Beautiful, but hot, humid, flooding, critters, hurricanes, flat, expensive and overrated

Notice how the real estate guy wouldn't admit high insurance cost and other inflation for the reasons.

Living in Florida and vacationing in Florida are two completely different experiences. I lived in Orlando from 2005-2022 and moved up to Pittsburgh. Best decision I ever made. It's way cheaper up here and the people are nicer. And the winters aren't that bad. You get used to the cold.

I left Florida for Oregon, six years ago, after living there for 31 years. Two of my former neighbors just moved from Florida to West Virginia, two days ago, after living there for 36 years. We got out because of Florida's politics under Ron DeSantis and the Republican legislature...they brag about loving freedom, while taking it away from those who disagree.

A realtor will never say costs are the reason folks are leaving.

Florida isn't a nice place to live before the pandemic, it still isn't after

What is "in-migration" and "out-migration"? The English language already has words for these concepts, "immigration" and "emigration" respectively. A news organization should know better.

Perfect, everybody get out! It’s driving the price of rent back down in my local area with so many people leaving

If you have children it’s not even about politics. The sweet dumbness is less cute when education and healthcare is involved and you have kids. This place is literally insane

I lived in Florida for 5 years. Hated it and moved back to Illinois. Jobs were scarce, pay was crap and the people were trashy

I have lived in FL ten years now. It used to be a great vacation location but as a resident it has become incredibly divisive and styfiling. State politicians are far more interested in passing corrosive legislations which do not help any Floridian with insurance crisis, homeless, home prices, inflation and the worst medical fraud in the nation. Useless state governing is the result when you have the Governor and the majority of the same party. I am a Republican but I am a disgusted one at that.

I retired and relocated from Miami to Denver. Home Insurance, constant inspections to raise premiums, hurricanes 🌀 threats, flooding , very high cost of living were some of the factors. Investments and income do not grow as fast and as much as the Insurance industry demands from home owners.

Florida and Texas.....OVERRATED

The other side looks greener but it is not greener. People moved to Florida and Texas. Many of them are moving out of them

As an former Florida resident, Florida looks beautiful until you get there and realize, oh yeah... that's why I left.

Ever since I moved into my condo 2.5 years ago my maint has increased $325 per month. My car insurance for my corra is now over $2k per year. The traffic is horrendous and they are charging you to drive on roads that were already paid for and in some case depending on the rate of traffic it’ll cost you $15 to drive 8 miles. You want Fla come and get it.

If they watched the news they would’ve had second thoughts about the prospect of moving there in the first place.

I bought a mobile home in 2017 with a lot rent of $420. Today the lot rent is $850 and when I sell the next owner has to pay $1050. The lot rent has raised so high that I will have to sell my mobile home for a loss because nobody wants to pay that much for lot rent. Real Estate Investment Trusts are buying up mobile home parks and doubling the lot rents. It doesn't matter if you've lived their for years, you can be evicted in a short amount of time. In Florida there are NO safety nets. If your family can't or won't help and your church won't help you will be homeless! Welcome to Florida!!!

After the Surfside (Champlain Towers) collapse, any building more than 25 years old & within 3 miles from the coast need extensive inspections. And expensive repairs (given the rising sea levels). _Many retirees simply cannot afford to spend additional hundreds of thousands of dollars in one-time fees, so they get evicted... And leave_ (Similarly, many homeowners cannot afford flooding and hurricane insurance)

If you don't like florida then go back to california

The Environment is why they came but the Real Estate Development is destroying it with no Protections ... and very lousy Public Education

I moved to South Florida in 1983. Back then it was a paradise and everything was less expensive. Fast forward and just as this video says, prices for everything have exploded, plus Governor DeSantis is nuts. For those of you who dont know, he recently passed a bill that makes it illegal for people who work outside to get rest and water breaks. He should try working on a roof sometime. I had my fill of the summers getting hotter and lasting longer every year and dont forget the threat of hurricanes for 6 months of the year. I sold my house and moved back to the northeast. I had no idea how much I missed the change of seasons.

Florida is expensive - it ain’t cheap no more. The real estate taxes for my 2200 sqft condo is $42,000 annually - it’s highway robbery.

Does nobody get there and think that ocean is almost as high as the front door.

Hard to believe that any politician would think that it’s more important to concentrate on a fight with Disney, LGBTQ and education rather than deal with astronomical increases in insurance and HOA rates.

I lived in Florida for 7 months. Aside from Winter and early Spring, and I'm assuming late Fall, the rest of the year was disgusting temperatures and humidity. For those who've never experienced above body temperature air with 98% humidity, I can only say you've been spared.

Lived in SWFLA for a decade, I’d rather go to jail than move back 😮

Its not a good place to move if you are a nurse.

I’ll tell you the real reason. Everything is EXPENSIVE. 2/1 homes starting at minimum $500k (at least in South FL) and the pay is horrible…you can have 10+ experience as an Electrician, Plumber, HVAC - you’re lucky if you make $20 an hour. EXTREMELY LUCKY…if you work in Corporate??? $16-19/hr…..who can afford a “starter” $500k home making $20/hr?! Who?!?!?!?!?! Whooooooooo?????!!!!! Everyone down here is just fed up

DeSantis said during COVID, come to the free state of Florida. So what did they do? They came. They bought, at high prices, inflating the real estate market. Higher home prices, high insurance premiums follow. Higher real estate taxes. More congestion. Overcrowding. It was bad before they came down, but now it's worse. It has become very expensive to live in South Florida. I really feel bad for the young people, who won't be able to buy affordable housing. Crime levels increasing. Thanks, COVID.

I've lived in 15 places from NYC to Las Vegas and Chicago to Orlando, as large as NYC and as small as Cedar Lake Indiana. Florida is easily the worst place I ever lived...imo.

Regretfully grew up here, got my freedom and moved my family away and came back like an idot! 🤦‍♀🤣 Top ten reasons I can't stand this state: 1. Crowded with bad drivers, it was bad 5, 10, 15, 25, etc. years ago, but it's getting outta control reminds me of a mini Dallas or a mini Atlanta! 2. The cost is ridiculous from food to having a roof over your head, I remember when you could buy food, pay bills and live like a king or a queen. I know everything has gone up everywhere, but it's outrageous here! The homeless population is growing faster. 3. Storms / Harricanes 4. Can't find insurance because all the companies are leaving in some form or another ( I was also an insurance agent as my 2nd job, I know firsthand the pain from both sides) trust me insurance agents can't always get to insure their stuff either! 5. PEOPLE ARE RUDE!!!! Back when I was a kid people would help each other a lot more and have respect for one another, heck people would even wave to strangers. NOT ANYMORE, not sure if it's because there are so many people not from here who have brought their ways with them and the attitude is spreading or what but it's so sad, it wasn't this bad 5 years ago, let alone 2! 6. Because of the cost of living getting out of hand I find myself relocating more than ever before, I come from a family who lived in a home for over 47 years, now I'm moving every 7 mos, to a years because of the cost. 7. Jobs pay terrible here, and it's incredibly hard to find a good job, always has been. That was the number one reason why we moved in the first place was for better opportunity. And I did really well getting promoted to ops management before my mother got sick, causing us to come back... 8. Low pay but high rent! I mean the math ain't mathing at all. These jobs are making plenty of profit from all the people moving here so why not pour back into their workforce? 9. It's impossible to find health care here let alone anyone who will take decent insurance even if it's from your job! I have a Dr appt for my mother for her cardiologist for JAN 2025!!! SMH 10. It's hard to make good decent friends here, the old friends have moved away. And to find one who will not backstab is hard to find depending on where you live. Many people are to worried about only themselves to have someone in their corner who will be there for them... It' 's really sad. 😔 If you're planning to move to FL you've been warned! I'm Planning my final escape from this place once and for all now, and I can't wait to be promoted somewhere else. It will always be home, but home has now just become a house or a motel 6!😭😭🤦‍♀🤦‍♀😔😔🤣🤣

Yeah when all my friends who moved out for Florida were like, "cmon down here, it'll be so much better," I was like "but then I'd have to live in Florida..."

Don’t forget floods, hurricanes, and extremely hot “summers” that can last six months

No way he was a moderate Republican

This is very true, so many from NYC are moving back.

Overall expensive and you got a insecure Governor that focuses on none existing issues.

Florida is full of homelessness, and life feels tense. I want to move to Minnesota, where it's more free and open-minded. Florida is full of all the wrong fights.

Its also a population thing. With a population of 22 million prices will be high. You go out west to Wyoming or a less populated state in general and the cost of living is drastically cheaper.

Car insurance is so high. I’m thinking about selling my car and trying to live without one. HOA fees are out of control.

Imagine leaving new York because it was " too expensive" just to go to another place that's just as expensive 😂🤡 overrated state idk why people move down there

The kids that grow up in Florida won't be able to be competitive in the workplace for where things are going.

I have lived there, I would never want to go back. I can only hope that they come to their senses, if they have any!

The upcoming hurricane season will thin out the herd if it is as bad as forecast. A lot of folks quit FL in 2004 after it got battered by 3 bad storms

Florida is 60% sinkholes…

Florida has some of the most ridiculous home prices, on top of that good luck finding home insurance. And if you could find home insurance, are you ready to pay $20k plus premium every year on top of your mortgage payments? No, Florida has become very expensive. It's even more expensive than California.

Been there. I see absolutely no reason to go back.

Climate change (and the Governor's inability to even acknowledge its existence) certainly doesn't help

Hopefully more people will move back to their state

I love Florida to visit in the Winter, but wouldn't want to live there. The property insurance, the politics, the humidity, it's not all just sun & fun!

Over the past year, the East South Central region, encompassing Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, and Tennessee, recorded the highest annual increase in consumer prices (4.2%); the neighboring South Atlantic region’s four states recorded the second-highest increase (3.9%). The West North Central region - including the seven midwestern states - recorded an annual CPI increase of 3.8% since compared to last October. On the other hand, the New England region’s six states collectively recorded a 2% increase in their CPI over the past year.

Lived there for 26 years, saw the writing on the wall and left in 2017. I do miss the beach but I can live pretty well back up north.

I’d say that the bigger truth is that property insurance and property taxes are skyrocketing.

I like what he said …. “ Desantis makes it uncomfortable for ALOT of people to live here “ This is not the Florida I once knew . This state has become a trash dump

I hate the way people drive in Florida

0% state income tax.

I made this exact mistake myself and I am SO SORRY I MOVED HERE. Cannot wait to leave.

The home insurance companies are leaving Florida in droves. Have fun folks who impulsively moved to Florida 😅. The state is being run into the ground.

That dude was not a moderate Republican. That is for sure haha😅

Dont know anyone who is moving back to IL from Florida!

I would hate living in Florida for the weather alone...disgusting! Oppressive heat and humidity is unbearable

Lived in Florida for a year after finishing high school with my grandparents. Pretty place to visit I wouldn't live there.

A lot of those Florida buildings appear to be about a foot above sea level? No wonder they have to pay such high property insurance.

Born in raised in the Florida Keys and dying down here.

Florida... Death's waiting room.

Videos like this only remind me how lucky I am that the University of Tampa turned me down for a job.

I bet none of them that state politics, actually know about politics or have read the bills they’re speaking of.

I've lived in Florida my entire life, and I'm just twenty. I try to stay out of politics, but I feel that Florida's political dynamics have turned our state much more Republican demographically and culturally than it has been in the past. I feel it was a nice place to be for me personally, with all the fun theme parks and tons of beautiful beaches and nature, but it has undoubtedly gotten quite overcrowded with new and returning residents, especially now that our population is approximately 23 million. It's also very hot and humid for a majority of the year (I like to bike ride a lot there and feel most comfortable doing that in December or January) and this combination with the critters and insects that roam the state, has made it feel kind of gross for me. I remember there just being farms and other similar plots of land on a specific highway in a formerly-rural area near my house north of the Tampa Bay area just under ten years ago. Now, at the same location, there have been so many new subdivisions being built, nonstop, that it has become so unrecognizable. Also the cost of living has gone up too. Since then, I have decided I want to live somewhere near the Rocky Mountains when I'm older. Not the cheapest option but I love it there and I can actually breathe fresh air and not feel crammed.

Those that dont like FL wont like the beaches of other Southern states any better. Same people, same costs, same issues. I live in So. AL almost 2 hrs from beaches for 67 years. There is a saying about those that want to live very near or on the beach: There are 2 times you will like your beach home, when you first buy it , and when you finally sell it. That's especially true now.

Florida used to be an absolutely beautiful place to live. Crystal clear springs, lakes, and rivers. Pristine beaches. Beautiful woodlands. Hundreds of thousands of acres of orange groves and cattle ranches. Then, Disney came in, followed by several other large theme parks and tourist attractions, and everything went to crap. Overcrowding, horrendous traffic, soaring home prices, and endless subdivisions. I was born and raised in Florida. I loved living there, but at 55 years old I couldn’t take any more of it. Got a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina and just love it.

Nobody in Florida is sad the liberals are moving out

Yes, my mom said it was hotter than an oven in April ....and last year she said July and Aug you couldn't go outside.

Florida's prices have risen dramatically and the ability to earn a living down here is not that good. The average person is in the food business and earning low pay, bad benefits, and no worker's rights. The education system is being run by the governor who has a strict pollical agenda outside of education.

Get your hurricane stuff now rookies.

Try insuring a home in Florida as a reasonable cost, you can't. Insurance companies has pulled out of the state citing too much risk due to flooding. Climate change and rising sea levels have consequences especially for a state where most of the land is not that much above sea level.

Our whole country is divided you can’t escape it

FL, America's #2 that won't fall off.

Florida is a great place to visit, it's got so many beautiful areas to see, but so much bad with the heat and humidity, storms, bugs. Visit, spend a few weeks and get out.

Sold a condo I inherited in Daytona beach 12 years ago. HOA was dominated by three guys we called Atilla , Genghis and Adolph. They were vetoing necessary structural maintenance to keep down costs . I also realized you pretty much lived going from an air conditioned home, to car to the next air conditioned building. I'm not surprised about the rising costs of insurance because of the vulnerability to hurricanes. Winters aren't that bad in NY now anyway.

Good goodbye we don’t want your blue state politics in a red state

My dad in the 70s used to joke about having swamp land in Florida to sell you... Naive .

Here since 1966 . Grew up in Miami . WW2 dad retired with VA loan got a home in South Florida for $11,000 . Same home almost $500,000, taxes and home insurance for the elderly is crushing them . Fla Governor is the worse for Teachers , those who work in hospitals . Don't be old with health problems in Fl . Fl Governor has his hand in hospitals its bad . I can deal with the weather . Home insurance is nuts , car insurance is nuts . Every state has its pros and cons.

I've been living in Miami for the past 6 years , best decision ever ! I got a better job , new girlfriend , new friends , and best of all ....a loving republican state !

FL is the silliest state ever!... My parents in law, retired on their 60's, used to pay $450 for their HOA two years ago; this year they're paying $700 and they got a notice recently, saying that they will increase the HOA to $1,100 starting on January 2025. Now they're looking to sell their apartment to move out of there ASAP!!!

Cost of living, bugs, alligators, rising home insurance prices, sea level rise, humidity, worsening effects of climate change/ intense hurricanes, insane political issues, etc... the list goes on. Nice to visit Disney, Miami and The Keys but Flordia has some major issues going on.

While everyone left NYC, i stayed, took your brand new furniture, and appliances you left on the sidewalk, then furnished my new $1600 2bdrm. I feel bad for people who migrated to Fl to find out they were possibly better off where they came from, ive lived there lol.

I moved to Florida in July of 2020 and moved out by August of 2020. It was a horrible place for me (personally) to live. Our neighborhood was dangerous. Traffic was unreal. Our house was infested with bugs (we're extremely clean people). I was treated like dirt at my job because of my sexuality. I'm not straight, and people at my job did not like me for it. I will never move back to Florida again. I may go for a vacation one day, but probably not. Florida is not a good place to be.

Florida feels like a trap and inflation is making some very rich and others strapped in minimum wage poverty. I'm so glad I left.

Having live in FL several times (my grandparents built a home there in the 80's) I questioned why northerners would think they could tolerate the heat, humidity and bugs. It's only gotten worse since the 80's. Can't blame FL for the rise in home insurance. The hurricanes have cost the insurance companies billions, so yep they are charging more. Car insurance is going up across the country due to theft so the companies spread the cost out across the country. If you don't punish the thieves, they're going to keep stealing, rates are going to keep rising. As for the politics... why would you move to a state who's politics aren't in line with your opinions? That's just silly. It's not as if you couldn't check them out before you moved. To avoid 'Buyers Remorse' think before you move.

If so many people flood a state , of course prices are going to skyrocket. What planet are these people from??

If you like the handmaiden’s tale, you should stay in Florida, because that is just what DeSantis is trying to do. I live there my whole life now I don’t. I fear for my daughters and my grand children’s ability to make choices I fear for my grand children for the education they are not receiving And the hatred that is spread throughout that state from the governor regarding anybody that is not like him. Don’t forget to mention if he thinks you are an illegal. He can put you in a car and throw you across the border. That’s just a few of the rights there are so many, he doesn’t let people put things into bills. He just makes an executive order he’s not working for the people he’s dictating to the people move out while you can but if Trump gets back in office, they’ll be no saving any of us.

Let’s talk about all the people moving to New York and California sometime?

I left Florida in 2022: not just because of the toxic politics, but also the overcrowding, the mindless environmental degradation, the punishing heat. It's not the magical winter haven it was in my childhood. It's no longer even the tranquil, overdeveloped real estate suggested by the selective shots in this video. The sky is white and the heat is rising. And as homes descend into uninsurability, new Category 6 hypercanes, whipped up into tsunamis of wind by our relentless carbon emissions -- Mauna Loa just recorded last March not only record carbon ppm but the largest ever annual increase -- along with a new, lethal level of heat are coming, and will hit Florida first. And amid the unfolding slo-mo disaster, leadership has its head resolutely in the ground, which is sinking along with the exhausted aquifer. Wondering whether to wait for your house to be hit? Florida has a message: Get out. What I got from this video is that as more Dems move out and MAGA moves in, as seems to be what the realtor says is happening, Florida's ecological collapse will only accelerate.

Please leave Florida. Too many people are moving here.

Good. Everyone from NY, NJ, and Mich need to go back home

They should move to New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, or San Francisco. Why did they move to Florida?

I love Florida, please go back and take your politics with you.

Must be really nice to just pick up and move like that..... most of us can't.

Liberal media hating on Florida.

4 years ago they did a story about people in droves moving away, last year they did a story about people moving in droves to Florida, this year they did a story about people moving out of Florida, next year, next year 😂😂