Many people looking at Florida as a New Destination to Move (Miami: real estate, 2013)

[Taratova]

Redfin a real estate company have put out data of the searches of people looking in certain areas to move.

They are looking at a number of towns in Florida for a new home.
Click on the link and see how many searches.

The link is not working. Here are the stats.
Las Vegas: 5,700
Phoenix: 5,300
Tampa, Florida: 5,000
Orlando, Florida: 4,900
Sacramento, California: 4,800
North Port-Sarasota, Florida: 4,700
Cape Coral, Florida: 4,100
Dallas: 4,100
Miami: 3,700
Houston: 3,600




https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/30/1-in...new-city.html7

[bobbyanylitics]

Sacramento is surprising. I thought people were fleeing California, however the State has got to be the most beautiful State, almost worth putting up with the Bad things about it!!!

[Variable]

Originally Posted by bobbyanylitics

Sacramento is surprising. I thought people were fleeing California, however the State has got to be the most beautiful State, almost worth putting up with the Bad things about it!!!

Cost of real estate in metro Sacramento is lower than many other metro areas in California. Metro Sacramento is very nice and has nice suburbs and nice exurbs with new growth.

[chiluvr1228]

I will never understand why so many people want to move to Florida. To me, anything south of Tampa is not desirable.

[kyle19125]

Originally Posted by chiluvr1228

I will never understand why so many people want to move to Florida. To me, anything south of Tampa is not desirable.

It's perception from having visited a time of year not like now or in vacation mode versus reality mode.

[bobbyanylitics]

SWFL is perfect as long as you're retired and have a place up North. You just have to consider it a 6 month and 4 day vacation. They have everything you would want as a city dweller and can live in the country. The food and choice of fancy grocery stores, retail of every kind, just booming!! You also have to like boating and golfing. The real estate doesn't follow normal areas ups and downs,,,,, since 2012 anyways. The hurricanes just give people a chance to upgrade their homes. Everyone is happy and friendly and if they've been there for 30 years or 3, they're from somewhere else.
Many of the little things convince people to establish residency, no car inspection, no bottle return, twice a week garbage p/u, low electric bills, relatively low property tax. If you can take the heat, September October, and May and June are awesome with outdoor kitchens and pools. Then it becomes an 8 month vacation.

[bobbyanylitics]

Also wanted to add that the local news somehow seems to be much more pleasant to watch than anywhere else I've been. They don't seem to just follow their networks national narrative. Though I was starting to get sick of the continuous coverage of Ian's clean up, for the most part it's positive, with stories focusing on the good things happening town and Statewide. It possibly has something to do with the Governor's super majority in both houses, which tells the news people that there isn't the division politically amongst the residents.

I saw a show on the history of Florida, where it was the only Eastern location where the Spanish were the ones who forced the Natives South of St Augustine. North of there into Georgia, it was Non Hispanics who conquered the Natives. So the Hispanics were the only locals from North central Florida, South. But how many generations makes you a local. My neighbor's family owned a citrus farm and consider themselves locals, but it was just Northwest of Lake O, not the subtropical South.