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Florida born and raised here as well (from Miami). 46 years old. I left that God-forsaken state in 2015 for Arizona and never turned back. Best decision of my life. Funny you should say that. People think that Miami is all beautiful women and rich people living in mansions. That is laughable. Go to Northwest Miami and then report back to me what you think about it. That's if you get out with no knife or bullets in you. And that's not an exaggeration either, sad to say.
Florida native here also, left then returned in 2018. It was so nice at first when I returned, then over time declined. Overpopulated, construction everywhere, surging prices, ppl in so many medians now asking for money that weren’t there before, more traffic.. I left recently and know other ppl leaving as well.
Florida native here as well I lived between Saint Augustine, Orange park, and daytona. I left for up north never went back. No economic opportunity no raises just horrible conditions.
I agree. When I moved to FL in 2007, I worked in the hospitality industry as a transfer from NYC. I was getting paid really well off the bat. My coworkers in the other hand were getting paid chairity money. Florida sucks.
My sister was working in hospitality management in Florida for 28 years at the same place. When she got laid off in 2009, she was working 60 hour weeks and getting about $40k. She was offered a severance of $2,000, contingent on her never suing. She refused. If you’re not rich, you get treated like a farm animal.
@@joetrapp9187Lo imaginaba, los siervos y los servidos. Que encima rompieron, incumplieron las reglas, los dejaron sin Florida. A ellos no deberían dejar vivir en las islas de protección. Ya q ellos fueron los primeros en huir en sus avionetas, dejando autos, yates, al mas puro estilo mafioso, por una suposición mía, solo imaginación, estos, salían con la lancha a Mejico a buscar fafafsfafa.
@@joetrapp9187 and it's the disgusting treatment workers get from the managers they want you walking around with your head down and shuffling your feet saying "Yes,Boss" like Cool Hand Luke.
@@helenfu5550 That's A Lie!! Your pay, right to work, no union state has never increased with the cost of living! I sold my house 20+ years ago. I would never tell anyone to live in that swamp land now, with all that mess!! You can keep it, I❤️ Love My paid off Brownstone in 🗽Brooklyn NY!! Good Luck With That.
No state taxes is not a flex. In Florida they get us in other ways like extremely high insurance and property taxes. Let's not forget the joke of wages even for skilled workers @@helenfu5550
Florida is extremely car-centric and pedestrian unfriendly. Not having a car in Florida is like not having a jacket in the winter. There really is only 1 big city in Florida that is Miami. On the other hand, Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville are really just ultra-gargantuan suburbs with an ultra-gargantuan office park serving as their downtown or CBD. Combine this with natural disasters and how most of the state is at sea level, it's an urbanist nightmare. Even then, a lot of Miami suburbs are unethical given how lots of natural wetlands going into the Everglades was destroyed for massive real estate development. I'm very supportive of building more high-density housing developments to combat the housing shortage. However, the problem is that majority of Floridians live in very low-density housing. This in turn is very detrimental to the environment. Most Floridians are against high-density housing, even though high-density housing has been proven to be beneficial in most of the world outside the USA.
Orlando is slowly getting better with its CBD area. In Orlando's case, the downtown area sucks because they want the tourist footprint and infrastructure focused on DisneyWorld-incorporated land and I-Drive. It is also the same reason why the REAL downtown Las Vegas sucks, and everything cool and walkable is at the strip, located in Paradise, NV.
I am from Florida and have lived there for my entire childhood. Specifically, my family lives in the Tampa Bay area, which was affected by hurricanes Helene and Milton. It is a very nice place to visit, especially in the winter. But, given the tropical / natural disasters that the region faces, the oftentimes oppressive humidity and mosquitoes, as well as the way it's always in the news for one reason or another, it's definitely changed. I mean, Tropicana Field looked unrecognizable after Hurricane Milton, which is sad because I used to go there to watch the Rays. Now I'm in the Rocky Mountain region, and since it's not as hot or densely populated, I love it! My thoughts, however, are to the Floridians that have been affected by these catastrophic storms such as Helene and Milton...
I’ve never understood the appeal of FL. Though to be honest most of the U.S. seems pretty uninteresting and undesirable. Just the lack of decent public transportation and housing alone. Couple it with healthcare and education costs and it seems like the uneducated want to be exploited rather than creating a system that is viable and sustainable for everyone.
I am a Canadian and moved to the US. My disposable income tripled and I am well on track to retire early. The US is definitely not for the uneducated..
There was a saying I remember as a kid - "if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere." Well, I knew a lot of people from New York that couldn't make it in Florida. Should be, if you can make it in Florida, you can make it anywhere 😂
While it's true that Florida's population overall is less educated than the country as a whole, the map showing higher education attainment is misleading since the rural areas of state are both less educated and far less densely populated. That said, the education attainment metric is further exacerbated by the fact that many of Florida's highly educated are retired and not contributing to the state's productivity. I've been in Florida for 23 years, and when I retire I will likely have to leave the state because it's just too expensive to maintain a household even if you own your home. Insurance costs are completely out of control, and my HOA costs for my small condo are now more than my monthly mortgage payment. It's ironic that I'll have to leave when I retire while retirees continue to flood the state.
I .lived in Fl 35 years, left the day I retired. My condo fees, insurance and other living costs just continued to rise and it was no longer affordable. No taxes means little when everything else is too expensive
Unmanaged growth , poor infrastructure , low wages , water quality issues and availability, high insurance rates , high cost of living , Climate and Weather disaster issues , traffic , insane politics ......shall I go on ?
It's like living in three different countries in one state. Tourist, retirement, real estate - poor, lower middle class, opulent obscene wealth - ect, ect, and ect. Oh, and if someone finds themselves suddenly homeless and too poor to afford a motel room, they can be charged with a crime.
Republicans in FL brag about the state's low taxes. But municipal workers are paid low salaries. And politicians want to keep it that way, unfortunately.
In my area there was a mobile home park area poor people live there and basically around it, a new firm bought the entire area built apartment and selling them for 797k after 2 years less than half was sold the rest cant sell because local can not afford it locals was kicked out and new people realized its not place the like so the left now my area is like a ghost area
I am just curious what has changed for you as a winter snowbird: just the hurricanes, costs, crowds, what exactly if i may ask?? I was just curious because i wanted to travel there more, not less,,,,but not to own any property, just rent or stay in hotels !!
@@carrob704what has changed … that’s easy. Claude is a snowflake ❄️ a democrat that cares more about abortion than enjoying the good weather in florida. That’s what’s changed. It Doesn’t matter though as many others has taken his place and paid more for the privilege. 😂
I know a guy who retired to Florida and lived in a trailer near the beach. He loved Florida weather and the politics since he’s a rightie. But the rent his trailer doubled over the last couple years (a lot because of increased insurance costs) and even with a good government pension he couldn’t afford to live there anymore. He left Florida recently only because of affordability
@@jacobsoto7228 - depends on the person. Affordability, weather, lack of natural disasters, near the beach, near the mountains, good jobs, access to medical care etc are factors that could come into play.
Florida became a serious problem after Covid. Many people moved from expensive States and paid overpriced value houses and created a bubble that exist until these days. The salary didn't follow the inflation and many people started to struggle even more. Not only that, but also the Natural Disasters are getting worse every year creating another problem with insurance that skyrocketed to the point many people are having problem not to pay the mortgage but the insurance policy. If this bubble doesn't bust and the Real Estate doesn't get fixed to the reality we face, many more people will be homeless and the economy will be impacted even more. Florida became a heavy truck trailer going downhill without brakes... if a "escape ramp" doesn't show on the way, the "Truck" (Florida) will crash.
Florida's reputation is based entirely on people from Michigan vacationing there in January and believing the weather is nice. The weather is horrible unless a person enjoys unrelenting extreme humidity.
I disagree it depends on the person. I live in south Florida but I’ve also lived in Ohio and Ohio has hot humid summers but nasty freezing cold winters where you can’t even go for a nice walk outside. It’s depressing af. Atleast i Fl you get 7 months of 70-85 degree weather with much lower humidity than summer.
@@loganalt , I lived in Florida from 1976 until 2021. I don't know where you lived in Florida but the Tampa area is off the charts humid pretty much every day unless a cold front from up North is moving through. Now living in northern Missouri. Winters are wonderful aside from a few days when it does get below zero. In General lows are upper 30s lower 40s. Which in my opinion is heavenly.
In Florida we do a lot of "freedom happy talk," while promoting hate & sticking it to anyone who doesn't have a trust fund! This is the across-the-board attitude of Governor DeSantis & GOP Legislature. A lot of "Heads I win, Tails you Lose!" But we're good at pushing the low tax, lot of sunshine brand. Just never let you know how our "insurance & fees" skyrocket on a yearly basis while our services crater!😳🤔
Don’t let Miami fool you, Miami-Dade is starting to go to crap too. With all the tax revenue the county gets you’d think they would have enough money to fix the damn roads. I can’t drive without looking directly at the floor for huge potholes, like tire popping, wheel destroying potholes. I wonder were the hell our taxes go
I worked with a few ppl in central Florida from Miami and the main topic was how bad it was there. Customers using needles for their drug addictions in the restrooms. There is also a migration from Miami to central Florida because it’s getting worse there.
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As a Floridian who is now making pretty decent money, it wasn't that long ago that I wasn't I can confidently say that even 5 years ago the 42k per year metric is iffy on if you can "pay your bills" living by yourself dependent on what part of the state you live in. That said, today its impossible to live by yourself on that kind of income unless you get REALLY lucky and find an insanely cheap place that is likely run down and crappy. Most 1br apartments are running closer to $2000.00+ per month with first, last, safety, and pet costs added. You could get lucky and find apartments running maybe $1800.00 per month but lets do the math on this because that 30% on housing metric is bullshit. If you are making $42k per year then monthly (before tax) you are making $3230.77. Now lets make this easy and say after tax its a flat $3000.00 per month. Welp if your rent is around $2k then that's 66% of your monthly income. Now add in car payments, insurance, basic household items, food, water, electricity(also very expensive in FL right now thanks to Desantis and FPL) and god forbid you have anything health related. The math doesn't add up. I know plenty of people making $60k who still have barley any wiggle room. Again, I consider myself insanely lucky, but even for what I make places like Invitation homes require 3x the rent in household take home income to rent a specific place. That said, if rent is 2k that means the household needs to make 6k AFTER TAXES to rent, meaning well over six figures. Again using basic math that means that it would take x3 people making that 42k number to rent that place. It's almost mandatory for a lot of grown adults to have roommates these days in Florida, and it's kinda sad especially when you take into account that they are making the new apartments smaller, the walls thinner, and in some cases even trying to enforce rules like "no sex allowed". Its almost like the workers are back to being serfs in some cases. Couple this with other problems in Florida like shitty schools and this weird attack on higher education because a lot of people in the state think everything is woke. You then have people who are born here who weren't rich to begin with meaning no financial literacy, who don't value education, and become another lower skilled worker who struggles because of it. And from a macro perspective its hard to even blame them.
All I hear is how great Florida’s economy is. So define “good economy.” What I know is that Florida has plenty of low paying jobs but very, very few decent paying jobs. Their “great economy” seems to be the mass COVID retirement of baby boomers. These baby boomers aren’t bringing in high paying jobs because they are retired. They do put a huge demand on health care, nursing homes, retail, etc. but none of those industries pay anything except for medicine, So, please tell me how Florida’s economy is so great with no decent paying jobs?
Yeah Florida friggen sucks.. we pay over 2k per month for a modest 1/1 in Broward. Have a 25 mile commute to work in SoBe, which will take anywhere between 50-90 minutes each way, longer in winter due to snowbirds. The people generally are very rude in south Florida, and advantageous. I cannot wait for the opportunity to leave this place and never look back.
The only beneficiary to tourism in Florida are the select companies that utilize Florida for its personal advantage. Residents of Florida themselves do not actually benefit from tourism aside from the tax dollars that the local government generates from those businesses. There are a lot of low wage, low skill jobs in Florida, which attract a lot of unskilled labor, but that isn’t a good thing by and large. Florida is basically a state of servants for the servitude of others on vacation.
I don't know who believes that lie of most people are wealthy in swamp land FL. Especially now that it's sinking & most residents losing their livlihoods with these hurricanes! You can keep it!!!
That $40k figure on income is unrealistic it's more in the 20s and you realistically need $60k+ to live here. Everyone moving to Florida from bigger wealthy states have priced the locals out usually paying overasking prices on homes. And this video also leaves out the fact that all these corporations have bought up 90% of the single family homes here and doubled the rent.
I ARRIVED in FLA. IN 2001. SAW WHAT I WAS YP AGAINST AND LEFT 6 MONTHS LATER!!!!! VERY EXPESIVE RENT AND HOUSING!!! NICE TO VISIT- NEVER STAY UNLESS YOU HAVE A COUPLE OF MILLION
Miami is a 3rd world country mainly due the Cubans that think is Cuba and because of that, they have monopolized the employment system, giving the best paying jobs to Cubans Only. Just look at the political system and see who runs the show. And that is one of the main issues here.
I think made a mistake @14:28. What you show on the screen is the opposite of what you are trying to say, "The current ratio of taxpaying workers to retirees is 3:1" but you show the opposite with 3 retirees to 1 worker. "...but by 2030 it is expected to drop to 2:1 as Baby Boomers continue to age out of the workforce" but the screen shows 2 retirees to 1 worker.
I used to love it here, now I just like it. The only thing keeping me here is the heat. I cannot deal with any temps less than 70 degrees and Im one of the very few that love the heat, as I work outdoors year round. But my little, once quaint hometown has been overrun with folks from the Northeast and folks from South Florida, all thanks to the covid. If I really wanted to leave, I would of done so by now.
I hope so, traffic in the state sucks now. I-75 has daily traffic jams around the villages and the Bradenton/Sarasota area. Never used to be that way prior to Covid.
Floridian that left in his Early twenties and 15 years later never returned. I always have a dream that Florida will one day get rid of its suburbs and make walkable mixed housing so that we can make public trans viable and stop tearing down the prairie for football size parking lots and copy paste suburbs. Where we can actually have housing that is livable economically and daily. But it seems the gov and people love seeing more suburbs and traffic so they can look at their housing price rise on zillow than actually live well.
Actually, Florida is the 4th largest state by GDP with 1.6$ trillion dollars, not even close to 3rd place which is New York with 2.2$ trillion dollars of GDP.
Breaking point is close then it would tip towards total insolvability fast. Solution higher taxes for the rich, closing social programs, incread sing minimum salary to $25per hour more investment in education and innovation. In summary becoming a real State.
@SigFigNewton I hate to burst your bubble but. Yes, billionaires and millionaires significantly skew per capita income statistics upwards, meaning that the average income appears higher than the typical individual's income due to the extreme wealth held by a small number of very rich people; essentially, a few extremely high earners can significantly inflate the average when calculated across the whole population" The income Inequality of the avaricious wall street and Hollywood elite, skew your perception of income. Just as Google and Microsoft paying taxes in Ireland makes it seem that the county has high income and they don't. Red states don't have that extreme concentration of Billionaires and large corporations.
@@robluck21 minimum wage is a major factor. Florida is behind a lot of blue states, ahead of most red states. When workers have spending money left over after housing, health care, and transport, turns out that they spend money at local businesses. Increases in the minimum wage literally create jobs.
@SigFigNewton keep in mind that adding California's or NYs high income taxes, just to name one tax would not improve their situation. Now California's proposition 13 passed over the government resistance was a great idea for Florida.
Your governor is also picking unnecessary fights with Mickey Mouse, books, and drag queens when he should be focusing on the insurance, condo/HOA, and unaffordability crises.
Yeah he should do what newsome does and just blame everything on climate change without actually doing anything about it. How many fires did California have this year so far?
This is an interesting video! Thanks for sharing. Tough to see Florida where it is now, such a beautiful place, hopefully a change in political leadership will push Florida in the right direction again.
What are they supposed to do in Florida? Turn the state blue and have it flooded with a bunch of third-world aliens, all while paying sky high taxes and suffering increasing regulation?
Most problems mentioned such as cost of living, housing, and ecomony is the entire country right now. I would also say that mosquitoes alligators humidity heat dont really bother the people who live here as we are used to it. Every state has its weather and animals that people dont like. Florida wont be underwater by 2050 and hurricans can be migitated by proper building regulations and seawalls for storm surges in coastal communities.
All I'm hoping for is a new virus or the meteor.. born and raised in Florida The state is overpopulated, car accident, insurance and interest rate are hella high Even with a college degree renting and buying a house it's becoming almost unaffordable.. at this point of time you might as well just flood this state
with wages not keeping up with cost of living, eventually enough people will be poor that a revolution will occur, but since those in power dont want that, they will wait as long as they can before raising rates and wages.
The economic shift in Florida is not a new phenomenon and certainly not exclusive to that state. All states that are growing fairly rapidly are experiencing the same thing. People that are leaving one state for another more than often have money and that money moves with them. Demand is higher and prices are higher and the only ones able buy are those with money. The jobs don’t necessarily move with the people. Too many low wage jobs, the rich getting richer and the poor staying poor. It’s been going on for decades everywhere.
CA and NYC are far worse. Top 10 fastest growing states are republican run states. Everyone is fleeing the democrat ones. Not that republican run states are perfect either but I’d rather Florida than CA, IL, NY
Can you bring other Industries I got the tourism the hospitality industry and the produce industry and the food service industry and so forth need to bring in manufacturing industry the Boost the economy in the state of Florida
Hurricanes discourage companies from building manufacturing facilities in Florida (also sky high insurance rates). Construction is more expensive since buildings have to be constructed to withstand high winds and flooding. Then the facilities have to be evacuated when hurricanes are coming and repaired afterwards. That’s why computer chip manufacturers picked AZ over Florida
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Florida born and raised here. I advise people to avoid this trash state. Outside of tourist areas it’s garbage.
Florida born and raised here as well (from Miami). 46 years old. I left that God-forsaken state in 2015 for Arizona and never turned back. Best decision of my life. Funny you should say that. People think that Miami is all beautiful women and rich people living in mansions. That is laughable. Go to Northwest Miami and then report back to me what you think about it. That's if you get out with no knife or bullets in you. And that's not an exaggeration either, sad to say.
@@coupleofbeers31 Please point me to the state in the union that doesn't have ghetto areas full of crime. Every state has bad areas.
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Florida native here also, left then returned in 2018. It was so nice at first when I returned, then over time declined. Overpopulated, construction everywhere, surging prices, ppl in so many medians now asking for money that weren’t there before, more traffic.. I left recently and know other ppl leaving as well.
Florida native here as well I lived between Saint Augustine, Orange park, and daytona. I left for up north never went back. No economic opportunity no raises just horrible conditions.
I agree. When I moved to FL in 2007, I worked in the hospitality industry as a transfer from NYC. I was getting paid really well off the bat. My coworkers in the other hand were getting paid chairity money. Florida sucks.
As an outcome, I moved back to NYC.
My sister was working in hospitality management in Florida for 28 years at the same place. When she got laid off in 2009, she was working 60 hour weeks and getting about $40k. She was offered a severance of $2,000, contingent on her never suing. She refused. If you’re not rich, you get treated like a farm animal.
@@joetrapp9187Lo imaginaba, los siervos y los servidos. Que encima rompieron, incumplieron las reglas, los dejaron sin Florida. A ellos no deberían dejar vivir en las islas de protección.
Ya q ellos fueron los primeros en huir en sus avionetas, dejando autos, yates, al mas puro estilo mafioso, por una suposición mía, solo imaginación, estos, salían con la lancha a Mejico a buscar fafafsfafa.
@@jbalien20 thanks and never come back
@@joetrapp9187 and it's the disgusting treatment workers get from the managers they want you walking around with your head down and shuffling your feet saying "Yes,Boss" like Cool Hand Luke.
Living in Florida was never possible. It’s one of the strangest states, low wages high costs
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@Worldaffairslover We have no state taxes and our cost of living situations aren't as high as New York's or California, I don't know what you mean
@@helenfu5550 That's A Lie!! Your pay, right to work, no union state has never increased with the cost of living! I sold my house 20+ years ago. I would never tell anyone to live in that swamp land now, with all that mess!! You can keep it, I❤️ Love My paid off Brownstone in 🗽Brooklyn NY!! Good Luck With That.
No state taxes is not a flex. In Florida they get us in other ways like extremely high insurance and property taxes. Let's not forget the joke of wages even for skilled workers @@helenfu5550
We live here comfortably so it's not only possible but preferable.
Florida is extremely car-centric and pedestrian unfriendly. Not having a car in Florida is like not having a jacket in the winter. There really is only 1 big city in Florida that is Miami. On the other hand, Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville are really just ultra-gargantuan suburbs with an ultra-gargantuan office park serving as their downtown or CBD. Combine this with natural disasters and how most of the state is at sea level, it's an urbanist nightmare. Even then, a lot of Miami suburbs are unethical given how lots of natural wetlands going into the Everglades was destroyed for massive real estate development. I'm very supportive of building more high-density housing developments to combat the housing shortage. However, the problem is that majority of Floridians live in very low-density housing. This in turn is very detrimental to the environment. Most Floridians are against high-density housing, even though high-density housing has been proven to be beneficial in most of the world outside the USA.
Orlando is slowly getting better with its CBD area. In Orlando's case, the downtown area sucks because they want the tourist footprint and infrastructure focused on DisneyWorld-incorporated land and I-Drive. It is also the same reason why the REAL downtown Las Vegas sucks, and everything cool and walkable is at the strip, located in Paradise, NV.
NO SE CANSE DE DECIRLO. YO QUE NO CONOZCO Florida, ayudo. TENGO GENTE AMIGA AHÍ.
I live in Tampa and I would kill for some decent public transportation
I am from Florida and have lived there for my entire childhood. Specifically, my family lives in the Tampa Bay area, which was affected by hurricanes Helene and Milton. It is a very nice place to visit, especially in the winter. But, given the tropical / natural disasters that the region faces, the oftentimes oppressive humidity and mosquitoes, as well as the way it's always in the news for one reason or another, it's definitely changed. I mean, Tropicana Field looked unrecognizable after Hurricane Milton, which is sad because I used to go there to watch the Rays.
Now I'm in the Rocky Mountain region, and since it's not as hot or densely populated, I love it! My thoughts, however, are to the Floridians that have been affected by these catastrophic storms such as Helene and Milton...
Employers in Florida refuse to pay a competetive or just livable wage to keep up with cost of living . Tampa is now as expensive as Manhattan.
Not at all.
You are out of touch.
@@jumb0shr1mp6 you're delusional the only affordable places in Florida are the swamps
I’ve never understood the appeal of FL. Though to be honest most of the U.S. seems pretty uninteresting and undesirable. Just the lack of decent public transportation and housing alone. Couple it with healthcare and education costs and it seems like the uneducated want to be exploited rather than creating a system that is viable and sustainable for everyone.
You said it! I never got the appeal either. By then muggy weather was never my thing so I guess I was never the target audience anyway.
NY is trash, public transportation is for broke ppl
I am a Canadian and moved to the US. My disposable income tripled and I am well on track to retire early. The US is definitely not for the uneducated..
There was a saying I remember as a kid - "if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere." Well, I knew a lot of people from New York that couldn't make it in Florida.
Should be, if you can make it in Florida, you can make it anywhere 😂
While it's true that Florida's population overall is less educated than the country as a whole, the map showing higher education attainment is misleading since the rural areas of state are both less educated and far less densely populated. That said, the education attainment metric is further exacerbated by the fact that many of Florida's highly educated are retired and not contributing to the state's productivity.
I've been in Florida for 23 years, and when I retire I will likely have to leave the state because it's just too expensive to maintain a household even if you own your home. Insurance costs are completely out of control, and my HOA costs for my small condo are now more than my monthly mortgage payment. It's ironic that I'll have to leave when I retire while retirees continue to flood the state.
Don’t worry. They’re not coming in anymore.
Climate change will be the main issue in Florida for the next few hundred years
I .lived in Fl 35 years, left the day I retired. My condo fees, insurance and other living costs just continued to rise and it was no longer affordable. No taxes means little when everything else is too expensive
Unmanaged growth , poor infrastructure , low wages , water quality issues and availability, high insurance rates , high cost of living , Climate and Weather disaster issues , traffic , insane politics ......shall I go on ?
Lived here for 30 years. It's absolutely getting harder to live here. Since 2020
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It's like living in three different countries in one state. Tourist, retirement, real estate - poor, lower middle class, opulent obscene wealth - ect, ect, and ect. Oh, and if someone finds themselves suddenly homeless and too poor to afford a motel room, they can be charged with a crime.
Republicans in FL brag about the state's low taxes. But municipal workers are paid low salaries. And politicians want to keep it that way, unfortunately.
In Pa they get paid 10 times higher in some local and state positions, but its a scam there too, because they appoint frauds to a lot of positions.
Strange, municipal workers are city gov workers. The city that I live in Fl are run by Dem mayors for years...and the municipal workers wages are low.
@@kurt4032It doesn’t matter if it’s Dem or Rep they all want to keep wages low and profits high.
@@MobileMasterTech which is the point of the commenter trying to pinpoint DeSantis.
@@kurt4032 TDS/MAGA syndrome.
In my area there was a mobile home park area poor people live there and basically around it, a new firm bought the entire area built apartment and selling them for 797k after 2 years less than half was sold the rest cant sell because local can not afford it locals was kicked out and new people realized its not place the like so the left now my area is like a ghost area
Aster Lake Estates?
Rent has sky rocketed for us who been here our whole life. Literally feel like I’m being pushed out due to increase in everyday goods.
It’s challenging for sure to be a native Floridian and feel pushed out, for no good reason. I’m hanging on by my fingernails. Breaks my heart 😢
I used to go to Florida every winter. I can't stand it now.
I am just curious what has changed for you as a winter snowbird: just the hurricanes, costs, crowds, what exactly if i may ask?? I was just curious because i wanted to travel there more, not less,,,,but not to own any property, just rent or stay in hotels !!
@@carrob704what has changed … that’s easy. Claude is a snowflake ❄️ a democrat that cares more about abortion than enjoying the good weather in florida. That’s what’s changed.
It Doesn’t matter though as many others has taken his place and paid more for the privilege. 😂
More for us
@@Wilkins325 be my guest
Sounds good to me, please leave and go elsewhere.
I know a guy who retired to Florida and lived in a trailer near the beach. He loved Florida weather and the politics since he’s a rightie. But the rent his trailer doubled over the last couple years (a lot because of increased insurance costs) and even with a good government pension he couldn’t afford to live there anymore. He left Florida recently only because of affordability
Which states are better for liviving though?
@@jacobsoto7228 - depends on the person. Affordability, weather, lack of natural disasters, near the beach, near the mountains, good jobs, access to medical care etc are factors that could come into play.
Florida became a serious problem after Covid. Many people moved from expensive States and paid overpriced value houses and created a bubble that exist until these days.
The salary didn't follow the inflation and many people started to struggle even more.
Not only that, but also the Natural Disasters are getting worse every year creating another problem with insurance that skyrocketed to the point many people are having problem not to pay the mortgage but the insurance policy.
If this bubble doesn't bust and the Real Estate doesn't get fixed to the reality we face, many more people will be homeless and the economy will be impacted even more.
Florida became a heavy truck trailer going downhill without brakes... if a "escape ramp" doesn't show on the way, the "Truck" (Florida) will crash.
Stay away from condos, mobile homes, HOA’s, homes on the water and you will be ok. Florida is not broken, it has broken people who made poor choices
Florida's reputation is based entirely on people from Michigan vacationing there in January and believing the weather is nice. The weather is horrible unless a person enjoys unrelenting extreme humidity.
The weather fucking sucks for construction worker dude, may to mid october, fucking 96° F to 105° is fucking hell
I disagree it depends on the person. I live in south Florida but I’ve also lived in Ohio and Ohio has hot humid summers but nasty freezing cold winters where you can’t even go for a nice walk outside. It’s depressing af. Atleast i Fl you get 7 months of 70-85 degree weather with much lower humidity than summer.
@@loganalt , I lived in Florida from 1976 until 2021. I don't know where you lived in Florida but the Tampa area is off the charts humid pretty much every day unless a cold front from up North is moving through. Now living in northern Missouri. Winters are wonderful aside from a few days when it does get below zero. In General lows are upper 30s lower 40s. Which in my opinion is heavenly.
In Florida we do a lot of "freedom happy talk," while promoting hate & sticking it to anyone who doesn't have a trust fund!
This is the across-the-board attitude of Governor DeSantis & GOP Legislature. A lot of "Heads I win, Tails you Lose!" But we're good at pushing the low tax, lot of sunshine brand.
Just never let you know how our "insurance & fees" skyrocket on a yearly basis while our services crater!😳🤔
Or "LEAVE"
Don’t let Miami fool you, Miami-Dade is starting to go to crap too. With all the tax revenue the county gets you’d think they would have enough money to fix the damn roads. I can’t drive without looking directly at the floor for huge potholes, like tire popping, wheel destroying potholes. I wonder were the hell our taxes go
I worked with a few ppl in central Florida from Miami and the main topic was how bad it was there. Customers using needles for their drug addictions in the restrooms. There is also a migration from Miami to central Florida because it’s getting worse there.
I find it very ironic and honestly quite disappointing that you accept sponsorship from an AI slop video creation tool. I respect the analysis you do on this channel and find it informative and entertaining, and I'm reasonably certain that a lot of human work goes into it. Why do you want to encourage the pollution of the information ecosystem with garbage made by a machine?
Yeah, this is the first time I've stop a video because of the sponsor. Why as a creator would you accept a sponsorship like this one? Seriously
I skipped the ad theyre always trying to sell shit
why are you against innovation?
@@minimalistvlogger3467 Innovation? What in lord's name does innovation have to do with this bs? It just enables the creation of low effort videos, such as this one.
The irony is a content creator accepting this sponsorship.
Yes
This is why I can't return.
Me neither, the states weather is horrible and very uncomfortable and the pay is very low and cost is living is high
There’s talk of putting resorts in state parks. That plan is meeting major opposition from residents.
No mention of weather disasters that seem to be attracted to Florida
Florida tried to be Conservative California but Texas beat them to that
Texas is going through a Florida downfall
I'm more thankful that Texas is taking Californians before they can reach Florida.
Sounds like the Florida’s funeral industry has a bright future
We were told many years ago that Florida is called God‘s waiting room😆
As a Floridian who is now making pretty decent money, it wasn't that long ago that I wasn't I can confidently say that even 5 years ago the 42k per year metric is iffy on if you can "pay your bills" living by yourself dependent on what part of the state you live in. That said, today its impossible to live by yourself on that kind of income unless you get REALLY lucky and find an insanely cheap place that is likely run down and crappy.
Most 1br apartments are running closer to $2000.00+ per month with first, last, safety, and pet costs added. You could get lucky and find apartments running maybe $1800.00 per month but lets do the math on this because that 30% on housing metric is bullshit. If you are making $42k per year then monthly (before tax) you are making $3230.77. Now lets make this easy and say after tax its a flat $3000.00 per month. Welp if your rent is around $2k then that's 66% of your monthly income. Now add in car payments, insurance, basic household items, food, water, electricity(also very expensive in FL right now thanks to Desantis and FPL) and god forbid you have anything health related. The math doesn't add up. I know plenty of people making $60k who still have barley any wiggle room.
Again, I consider myself insanely lucky, but even for what I make places like Invitation homes require 3x the rent in household take home income to rent a specific place. That said, if rent is 2k that means the household needs to make 6k AFTER TAXES to rent, meaning well over six figures. Again using basic math that means that it would take x3 people making that 42k number to rent that place. It's almost mandatory for a lot of grown adults to have roommates these days in Florida, and it's kinda sad especially when you take into account that they are making the new apartments smaller, the walls thinner, and in some cases even trying to enforce rules like "no sex allowed". Its almost like the workers are back to being serfs in some cases.
Couple this with other problems in Florida like shitty schools and this weird attack on higher education because a lot of people in the state think everything is woke. You then have people who are born here who weren't rich to begin with meaning no financial literacy, who don't value education, and become another lower skilled worker who struggles because of it. And from a macro perspective its hard to even blame them.
All I hear is how great Florida’s economy is. So define “good economy.” What I know is that Florida has plenty of low paying jobs but very, very few decent paying jobs. Their “great economy” seems to be the mass COVID retirement of baby boomers. These baby boomers aren’t bringing in high paying jobs because they are retired. They do put a huge demand on health care, nursing homes, retail, etc. but none of those industries pay anything except for medicine, So, please tell me how Florida’s economy is so great with no decent paying jobs?
If you are not fortunate enough to have a trust fund , then you are nothing more than a second class citizen or should I say " servant".
I’m a native Floridian and Florida is a horrible place to live and work. Truly horrible. I dream of the day I can escape this hellhole.
Yeah Florida friggen sucks.. we pay over 2k per month for a modest 1/1 in Broward. Have a 25 mile commute to work in SoBe, which will take anywhere between 50-90 minutes each way, longer in winter due to snowbirds. The people generally are very rude in south Florida, and advantageous. I cannot wait for the opportunity to leave this place and never look back.
The only beneficiary to tourism in Florida are the select companies that utilize Florida for its personal advantage. Residents of Florida themselves do not actually benefit from tourism aside from the tax dollars that the local government generates from those businesses. There are a lot of low wage, low skill jobs in Florida, which attract a lot of unskilled labor, but that isn’t a good thing by and large. Florida is basically a state of servants for the servitude of others on vacation.
I don't know who believes that lie of most people are wealthy in swamp land FL. Especially now that it's sinking & most residents losing their livlihoods with these hurricanes! You can keep it!!!
That $40k figure on income is unrealistic it's more in the 20s
and you realistically need $60k+ to live here. Everyone moving to Florida from bigger wealthy states have priced the locals out usually paying overasking prices on homes. And this video also leaves out the fact that all these corporations have bought up 90% of the single family homes here and doubled the rent.
I LOVE FLORIDA ❤
Advertising A.I for video creation is crazy.
I ARRIVED in FLA. IN 2001. SAW WHAT I WAS YP AGAINST AND LEFT 6 MONTHS LATER!!!!! VERY EXPESIVE RENT AND HOUSING!!! NICE TO VISIT- NEVER STAY UNLESS YOU HAVE A COUPLE OF MILLION
Has a canadian, very happy to be in Florida......strategicly in WestPalmBeach to avoid hurricane......
Nothing beat the nice weather.........
Miami is a 3rd world country mainly due the Cubans that think is Cuba and because of that, they have monopolized the employment system, giving the best paying jobs to Cubans Only. Just look at the political system and see who runs the show. And that is one of the main issues here.
I've heard of such issues before. That is a shame.
I think made a mistake @14:28. What you show on the screen is the opposite of what you are trying to say, "The current ratio of taxpaying workers to retirees is 3:1" but you show the opposite with 3 retirees to 1 worker. "...but by 2030 it is expected to drop to 2:1 as Baby Boomers continue to age out of the workforce" but the screen shows 2 retirees to 1 worker.
You must be a lot of fun at parties!
Well spotted!
I used to love it here, now I just like it. The only thing keeping me here is the heat. I cannot deal with any temps less than 70 degrees and Im one of the very few that love the heat, as I work outdoors year round. But my little, once quaint hometown has been overrun with folks from the Northeast and folks from South Florida, all thanks to the covid. If I really wanted to leave, I would of done so by now.
2024 will probably be the final peak of Florida's positive net-migration, and it will begin to gradually cool off and grow stagnantly.
I hope so, traffic in the state sucks now. I-75 has daily traffic jams around the villages and the Bradenton/Sarasota area. Never used to be that way prior to Covid.
Floridian that left in his Early twenties and 15 years later never returned. I always have a dream that Florida will one day get rid of its suburbs and make walkable mixed housing so that we can make public trans viable and stop tearing down the prairie for football size parking lots and copy paste suburbs. Where we can actually have housing that is livable economically and daily. But it seems the gov and people love seeing more suburbs and traffic so they can look at their housing price rise on zillow than actually live well.
Seniors are not an economic base for future growth.
Actually, Florida is the 4th largest state by GDP with 1.6$ trillion dollars, not even close to 3rd place which is New York with 2.2$ trillion dollars of GDP.
I thought it was wrong but I went with it 🤣
@@C1K450 but they haven't they done the right thing and started paying people decent wages to keep up with the cost of living here. Pure Greed
I left after 47 years. Happy to be a floriDUH refugee.
It's time to get out 💯💯💯
Breaking point is close then it would tip towards total insolvability fast. Solution higher taxes for the rich, closing social programs, incread sing minimum salary to $25per hour more investment in education and innovation. In summary becoming a real State.
Florida has problems, but compared to New York and California thats nothing.
Compared to the GDP per capita in New York and California, Florida is… well I don’t want to embarrass red voters… what should say?
@SigFigNewton I hate to burst your bubble but. Yes, billionaires and millionaires significantly skew per capita income statistics upwards, meaning that the average income appears higher than the typical individual's income due to the extreme wealth held by a small number of very rich people; essentially, a few extremely high earners can significantly inflate the average when calculated across the whole population" The income Inequality of the avaricious wall street and Hollywood elite, skew your perception of income. Just as Google and Microsoft paying taxes in Ireland makes it seem that the county has high income and they don't. Red states don't have that extreme concentration of Billionaires and large corporations.
@@robluck21 it seems to be the Florida housing market that buyers can’t afford…
@@robluck21 minimum wage is a major factor. Florida is behind a lot of blue states, ahead of most red states.
When workers have spending money left over after housing, health care, and transport, turns out that they spend money at local businesses. Increases in the minimum wage literally create jobs.
@SigFigNewton keep in mind that adding California's or NYs high income taxes, just to name one tax would not improve their situation. Now California's proposition 13 passed over the government resistance was a great idea for Florida.
We are FULL everyone is. If that doesn’t make sense. Check yourself😊
as a floridian i can confirm all this
Florida may be the 3rd largest in population, but it's FOURTH behind California, Texas and New York in GDP.
Obviously. It’s a red state. How could it hope to compete with New York in GDP per capita
“It’s a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there”. That phrase describes Florida to a tee.
Your governor is also picking unnecessary fights with Mickey Mouse, books, and drag queens when he should be focusing on the insurance, condo/HOA, and unaffordability crises.
Don’t forget climate change
Oops! You are NOT allowed to say this phrase ("global warming" or "climate change") in DeSantis-Land!
His might be the face that appears in future history books where they discuss Florida leaders who, if anything, worsened the coming climate crisis
@@SigFigNewton there won’t be any history books. We’re going extinct.
Yeah he should do what newsome does and just blame everything on climate change without actually doing anything about it. How many fires did California have this year so far?
Great video! If would be also great if you did a video on possible solutions as well.
Home of the newly wed & the nearly dead.
Just like any city or state…. When it gets full. Its full. Just like anything else.
Excellent evaluation!
This is an interesting video! Thanks for sharing.
Tough to see Florida where it is now, such a beautiful place, hopefully a change in political leadership will push Florida in the right direction again.
When you drive throughout Florida you can see the poor-ness
You can't stop people voting against their own best interests unfortunately
What are they supposed to do in Florida? Turn the state blue and have it flooded with a bunch of third-world aliens, all while paying sky high taxes and suffering increasing regulation?
Love Florida! Quality of life is so much better than the rest of the country.
Most problems mentioned such as cost of living, housing, and ecomony is the entire country right now. I would also say that mosquitoes alligators humidity heat dont really bother the people who live here as we are used to it. Every state has its weather and animals that people dont like. Florida wont be underwater by 2050 and hurricans can be migitated by proper building regulations and seawalls for storm surges in coastal communities.
That panhandle area should be given to Alabama and Georgia because it is a mess in that region.
Florida is so inept it doesn’t even know how to make use of the extra coastline it secured for itself
You get what you DeSantis for 😢
Lmao nice
Exactly why I keep voting for him. 😊 Love Florida and he does a good job.
Yes, we get economic and political refugees escaping Dem Gov states such as NY,MA,NJ, IL, MI, MN, RI, CT and MD
Democrats are the real problem!
@@che-waji3470 🤡🤡🤡🤡
A lot of the talk about the economy and cost of living is general to all places, not just Florida.
I rather move to Detroit Michigan than Florida.
Why anyone in tbier right mind come to fl for a vacation when hi is never humid and has way more value for $
All I'm hoping for is a new virus or the meteor.. born and raised in Florida The state is overpopulated, car accident, insurance and interest rate are hella high Even with a college degree renting and buying a house it's becoming almost unaffordable.. at this point of time you might as well just flood this state
I love people complaining about Florida and saying they will never move here or they are leaving. PLEASE GOD DON'T MOVE HERE, WE ARE FULL!!
Yeah your going to get sucked into the ocean too no more gulf of Mexico.
with wages not keeping up with cost of living, eventually enough people will be poor that a revolution will occur, but since those in power dont want that, they will wait as long as they can before raising rates and wages.
The economic shift in Florida is not a new phenomenon and certainly not exclusive to that state. All states that are growing fairly rapidly are experiencing the same thing. People that are leaving one state for another more than often have money and that money moves with them. Demand is higher and prices are higher and the only ones able buy are those with money. The jobs don’t necessarily move with the people. Too many low wage jobs, the rich getting richer and the poor staying poor. It’s been going on for decades everywhere.
Not ready to leave Florida..yet..but are other places any better....like our governor..the sunshine is still nice...hurricanes are a worry...
Your Governor is time is running out. Last term 😂😂😂good riddance
30 years of republican rule will do that...
GDP per capita list: blue state… blue state… blue state… blue state…
🤣🤣🤡
@@Mike-vz1fp I'm sorry , was someone else in charge
CA and NYC are far worse. Top 10 fastest growing states are republican run states. Everyone is fleeing the democrat ones. Not that republican run states are perfect either but I’d rather Florida than CA, IL, NY
And just got reelected.
Think twice before moving here, hurricanes happen every year
Truly interesting info. However, AI is destroying TH-cam. Please don't use & find another sponsor. Anyway, I did learn from your or your AI's video.
Florida is based.
in extreme wealth inequality
When governor supports corporate business over the people.
Wait there's a place called panhandle... that's full of poor people. Omg. You're joking.
Red states.
Jeez, and here I thought it was the bath salts!
I’m so pleased…thanks, what’s his name…seeing cowboy boots in seaside property…lol
Nobody lives in the panhandle
As someone who lives in Florida ngl im not struggling for anything lmfao🤣 but not everyones situation is the same🤷♂️
Did this guy just try to say Los Angeles is a better run city than those in FL? LMAO
No. He said it's more of a self-sustaining city.
Looks like a shakeout to me.
It’s cheaper then Jersey
Can you bring other Industries I got the tourism the hospitality industry and the produce industry and the food service industry and so forth need to bring in manufacturing industry the Boost the economy in the state of Florida
Hurricanes discourage companies from building manufacturing facilities in Florida (also sky high insurance rates). Construction is more expensive since buildings have to be constructed to withstand high winds and flooding. Then the facilities have to be evacuated when hurricanes are coming and repaired afterwards. That’s why computer chip manufacturers picked AZ over Florida
4th largest...NY is larger at #3.
14:26
Well there’s an alarmingly incorrect graphic
Florida is alright but there is numerous way too make money. Online no offense. Not going too say.
"Reverse Florida" is poor too. By that I mean the Texas coast.
You can barely find a job here in FL even if it's a minimum wage . Nobody is hiring ; might as well move elsewhere
As the beginning when the narrator said Disney Land I knew this was bs
You get what you vote for
That’s why Washington is seeing an uptick in old people. Y’all moving over this way. Go to Oregon, Washington is full.