 I did good for my self in Fla.1984-1990 after that it was so different compared to what made me like Fla. I liked the country side of Fla. those multy generational Floridians treated me very well. Kudos those were some really good people I must admit.
I love Orlando and love florida. There is always something to to do, beaches are great, lots of live music, no state tax, weather is almost always nice, plenty of sports, multicultural, great ethnic foods, lots of parks, festivals etc
@@stixplayer been living in Florida (miami & orlando) for 38yrs and we have people from every country in south America, Central America, PR, DR, all the islands and Europe! Yeah , I would say it’s Multicultural.😉
Not just unaffordable housing. Rising seas, gentrification, racism, huge crowds, traffic, high property taxes, fraud, very high crime and poor infrastructure. Even if you live in a "decent" neighborhood, you're still told to lock your doors at all times because of the break ins. Southeast Florida is a lost cause now I'm afraid. People say it's still "growing" but it's dying.
I moved to Orlando around February 2023 with my brother, and we’ve been renting a two bed apartment since then. As someone who was born and raised in Atlanta and lived there until 2021, I personally love it here, and I’ll stay here as long as I can. If I’m forced to leave, I have no idea where I will go next.
Yeah I’m leaving Atlanta in two weeks and moving back to Florida myself. I’ve lived in Atlanta on and off for a total of 15 years and Florida on and off for a total of 18 years and I’ll take Florida over Atlanta. Atlanta has all of Florida’s problems on steroids but no beach. I won’t say which part of Florida I’m moving to because I don’t want a bunch of people moving there and turning it into another Miami or Atlanta
Not at all. I've been here for way too long and believe me, it wasn't my choice. I'm here because of some dumb broad who couldn't bear to let go of this toilet. She grew up here. She went to school here and used to ride her little bicycle around. Awww. How cute. (spits). I remind her all the time that she ruined my life by demanding to be here. I'll never forgive her for it and every time something bad happens, I say, "Karma's a b**ch, ain't it"?
There are so many impatient drivers in my town. I thought people moved to Florida to retire. What’s the rush? I hate driving on I-95. I would rather take the local roads and take longer.
What are you talking about??!! I LOVE it here. I hate cold winters and snow. Really dreading living in it. But I can't afford to live in Florida anymore.
@@MrGreenliz75 Housing went through the roof because big corporate America is buying every home in site far above asking and far far above the home value in an attempt to squeeze middle America out of every last dollar it has. Trump once said(real estate mogul) "I LOVE ZERO INTERST RATES" and his corporation and many like it love them too!! Thus sweeping up the homes to force you to either buy at THEIR PRICE later on OR worse yet RENT at their rate.
I live in Sarasota couty..area being destroyed by housing developments..county commissioners allowing high density housing against the will of the peoplel...every nice 😢area being destroyed and increasing traffic and insurance
Sounds like what happened to my former hometown Denver, CO. Any place that gets too "trendy" and grows too fast loses its soul and gets destroyed in the end by developers and transplants.
TY for speaking up for humans who used to enjoy living in Sarasota for decades till the recent invasion of heartless Developers who mock humans & their little concerns. My son is a County Building Inspector here & it is heartbreaking what they are doing to this area now. The humans have no voice here against the sexy money lovers nowadays & their Attorney Teams who just love to sue anything walking past.😢
I’ve lived in Southwest Florida since 1998 and there is two groups of people still buying homes in Florida. The first group is people with high net worth and the second group of people is Latino families with at least four-eight family members that are splitting the mortgage between them. Unfortunately, single-family homes are just not affordable for middle income Americans in Florida anymore. Let me be clear I have nothing against Latin American people, that’s just how things are taking place.
Sylvester Stallone was paying $125k/year in property tax on his 18k sf mansion in Beverly Hills CA, he sold it (to singer Adele) and bought a 10k sf mansion in Palm Beach. His new property tax bill? $424k/year. Ouch. Adriaaaaaaaaan!
@@TheBOG3 Good one. FL homestead exemption will only reduce the assessed value by $50k, and even if that's combined with a senior exemption Stallone will save less than $1k/year on that huge property tax bill.
@@harlanjackson6112 Here in Pasco County with Homestead you are only charged taxes on 75% of what your house is assessed at. They subtract 25% off its value.
@@TheBOG3 Sounds like different counties give different discounts.(Is that the FL version of equity?) Because no such discount in Palm Beach County. They know those folks can afford it. Just like the progressive income tax in CA. The ones higher up the food chain pay more. Stallone has been a FL resident for a couple years now.
oh please !!!! At his age, he still charges upwards of 400 MILLION per movie. He was paid $1 MILLION per episode for Tulsa King....The guy is a millionaire, he can afford.
I lived in West Palm back in the 70's when it was great. Now retired i have no desire to live there for multiple reasons. Great place to vacation but to live there no thank you.
Job market is scarce, traffic always just to get groceries and come back home. I tried for the summer last year I packed up and left back to the North Carolina. I can get around easily within 15 minutes or less most of the time. I don’t know what I was thinking we still have carowinds theme park not millions of people , weather is still nice you could not pay me any amount of money to move back to FL.
Got out in 2010 after 65 years. Wouldn't go back and don't miss it.😮😮😮 Things only get worse. A pork chop/ Carpetbagger state of corruption! One big storm! Mother nature will reclaim what is Hers!
@@leagueofotters2774Left FL for WV. They’re paying $10,000 to move here too. We LOVE it here!! It’s everything we wanted. I would love to see the state grow some, and think it will, just hope it’s not anything like FL. Keep things cheap and affordable! Good luck to you on whatever you decide to do 😊
Florida: sea level will rise drastically increasing floods and sinkholes, hurricanes will intensify, and traffic will be a horror because it already is a nightmare. FL has many great things to offer. It's a wonderful state of entertainment but it's also a state that your pockets will empty faster than getting full of money. The low paying wages vs the high prices insurances. Look at all those floods in Miami and the home insurances through the roof, people can't even afford it anymore. The houses are still cheaper than some states like NY but the interest rates $ property taxes $, something to really think about before moving. I've been a Floridian since 1980 and even with a landscaping business we struggle to pay more in insurances than anything else and they don't want to cover most of it either. This is why FL has so many lawyers. Floridians I know are moving to NC, SC and TN.
Beside the astronomical real estate tax increase, I live in an established neighborhood that’s 50yrs old..constant noise and construction going on with all the recent sales. I’ve never been so annoyed, not one minute of peace. I’m over it and just may go back to New England after 27 years. Plus it’s way too expensive and crowded. FL ain’t FL anymore 😑
We are considering it, because it is less expensive than California in terms of buying a "home" - single family; however two things stopping us: 1) Home Insurance Costs and 2) Political Climate and is Florida good for the WHOLE family?...
A lot of what I’m hearing are problems that are going on everywhere in the country, not just Florida. Especially affordability/cost of living/infrastructure. Also if you live near any major city or populated area, traffic is always a problem! Nobody is fleeing in droves to live in Baltimore but Baltimore traffic still sucks! Lol
I often don't understand why some of these stories don't involve banking and other home loan institutions. Lenders require that you have PMI until you have a minimum of 21% equity in your house. And many have homeowners insurance as a condition of the loan, so most often that's for 15-30 years depending on your mortgage. If you stop paying, get cancelled or can't get homeowners insurance the lender can call the note and demand 3 things. Get insurance, or pay in full or get another lender and refinance. So insurance rates are being portrayed as . It's expensive, it's a hassle,shop around but actually getting cancelled or the rates being increased so high you can't pay can cause you to default and lose your house. And not just Florida, lots of states have some oversight like an insurance commissioner and they are not doing their job
#1 Crime, Crime, Crime! #2 Superficial Creeps and Self Entitled 3rd World immigrants #3 Skyrocketing Insurance Premiums constantly rising without any Increase Limits,Insane HOA’s Rising costs of Assessments 200-1000% with no limits are just ridiculous, Waiting to see what a hurricane will bring to State Assessments, Housing maintenance costs due to the drastic weather conditions are ridiculously insane. Too many more to list
I agree with you 💯. I live in Lakeland FL and spent last couple weekends buying used stuff to build a gym at home and 90% of people I saw are going back north for same reasons you said. Out of the 15 places I went buying gym equipment 13 are moving out (Orlando area)
My son’s job is encouraging him to move to Florida. If paying cash for a house in the 300’s would property taxes and insurance costs be like still having a mortgage? The stories on Florida are really discouraging for moving there.
You can do a property tax estimator online for the home he is considering buying in the county that he will live. If he buys a new or fairly new home and he is inland and not in a flood zone, insurance should be ok. Car insurance is also pretty expensive here though.
@@universalstudiosshorts9963you don’t have to lay it but if you have damage make sure you have money to cover it. Don’t go crying to the media that you don’t have insurance
@@universalstudiosshorts9963Who would invest $300k cash without protecting their home with insurance? What really matters is the age of the home, the age/remaining life of the roof (insurer can make you replace it) and that should be on the seller to do if the roof is old, are there impact windows and doors, how old is the HVAC and electrical system, plumbing? Is it in a flood zone, or evacuation zone for hurricanes? Impact garage door? Any mold issues? Complete inspections are needed. Meantime, people who can afford it prefer newer homes to avoid compliance on the above issues, just to get or keep insurance. I would get a referral to a local insurance agent to get a ballpark cost for insurance plus issues that must be dealt with for any home I want to buy. My friends bought a nice concrete block home built in the 1970’s, they did: Partial replacements or major upgrades: Plumbing Electrical/new lighting Part of the roof had to be replaced, rest was new, HVAC system New water heater Impact windows, doors, sliders, all openings. Interior painting entire place, New appliances. It looks amazing and they negotiated a deal on the price, knowing how much work it needed. They got permits for all required insurance updates. Good luck.
I'm north of Citra, lived here just shy of 15 years. I'm seeking to move because of politics and scammers. "Handymen" have done more damage to my mobile than make repairs or improvements. There's a serious lack of integrity and honesty here.
@@OrlandoandBeyondwithKrista Not at the level it is here, from minute one. I've lived all over the country, and it's horrible here. Add the racism, rudeness, and overall lack of real education (I was a teacher - saw WRONG info taught first hand). If all America is like this, we are doomed. Not just the handymen. Individuals selling things (ie craigslist, fb), businesses (the story behind buying my van is horrific). Of course, laws and rules of the road only apply if you get caught....
I lived in DuPont Cir area after college and worked in DC. It's hard for me to compare "things to do" because what I did in my early 20s doesn't really intersect with my interests now, but in DC you can get out of DC pretty quickly and see other things. In Florida you have to drive an awfully long way for a real change of pace.
I moved to Alabama in January because I couldn't afford to live in the Tampa Bay area anymore. Not to mention the 8 month long summers. After 59 years in Florida I finally escaped!
I moved here in 2015 for work, and I'm now having to change my entire career and move out of florida because I can't afford to keep living here. Jobs are plenty, but wages are way too low, housing and insurance are a NIGHTMARE. I can barely afford my monthly essentials, let alone anything extra, or to save. It's bleeding us all dry. I just feel bad for the locals who can't move and how much worse this state is going to get in the next 10 years if this upward trajectory of costs keep going.
It's better weather only if you like sweltering heat and humidity for 8 months of the year. Don't forget the hurricanes and tropical storms and sky high electric bills for a/c constantly running. I moved from Florida to Colorado. Best decision I ever made.
It's not humid for 8 months, it's dry for 8 months and more humid for 4. Also we run the AC here almost every day and my electric bill is lower than what it was in Connecticut. I don't think that you actually lived here lol. Also Colorado is beautiful but has its own issues like the lack of water due to too many states pulling from the Colorado river, and unchecked illegal immigration and drug use which has destroyed Denver. The grass is always greener somewhere else...
Mom and Dad with 5 kids moved to Naples in 1977. He sold the house in NY and paid 29,000 cash for a 3/2 in Naples back when ot was a sleepy little town. I was 14 at the time. Now Im almost 60 and come back to help Mom who is 90. I dont know how families are making it with the high real estate and cost of living.
Been in Florida since 1998 (Miami & Orlando), Florida has forever changed, irreversibly so. Never thought the day would come that we'd want to leave, but that day can't come fast enough. So much more I can say, but I'm just over it.
Could you please share your experience? I have been wanting to move to Horizon west but I am too afraid of the property prices bc it might come down like 2008!
@@karinaoliveira3988home loans are completely different now than they were leading up to 07. Housing crash isn’t going to happen unless unemployment reaches 10-15%. Most people are locked into 3-4% rates and there are no NINJA loans and most people don’t have ARM loans which helped cause the crash. I wouldn’t be scared of a crash.
They haven’t left Florida … They have Sold up and moved into Rented accommodation due to high Mortgage rates and Costs, As a Landlord i now have a 1700 name waiting list for Rental accommodation by people selling up to move into rentals. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT. I have even bought the Bank owned homes and have rented them to the original owners as Tenants who are now paying $400 less a month. I am about to do a Deal with one Bank for all 23 Homes that are coming on to auction on the 17 th July as a Bulk deal, All will be Rented out to Local home owners that are selling up. And thanks to Ben Mullins we have secured a good interest rate for a 4 Block Apartment that was originally designed for retirement but has had permission to rent out to a Younger Residential Housing Complex. With 2 pools, No one is Buying except for Landlords, and everyone is selling so they will rent instead,.. Personally i would take what this Woman says with a Pinch of salt.
I-moved from CT to Florida 12 years ago and in the fall I am retiring and moving to Tennessee- that’s where my family members have moved to in the last few years. It’s south east Tennessee and I cannot wait to leave Florida for too many reason to even list here lol
@@johnnyirizarry1276 We have a place in South Florida but we're in CT most of the time, I'm not going to lie for the most part I'll take CT weather and landscape. Born and raised in CT over 50 years, it's expensive and we're getting all of the NY, NJ and Massachusetts people as well, it's getting quite crowded here but not as much as Florida.
"CENTRAL FLA AREA" is not Florida it is Disney tourism, insane heat and no beaches and shitty pay and ridiculess prices No one is going to buy your 290k home for 415k, get a HELOC and rent it out
The only thing left in Florida related to paradise is the sun. Everything else sux, including the influx of eletes. That's why I left almost 2 decades ago.
I’ve been here since 2008 and I’m currently prepping to move farther north. Between all the issues you listed in the video and the brutal summers, I’m ready to go elsewhere. I’m just thankful I have a good deal of equity in this house so I’ll be able to afford my forever home. 😊
The headline is complete BS. Florida has the #2 net inbound migration in the nation, right behind TX, in sheer numbers and is #3 in percent growth year over year. Some people may be leaving, but hundreds of thousands more are arriving.
@@Soltice-ty2nf No BS here, just math. A few leave, but way more are coming. There is a large NET influx of people moving to Florida, more than 300,000 a year. Most of those coming here can afford to live here, and never leave.
What you said Richard is true. I know Tampa area is expected to gain another 120,000 more in 18 months. Many people moving here get a wake up call when that first insurance and tax bills resets.
Between alligators, hurricanes, an increasingly extreme political environment that used to be a lot more moderate, and skyrocketing costs I don’t blame people for leaving.
My Dad had his home built in Cape Coral -1979. We had the benefit of knowing the builder Mr. Rosen and his family and he did a special upgrade on our house as he built his next door. Cape Coral was wonderful at time and for many years it was pleasant and enjoyable. My family lives in Nevada, and would spend several months each year in Florida and know it well. Sad to say, in the late 80's it changed, and never regained the charm it once had. My wife and I took possession of the property 3 years ago and I kept the house up to November 2023. The taxes, insurance rates, Nor-Eastern's, substandard law enforcement, including (Drunk and HIGH driving all over the place), the rip-off culture associate with most contractors & services, water supply & pollution, etc. has made this once wonderful paradise, just a place for day- to - day survival. The WEATHER is Nature and if you like living in a Tropical environment you can't complain.
I’m from south western Ontario and love the 4 seasons here. Would never move to the brutal heat of the southern States in USA. I’m 63 and enjoy the life burst in spring…yes the humid summers are hot like Florida, autumn colours and cooler temps are beautiful..then snow and Christmas lights.
@@OrlandoandBeyondwithKristareally? Love Florida Christmas in my area with Santa coming in by boat in shorts and yard decorations with flamingos pulling his sleigh!
@@crazycatlady6396 some years I think it’s cool. Some years I just want snooooooooow (for a few days anyway). I’m from PA. It’s hard to not have a frosty Christmas.
Florida, for decades, has been the main destination for retirees and others, mainly east of the Mississippi River, and as north as Canada included. After the pandemic, we noticed a high number of people from other states, including: California, Oregon, and Washington states. Californians do sell a shed there, buy a mansion here and still have money to buy their tesla. Californians are coming to Florida in a very high numbers. What is Ron Desantis doing so right that Newsom can't do? To look for the best interest of the people in cali. Californians, please, as you move to Florida, leave your leftist feelings behind, MAGA with us, and welcome to the sunshine state.
Things being so here, in rival China, a country of one and half billion people, the Chinese man and woman are among the richest in the World ! They buy the most expensive real estate abroad.
I’ll never understand why young people go to Florida. It’s a tourist/immigrant economy which is hella unsustainable. These people come fresh off the boat ready to do the same skills for a 1/2 the price even less sometimes. Florida isn’t designed to protect its residents unless you’re a retiree.
I've wondered why the state does nothing to protect people who actually live and work here all year, or promote jobs for younger people. The state won't have sustainable long term success without young people but right now I can't imagine a young family being able to afford it here
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The FL home insurance cost has skyrocketed, while being mandatory by loan from bank. FL state government should provide a basic home insurance at reasonable rate, coupled with strict by-laws that eliminate baseless civil suites.
I'm 54 and my wife and I are VERY worried about our future, gas and food prices rising daily. We have had our savings dwindle with the cost of living into the stratosphere, and we are finding it impossible to replace them. We can get by, but can't seem to get ahead. My condolences to anyone retiring in this crisis, 30 years nonstop just for a crooked system to take all you worked for.
I feel your pain mate, as a fellow retiree, I’d suggest you look into passive index fund investing and learn some more. For me, I had my share of ups and downs when I first started looking for a consistent passive income so I hired an expert advisor for aid, and following her advice, I poured $30k in value stocks and digital assets, Up to 200k so far and pretty sure I'm ready for whatever comes...
@@SantiagoWyatt- That's actually quite impressive, I could use some Info on your FA, I am looking to make a change on my finances this year as well
@@Richardnnabuikediyoke My advisor is VICTORIA CARMEN SANTAELLA;
You can look her up online
@@SantiagoWyatt- The crazy part is that those advisors are probably outperforming the market and raising good returns but some are charging fees over fees that drain your portfolio. Is this the case with yours too?
Lived in Florida for 42 years . Sold out and moved out in 22 . All of the reasons that we loved Florida are mostly gone now . The slow lifestyle , the sense of community . And how relatively inexpensive it was . Now , it's none of those things . While the natural beauty of Florida has been mostly turned into one Giant Construction Zone . With endless Roadwork and massive traffic . I wish i could say that we miss Florida , but we don't .
You chose a great time to sell though, at least.
I left in 2022, as well. I don't miss Florida, at all!
For those of you that have moved out of Florida: Where do you live now? Is the cost of living cheaper? Are you happier?
I’m looking to move out too and would like to know good places to go for a better quality of life. Thanks.
@@ardoario4990- a lot of people are leaving Florida and I am looking forwars to leaving sooner than later....and moving to a less congested towns and cheaper homes and taxes like N E Tennessee bigger homes bigger land and the Carloinas but the cost of food, resturants inflation is still high anywhere you go unfortunately.
I'm in the bay area All my life but If I left Florida I wouldn't even miss it at all it has gone down hill since the pandemic hit in the late 2010's.
For those of you that have moved out of Florida: Where do you live now? Is the cost of living cheaper? Are you happier?
I’m looking to move out too and would like to know good places to go for a better quality of life. Thanks.
Nobody is leaving Florida. Are you kidding???😂😂😂😂😂
I wish I could i wish I went to army they don’t pay enough here and auto insurance i got to get less coverage its like I’m driving and brand new car used to be cheaper with monthly payment and insurance
Driving a * ughhh
Homeowners insurance in Florida goes up 100% or more every year elderly people are losing their homes because the governor will do nothing about it
I'm 54 and my wife and I are VERY worried about our future, gas and food prices rising daily. We have had our savings dwindle with the cost of living into the stratosphere, and we are finding it impossible to replace them. We can get by, but can't seem to get ahead. My condolences to anyone retiring in this crisis, 30 years nonstop just for a crooked system to take all you worked for.
I feel your pain mate, as a fellow retiree, I’d suggest you look into passive index fund investing and learn some more. For me, I had my share of ups and downs when I first started looking for a consistent passive income so I hired an expert advisor for aid, and following her advice, I poured $30k in value stocks and digital assets, Up to 200k so far and pretty sure I'm ready for whatever comes.
@@KimberlyMargaret That's actually quite impressive, I could use some Info on your FA, I am looking to make a change on my finances this year as well
@@imohimoh3441 My advisor is Victoria Carmen Santaella
You can look her up online
Nah I Can't say I can relate, Victoria Carmen Santaella charge is one-off and pretty reasonable when compared to what I benefit in returns.
Northerners aren’t leaving. It’s the locals who can’t afford to live here anymore. Those who moved here brought their high pay checks via work from home, and our prices looked cheap. They drove our prices up and now people who actually work here can’t afford to live here.
This is true! They come from elsewhere and Florida is cheap by comparison. They drive prices up by paying more for almost everything because where they came from costs were way more.
FL is the next CA!
What? I’m a union electrician and don’t have an issue, I also own my home. I didn’t spend my money on wants only necessities and don’t do drugs or drink. Plenty of money to go around. BLUE COLLAR DOING IT RIGHT. Everyone here crying has made bad career choices and has no hustle. Complain complain complain. Life is not about handouts. Sacrifice to make the long run easier. Be self sufficient and live life. Stop complaining and be gone. One more thing didn’t go to college but makes six figures without debt! CHOICES, start making the best choices and stop being a victim
@@ad-cc1sw Union? I didn’t know we had effective unions in Florida. I’m talking about young people who are just starting out, trying to buy a home and start a family on Florida’s wages. Even if you’re proud of your choices, we still need teachers, cops, and other service workers and they can’t afford to live here unless they’re a two income household, and even then it’s rough. This is fact, not whining. We don’t believe in free handouts here.
@ad-cc1sw not everyone has the same situation. I had an ex business partner run my business into the ground recently, now with current state of growing costs it's exponentially harder to recover. Too many ppl are "contractors" now under cutting others etc etc. So good for you but have some sense while patting yourself on the back
4 easy ones .. low wages , high property taxes , high home owners insurance and high auto insurance ! Sue happy Attorneys !
Yes, car insurance is a real mess. We have two teenage drivers and our annual insurance bill is more than two of our cars are worth.
I know what you are dealing with too !
Brother you nailed it ! Florida, the right to work for nothing state.
@@william-fla-321Yes the right to work for less !
If ur not making deep into 6 figures, leisure is hard in Miami.
Because everybody’s moved to Florida and Jacked the cost-of-living up.
And the governor is busier declaring a made up culture war rather than doing anything about it.
B I N G O !
People are leaving because the cost of car and home insurance. Your home insurance is the new state tax
I know , but who is the Blame for this , is it BRANDON ? Build Back Better ?
House insurance is killing me, doubled for me or some more 6k now
@@SalRuggierono it's desantis causes this...and higher minimum wage increase across the country..
I moved to FL in 2022 after 22 years in the military to retire and have low taxes.
Bought a brand new built house.
After a year a realized I had made a terrible mistake in moving to a crazier than expected State and to an area that you can’t call Florida (Destin/FWB).
It’s 100% Alabama.
Sold everything and now I live like a king in Tokyo.
FJB
So, on military pension and SS?
@@RPlavo
Wife and I are in our 40s.
We are both retirees.
No SS.
Were you on the Air Force? If so, were you ever stationed at Eglin Afb?
@@TheRealBlackula
Army and Air Force.
Wasn’t stationed at Eglin but decided to retire in that area.
Big mistake, lol.
I didn’t think I would be living in lower-Alabama-like conditions.
It’s too expensive. Not enough pay. Horrible HOT AF weather. Horrible traffic. Mean impatient people and drivers. Been here my whole life. No idea why anybody would wanna be here.
Same. Used to love my home but it’s been getting progressively worse over the years. Scott and desantis sold us natives out and this place became a shithole maga paradise for those fleeing liberal states. The attitude of the people changed so much and it’s so rare to see other people that have actually lived here longer than a decade.
Because all of new York moved here and New Jersey which is even worse. It's like the little Jersey shores here now. Not same Florida completely ruined
@@JosephMoore-j2gI now know why people don’t use their turning signals nowadays
IM MOVING TO THE MOUNTAINS TO A SMALL TOWN , SO WHEN I DIE MY WIFE CAN BURY MY ASHES IN THE SMOKYS .
Move to a liberal blue state and you'll soon understand why.
I’m so happy for all those who are choosing to leave! Being a native of 7 generations I have watched Florida in general be destroyed by the influx of all who want to live here but, let’s change this like it was where I came from. The natural areas of Florida are shrinking do to overdevelopment. Too many people too fast!
It’s called free enterprise, deregulation and freedom as your governor calls it!
I grew up in South Miami in the 50's to the 70's , then I kept going North thinking that it is better , now once my little town of Sebastian has been Invaded by Rude -LIBERALS from Mass , Rhode Island , NY and Jersey , and they brought their NASTYNESS CLICKESS WAYS HERE . Florida has been ruined as once a nice State .
When I lived in Sarasota in the 70s it was almost a small town surrounded by farms and ranches. Those ranches became sprawling double wide mobile home parks and Sarasota is wall to wall buildings and traffic. It's a shit lifestyle and I'm glad I'm up in a small Massachusetts city now. I'll take the snow any day over that heat, humidity and swarms of humanity.
@@SalRuggiero "rude" liberals?? Whatever happened to those tough-as-nails, "eff your feelings" rightwingers???
@@RPlavo Enjoy living in you blue state.
Don't stop leaving!!!!!!
😄
We won’t . Let us know how hurricane season goes
@@r.r4981 After 66 years here, I've seen it all. Stay afraid and get out!
@@r.r4981been in Florida since 05, lol hurricanes are just excuses to have a stay in party’s in the central Florida area.
@@AmericanConstellationCongrats on being lucky you didn’t lose everything, or worse, the lives of you or your loved ones. I’m not sure why people brag as if they personally beat a hurricane in a fight.
I love Florida but everything is too expensive. 😭
How much is 1 bedroom apartment? Here in northern va it's around 2500 for 1 bedroom 1 bathroom.
Too expensive compared to where?
@@andresvalentin6924compared to Florida before all the New Yorkers moved down in droves
Overcrowded
@John-PaulHunt-wy7lfthat’s mean. Do u even tho the person ?
At 73, I was priced out of my condo in Florida and retired to Europe this year since we could not afford USA. The cost of condo fees has tripled in 5 years. Don t trust real estate agents in Florida condo fees, home/car insurance costs, taxes and repairs on buildings are out of control. Nothing is affordable!!
Traffics horrible. Extremely hot
Traffic is utter hell....high insurance cost....low wages ....unaffordable houses and rents.....no matter where u go it's crowded or under construction.....and getting worse....there is no hell only Orlando
W0w, little rohnniee Desantimknious said Florida is great😮@@MichaelForte-jn5pn
Really ?! I didn't know Florida was hot like that?
@@kellysnyclife663isn’t it hilarious that people move to Florida and complain about the heat! Didn’t they do even the most basic research before moving?
@@crazycatlady6396 I live in NYC and been to FL during spring break and it was very chilly in Miami
Born and raised here I’m not going anywhere
Please, don't...
Even when it’s underwater due to climate change? Are you lucky enough to have homeowners insurance? You couldn’t pay me enough to live there. Not to mention your stupid governor and right wing government. And the stinky swamps. Gross.
Same here.
10/4 If it's to hot than leave.To humid than leave. Just go who cares where but do leave
I can tell you why. As a Florida native it is so expensive it was NEVER This way. I lived in Palm Beach County for 45 years and had to leave I could not afford it anymore. Plus the schools suck, property taxes are ridiculous. Crime is out of control. Unléss your rich or inherited millions just don't bother. It not a place for the sick poor or single parent.
Unless rich or inherited millions.👐🏾💯 a chunk of civilization that fuels supply as them and demands as their necessity’s while inhabiting the land of earth.
BS. Floridians were complaining about others moving here at least back to the 1990s, if not longer. (I wasn't alive to hear it before that.)
Schools are ranked high and crime is ranked bett😢than average please don’t lie
Same thing is happening in Texas.
@@SFSbihdnetI moved here 25 years ago with zero money. I am now a business owner and have a paid for house and have more than enough for our family. HARD WORK IS THE ANSWER
I moved from Texas, where I own a house , to Florida and I had to leave after one year. The main reason people are leaving Florida is the shitty economy that create millions of low paying jobs. Florida economy is not strong . It relies on one sector which is tourism that employs millions of low income population.
The fundamental issue comes from the federal government not the state.
How?
Dead on accurate assessment, it's a service based economy.
@@OmarOsman98 No, it is a service based economy that relies on tourism....not much actual industry here not revolving around that.
This is the main reason alot of northern buisnesses are moving to florida to pay workers low wages
People have a short memory. Back in the 2008-2011 timeframe Florida had a fire sale of foreclosures and short sales. Our economy is like a roller coaster. There is a predictable boom and bust cycle depending on the money supply and interest rates. There are only so many people who can continue to buy real estate that constantly increases in price. As long as they can get a mortgage houses will sell . It not only supply and demand, it’s the amount banks are willing to lend. Besides interest rates, the cost of property insurance, HOA fees and property taxes have skyrocketed along with greedy developers squeezing the blood out of buyers.
bingo... I've been following real estate trends my whole life. I live in vancouver canada which is very expensive. People always say "it's a boom, it's going to bust". I say it will boom again. And it always does.
And much of it never fully recovered from the economic meltdown of 2007-08.
Backs suck, HOAs are hell
The whole country had the same thing, real estate tanked everywhere in 2008 after the Enron disaster.
It’s not only about money!! People here drive horrible it’s dangerous now and the weather it’s horrible! The land is sinking too !! Florida will be in water soon!!
Because too many new yorkers and californians have arrived.
💯
Foreigner’s also
Naw they just don’t increase wage lol in 2016 the minimum wage was still 7.93
Too many snowbirds.😮
No mention of all the illegal Spanish migrants coming here taking all our taxes?? 🤔
I left for the safety of my children, the fact that it’s WAY too crowded and the humidity is literally killing people.
My parents live there. It’s to hot. Rains often too
@@chevy4x466 hasn’t been any significant rain in South Florida for probably a month.
It’s always been this hot and humid. My poor mother grew up in Florida when they didn’t have A.C or screens for the windows. She had asthma. But the doctors told them to move to Florida so her asthma wasn’t so bad
All very good reason's to leave.Did you take any friends with you?
Hawaii is no better
Born and raised here… and boy has it changed. Use to be land everywhere with orange trees, farming. We’d go by milk from the dairy. We knew every neighbor…going out on a Sunday no traffic, everything was closed except church. You’d drive for hours maybe see one other car going for a drive. We A&W drive in. The drive in movies…I’m sure it’s like that in every small town. People move in you don’t know your neighbor anymore. More and more people come. And you lose your identity. Your niceness. Your quite. Shame
Damn the 1950s was a long time ago buddy 😊
I'm born and raised here and I'm happy to see the growth slow down. The town that I live in wasn't ready for the growth and we are bursting at the seams. Traffic is horrible and road rage is way up. I hope the slow down continues..Thanks for the video
Too many racist old white men too
Me too. Snowbirds go home.😮
Yes please go away i95 goes north as well i10 goes west please leave
Same in Ocala area. Nothing but nasty people on the road. I'll be doing like 70 and still get passed like I'm going too slow. Hey u wanna off yourself, you go right ahead
@@dmo848I do the speed limit...lol
I live in South Georgia and commute daily on 75 headed towards Atlanta. I have seen a ton of Florida cars packed with clothing and moving trucks heading north. I always say there goes another Floridian fleeing 😅
"The Great Migration" part 2 😂
a lot of people that moved to make money in Florida found it is not a place to make a living unless tied into people from up north (i.e. real estate, lawyers, etc). the industries there mostly do not pay enough. Have to have money from up north to live there
Oh your 100% right. I was in that hell hole of FL born and raised for 29 years and I had to get the hell out and I did last year.
Nonthing but bastards and old cruel people. And the nice ones like myself are moving away for the better or hiding.
I was too nice for FL.
@@gravethebeyond I left in 1990 don't miss it one bit, the population was less than half of what it is now, I must admit when I first moved there in 1984 my plan was for a short time, it did grow on me and I kinda had a good life down there. Now I don't even visit anymore.
@@lrobie123 I did good for my self in Fla.1984-1990 after that it was so different compared to what made me like Fla. I liked the country side of Fla. those multy generational Floridians treated me very well. Kudos those were some really good people I must admit.
I love Orlando and love florida. There is always something to to do, beaches are great, lots of live music, no state tax, weather is almost always nice, plenty of sports, multicultural, great ethnic foods, lots of parks, festivals etc
WHHHHHAAAAATTTT!!!!!????????????????????...ha..haha....hahaha...hahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@stixplayer sorry if you can’t afford it!😱👍🏻
@@2Rugrats9597 multicultural?...Ethnic food?.............oh wait....I forgot....EPCOT RIGHT!
@@stixplayer been living in Florida (miami & orlando) for 38yrs and we have people from every country in south America, Central America, PR, DR, all the islands and Europe! Yeah , I would say it’s
Multicultural.😉
@@2Rugrats9597 no.
The weather is horrible in Florida it’s extremely too hot !!
The Miami metro area is main area in Florida that people are leaving from (mostly due to unaffordable housing)
Not just unaffordable housing. Rising seas, gentrification, racism, huge crowds, traffic, high property taxes, fraud, very high crime and poor infrastructure. Even if you live in a "decent" neighborhood, you're still told to lock your doors at all times because of the break ins. Southeast Florida is a lost cause now I'm afraid. People say it's still "growing" but it's dying.
Sarasota is crazy expensive now too. Even Orlando area is way too expensive
I moved to Orlando around February 2023 with my brother, and we’ve been renting a two bed apartment since then. As someone who was born and raised in Atlanta and lived there until 2021, I personally love it here, and I’ll stay here as long as I can. If I’m forced to leave, I have no idea where I will go next.
I’m glad you love it here!
Yeah I’m leaving Atlanta in two weeks and moving back to Florida myself. I’ve lived in Atlanta on and off for a total of 15 years and Florida on and off for a total of 18 years and I’ll take Florida over Atlanta. Atlanta has all of Florida’s problems on steroids but no beach.
I won’t say which part of Florida I’m moving to because I don’t want a bunch of people moving there and turning it into another Miami or Atlanta
We all might have to live in Dumpsters in the future
For every 2 people leaving..there's 5 people comming..😂😂😂
NAILED IT !!!!!!
That is not what the growing housing inventory would suggest .
But how many are dying vs being born?
People are starting to realize that insurance is nothing but a scam 😒
Its a Rich mans State !! If you have no money, Forget about living in Florida !!!
I avoid I4 at all costs. There's at least one fatality per day on that road.
cycle repeats itself, low seevice jobs, insane insurance cost. Not sustainable.
Not at all. I've been here for way too long and believe me, it wasn't my choice. I'm here because of some dumb broad who couldn't bear to let go of this toilet. She grew up here. She went to school here and used to ride her little bicycle around. Awww. How cute. (spits). I remind her all the time that she ruined my life by demanding to be here. I'll never forgive her for it and every time something bad happens, I say, "Karma's a b**ch, ain't it"?
There is one bright side to high costs. It keeps the riff raff out
@@brianG81 You definitely belong in Cape Coral.
The snowbirds are crowding us out , and turning Florida into a huge nursing home
There are so many impatient drivers in my town. I thought people moved to Florida to retire. What’s the rush? I hate driving on I-95. I would rather take the local roads and take longer.
It's because Florida is SO big, takes a long time to go anywhere.
The real question is.........WHY WOULD ANYONE LIVE IN FLORIDA IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!!????????
Florida started getting bad when new Yorkers and Californians started coming over,the housing prices went through roof ...
What are you talking about??!!
I LOVE it here. I hate cold winters and snow. Really dreading living in it. But I can't afford to live in Florida anymore.
@@Millieshin-yj5mb I see it as a dump. sorry.
@@MrGreenliz75 Housing went through the roof because big corporate America is buying every home in site far above asking and far far above the home value in an attempt to squeeze middle America out of every last dollar it has. Trump once said(real estate mogul) "I LOVE ZERO INTERST RATES" and his corporation and many like it love them too!! Thus sweeping up the homes to force you to either buy at THEIR PRICE later on OR worse yet RENT at their rate.
@@stixplayer It doesn't bother me at all. To each his own🌴 🌊
I live in Sarasota couty..area being destroyed by housing developments..county commissioners allowing high density housing against the will of the peoplel...every nice 😢area being destroyed and increasing traffic and insurance
Sounds like what happened to my former hometown Denver, CO. Any place that gets too "trendy" and grows too fast loses its soul and gets destroyed in the end by developers and transplants.
I live in Venice. Been here since 74 but time for me to get out. Just to much growth.
It’s the same in north Florida.
TY for speaking up for humans who used to enjoy living in Sarasota for decades till the recent invasion of heartless Developers who mock humans & their little concerns. My son is a County Building Inspector here & it is heartbreaking what they are doing to this area now. The humans have no voice here against the sexy money lovers nowadays & their Attorney Teams who just love to sue anything walking past.😢
Leave and keep leaving!
Who think isn't leaving.
I’ve lived in Southwest Florida since 1998 and there is two groups of people still buying homes in Florida. The first group is people with high net worth and the second group of people is Latino families with at least four-eight family members that are splitting the mortgage between them. Unfortunately, single-family homes are just not affordable for middle income Americans in Florida anymore. Let me be clear I have nothing against Latin American people, that’s just how things are taking place.
Yes. You used to be able to buy a nice home in a nice area if you made $60K per year. Now you’re lucky if you can afford a 1 bedroom apt.
Second group flooding Ga.......
Big facts and Orlando is all Hispanic you have to know Spanish to live there
Spanish 😂
Southwest Florida blew up during COVID, house prices are crazy unaffordable
😂 Because the snow birds are done. If any are leaving, it is because of desantis failure to address home insurance abuse.
The politics- on top of everything else, being humiliated on a national level every day was an additional factor in my decision to leave FL in 2023
Sylvester Stallone was paying $125k/year in property tax on his 18k sf mansion in Beverly Hills CA, he sold it (to singer Adele) and bought a 10k sf mansion in Palm Beach. His new property tax bill? $424k/year. Ouch. Adriaaaaaaaaan!
Once he’s a citizen of Florida he can apply for homestead exemption and his taxes will be a lot less.
@@TheBOG3 Good one. FL homestead exemption will only reduce the assessed value by $50k, and even if that's combined with a senior exemption Stallone will save less than $1k/year on that huge property tax bill.
@@harlanjackson6112 Here in Pasco County with Homestead you are only charged taxes on 75% of what your house is assessed at. They subtract 25% off its value.
@@TheBOG3 Sounds like different counties give different discounts.(Is that the FL version of equity?) Because no such discount in Palm Beach County. They know those folks can afford it. Just like the progressive income tax in CA. The ones higher up the food chain pay more. Stallone has been a FL resident for a couple years now.
oh please !!!! At his age, he still charges upwards of 400 MILLION per movie. He was paid $1 MILLION per episode for Tulsa King....The guy is a millionaire, he can afford.
I lived in West Palm back in the 70's when it was great. Now retired i have no desire to live there for multiple reasons. Great place to vacation but to live there no thank you.
Scams one can say a good Hurricane can wipe you out. Quality of life is the secret. This is a good video.
Job market is scarce, traffic always just to get groceries and come back home. I tried for the summer last year I packed up and left back to the North Carolina. I can get around easily within 15 minutes or less most of the time. I don’t know what I was thinking we still have carowinds theme park not millions of people , weather is still nice you could not pay me any amount of money to move back to FL.
North Carolina is a beautiful state, considered living there before landing on Florida due to family living here
Jacksonville NC is great
I lived in Charlotte for 20 years been in Florida now for five right before the pandemic. I wish I stayed in nc
Got out in 2010 after 65 years. Wouldn't go back and don't miss it.😮😮😮 Things only get worse. A pork chop/ Carpetbagger state of corruption! One big storm! Mother nature will reclaim what is Hers!
been here 36 years this summer....looking to make my jail break soon.
65 years?! Omg. I was thinking 29 years was bad. And my mom had 42 years.
But 65?! Thats just cruel. Sorry. Feels bad.
@@leagueofotters2774 get out asap. I'm a local and I moved out of state. Never going back to FL.
Pick a better state. Its your life friend. 👍✌
@@leagueofotters2774Left FL for WV. They’re paying $10,000 to move here too. We LOVE it here!! It’s everything we wanted. I would love to see the state grow some, and think it will, just hope it’s not anything like FL. Keep things cheap and affordable! Good luck to you on whatever you decide to do 😊
Florida: sea level will rise drastically increasing floods and sinkholes, hurricanes will intensify, and traffic will be a horror because it already is a nightmare. FL has many great things to offer. It's a wonderful state of entertainment but it's also a state that your pockets will empty faster than getting full of money. The low paying wages vs the high prices insurances. Look at all those floods in Miami and the home insurances through the roof, people can't even afford it anymore. The houses are still cheaper than some states like NY but the interest rates $ property taxes $, something to really think about before moving. I've been a Floridian since 1980 and even with a landscaping business we struggle to pay more in insurances than anything else and they don't want to cover most of it either. This is why FL has so many lawyers. Floridians I know are moving to NC, SC and TN.
Beside the astronomical real estate tax increase, I live in an established neighborhood that’s 50yrs old..constant noise and construction going on with all the recent sales. I’ve never been so annoyed, not one minute of peace. I’m over it and just may go back to New England after 27 years. Plus it’s way too expensive and crowded. FL ain’t FL anymore 😑
Hopefully if your taxes went up that means you have a ton of equity. 🤞
I was born in Tampa Bay Florida I definitely understand what you're talking about
I left in 96 after I was laid off my job with 280 other people and I couldn't find work anywhere, I finally found work and moved to Kansas.
Kansas?
@@marknewton6984 No she clearly said North Dakota.
@@PentaRaus Sounded more like Iowa to me.
Must’ve been really nice in 1996 .
Low wages, Desantis, home prices, insurance, RENT. Overcrowded everywhere. Did i hit all bases?
Yep, I hate all of those things! Just my husband and I making almost 200K a year in South Florida and feeling POOR!
@@Rachel299 idk where your living but you should be able to still afford to be here making that much
We are considering it, because it is less expensive than California in terms of buying a "home" - single family; however two things stopping us: 1) Home Insurance Costs and 2) Political Climate and is Florida good for the WHOLE family?...
A lot of what I’m hearing are problems that are going on everywhere in the country, not just Florida. Especially affordability/cost of living/infrastructure. Also if you live near any major city or populated area, traffic is always a problem! Nobody is fleeing in droves to live in Baltimore but Baltimore traffic still sucks! Lol
Nothing like california 😂😂
I would definitely live in California if I was a millionaire. Live there 11 years during my Navy and college days.
Nothing is what you get.
Well I’m a Californian looking to go to Florida but all these vids have been telling me basically it’s a bad idea 😭
@@prettykitty5416 it's crap. I'm going in 2 weeks check out apartments in Wesley chapel and Brandon. 1 bedroom 1500 to 1700 lol I'm paying 2700.00
Not as bad as vids say..😮@@prettykitty5416
It's the cost of home Insurance it's so costly u can afford a mortgage and Insurance it's sad
Yes, we need more people to leave!!
I often don't understand why some of these stories don't involve banking and other home loan institutions. Lenders require that you have PMI until you have a minimum of 21% equity in your house. And many have homeowners insurance as a condition of the loan, so most often that's for 15-30 years depending on your mortgage. If you stop paying, get cancelled or can't get homeowners insurance the lender can call the note and demand 3 things. Get insurance, or pay in full or get another lender and refinance. So insurance rates are being portrayed as . It's expensive, it's a hassle,shop around but actually getting cancelled or the rates being increased so high you can't pay can cause you to default and lose your house. And not just Florida, lots of states have some oversight like an insurance commissioner and they are not doing their job
Also second highest auto insurance rate in the nation and good luck finding a doctor also many other things the hot weather at the top for me
#1 Crime, Crime, Crime! #2 Superficial Creeps and Self Entitled 3rd World immigrants #3 Skyrocketing Insurance Premiums constantly rising without any Increase Limits,Insane HOA’s Rising costs of Assessments 200-1000% with no limits are just ridiculous, Waiting to see what a hurricane will bring to State Assessments, Housing maintenance costs due to the drastic weather conditions are ridiculously insane. Too many more to list
One summer in Florida, and I was gone.
where u go
I agree with you 💯. I live in Lakeland FL and spent last couple weekends buying used stuff to build a gym at home and 90% of people I saw are going back north for same reasons you said. Out of the 15 places I went buying gym equipment 13 are moving out (Orlando area)
Wow!
that's crazy. but also understandable
Need any help packing ..???...the Bronx will welcome you back...
Snow.😮
@@marknewton6984 Rarely snows in NYC nowadays.
Crime. Homeless. Dirty. Cold. AOC.
@marknewton6984 it hasn't snowed in NYC for 5 years now. If it does it snows once or twice
My son’s job is encouraging him to move to Florida. If paying cash for a house in the 300’s would property taxes and insurance costs be like still having a mortgage? The stories on Florida are really discouraging for moving there.
You can do a property tax estimator online for the home he is considering buying in the county that he will live. If he buys a new or fairly new home and he is inland and not in a flood zone, insurance should be ok. Car insurance is also pretty expensive here though.
If u buy cash u don't have to pay Insurance
@@universalstudiosshorts9963 yes, this is true. Thanks for pointing that out.
@@universalstudiosshorts9963you don’t have to lay it but if you have damage make sure you have money to cover it. Don’t go crying to the media that you don’t have insurance
@@universalstudiosshorts9963Who would invest $300k cash without protecting their home with insurance? What really matters is the age of the home, the age/remaining life of the roof (insurer can make you replace it) and that should be on the seller to do if the roof is old, are there impact windows and doors, how old is the HVAC and electrical system, plumbing? Is it in a flood zone, or evacuation zone for hurricanes? Impact garage door? Any mold issues? Complete inspections are needed.
Meantime, people who can afford it prefer newer homes to avoid compliance on the above issues, just to get or keep insurance. I would get a referral to a local insurance agent to get a ballpark cost for insurance plus issues that must be dealt with for any home I want to buy.
My friends bought a nice concrete block home built in the 1970’s, they did:
Partial replacements or major upgrades:
Plumbing
Electrical/new lighting
Part of the roof had to be replaced, rest was new,
HVAC system
New water heater
Impact windows, doors, sliders, all openings.
Interior painting entire place,
New appliances.
It looks amazing and they negotiated a deal on the price, knowing how much work it needed. They got permits for all required insurance updates. Good luck.
I'm north of Citra, lived here just shy of 15 years. I'm seeking to move because of politics and scammers. "Handymen" have done more damage to my mobile than make repairs or improvements. There's a serious lack of integrity and honesty here.
Good help is hard to find - but I’m pretty sure that’s true everywhere.
@@OrlandoandBeyondwithKrista Not at the level it is here, from minute one. I've lived all over the country, and it's horrible here. Add the racism, rudeness, and overall lack of real education (I was a teacher - saw WRONG info taught first hand). If all America is like this, we are doomed.
Not just the handymen. Individuals selling things (ie craigslist, fb), businesses (the story behind buying my van is horrific). Of course, laws and rules of the road only apply if you get caught....
I live in Orlando and love it! Let people leave no state is perfect, but Florida provides a good quality of life! If you don't like it 👋
Florida is a toilet.
No one gives a shit what you think!
I lived in Oviedo & Kissimmee I did have a good life, just too crowded for me plus can't deal with the heat.
@@Markham12thcentury
At least we know what gender we are down here
@@Markham12thcenturyI can promise you Florida is better then any state you reside at
I moved down here from DC. I’m finding that the cost of living is about equal, but the salaries are not and there is not as much to do.
I lived in DuPont Cir area after college and worked in DC. It's hard for me to compare "things to do" because what I did in my early 20s doesn't really intersect with my interests now, but in DC you can get out of DC pretty quickly and see other things. In Florida you have to drive an awfully long way for a real change of pace.
I moved to Alabama in January because I couldn't afford to live in the Tampa Bay area anymore. Not to mention the 8 month long summers. After 59 years in Florida I finally escaped!
have been thinking about relocating there..do u like it,..
How’s Alabama
You didn't mention, for community dwellers, the corrupt and or deceptive HOA management companies and the exorbitant HOA fees.
I moved here in 2015 for work, and I'm now having to change my entire career and move out of florida because I can't afford to keep living here. Jobs are plenty, but wages are way too low, housing and insurance are a NIGHTMARE. I can barely afford my monthly essentials, let alone anything extra, or to save. It's bleeding us all dry. I just feel bad for the locals who can't move and how much worse this state is going to get in the next 10 years if this upward trajectory of costs keep going.
This lady looks like "The Church Lady" from SNL many years ago.Trump 2024.
It would be a sin not to use me as your realtor if you buy or sell a home
it's 95 degrees in May
It's better weather only if you like sweltering heat and humidity for 8 months of the year. Don't forget the hurricanes and tropical storms and sky high electric bills for a/c constantly running. I moved from Florida to Colorado. Best decision I ever made.
Natives are used to it and love our weather. Why were you surprised by it?
It's not humid for 8 months, it's dry for 8 months and more humid for 4. Also we run the AC here almost every day and my electric bill is lower than what it was in Connecticut. I don't think that you actually lived here lol. Also Colorado is beautiful but has its own issues like the lack of water due to too many states pulling from the Colorado river, and unchecked illegal immigration and drug use which has destroyed Denver. The grass is always greener somewhere else...
Try Canada and you'll realize how good the weather is in Florida
are u happier there? col a little better? job prospects? how about freezing winters?
Its just so darned hot and humid .
All the left wing democrats are leaving because Florida is normal. Thank you governor DeSantis.👍🇺🇸👍🇺🇸👍🇺🇸👍🇺🇸👍🇺🇸
Ahhhhh - more are coming than going. AND - people are always coming and going. AND - you are a realtor.
Florida is a mess.
Mom and Dad with 5 kids moved to Naples in 1977. He sold the house in NY and paid 29,000 cash for a 3/2 in Naples back when ot was a sleepy little town. I was 14 at the time. Now Im almost 60 and come back to help Mom who is 90. I dont know how families are making it with the high real estate and cost of living.
Been in Florida since 1998 (Miami & Orlando), Florida has forever changed, irreversibly so. Never thought the day would come that we'd want to leave, but that day can't come fast enough. So much more I can say, but I'm just over it.
I’m really sorry to hear that.
Could you please share your experience? I have been wanting to move to Horizon west but I am too afraid of the property prices bc it might come down like 2008!
@@karinaoliveira3988home loans are completely different now than they were leading up to 07. Housing crash isn’t going to happen unless unemployment reaches 10-15%. Most people are locked into 3-4% rates and there are no NINJA loans and most people don’t have ARM loans which helped cause the crash. I wouldn’t be scared of a crash.
@@OrlandoandBeyondwithKristayou give the most generic replies I swear
@@Wileytiger-el6pu im really sorry to hear that.
They haven’t left Florida … They have Sold up and moved into Rented accommodation due to high Mortgage rates and Costs, As a Landlord i now have a 1700 name waiting list for Rental accommodation by people selling up to move into rentals. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT. I have even bought the Bank owned homes and have rented them to the original owners as Tenants who are now paying $400 less a month. I am about to do a Deal with one Bank for all 23 Homes that are coming on to auction on the 17 th July as a Bulk deal, All will be Rented out to Local home owners that are selling up. And thanks to Ben Mullins we have secured a good interest rate for a 4 Block Apartment that was originally designed for retirement but has had permission to rent out to a Younger Residential Housing Complex. With 2 pools, No one is Buying except for Landlords, and everyone is selling so they will rent instead,.. Personally i would take what this Woman says with a Pinch of salt.
I-moved from CT to Florida 12 years ago and in the fall I am retiring and moving to Tennessee- that’s where my family members have moved to in the last few years. It’s south east Tennessee and I cannot wait to leave Florida for too many reason to even list here lol
Yes, I have seen a lot of people heading to TN recently. Best wishes to you!
I'm from Connecticut as well live in Naples fl for the past 5 years. But I want out looking to move soon
@@johnnyirizarry1276 where are you thinking of going I’m from Connecticut too
@@joetz1 Carolinas south preferably
@@johnnyirizarry1276 We have a place in South Florida but we're in CT most of the time, I'm not going to lie for the most part I'll take CT weather and landscape. Born and raised in CT over 50 years, it's expensive and we're getting all of the NY, NJ and Massachusetts people as well, it's getting quite crowded here but not as much as Florida.
"CENTRAL FLA AREA" is not Florida it is Disney tourism, insane heat and no beaches and shitty pay and ridiculess prices No one is going to buy your 290k home for 415k, get a HELOC and rent it out
Because Ron DeSantis Evil Drama Empire 🙄
The only thing left in Florida related to paradise is the sun. Everything else sux, including the influx of eletes. That's why I left almost 2 decades ago.
I’ve been here since 2008 and I’m currently prepping to move farther north. Between all the issues you listed in the video and the brutal summers, I’m ready to go elsewhere. I’m just thankful I have a good deal of equity in this house so I’ll be able to afford my forever home. 😊
I was thinking of moving to Florida just before the pandemic hit. So glad I didn't.
Please, the Woke should leave Florida asap!! 😳🇺🇲♥️ We are a MAGA State!!
Yeah, that’s what has ruined Florida for everyone.
The headline is complete BS. Florida has the #2 net inbound migration in the nation, right behind TX, in sheer numbers and is #3 in percent growth year over year. Some people may be leaving, but hundreds of thousands more are arriving.
And they leave again . They come here for the Sun and leave because they cannot afford to live here .stop the BS
I have never seen so many empty for sale houses
@@Soltice-ty2nf No BS here, just math. A few leave, but way more are coming. There is a large NET influx of people moving to Florida, more than 300,000 a year. Most of those coming here can afford to live here, and never leave.
What you said Richard is true. I know Tampa area is expected to gain another 120,000 more in 18 months. Many people moving here get a wake up call when that first insurance and tax bills resets.
If I had the money I would be there tomm😂😂😂😂
Between alligators, hurricanes, an increasingly extreme political environment that used to be a lot more moderate, and skyrocketing costs I don’t blame people for leaving.
My Dad had his home built in Cape Coral -1979. We had the benefit of knowing the builder Mr. Rosen and his family and he did a special upgrade on our house as he built his next door. Cape Coral was wonderful at time and for many years it was pleasant and enjoyable. My family lives in Nevada, and would spend several months each year in Florida and know it well. Sad to say, in the late 80's it changed, and never regained the charm it once had. My wife and I took possession of the property 3 years ago and I kept the house up to November 2023. The taxes, insurance rates, Nor-Eastern's, substandard law enforcement, including (Drunk and HIGH driving all over the place), the rip-off culture associate with most contractors & services, water supply & pollution, etc. has made this once wonderful paradise, just a place for day- to - day survival. The WEATHER is Nature and if you like living in a Tropical environment you can't complain.
i hate the heat omg
I’m from south western Ontario and love the 4 seasons here. Would never move to the brutal heat of the southern States in USA. I’m 63 and enjoy the life burst in spring…yes the humid summers are hot like Florida, autumn colours and cooler temps are beautiful..then snow and Christmas lights.
There is a certain sadness around Santa in shorts
Stay.😮
@@OrlandoandBeyondwithKristareally? Love Florida Christmas in my area with Santa coming in by boat in shorts and yard decorations with flamingos pulling his sleigh!
@@crazycatlady6396 some years I think it’s cool. Some years I just want snooooooooow (for a few days anyway). I’m from PA. It’s hard to not have a frosty Christmas.
Florida, for decades, has been the main destination for retirees and others, mainly east of the Mississippi River, and as north as Canada included.
After the pandemic, we noticed a high number of people from other states, including: California, Oregon, and Washington states.
Californians do sell a shed there, buy a mansion here and still have money to buy their tesla.
Californians are coming to Florida in a very high numbers.
What is Ron Desantis doing so right that Newsom can't do? To look for the best interest of the people in cali.
Californians, please, as you move to Florida, leave your leftist feelings behind, MAGA with us, and welcome to the sunshine state.
Things being so here, in rival China, a country of one and half billion people, the Chinese man and woman are among the richest in the World ! They buy the most expensive real estate abroad.
I’ll never understand why young people go to Florida. It’s a tourist/immigrant economy which is hella unsustainable. These people come fresh off the boat ready to do the same skills for a 1/2 the price even less sometimes. Florida isn’t designed to protect its residents unless you’re a retiree.
I've wondered why the state does nothing to protect people who actually live and work here all year, or promote jobs for younger people. The state won't have sustainable long term success without young people but right now I can't imagine a young family being able to afford it here
Guys, I am in MA not sure what state would escape this situation!? hahaha...I has do to with Bidennomics more than anything. 😅
Excellent video!
Glad you liked it!