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[quote=Anonymous]Florida is no more monolithic than any other state.  You can't generalize because the different regions of the state are vastly different.  South and Central Florida have very little in common with panhandle or North Florida.

That said, my parents (now mother), have lived in the Orlando for nearly 40 years.  They moved after I graduated from High School, so I did not attend school there, but there are a number of decent public school pyramids there.  As with any other state and region of the country, the rich areas do better than the poor areas.

I have friends who have college kids that they raised in the area.  This family moved down when their kids were in preschool.  In the DC area, they both had to work in order to afford a home in a decent school district and to have money for the extras that come with raising children.  When they moved to Florida, the husband was offered a raise to relocate (his national employer wanted him in the Orlando office and gave him a raise as incentive to move).  The lower COL and raise meant that his wife could now stay at home with the kids.  She stayed at home with them until they were near the end of middle school.  She then got a teaching certificate and started working at a private school.  Her part-time job allowed her to enroll her kids in the private school and when they got to middle/high school, she moved to full-time.  Now they are empty nesters and she still works full-time at the school and loves it there.  But they could not realistically afford to be a one income family here in the DMV region, but they could easily in central Florida (even without the raise they could have swung it).

Through these friends, I have met others who also relocated from other parts of the country and it was a theme that many families that were struggling or just getting by in northern urban areas found it much more economically comfortable to raise families in central Florida due to the lower COL.  Some converted from two income to one income and others continued as two incomes, but were far more comfortable.

DCUM is a self-selected group of predominantly higher income contrbuters.  These folks are overrepresented by those in the top 1% of the nation income-wise and they get to make choices that the other 99% can't make as easily.  So, read this thread (and many others) with the side knowledge that the views represented here are those of the privileged affluent.[/quote]

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