Sounds like what you're selling. 
Posted on 08/26/2023 8:31:51 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I looked at WV preparing for retirement. The taxes seemed to work against us, it was in the middle of the pack (for us). Considered TN seriously, but ended up in KY.
It might just be our income formula, KY was one of the cheapest for our taxes. Housing wasn’t the cheapest (suburbs), but we got a nicer house here than we expected to. Insurance and property taxes have been very reasonable.
Indiana. But I’ve lived all over. Ohio. Michigan. Kentucky. Tennessee. North Carolina. Alabama. California. Oklahoma.
I’m on the west coast, well south of Tampa. Actually we’re snow birds so we don’t have to worry about the hot weather but in the winter we leave our house open and swim in the pool all winter long. It never freezes down here and it’s mostly pleasantly warm and dry in the winter.
Insurance is high, repairs from storms can be high but the houses are built to withstand the hurricanes, unfortunately the trees are not. We lost our best coconut tree last storm and one of my very large Queen Palms. The whole state is gun friendly. The worst thing about Florida is you can’t make left turns.
Sounds like what you're selling.
Reasons I’d leave Florida if I lived there:
*Bugs
*Coral snakes
*Alligators
*Hurricanes
*New Yorkers
They make up for the tax with high cost of living
Retirees are old. That means downsizing. A house requires maintenance that a condo doesn’t. An over-55 community 6 months a year would work for me.
GAYS are leaving Florida??? LOL!!
we thought about Florida for a minute- snakes, gators, bugs too hot all the time and frankly, after a certain age, people need to rethink their “summer attire” game.
Can’t be covered up all the time but some of them should be.
Ten months a year you can’t step outside for more than five minutes without self immolation. The property taxes and homeowners insurance (if you can find it) are more than your mortgage. You’re never more than fifty yards from a gator, so only insects enjoy the many lakes. There’s people everywhere. That new influx of twenty three million people in 2022 doesn’t go unnoticed (in the next ten years Tampa and Orlando will merge). Traffic on I-4 between the two cities moves at 20mph at six AM on Sundays. Did I fail to mention Florida Man and Florida Woman.
I was just up in Maine visit a relative, never saw so many fag flags in my life. Hanging from churches, businesses etc and signs with rainbow stickers on businesses stating they welcome everyone. Totally disgusting.
Everyone I know leaving the State have been queers.
I’m familiar with Kanawha County and I would not call the winters “mild,” by any stretch of the imagination. But then I love the heat.
I’ve lived in 13 states and two foreign countries, but Florida, warts and all, is my favorite. Love, love, love the sunshine and warm weather.
Property taxes here vary widely depending on the county and, unless you live on the water, insurance is expensive but not prohibitively so. I shop around each year for insurance and we pay less here than we did for our last house in Tennessee.
Well, I am retired military. I have lived in WA state, GA, KY, TN, SC, NC and my home state of Alabama. I have spent nearly 10 years stationed in West Germany. I spent a tour in Nam. Had three weeks in the hospitals in Japan. Have visited a ton of countries in Europa. After all that, after settling in WA state for 14 years after I retired from the Army, we came back home. I was gone for 35 years. Left at age 18 to enter the Army. But, in the end, there just was no place like Alabama. We are the most conservative and Christian state in this Republic. There are jobs, as unemployment is lower than 4% last I heard. There is hunting and fishing galore. You can drive easily down to Fla or the AL gulf coast to the beach. If you like mountains, then the North GA mountains and TN are near. Home prices are low. There are good hospitals with UAB hospital in Birmingham, centered in the middle of the state. You can own guns. Thre is nothing like here. FREEDOM of speech, religion, peace. After all that moving and laying my head down to sleep in so man places, here is where I finally came back to for the last years of my life. Home is here and here I will now stay.
I must agree with you. I retired in ND. We made the mistake of retiring where many inbreds live, which is quite common in the north central states. They come around at night sexually molesting our cats and eating our skunks.
Those moving to ND from a blue state quickly turn around, go back to their blue state and gladly accept communism, for it is much gentler than what they find up here.
Lived west of Opheim, MT as a child. Near what was Thoeny.
When we moved back to Oklahoma, people would ask my Mother were the closest big town was. She would smile and reply, Moose Jaw, Canada.
Wild open spaces. I like trees.
“Changes in Florida law and state policies have also caused some Floridians to relocate. For example, former Miami Heat basketball player Dwyane Wade, who spent 16 years playing for the Florida-based team, recently left the state with his family due to legislation and restrictive policies regarding the LGBTQIA+ community.”
REALLY? All 4000 moved out wow!
Bkmk
Peacocks? I heard FL is being over run with peacocks. Real ones, not the political kind.
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