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Bought 2 homes in Boca back in 2021. In one of them, the original owner ended up signing a 2 yr lease with us. When the lease was up, we told them we wouldn’t renew. So they retaliated by trashing the place. 😂 This was basically our “welcome to SEFL you west coast mofo” 🤣 But yeah… we moved here bc of involvement in pro sports. To be blunt: customer service is nonexistent down here. In general ppl are extremely rude, abrasive and lack courtesy. Of course I’ve met a few very nice and kind ppl but overall, it’s just rough around the edges. Concerning politics, FL is the exact and extreme opposite that of California. Traffic “laws” are just suggestions, school bus drivers doing 60 on the 45 (I have video to prove it) cars with duct taped bumpers all over the road, on and on. Coming from the west coast I traded extreme left for extreme right, homeless druggies for ego maniac rough necks lol. And yes, we are planning to get the rock outta here before my current IQ level hits sub room temp (aka total assimilation) Btw: my car insurance has gone up 3x since leaving the west coast. Home insurance 3x as well. Property taxes are low compared to what we used to pay so there’s that. 🤣 welcome to floriduhhhh ! 😂
I find Fort Lauderdale very honky tonk. Miami is a world class city and much more upscale in general. I don't think traffic really matters because you never really have to leave if you live in Miami Beach or Brickel. You can walk everywhere.
My home town! Hollywood is called "The Diamond of the Gold Coast." I grew up in the Lakes District - one of the most attractive residential in all of South Florida.
But in Miami you don’t have to drive north thru Ft. Lauderdale to get to Naples you can head west on 8st that becomes tamiami and then turn right n go north straight to Naples fl with no problem without ever driving thru Ft. Lauderdale so that’s cap
I was born and raised in Miami. Lived in S. Florida for 42 years before moving to Chicago where I lived and loved it for another 23 years. Now retired in Southern Arizona (25 miles south of Tucson). Bought a lovely 2 bedroom, adobe style home very reasonable price with low taxes. I do pay a state income tax but it isn't much, and much lower than Illinois. The big thing everyone asks is how do we live in the desert? Let me tell you, 113 degrees with humanity at 13% is a lot less uncomfortable than 89 degrees with 80% humidity in S Florida. I still own some property in Florida but I'll leave it to my daughter, I'm never coming back.
Its really quite simple and nothing new. Florida has always been one of the most corrupt and mismanaged states in the union. The last ten years thats accelerated exponentially. Cost of living has risen faster in Florida than any other state. 90% self inflicted. Politicians want to blame the feds, hurricanes, immigrants, and a dozen other bullshit reasons. Dont believe it. Florida legislators did it to its residents.
People moving down from up north. People moving out due to working at home and moving back to where family is. Leaving south florida due to cost of living. Real simple. Don't need over 10 minutes to explain that.
You forgot to mention the guns! You are afraid to go to public places, you never know who is carrying a gun. I hope Florida restrict the hand guns and make Florida more hospitable.
This is misleading.. while many do leave FL, it still ranks as the most migrated to (net migration) state in the country. The benefits of living in FL far outweigh the cons, especially when you compare it to the chaos and conflicts going on in many of the other major states. FL is relatively conservativ which essentially protects everyone's rights, it's clean, tranquil, serene fun and beautiful. It has a Caribbean metro hybrid lifestyle that offers the best of 3 worlds from country living filled with natures playgrounds to city like world class entertainment and venues that rival Manhattan, Los Angeles and Vegas to world class beaches and the salt life . It's not for everyone and it is a bit expensive now, but it's still cheaper than most major cities and you get ac gen off a lot more for your money. Has it changed over the last 10 years? Definitely, but so has every other state in this country... and while FL got better, the other states declined in quality of life. I recently spent a few months back up north in NY, NJ and CT and despite having been born and raised in NY, I found it changed drastically and I hated it up there. The culture, politics, rat race, general rudeness, crime, filth, traffic, pothole filled roads, congestion, illegal immigration issues, high gas prices, gentrification, extreme cost of living and strict gun laws that essentially disarms law abiding citizens and empowers illegal gun toting criminals.. It was just terrible. Even going to the supermarket was frustrating.. no bags? Deposit upcharge for bottled water? Over priced everything. The only thing i loved there was downtown Manhattan and the food and even that isn't as good as it used to be and it's insanely expensive. On top of tolls to enter the state, they now charge you a fee to enter downtown Manhattan where parking is super expensive if you can find any and they closed out parking lanes to accommodate bike and scooter riders who barrel down these lanes as if they own the streets and God forbid you try to cross the street and don't look both ways in a one way street because they'll run you over and then blame you for getting in their way. Good luck driving in the city and not getting a ticket thanks to their over aggressive cameras. Yeah I'm sorry but they can keep all that... I'll stick with my beautiful and serene Florida. southfloridaagentmagazine.com/2024/01/31/florida-no-1-for-migration/#:~:text=According%20to%20StorageCafe%2C%20Florida%20saw,Florida%2C%20while%20497%2C000%20people%20left.
Plz don’t say it’s hot/humid… Yall are at least 10degrees cooler than us in Houston. It’s nice to visit or vaca but live ? Idk Houston’s feel like was 113 today.. 82 dew point Asphalt jungle
People like you moving down to florida, and driving up the cost of living. Now I can't afford to live in a state that I love dearly because of the cost of living.
I grew up in East Wilton Manor & was a RE agent at Coldwell Banker on Las Olas. Great video but I’m kind of surprised that you didn’t mention Harbor Beach, where I lived for years. Great neighborhood! Thanks so much!🥰
🌴😄Love Florida and I’m sold old when I fart dust comes out, been here over half my life , moved from that frigid dairy state that gets down to minus-30 below , screw that ! Now your say’n all these people that thought the grass and palm trees were greener here are finding out that all the idiots that are moving here is what’s wrecking the state , they drive like idiots, there flicking people off , they get in accidents cause there to busy texting and talk’n on the cellphone, they throw garbage out the car windows , for all those people leaving, see ya! I can maybe find a parking spot !
I lived in Miami and Miami Springs back in the mid 70s and it was crowded then. That was right before the Marial boatlift exodus from Cuba that took place in 1980 which swelled Miami's Cuban population. Most people probably have not even heard or read about that event.
Been to Miami and Ft. Lauderdale once where humidity was horrible - everything was just wet! People in general were a mixed bag of polite and cold -- car dispatcher on the phone was beyond rude! Most surprising f-up was that nobody spoke English!
Also the Brightline train connecting Miami, Aventura, Ft. Lauderdale, Boca Raton, West Palm Beach and Orlando. This train will eventually reach Tampa and more cities.
The billionaires with help from Governor DickSantis are turning off all the services that were very consistent to out right theft. Cost are driving home owners out and who will benefit? Those billionaires buying up these properties pennies on the dollar prices. The plan is to control the market, lease properties are good business. Lease properties can increase every year and these billionaires can self insure to keep cost down. Then buy your way to keep property taxes low. All under the non libel LLC’s. Sad isn’t it.
If you just started building a family with small and low income,i would never sugest you to come in florida because you would never make it .the reasons are simple ,high cost of living,lower wage would kill your unique dream.i live in miami since 1991,longtime ago i tell you what ,it used to be a cheaper place where you could make a decent life,now it goes down the hill because of greed,hate and selfishness.its gonna be hard for the young kids to have a great future in florida.
I wish I bought when I moved to Fll in 2018. Prices are so high now. Covid made everything double or triple the price. I’ve been trying to buy around las olas. Renting right there in just wasting money but I can just walk outside and feel like I’m in Hoboken. I kick myself all the time. I don’t even mind a town house but not these crazy prices:(
Florida has become a concrete nightmare. All the nice semi-rural areas have been destroyed. Places that used to be beautiful fields and low lying wet lands are gone.
I love Florida and I don't want to leave, but as I get closer to retirement age, I think it may be time. This is not a good place to be anymore if you're older and not rich. You will struggle to barely get by. It's really hard to have fun here when expenses keep going up, especially car and home insurance. It's insane.
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