Just like every other state some areas are more expensive than others and I’ll give you an example.
The house next door to me was just purchased by a lady moving here from the Miami area......sold her home there for around $800k and paid cash for her new house here in northeast Florida.....the house here was not much more than half what she sold her house in south Florida for.
As far as cost of living goes.....last time I checked, there were 1500 people A DAY moving here from other states.
That’s a NET gain?
I hear ya, and I've heard the same thing. All I know is that someone like me, who barely nets $2100 a month, could never survive down there. I'm still waiting on SSA disability claims to process, and the VA has turned down disability claims several times now (bunch of traitors), but I doubt I could ever survive, monetarily, down there.
If people who make more than me can survive, more power to them.