Another factor is that FL due to climate is obviously attractive to homeless and often deranged people. Lot more fun being homeless in Tampa in the winter than in Chicago.
Your basis for that statement?
There are approximately 85,000 people homeless at any one time for the entire state of Florida.
On the other hand...just in the New York City ALONE there are over 40,000 on any given day.
Homeless and deranged people I would be willing to speculate they probably don’t care very much about the weather.