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Florida PROs & CONs

PROS:

1. Florida is one of the best places to be in the US weather-wise. You can golf, bike, ride your motorcycle, swim, or do any other outdoor activity that doesn’t involve snow or cold temperatures, all year long.

2. You can grow palm trees, oranges, and grapefruits in your yard.

3. You can go to the beach for a day from just about anywhere you live in Florida.

4. Florida has some of the cleanest air because it’s just a thin sliver of land with two massive bodies of water on each side that provide air flows that constantly blows the pollution from the state, out to sea.

5. You won’t have to pay much for heat during the winter.

6. You won’t have to fill out a personal state income tax form every year.

7. Because the roads don’t freeze and thaw, you’ll hit far less car rattling potholes.

8. You don’t have to worry about having your car inspected every year, Florida did away with emissions inspections and testing years ago.

9. While living in Florida, you’ll meet people from all over the US and the world because only 5% of people that live in Florida was actually born there.

10. Many sports

11. Few sex offenders (8^th least state)

12. Real estate hot spot

13. Republican state

14. Good Infostructure (14^th nationally)

15. Low-cost Motor vehicle registration

16. Education (1^st nationally)

17. Few Earthquakes (tied with North Dakota for fewest)

CONS:

1. Florida is hot and humid, and it doesn’t end when summer does.

2. When a hurricane or tropical storm is heading toward your new Florida home, you’ll envy the people back home who don’t even know it’s happening because they’re at a picnic.

3. High cost of living (4^th highest nationally)

4. Poor water.

5. Poor Medicare prescription drug support

6. Wildfires.

7. Demographics (only 7 states have fewer percentage of white population)

8. High electricity cost.

9. Annoying toll roads

10. High traffic.

11. Excessive tourists especially during spring break.

12. High sales tax.

13. High property tax.

14. Alligators and snakes.

15. Sinkholes (1^st highest state).

16. Mold and Fungus including Red Tide

17. Crime (6^th highest state)

18. High population (3^rd highest state)

19. High homeowners’ insurance (8^th highest state)

20. High auto insurance (2^nd highest state)

21. State corruption (D grade)

22. You won’t play as much golf in Florida as you thought because of the heat and humidity most of the year will take the pleasure out of it. When the weather finally turns cooler in the winter, golf becomes too expensive, crowded and slow due to a huge influx of snowbirds and tourists, to want to play often.

23. Trying to do anything outdoors in Florida most of the year involves sweating profusely and may also involve fighting off swarms of mosquitoes, biting flies, biting fire ants, etc.

24. You won’t have to shovel snow in Florida, but your yard will require a constant fight to keep it from returning to the overgrown jungle it was meant to be.

25. No matter how much someone weighs, their physical conditioning or their age, wearing a speedo or bikini is acceptable daily dress in Florida, even if you’re hours from the beach.

26. As a resident of the “Sunshine State” you’ll learn that there aren’t really as many old people in Florida as you thought, it’s just that many younger people look that way due to sun damage.

27. Florida carries a weird torch for bland chain restaurants. Orlando has more fast-food restaurants per capita than any other city in the country. Hooters and Burger King were both founded in the state, as was something called Tijuana Flats that has over 100 locations, looks like a worse version of Taco Bell, and boasts charmingly named hot sauces like Jason’s Mom’s and Smack My Ass & Call Me Sally.

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Living in Florida is a lot different than spending a vacation there. On vacations you don’t experience everything you will once you live there every day.

While almost everyone loves living in Florida the first few months or years, a very high percentage of people eventually find Florida was a big enough mistake to go through the huge expense and hassle of another long-distance move, just to get out

Most Florida relocations don’t last more than 2-3 years. There are about 1,000 people leaving Florida every day.