Why you shouldn't move to Florida?

[purring along]

As a native Floridian we moved to south carolina for a better life for us and our kids and found it. We always kept a house in key largo as some place to escape the cold and fish. Last year we sold our keys home and bought a place in Sebastian florida. Sebastian is as close to the same environment as ft. Lauderdale used to be sixty years ago. As for south Florida, you can keep it!

 

[JoeH]

It is not “Florida” any longer. The tropical slow paced relaxing life is gone. Forty or thirty years ago it was paradise. I always said I’d never leave but now live in NC mountains and we bought a Coachman Galleria to travel.

Agree-- I moved here 40+ years ago .. now I"m looking to get out. Too crowded,infrastructure lagging behind.

 

[lostinfla]

Not a native, but I've lived in SW Forida for 65 years now and I can say it was a MUCH better place to live up until around 20 years ago. Every piece of open land has been covered with apartments, condos, gated communities and the accompanying businesses to supply the needs of the huge influx of people that have moved into our area (Ft. Myers). I'm certain all of the added concrete has helped to increase the temperatures. Traffic during "season" rivals the worst in the nation. Add in the brutal heat in the summer and it's not as nice as the chamber of commerce would have some believe. If I weren't so rooted in here, I'd be in TN or the Carolinas.

 

[Holdmybeer]

Agree-- I moved here 40+ years ago .. now I"m looking to get out. Too crowded,infrastructure lagging behind.

Infrastructure in all of America is lagging behind. The author of “Breakneck”, Dan Wang, explains the stark contrast with China regarding industrial development and public infrastructure over the past 40 years is as simple as who is running things. America is run by lawyers, China by engineers.