Moved from there a year ago after spending 20 years fighting traffic and being surrounded by liberals and apartment buildings. There's nothing to do there except shop, eat out, and visit theme parks or go to the beach where everyone is practically sitting on top of each other. Sure, the winters are great, but the scenery never changes. No income tax is nice, but they get you by making you pay tolls everywhere you want to go. Once you total up all the tolls you've paid for the year, you can easily see how paying a state tax would be cheaper. Unless you have the money for acreage, be prepared to live in a neighborhood that's zero lot lined.
Buy a small farm, you'll never get bored.
Acreage is very expensive in Florida. Plus, having a small farm there comes with many obstacles. 1) You need one or more greenhouses because not that many edible plants will grow in sand, it gets damn hot there and the sun dries up the soil as soon as you're done watering and its punishing rays will scorch the plants 2) poisonous snakes everywhere, so be prepared to pay vet bills/lose some livestock 3) sink holes 4) lightening causes brush fires 5) securing your outbuildings, crops, and livestock when a hurricane threatens
I could of course name more obstacles, but my point being there are several locations that are 10x better than Florida if you want to operate a small farm.
Wow the stuff i never think about.
tolls are more than state income tax? exaggerate much?
I wish I was exaggerating. While I only counted miles for the year because that's all that can be written off for taxes, my physical therapist was still attending school and said that it cost him about $1500 in tolls for the year to go between work, home, and school.
Edited to add: Remember that he spent more than $1500 in tolls because he didn't add up the tolls he spent to visit friends and family, and traveling to do fun things.
growing up in a small beach town the thing that killed me was the drawbridges on the intercoastal waterway. Everytime you had to be somewhere an asshole playing in his sailboat would hold up 200 cars.
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