It's very simple. If you have a lot of money and like the beach, fishing boating, eating, and drinking then you'll love Florida. If you don't have a lot of money you're going to have a tough time.
There is only one insurance underwriter. If you can't get commercial insurance, the other option is Sate-run insurance (very expensive). Then the last resort is self insurance.
Youre buying into the hype dude. Named storms, including hurricanes is down. 27 were expected. There were only 17. The water level of the Gulf Coast has NOT changed. NASA changed their baseline twice, so it looks like a water temp increase, but the footnote explains the baseline changes. Jeff Bezons just bought land on Miami Beach ocean front for $150m. The permanent survey markers are exactly where they were nearly 75 ago, relative to the water. There are low income people moving out, but honestly, are you considering moving into a trashy ole trailer park where they lived. What you are seeing is new owners of inherited condo owners that dont want to pay the carrying costs. 90% of all inherited property is sold off immediately. Florida has a high number of elderly.... Their property rolls down to a family member. That family member can no longer afford the insurance and taxes on non-homestead properties... and sells it off.
Yes, climate change is a Democrat hoax, just like Russian collusion was. They started off by calling it global warming, but changed it to climate change (which means... NOTHING) when they got caught using bogus data.
As a native Alabamian who has been coming down to the Florida Gulf Coast periodically for almost a half century, for me none of what's in this video is news. One big mistake northerners make about Florida is thinking the whole state is like Miami Beach. Nope, northern Florida experiences all four seasons; your home/condo will require a heating unit. I think my wife and I will stay in Huntsville, Alabama and continue to visit for a week or so a year. I know people who "invested" in a vacation condo on the Gulf as far back as the 1980s. Forty years later, the bloom is fairly much gone from that flower.
Oh there are still folks making money down here in the investment game. You just have to have money if you want to turn a profit and not be dumb enough to think you can be the one running it from 300 miles away.
@@LivingontheEmeraldCoastFlorida You are absolutely correct. Back in the early 2000s my wife and I were offered the chance to purchase the condo we were renting; a 1-BR in one of the towers on Navarre Beach. The price the condo was reasonable (relatively), and we were briefly tempted. However, we did know some people who had condos in Florida (one as far as St. Pete); we kind of caught on it wasn't all sunshine. After thinking about the total costs and considering the logistics of being an absentee owner, we decided not to. (Apparently, the next summer the condo was sold and the new owner took it off the rental market. Too bad; it had a fantastic view.) Also, frankly, the quality of construction of many of these condo towers and beach homes are quite suspect. Over the years we've rented condo units in various locations between PC Beach and Pensacola. Some of the buildings no more than 15 years old were showing telling signs of deterioration. I suspect within about forty years of construction many of these condo towers may well be condemned.
Lived in Florida for 15 years, after Scott became Gov. and then DeSadass. I moved it really sucked, but I did make a killing on the house . Now people can't even afford the insurance. I seen it coming.
It's really nice down here. I just looked on my weather app and they are getting 5 inches of snow today back home. I haven't taken my sunglasses off all week. Different strokes for different folks!
Nice video! Aside from the military that you mentioned, this is just a resort/vacation area, so most of this isn't unique to this area - I have heard the same complaints about Aspen, Colorado - workers can't afford to live there, low healthcare access, many jobs are just seasonal hospitality work,, etc. It always seems like a crisis when you face it, but it is a choice that you make when you move here. If the earlier locals got a great deal and can't afford it anymore and are leaving - guess what: they'll make a ton when they sell and move. Andalusia, Alabama could be a great place to retire for less than half the cost and you can have a day trip to go to the beach anytime you want. (I'm only half-joking)
Nice comment. Yes, we see a lot of the locals getting priced out and moving inland. We also have Panama City that has a pretty decent cost of living compared with the beach towns.
I graduated from HS in Tampa. Many years later (2015) I returned to retire in the Ocala area and we purchased a home. We are a bit inland by choice and don’t really need to fear hurricanes. No place is totally safe. I was a great place to ride out Covid as we didn’t lock down that much. I’ve decided to go without home insurance. If we leave and not saying we would it would be because of increased traffic.
I live down here and pick fresh fruit off of my trees whenever I want. Never any damage from storms because I have a concrete home. This is paradise. Learned Spanish because of the population of Cubans and other Spanish speaking people here.
As a Panama City Beach resident, we have some of the dumbest tourists in all the South. How many clowns from Alabama went for their final swim during a double red flag in 2024? That gator in the store was hilarious! Good to see your channel is growing brother.
I have No money. Im going to move to Florida, borrow money to get a business by the ocean and then charge tourists crazy money so I can live there while they pay for it. Oh wait, thats already the way its all set up.
Hurricanes and all of the people who have moved here in the past 5 years are the only reason I would leave. Houses were affordable before people from California, New England, NY, NJ and other state tax places sold out and paid cash for inflated properties. It’s ok for people to move away from Florida.
I know this sounds like a trivial question but what is the status on riding your skateboard on the streets of the emerald Coast between the cars and the curb. I'm not talking about the major highways I'm talking about the side streets around towns. It seems like a great way to slide through the traffic jams and get to the beach. This is important to me and by the way I'm 65 years old. "Tony hawk look-alike"
That is awesome!! The whole area of 30A is very bike friendly. I haven't seen a lot of skate board activity but as long as it isn’t motorized you should be fine. If they let electric bikes out there they should for sure allow 65 year old Tony Hawks! 🤙
Florida just has too many negatives that won't get better as climate change continues to dominate the coastal areas. We left SWFL coast in 2022 at height of home sale market with 18 yrs of crazy property value growth to cash in before "the crash" or next "big surge" would take it all. The last straw for us was the unaffordable & unstable insurance coupled with always playing "russian roulette" with hurricanes! We found a new "paradise" with less drama & less cost of living where we are saving once again & life is good. Now we just take our RV to Emerald Coast or any other sunny warm spot we choose for a month or two in the dead of winter!
"Now we just take our RV to Emerald Coast or any other sunny warm spot we choose for a month or two in the dead of winter!" Sooo... you're still fleeing bad weather.
The last time I went to Florida I was shocked to see many Nazi and Confederate flags waving freely. Maybe God himself is the one sending so many hurricanes to that state.
I have never in my life seen a nazi flag flying in this state. I have seen Confederate flags but that is prevalent all throughout the southeast in former Confederate states. If you think you've seen some here, take a drive through Alabama.
Florida is a horrible place every bad rumor is true . PLease Move away don't return and tell everyone you meet never move to florida.
This is a 100% certified Floridaman comment! 🫡
It's very simple. If you have a lot of money and like the beach, fishing boating, eating, and drinking then you'll love Florida. If you don't have a lot of money you're going to have a tough time.
Well said!
There is only one insurance underwriter. If you can't get commercial insurance, the other option is Sate-run insurance (very expensive). Then the last resort is self insurance.
Thank you for that clarification!
Youre buying into the hype dude. Named storms, including hurricanes is down. 27 were expected. There were only 17.
The water level of the Gulf Coast has NOT changed. NASA changed their baseline twice, so it looks like a water temp increase, but the footnote explains the baseline changes. Jeff Bezons just bought land on Miami Beach ocean front for $150m. The permanent survey markers are exactly where they were nearly 75 ago, relative to the water. There are low income people moving out, but honestly, are you considering moving into a trashy ole trailer park where they lived.
What you are seeing is new owners of inherited condo owners that dont want to pay the carrying costs. 90% of all inherited property is sold off immediately. Florida has a high number of elderly.... Their property rolls down to a family member. That family member can no longer afford the insurance and taxes on non-homestead properties... and sells it off.
Yes, climate change is a Democrat hoax, just like Russian collusion was. They started off by calling it global warming, but changed it to climate change (which means... NOTHING) when they got caught using bogus data.
I'm not buying, I am creating. Thank you for your comments and watching the video! 🤙
As a native Alabamian who has been coming down to the Florida Gulf Coast periodically for almost a half century, for me none of what's in this video is news. One big mistake northerners make about Florida is thinking the whole state is like Miami Beach. Nope, northern Florida experiences all four seasons; your home/condo will require a heating unit.
I think my wife and I will stay in Huntsville, Alabama and continue to visit for a week or so a year. I know people who "invested" in a vacation condo on the Gulf as far back as the 1980s. Forty years later, the bloom is fairly much gone from that flower.
Oh there are still folks making money down here in the investment game. You just have to have money if you want to turn a profit and not be dumb enough to think you can be the one running it from 300 miles away.
@@LivingontheEmeraldCoastFlorida You are absolutely correct. Back in the early 2000s my wife and I were offered the chance to purchase the condo we were renting; a 1-BR in one of the towers on Navarre Beach. The price the condo was reasonable (relatively), and we were briefly tempted. However, we did know some people who had condos in Florida (one as far as St. Pete); we kind of caught on it wasn't all sunshine. After thinking about the total costs and considering the logistics of being an absentee owner, we decided not to.
(Apparently, the next summer the condo was sold and the new owner took it off the rental market. Too bad; it had a fantastic view.)
Also, frankly, the quality of construction of many of these condo towers and beach homes are quite suspect. Over the years we've rented condo units in various locations between PC Beach and Pensacola. Some of the buildings no more than 15 years old were showing telling signs of deterioration. I suspect within about forty years of construction many of these condo towers may well be condemned.
Lived in Florida for 15 years, after Scott became Gov. and then DeSadass. I moved it really sucked, but I did make a killing on the house . Now people can't even afford the insurance. I seen it coming.
It's really nice down here. I just looked on my weather app and they are getting 5 inches of snow today back home. I haven't taken my sunglasses off all week. Different strokes for different folks!
Nice video! Aside from the military that you mentioned, this is just a resort/vacation area, so most of this isn't unique to this area - I have heard the same complaints about Aspen, Colorado - workers can't afford to live there, low healthcare access, many jobs are just seasonal hospitality work,, etc. It always seems like a crisis when you face it, but it is a choice that you make when you move here. If the earlier locals got a great deal and can't afford it anymore and are leaving - guess what: they'll make a ton when they sell and move. Andalusia, Alabama could be a great place to retire for less than half the cost and you can have a day trip to go to the beach anytime you want. (I'm only half-joking)
Nice comment. Yes, we see a lot of the locals getting priced out and moving inland. We also have Panama City that has a pretty decent cost of living compared with the beach towns.
I graduated from HS in Tampa. Many years later (2015) I returned to retire in the Ocala area and we purchased a home. We are a bit inland by choice and don’t really need to fear hurricanes. No place is totally safe. I was a great place to ride out Covid as we didn’t lock down that much. I’ve decided to go without home insurance. If we leave and not saying we would it would be because of increased traffic.
I live down here and pick fresh fruit off of my trees whenever I want. Never any damage from storms because I have a concrete home. This is paradise. Learned Spanish because of the population of Cubans and other Spanish speaking people here.
You all are mental. Florida is wonderful.
I agree. 🤙
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@@nonyadamnbusiness9887 🤡
As a Panama City Beach resident, we have some of the dumbest tourists in all the South. How many clowns from Alabama went for their final swim during a double red flag in 2024? That gator in the store was hilarious! Good to see your channel is growing brother.
Thanks so much! Its been a lot of work but its starting to pay off!
I have No money. Im going to move to Florida, borrow money to get a business by the ocean and then charge tourists crazy money so I can live there while they pay for it. Oh wait, thats already the way its all set up.
Yep. That actually is capitalism and not just local to Flordia.
Hurricanes and all of the people who have moved here in the past 5 years are the only reason I would leave. Houses were affordable before people from California, New England, NY, NJ and other state tax places sold out and paid cash for inflated properties. It’s ok for people to move away from Florida.
Just looked at my weather app. Yep, Im good! I'm staying too!
I know this sounds like a trivial question but what is the status on riding your skateboard on the streets of the emerald Coast between the cars and the curb. I'm not talking about the major highways I'm talking about the side streets around towns. It seems like a great way to slide through the traffic jams and get to the beach. This is important to me and by the way I'm 65 years old. "Tony hawk look-alike"
That is awesome!! The whole area of 30A is very bike friendly. I haven't seen a lot of skate board activity but as long as it isn’t motorized you should be fine. If they let electric bikes out there they should for sure allow 65 year old Tony Hawks! 🤙
Florida just has too many negatives that won't get better as climate change continues to dominate the coastal areas. We left SWFL coast in 2022 at height of home sale market with 18 yrs of crazy property value growth to cash in before "the crash" or next "big surge" would take it all. The last straw for us was the unaffordable & unstable insurance coupled with always playing "russian roulette" with hurricanes! We found a new "paradise" with less drama & less cost of living where we are saving once again & life is good. Now we just take our RV to Emerald Coast or any other sunny warm spot we choose for a month or two in the dead of winter!
Where did you guys move to? Inquiring minds want to know! 🤔
LMAO
"Now we just take our RV to Emerald Coast or any other sunny warm spot we choose for a month or two in the dead of winter!"
Sooo... you're still fleeing bad weather.
@@LivingontheEmeraldCoastFlorida These people never want to say. They want to keep everyone from moving there.
hahaha. And land values have increased 10 to 20% since 2022.
Military spouse renting in Pensacola. There's no jobs
Same down near the Keys. It is because everyone wants to live here and will work for very little money to get a job.
The last time I went to Florida I was shocked to see many Nazi and Confederate flags waving freely. Maybe God himself is the one sending so many hurricanes to that state.
I have never in my life seen a nazi flag flying in this state. I have seen Confederate flags but that is prevalent all throughout the southeast in former Confederate states. If you think you've seen some here, take a drive through Alabama.
Way toooooo red in Fl for me. Heck I won't even spend my vacation dollar in Fl!!!!! I just booked 2 trips to Cancun where everyone LOVES the Americans
What's wrong with red? Be specific.
She is referring to our politics.
@@LivingontheEmeraldCoastFlorida Duh! I want to know what POLICIES she has a problem with. Think.
Do you hate that Red governor that works his &^&^ off to keep his people safe? Go back to Blue.
Good. Get out. These people only made things more expensive
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Great job on your video!
Why, it is pure BS. I like it because it shows how American Florida is. I love it!
So you like it or you don't.? You are confusing me. Pick a side.
Dems, go back to NY and NJ.
25 minutes? Can't watch this
Well don't. You really didn't need to even comment. But right on. 🤙