[VeniVidiVici]

Florida sucks for jobs if you don't have money you made somewhere else first or a good profession.

I hate to tell you this but probably most areas of the US suck for jobs if you don't already have money or don't know a profession.

As for FL having a higher tax rate than NH: We have no income tax, I pay a 7% sales tax in my county and I pay $1100 a year property tax on a house worth $250k.

Like NH, we also have some toll roads.

I know my aunt and uncle have to pay an arm and a leg for property taxes to live in NH.

The smaller companies you speak of that will pass "some" of the tax on to consumers will pass all of it or hire more illegals. Illegals that you will still pay for health costs.

[HostileTerritory]

I hate to tell you this but probably most areas of the US suck for jobs if you don't already have money or don't know a profession.

There is a wide range of middle-class white collar jobs available in a lot of places like Boston, Atlanta, Dallas, New York, and Chicago. That's not the case in Florida, where there is a much narrower range of occupations and more of a dumbbell-shaped income distribution for salaries.

7% sales tax in Florida, eh? New Hampshire pays 0%. Also no income tax. A lot fewer kids to educate and poor people to care for. It's very, very difficult to beat New Hampshire when it comes to taxes. Of course it's completely atypical for the northeast.