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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By all means, move to Florida. But don’t expect tax or any other savings. At your anticipated house price, you’ll pay $35,000 in real estate taxes in the South Florida metro area. Almost equal amount in insurance. Two cars minimum, insurance, gas. High healthcare costs (if you need it). So while you might enjoy the climate change, you won’t save money.

You’ll thank me for this revelation.[/quote]

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I’m puzzled by your “high healthcare costs” and other claims.  We’ve not noticed any discernible difference on healthcare costs between DC and FL.  Some people even use concierge medicine with fixed pricing that eliminates surprise billing, telemedicine, no wait times, next day appts.  We also have EVs and our State Farm car insurance rates have dropped from DC.  We’re in Indian River County and the taxes are nowhere near $35K.  My MIL lives in Boca and her taxes are nowhere near that figure, either.  She just bought, too.

You sound like you have some strange investment/motivation or more likely, you’re just jealous.[/quote]

The people on the DCUM real estate forum have this strange fear of Florida, despite having spent no time here and having no first hand knowledge of what it's like to live here. They hear about people moving down here, and it stresses them out that people may be having a better life than them, so they dig in their heels to make up nonsensical reasons to hate Florida, most of which aren't based in fact. These threads often devolve into them saying stuff like "I could never live there because of the alligators".  Which is when you know they're arguing in bad faith.  [/quote]

+1 DP here and this is so true. They're livid that someone eschews liberal areas in favor of living in a red state. It's so important to their political identity to believe that red states can't be good places to live. So alligators and daily access to late-term abortions become "concerns" along with making up lies about the COL.[/quote]

It’s just always been a pretty cheesy place. Beautiful beaches and some nice pockets but the “Florida man” game  didn’t come about by coincidence. The weather and country club life are appealing and I wish I liked the state, but I just don’t.   If I had $8 million, I’d buy on 30A but the rest of it is pretty unappealing.  And Desantis is a crazy fascist - that doesn’t help at all. [/quote]

We lived FT on 30A for 5 years and still own a house there. There is much to love. The biggest drawback is healthcare in that area. Hospital / medical infrastructure has not kept up with the pace of population growth, and it's a long way to travel for good care. [/quote]

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