Are you folks Christians, or followers of some other religion, or no religion?

It's so nice to see u back! I would have liked to have seen a whole house tour before u left Florida but that's okay. I enjoyed watching your renovation videos. Wishing u and your family all the best! Take care!💜

Can I ask your tips on raising children not to be materialistic and especially what tips you would use to help them at the time of life they go out on thier own

Did your two oldest children move also? Will they still be living with you or are they ready to begin their own adult lives?

Hi! It is so good to see you back! I am curious what you guys are doing for income now that you have moved and haven't sold your home? That seems so nosey (I am sorry) I am curious if you are still doing instacart and those things for that income? Since I mainly watched for your budget and frugal tips.

What things have you found to be expensive? What state are you moving?

@@secretjourney4815 we moved from Miami Lakes, FL to Gainesville, GA. A BIG change in scenery but we also went from paying 3K + utilities for 2/2 apt to paying 2K for a 4/3 home. We are subleasing a room to a relative so our actual rent cost is 1.2K which makes it worth it. Moving our things was the biggest expense; we downsized and did it with a 16 foot Penske truck for ~$1500 (including tolls and fuel).

Congrats! We are considering it right now, but not because we want to, but financially it’s getting too tight. We like the climate and all so we are looking for something similar. Or just comfortable living. If you don’t mind me asking - what state did you move to and why did you like it?

@@burkinfaso I fully understand, it was the same thing for us. We loved the climate and FL is what we've known most of our lives but it no longer made sense financially. We moved one state over to Georgia. There are about 3-4 months of cold weather that we have to get ready for but the rest of the year it's somewhat like Florida.

@@SquareCircle005 GA is what I’ve been thinking about as well. However I’ve heard that since Floridians are moving out to GA - the housing market is rising so quickly. I feel bad since I’m about to become the same person I used to complain about (New Yorkers/northerners that moved down to fl and made the market worse, but having no choice and moving somewhere else and becoming part of that problem due to economy😪. I wish I could stay in my beloved fl and raise my family without constant stress of $$$) Anyways, Sorry for being a crybaby and all the luck to you ❤️

Congrats on the move! We are considering GA as our new home moving from Florida too. How do you like it there?

Georgia is getting filled up quick and home prices are rising fast.

Good❤!

Ditto 😢

Ohio rail Capital area of USA Heart of USA. By

Please do! Bye bye! ✌🏼

Haha

Pittsburgh, PA and Cincinnati, OH have the most affordable housing in the country And that includes most of the more rural counties surrounding the cities

@@emilyfeagin2673not according to the research I’ve done. Would you mind sharing your sources? I’m looking to move out of south Florida to somewhere a lot cheaper.

​​@@emilyfeagin2673I'm getting away from the Cincinnati area! Get ready for plenty of toxins, allergies and sickness too up in that area! I am wanting to go to NC. Haven't decided upon where. Just not in the big city

Right , I live in Tennessee , 55 years in Tennessee. It’s the same everywhere. Food prices have doubled. Home prices have doubled everywhere! And it’s about finding that place you love. We have a daughter in Florida so we are going to Florida. Selling everything to go and be comfortable there. We are in Florida often and love it. It suits us. Yes it might cost just a little more for annual property taxes but actually we we’re paying huge taxes in Tennessee until 2017 when we move to a tiny country town. But it has its issues. Like my daughter told us good medical care is not in the tiny towns it’s the nicer bugger cities. And health care in important to us. So paying a little more every year in property taxes is ok. But everything else you spend money on have doubled all over the country. You can’t run from it. We hate the extreme high humidity in Tennessee. And I don’t care what anyone says Florida is not as hit and humid as Tennessee. I actually lived in Neptune beach for 3 years so I know what it’s like. And what to expect. You can get land in Tennessee for a good price. So I pray this family find a great place to settle down. I have 11 acres on the Tennessee river I’ll sell them. It’s a gorgeous stop. We bought it thinking we would homestead. But I got sick. So headed to Florida. We are excited about it. I’m ready for a pool I can use all year long. I have psoriatic arthritis so it will be a huge help. A real blessing.

Bless you.

I’m moving back to Florida for the third time as I typed this message 😊. I love Florida. I moving back from Virginia Beach which I LOVE so much 🙏🏾

@@FourHuskyHomestead you must be kidding.... I have lived in New York, around DC, on the Canadian border and in Baton Rouge. I now live in North Florida and Florida has the most miserable hot humid weather I have ever experienced. It makes New Orleans and Baron Rouge seem like heaven with respect to the heat and I would take the four seasons even along the Canadian / NY border over Florida heat and hurricanes. Check out the home owner's insurance in Florida as well as high car insurance. Property taxes are higher in Florida then Louisiana but lower then New York or Virginia but only in some counties. In some counties in Florida the property taxes are higher then even upstate NY. I tell everyone to experience a Florida summer, which lasts like 9 months, and hurricane season before ever considering this miserable state. In the cold, I can always put on an extra sweater but in this miserable 96 degree heat and 100% humidity what do you do when you just sit there and sweat while wearing nothing more then a bathing suit. Moving to Florida was NOT my choice. It was a thing of either becoming unemployed or move with my job. If I had a choice I would NEVER have moved to Florida.. But, as for cost of living, every place in the USA is experiencing massive cost of living increases. Several of my friends have left the USA for places like France, Hungary, Romania, Poland and Mexico and not one regrets the move. I even have a nephew who lives in Japan with his Japanese wife and loves it there and would not move back to the USA for anything.

​​@@marytica123 I am sure you are going to put your money, where your mouth is, and buy this woman, a house that's up to your exacting standards. Put up or shut up. Stop , shaming people, for how they live. She sounds like she is happy, and comfortable, with having chosen, an alternative way of living. Better than that , she's living within her means, and I wonder, if you can say, the same ?

Texas is headings in that direction too 😢

Still better than NY or Commiefornia

@@commonsenseisntcommon1776 All the New Yorkers are moving here (FL) they are rude and run up the prices. FL will be the new New York soon. FL is no longer FL, its a mix of New York, Brazil, and Puerto Rico.

Maybe 20+ years ago. It didn’t just happen

That's what I was thinking.

Thank the Governor partly for this mess!

It sounds like you left Florida voluntarily, whatever your reason was. I'm just not seeing that you were forcibly evicted or deported.

@@rangerannie5636Forced by circumstances if they want a roof over their head and food on the table…is that so hard to understand. Evidently, it is. Smh

@@seriejohnson698 So they had reasons behind the choice they made. You made my point for me. Thank you! 😊

I just visit Florida in tourism visits . I love it here in my hometown Massillon oh

Ohio very very cheap state Excellent pubic transit hée

Florida lighting capitol and hurricane capitol

I plan to go visit Florida in December and january

@@MichaelMitchell-ks5it Yes! Especially this year. Lots of lightning⚡️⚡️⚡️

I agreed on this I will sell everything if I move again

I would never take furniture with me for a long distance move.

Agreed. Hear too many horror stories of moving companies ripping off customers. Hiking up prices and holding possessions hostage until the higher price is paid. I would never hire "professional" movers.

Florida does have a grocery tax, it’s just wrapped into the price of the food. It doesn’t show as taxed on the receipt.

Don’t worry home prices in Tennessee will go up by people escaping there from Florida. Just like home prices went up in Texas and Florida when people escaped to those states from the West coast. I live in Texas and this has definitely happened. So it may be a temporary respite to move to Tennessee but word is spreading so enjoy it while it lasts.

Only way she will have true power over what she’s running from is to leave America. 🤦🏾‍♀️. You’ll face the same challenges because that’s the way America is moving.

@@Faithful10415they already have been skyrocketing in TN for 3+ years

@@Faithful10415 People just dont realize. All these states that have no state income tax are just as expensive as any other state. It takes money to run the state, and it has to come from SOMEPLACE. So either they charge higher sales taxes, or property taxes, or find sneakier ways like Texas... which makes you buy a hunting permit to hunt on YOUR OWN LAND. Texas takes in 50 million a year just from that

Sorry about your mother. FL doesn't tax any of those retirement benefits either.

Yes! Thank you!

Yeah, that’s real smart leaving the house that you had a mortgage on to go live in an Airbnb. Everybody go look on line to see how much an Airbnb because these people have no brain.

Thank you so much!

Yes this

Now everyone is moving to Tennessee. They'll screw that up fast, watch. Why is it that everyone thinks they have an original idea when everyone has the same idea?

🤣🤣…..as if Florida isn’t conservative and backward enough! You’re a hoot! 😁

@@PETER394100 As opposed to Chicago, Detroit, Philly, Baltimore, etc? Why are people LEAVING BLUE STATES and GOING TO RED STATES? 🤷‍♂️

I visited Murfreesboro Tennessee for the first time in March and loved it. I am hoping to move some time this year.

I lived in Murfreesboro across from MTSU. I rented from a lot of private owners and my rent was always under 500. Beautiful place for students and retirees. Haven't been there in a while but it was growing before I left

@@peculiarshanice4586 I live just a half mile from MTSU. Yes! absolutely beautiful place to live. It’s grown a lot is what I have been told. Everything is so convenient. Great city to raise kids.

How do you get free produce?

@@CheapsKate77 in the rural South many people garden and give their extra fruits and veggies to neighbors. We live in the country and own a business people offer us free produce all the time.

@@CourtneyRobinson you must know a lot of people to be able to get free produce twice a week. We have people who give us star fruit and mangos but only once a year. Their trees don’t produce fruit every week.

@@CheapsKate77 we own a business and see a lot of people at their homes. My dad also has a big garden as well as all my neighbors. It’s really common here to share your excess produce.

No people want a better living for themselves. Hurricanes are far more worse than blizzards & snow. Let’s get that straightened out. That state caters to people like you and the wealthy anyways. I lived through hurricane season 2004-2005 that was a hot ass mess and dangerous. The sea levels has risen, hotter temperatures, more flooding Mc low paying jobs, and what’s sad is the poor Floridians won’t have money to leave if they don’t leave before the next passing decade. The economy in Florida is trash.

It’s because a lot of People want to Live there, But Probably can’t afford it, Not everyone Lives Paycheck to Paycheck, like she says,

@@mssarahc4085 Yes, but all things being equal, I haven't seen a place that I would prefer to live. Just because the cost of living has gone up doesn't mean that it's any less desirable of a place. Would you rather live in Cali with 50% of the homeless people in the US? Or NYC where I paid 13% more net taxes for an inferior lifestyle, or Portland where you're stepping on used needles when walking down the street? I don't understand why people are trashing FL...

@@BestStockStrategy50% of the US homeless population because they come here from other states with horrible weather.

She feeds her baby with iced popsicles, of course she made him sick, no wonder. She seems smart, but not really

Honestly, they've made extremely poor money wasting decisions that have resulted in their current situation. Moving is expensive! They've made two big moves in three years. There are soooo many costs associating with moving. Now an RV purchase and living in an RV. If their goal is to travel, then good, get the RV. If their goal is to build wealth and security .... They're on the wrong path. It's very difficult to hear young people say "it's more difficult now than ever" ... no, its not. Not by a long shot.

@@susansmith493 For sure. My first house had an 18% interest rate mortgage. And I had excellent credit.

@@joethecomputerguy1 I remember those days of 18% mtg interest rates. I also remember odd-even license plate gas rationing. :) In places like Florida, where many houses are considered "Beach front" (I think it's loosely defined ...within 1 mile of the water) ...of course prices are high and taxes too. Even the jersey shore is very expensive price and tax. This family has really just made some poor financial decisions and CHOOSE to take what would normally be considered "side jobs" to support their family. There's nothing wrong if that's what you choose ..but don't place the consequences of those actions on others or a state, etc.

@@susansmith493- I live at the Jersey shore and prices here are insane. It’s heartbreaking because so many locals can not afford to live here anymore. Home prices are through the roof but rent is even higher! And that’s if you can actually find a place to rent.

Be sure and check on home prices, property taxes and rising traffic. Knoxville and Nashville have both seen record numbers of people moving in--many from states that had different expectations from government in their own state. This may signal a push to raise taxes. Just what I have heard. Maybe the rural areas are different.

What was wrong with it?

Healthcare is unbelievably horrible, grocery etc taxes very high. RE tax remains low so there is one plus. I would discourage anyone from settling in TN

Did you try IVM?

Try an NAC supplement. It shows it helps with the spike protein damage

Squatters are definitely an issue in FL! And it is nearly impossible to get them out. We did think about that and have some things in place to help prevent it 😉

@@raisingwildflowers That makes me feel better. I’m glad you have a plan to combat squatters. I really enjoy your content and you have a wonderful family. 🫶🏾

That's a great point. I don't know what the rules are in U.S, but in 🇨🇦 u have to also have an empty property checked every 30 days min by someone or insurance won't pay if something happens.🇨🇦♥️

Right. You’ll need up poor there. The state is a red state so there’s no taxes meaning lack of resources for a social services for people.

Awesome thank you!

Visited parts of Alaska a few years ago. Stunning place!

Heime Rabinowitz has had the property sale contract drawn up for the past 15 years.

Hopefully they can hold out and sell to a family not not one of those companies who make renting for regular people, families almost impossible.

Correct. Most Americans are suffering from the high cost of living, rigged elections have consequences.

😬 I hope you are prepared for FL heat and humidity. It is nothing compared to TN. And FL storms are much worse than TN storms. We also found the health care in FL to be horrible. I truly hope it is better for you than it was for us, but based on the reasons you are saying you are leaving TN - I don’t think FL is going to be the place you want to go. It is one thing to vacation there, but living in FL is very different. We are originally from TN (east) and will not be staying here either. But FL is definitely not better.

I will also add, that being a snowbird would be a much better option if that is possible. The winters are great, but the summers will be horrible for you.

Thank you ! I am . I lived in Neptune beach for 3 years. And my daughter is about to graduate with her doctorate at UF . To me west Tennessee is hotter and more humidity. In Florida you have the ocean breeze even inland and you can swim every day. The 4 storms we had in the past month were horrendous. It was 2 week for my daughter to get her power back on in Bartlett. It’s our house she rents it from us. So we went to see the damage. Because it’s on us to repair it. We had 4 detours within 2 blocks of her house. I have never seen damage so bad. Lines and poles in the road. All the fences in her street were down . My dad lives 3 blocks from her and we could not even get to him. Outside right now I have 200 year old tree uprooted from a storm that hit our town an hour east of Memphis last night. I have suffered all summer and summer started in March. We really don’t have winter any longer. But ones in a while we get an ice storm. I’m 60 now and I know what’s going on. I’d rather be in Florida with a pool I can use year round and one daughter near by an I think my Tennessee daughter will join us. But cost of living we are looking at about 1000 a year in property taxes. It’s worth it since I have psoriatic arthritis. I can swim each day and get relief. And that’s the big thing . Pain, the last 20 years I have stuffed with pain. I was in a plane crash, and that spinal cord injury got worse when I developed severe arthritis. The thing is I don’t hurt in Florida. I can be in Florida and pain doesn’t enter my mind. When we got home from Gainesville a month ago I woke up that next day and I said oh my God ! Help me. As soon as we got back that pain hit me hard. It’s been like that 20 years. Sometimes I go to Florida just to get relief. I can not explain it. Sure I swim when I’m there, but it’s like once I get below I 10 the pain level drops. And for that it’s worth it. Now I say it’s more in taxes but we did pay twice as much more in taxes before we moved to the little country home we have now. So that’s not really a deal breaker. So I’m ready. We have 4 properties to sell. And one we are flipping. So we just need to get through the next 10 months. As soon as our youngest graduates from UF we should be ready to go. Can’t wait to get relief from pain and it’s our last home purchase. So we are getting something that’s big enough for our children to visit. We go to Disney about 4 times a year and we will be able to actually be home when they visit. We have a time share and that’s nice but we can’t take our huskies. I really hate leaving our huskies. They are family too. We like them to be with us. Hope Tennessee is all you want it to be. And if you are interested in 11 acres at the Tennessee river just message us. It’s a beautiful place. But turning 60 this year. And the severe arthritis It’s not for me anymore. A young family would really enjoy it. Leslye

Also, Only way she will have true power over what she’s running from is to leave America. 🤦🏾‍♀️. You’ll face the same challenges because that’s the way America is moving.

I was a landlord briefly…horrible tenant! This tenant was a member of local police…you might think rent would have been paid with out multiple calls and demands each month. You might think small dog and cat might be housebroken, you might think noise would be reasonable, you might think the house would be kept clean and repair needs might be reported…well you would be wrong.

I was thinking about the gas prices to drive it on trips. Our South Carolina gas prices just shot up again. My small car is stressing me on gas 2 days a week an hour to work. Maybe they get good gas being diesel engines ?

I've heard others say this too. They're slow, hard to handle, and not at all fuel efficient. If you crunch the numbers they're not a good investment.

i'm still making a Massachusetts salary, Florida is much more affordable in comparison it's hilarious. Even with inflation, Florida is still cheaper than Massachusetts.

It's expensive Every USA. You have to put it on paper and do the math. I live in a very expensive area rent wise. But, I other things are less expensive. My car insurance alone is so much less expensive because of the zip code that it makes up the difference in rent. Everything I need is within a short distance. I hardly buy gas. Utilities are less here too. It's the hidden cost that most overlook. So I say....Live were you're HAPPY !!! 😊✌️🦋

Any beach community in any state is expensive. If you're close to the water like their house, your taxes and insurance are higher. Beach communities can charge for a week rental what non-beach communities charge for a month. Try to get a beach rental even in jersey for a week. This woman is comparing apples to oranges as far as states and communities are concerned. Buying a house within a block from a beach ANYWHERE is expensive.

​@susansmith493 in FL, you don't have to live near the beach for homes, insurance, taxes to be expensive. The state is expensive...period.

​@@millabasset1710the key is Massachusetts salary. FL salaries do not compare. Cost of living has skyrocketed just in 3 to 4 yrs but incomes in FL have not kept up at all. I don't mind paying more to live in another state because incomes are higher to a point where I would still come out ahead each month.