Florida Has A People Problem

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[@SomethingDifferentFilms]

I hope you all enjoyed the video, thank you for watching!

[@Bradimoose]

Really good video, I just left st pete. Unlimited wealth was moving there. Drove up the cost of everything. They say you can drive by the beach on the way to your second job now.

[@sergeylyubarsky8201]

An absolutely truthful situation of what’s happening. Moved here from New York 20 years ago. Just in the last two years. My rent for the same exact apartment went from 1400 to 3500. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@thinkforyourselfjohn3167]

Thank you great information I'm a Floridian born and raised in Florida.

[@thinkforyourselfjohn3167]

​@@sergeylyubarsky8201That's just terrible thank you for sharing with us.

[@peterdavidson3890]

We had a house in Florida (Davenport) and the costs of living there is horrendous, so pleased we have left Florida now. Traffic, Beggers at most traffic lights, Manners, Polk County taxes, Poverty wages reliant on customers tips, Poor workmanship, HOA rules ignored, Orange groves ripped out for massive building of new sub divisions and so much more.

[@TIsrealBees]

I’ve lived in Florida my whole life. It’s sad to see acres and acres of land get flattened by developers so they can build cookie cutter homes. It’s ruining the charm that made Florida so awesome to live and grow up in.

[@michaelmorgan9009]

blame the local city officials.. they are allowing this to happen. Get involved in your town hall, tell them to set limits on how much housing can be built in your city. People let this slide and wake up one day wondering how things changed.

[@TIsrealBees]

@@michaelmorgan9009 I belong to a committee in my community that monitors population density and development in our area. We are a rural settlement and we work closely with our county commissioners. Potential developers must approach our committee with their development plans. We make sure that any development will not interfere with a nearby watershed. In turn, this limits developers of large plots to build only 50% of the land. The rest must be green spaces.

[@richb.4374]

It's all about the $$$$$$.

[@TIsrealBees]

@@richb.4374 exactly!

[@appalachiabrauchfrau]

if we could build UP and not OUT it would be great, imagine all the agricultural land and greenspace we'd save all over the country if we could contain sprawl.

[@stevenhollingsworth733]

I grew up in Florida The orange groves are disappearing the trees along I 75 are gone. Traffic is horrible And a lot of rude people .

[@jasonknight5863]

The rude people you encounter here are Ex- New Yorkers and people from New Jersey. Locals have been super nice and respectful since I moved here 2 years ago.

[@FooshNick064]

The orange groves are not disappearing. Almost anything southeast of Tampa/Punta Gorda are orange groves. Florida has no shortage of oranges.

[@luislaplume8261]

If they are rude, the odds are that they are from my old hometown of NYC. I am a New Yorker who grew up in NYC during the Mad Men era of the 1960s. Well scold them if you said or did nothing wrong! Excersise your Freedom of Speech ! 😊

[@femalewarrior125]

@@FooshNick064yes they pretty much disappeared, south of Miami … homestead was full of orange trees , you could see them driving around! They are gone ! About 20 years ago they began removing orange trees saying they were infected with some kind of disease! It was a lie… and the constant development of houses is pushing agricultural out

[@FooshNick064]

@femalewarrior125 What lacks in homestead has been made up for elsewhere. Part of the reason why florida is so expensive is lack of housing. This artificially drives up the cost of everything, California is a great example of this. You cannot preserve everything you like at the expense of the overall health of the state. Just because the orange groves near you are gone does not mean the state has suffered on agriculture.

[@josephlong5588]

I moved down to Florida earlier last year, my family saying "it's great! The water is awesome, the weather is great, etc.". Then you get here and you realize it's horrible if you're a working individual in the middle class or lower. If you work in a trade, you have to commute to the areas with wealthy people, because that's all the work owners want to get (which is understandable). For me it's an hour drive in the morning and sometimes 2 hours getting home in the afternoon, and that's to go just 21 miles. A CHEAP 2 bedroom place where I live will run you $1,800 a month.. and remember I'm not in the wealthy area, I commute an hour to get there. The people here are the worst, almost like every horrible person from every other state got together and decided this would be a great place to ruin. Even good customer service out here is just horrible, you can tell nobody wants to be at their job and nobody cares about their job either. Employers don't care about their employees, which shows when a tradesman with over 10 years of experience can't make more than $30 an hour.

[@exceptionaltalentspc4954]

You're right. FL seems to be the landfill for the entire USA. All sex predators and criminals seem to end up in FL

[@saucyb3585]

Y not move if it’s so horrible?

[@LT-et5rr]

I’m a born and raised native Floridian and I agree. My uncle has been wanting to move here forever and I tell him not to because Florida has changed so much. Also, he can longer afford to move here now. I’m looking to move out of Florida due to everything you mentioned above.

[@saucyb3585]

@@LT-et5rr to where? A blue state with crazy taxes and less freedoms? Red states with income tax? Nah.

[@Magnulus76]

The comment about the people is sadly true, and it's only gotten worse.

[@officerkd6-3.76]

I’m from Florida. Crazy how much it’s changed in just 10 years. Everybody I meet is from another state, we’re losing our sense of identity it’s sad

[@MrAnimason]

We're all from the same country. We need to stop defining ourselves by our state divisions.

[@HeartNDagger18]

Happened to London already.

[@romanespinal8893]

@@MrAnimasonagree lol

[@stevewalther2293]

It's like living in an Airport

[@eric2500]

@@MrAnimason Not what officer meant, I'm betting. Local personal identity comes from being in a place for a generation or two and soaking it up.

[@DanielGennaro]

This is the reality check of the current situation. I just visited Florida pretty much for the second time in my life and really fell in love with the gulf area and Cocoa Beach in the Atlantic, but the reality of me actually being able to afford to live there working in a nonprofit? Is slim to none. The problem is, so many people have flipped their houses and made stacks of money, from the baby boomers to even millennials that got a house early, they have probably easily made $500,000 in profit, and now since they upgraded to a bigger house, they need to charge tenants more to maintain their quality of life. My friend was paying about $1500 for a one bedroom in Tampa and that is supposedly a steal.

[@marytica123]

YES, we bought our 3/2/2 concrete block house in 2009 - in foreclosure - for $75,000. Even though it's 16 years old, we could sell it now for $250,000. The PROBLEM is, if we DID, we could NOT afford to buy a similar home in Florida !

[@winstonwolff]

$1500 a mo?? Where? In the hood. Even a 1 br is hard to find for 1500

[@k_escobar917]

In south FL most 1bd are $1800+ now smh. $1500 can get you a small efficiency

[@hideoussails1783]

Vacation rentals should be banned. Taking all the properties and rentals of people that actually live there and having in essence hotels In residential neighborhoods should be outlawed

[@DanielGennaro]

@@hideoussails1783 actually Airbnb is single-handedly to blame for the crisis we’re in. No houses on market. Just rentals

[@martyfrank2905]

My family has lived in Florida for 80 years. My huge mistake was not buying a house. But I was always a minimalist person with a time-consuming job and I was happy living in a small apartment. Rent increases were 2-5% per year, but often rents stayed the same for years. Then the NY-NJ-Cali folks started pouring in a couple of years ago. My rent quickly doubled. A bunch of new apartment complexes mushroomed, but they were all "luxury" units priced for affluent transplants and remote workers. Locals could not afford them. The older complexes jacked their rents in response, citing "market value." I saw fixed income retirees, hospitality/retail workers, and store/restaurant managers living in their cars, or rented U-Haul trucks, or camping. Getting a lease on local wages was impossible without roommates. So a lot of people had to live in hotels--more expensive but you don't need to qualify for a lease, that is, earn three times the monthly rent in monthly income. You're good if you already own a home. Otherwise, locals are in big trouble.

[@Diggerdog2nd]

Thats all true. I didn't buy till I was 46 back in 2011 at one of the best times ever now my house is worth $200.000 more than when I bought & my mortgage is only $335,00 a month. It was never a plan to buy I just dumb lucked into doing it at the right time. Bout time I did something right.

[@debrakelly4505]

TRUTH- my rent doubled in the past 10 years- $700 in 2013 and now $ 1475 in 2023- For the exact same apartment. I was a happy renter....didn't see this coming. Hoping to buy a home as soon as the market cools.

[@martyfrank2905]

Good for you! I wish I had done the same!! Have friends who did as you did. They're in great shape now whereas I have to bail. The rents are so unpredictable that you sweat it out each year after signing a lease. Landlords can and do jack rents by as much as $1500-$1000/month. Warning to all moving here with the idea of renting. You may be able to afford it for a bit, but in a short time it will be roommate time.@@Diggerdog2nd

[@CarlaQuattlebaum]

@martyfrank2905 - So that's who's affording these brand new apartments that go for between $2000 and about $3000 a month! I imagined the residents had to be double income couples and high salaried ones, at that. Hadn't thought about the remote workers with their out of state wages. I just figured they were buying, not renting. Trouble is, some of those remote workers are being called back to the office, so they may have to sell that single family home or get out of that apartment lease earlier than they planned. They were a little premature, expecting to be able to stay in Florida and work remotely for good.

[@AssBlasster]

Yup I had to live the motel life for a year as a teen and only got out thanks to section 8 giving us a good deal on an apt ($800 for a 3 bed apt) until I went to college. I left at the "right" time in 2018 for other job prospects and couldn't even contemplate returning now. My family is definitely screwed over too.

[@winstonwolff]

I realized this a few years ago and as hard as it was to accept, I decided to move from FL. The housing market is super tight, and the pay is nowhere close to keeping up with rent or mortgage payments. Now, all condo owners are taking a beating due to new mandatory state imposed regulations. Not to mention almost all homeowners insurance companies have evacuated the state so the few that are left are imposing up to 100% price increases. Auto insurance is outrageous and with mortgage rates and post covid inflation if you re not making over 200k a year Florida does not have much for you as far as living there. Of course they will always welcome your vacation dollars.

[@erwina4738]

Thats such bs it does not cost 200k to be able to live comfortably in Florida. In the last 3 years ive made 75k, 115k, 50k, and next year over 100k and ive been doing fine and still able to live life fine in Florida. And I live in a rich area in Miami.

[@marymccluer1630]

The challenge for Florida is affordable housing. Lots of rich retirees flock to Florida. When they get sick, they need adequate nursing staff, but nurses probably can't afford to live near work. In the end, the staff they get is young and inexperienced. As staff age and want to marry/start a family/buy their own home, they probably move to another state.

[@keithtauber4153]

@@erwina4738 The avg household income here is less then you earn, no wonder you are able to do well here.

[@johndoe-ek6vl]

the real problem is abusive minority nursing staff. Happens every single day, read the paper@@marymccluer1630

[@ThatLPZE]

I have lived in Florida most of my life (as of 2014 I was born in 2009) and I don't exactly live in the big cities where this is most noticeable, but I do notice that many of the trees in my neighborhood have been getting chopped down to build cookie cutter houses. It is quite sad and I hate to see the trees gone.

[@johndoe-ek6vl]

lol I was born in 87,... Florida used to be heavenly. It has become hell..

[@AssBlasster]

growing up in small town Florida was SO much better than moving to Orlando suburbs just to get jobs at the theme parks

[@mattyo8828]

0:13 Kennedy space station? No it’s space center.

[@sickofthissh]

I made an expensive mistake coming back here. LOW pay, INSANE drivers, and did I say LOW PAY? Three goals to complete and I go north.

[@billgibson2418]

Good get going. Yankees have ruined it

[@CoverBrazilian]

Emphasis on the drivers lol. Out of all the states I’ve lived in, the most dogshit drivers I’ve seen were all in Tampa.

[@keithtauber4153]

@@CoverBrazilian I agree. All of the international people from mostly Spanish speaking nations that drive like this. Then all the young people drive like this too. They all have lost touch with reality and are all selfish pricks.

[@carefulconsumer8682]

Texas also has a massive problem with soaring traffic congestion, pollution, crime, RE prices due to the thousands of people moving in every week.

[@sidstovell2177]

And enjoying that nice hot weather, I'll bet.

[@rhettdemille4404]

Texas is about 4.5 geographically larger than Florida, even though it's western half is mostly desert.

[@SteppesoftheLevant]

Fracking and water contamination. Time to hold oil companies accountable

[@twostop6895]

Texas has land Florida does not

[@railroadforest30]

@@twostop6895Texas is big but things are too spread apart which is wasteful

[@anniesshenanigans3815]

I am a native. People ask me DAILY where I am from when they hear my accent. The incredible increase in prices has pushed a lot of natives out. I am probably going to leave when I retire because I will not be able to afford INSURANCE and my housing TAXES. It costs as much to live here in SWFL as it does in NY or CA now, but the wages are still way far behind. I am in healthcare and I have researched extensively the cost of living all over the country. They offer the same wages today that they did 10 years ago for someone that is experienced and starting at a new facility. Yet housing and other costs have more than doubled (tripled in some areas) in Florida.

[@lilsuzq32]

We welcome you in Illinois. You might find southern IL to your liking, the climate, while not tropical, is still pretty warm and not much snow in winter.

[@keithtauber4153]

@@lilsuzq32 I couldn't be forced to live in Illinois. I was actually born in Chicago and thankfully we moved out when I was a small kid. The democrats have ruined society and turned our country upside down. Everything that once was good is now bad (to them) and what was bad is now good (to them) it is disgusting. Make sure you get your booster shots and enjoy your lockdowns that are coming. They say it works. lol.

[@trinitymatrix9719]

I feel with you, my brother worked in US for decades but now moved back to home native 😥😥

[@louisinese]

The "It's apples to oranges" pun was ingenious.

[@SomethingDifferentFilms]

Thank you!

[@josephpetrick4520]

I'm born and raised Floridian out of Melbourne, Brevard County. My fathers' been here since 1959; granddad was head hunted by Boeing to work for NASA back then. Over the last 5 to 10 years, I've watched my home town and state be progressively destroyed! The overdevelopment of the area I'm is ATROCIOUS. Dad said it started years ago along the Indian River. It's dead now; 15 ft deep river, now like 8 ft because the bottom is 7 ft of SLUDGE, and most people use it for motor boating instead of sailing. Canaveral Jeti was put in years ago for the cruise ships; that's messed up the natural flow of sand onto the beaches, thus eroding everything from Canaveral to Sebastian Inlet. Now south of Melbourne is an area called Grant-Valkyria; the developers are mowing down MILES of field and forest for their planned "Emerald City"; these houses aren't even built, and they're listing them for sale anywhere from $400k to $500k STARTING! They're plowing small strips of land along the river to make "Margaritaville" (TRASH ASS DRINK). Everywhere around town, it's new apartment here, new apartments there, AT $1800 TO $2200 A MONTH AND THEY AREN'T EVEN BUILT!! They keep building on the west side of i-95, MORONS. This goes to you people in Viera, north of Melbourne: YOU BUILT A HOUSE ON AND LIVE ON A FLOOD PLAIN!! 1 HURRICANE, YOU'RE FLOODED. As for land prices, I just check Zillow; north end of the county, town called Mims; 2 years ago August a 10 acre plot of land sold for $120k; not a year later, May 2022, BASTARD PUTS IT UP ON MARKET FOR $600K!!! REALLY ASSHOLE?!?! 400% increase. Oh, north of Melbourne is Lake Washington; the over population has caused algae blooms in the lake and it's poisoning the water out there. All the people who over populate the area are from out of state, WHO ARE THEY BLAMING?! THE FARMERS AND RANCHERS ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE LAKE WHO'VE BEEN THERE FOR YEARS! And this is just what's happened to the land. People. People from out of state. People from Jersey, New York, and New England. They came down here initially as snow birds, stay for winter, leave when things warm up. Every year now for the last several years, fewer go back. They keep fleeing higher taxes and bad economic conditions in their states up north. REALITY CHECK YOU FREAKING LOCUSTS, YOU CREATED THE BAD CONDITIONS WITH THE WAYS YOU VOTED!!! You have the gull to come down here, buy everything up, take up all the jobs and housing, drive up prices, vote for HIGHER TAXES, and BITCH AND COMPLAIN ABOUT AND INSULT US LOCALS TO OUR FACES?!?! Not to mention be here for less than a year, and you think you should run for public office?! Seriously, every election for the last 8 years, the Democratic candidate is a DAMNED NEW YORKER!!! It's why they don't win. Socially too! Rudest, meanest, snootiest, and UGLIEST people I've ever had the misfortune of knowing. I'd go to college and get constantly called a, and I quote: "inbred, bucktooth, hillbilly, hick". Then all the woke istaphobe bs. Guess what; sticks and stones ya buckets of shark bait. All this coming from out of staters who are self proclaimed communists and socialists. Now their complaints! It's too hot, there's too many bugs, locals are too mean and racist, why don't they have all the luxury services I had in New York, and is goes on and ON AND ON!!! Listen, if ya don't like it, GO BACK! I-95 goes both ways. Next, these New Yorkers and New Englanders are DUMB. I mean devoid of any and all forms of common sense. Don't mess with or feed the gators. If you take, put, or let your small pet, or God forbid child, near an open body of inland water, you risk being a tragic story on the evening news. Seen it too many times; most known example was that poor toddler that was eaten by a gator over by disney (screw them btw, I want Walt unthawed and back NOW). And then hurricanes. The news down here leading up to any storm is total bullshit. THEY FEARMONGER THE HELL out of any tropical depression and higher. AND YOU NORTHERNERS FREAKIN BUY IT!!!😂 It's hilarious! A Catagory 1 and ya run for the hills! Honestly for us locals, it's entertaining. Simple: don't live on the beach or the water. If it's a cat 1 or 2, you're fine; unless you're the wicked witch of the west, or in your case, the north, so proceed! Cat 3 close the shutters and tie down; 4 and 5, bug out! Personally, I'm HOPING just the right hurricane! Send you yorker packing back north AND flood some of the land on the other side of 95; that'll teach ya to build on a flood plain. All in all I'm sad I'm losing my hometown and state. The developers can pound sand and the out of staters, specifically New York and New England, well there's no words in the english lexicon or in any other language on God's green Earth than could come even a quintillionth close to describing the immeasurable and insurmountable level of loathing, contempt, ire, disgust, and outright pure, justified, unfiltered, unadulterated and direct HATRED I experience every nanosecond that you, THE PLAGUE, are here destroying MY HOME. I would say go ruin your own home, but you already accomplished that. You know the reputation of "FLORIDA MAN". We're CRAZY, heh heh heh.

[@tearlessfour8416]

Real

[@Uhtred772]

Salute from Titusville

[@jusjus3146]

A lot of yapping

[@RedPillLife1966]

Reminds me of Cape Cod in Massachusttes. Lived there 20 years. It's a tourist destination and in only 20 years time. It lost all it's charm. Became hard as hell to get around in summer and we ended up with house prices beyond reach for normal people. RIP Florida.

[@madebymark1457]

Been in Florida all my life, sad to see how it’s turning out. People can’t drive, people are rude, prices are hiking up, pay is not being by matched. This state is being ruined.

[@antonleimbach648]

I grew up in Florida during the 1970’s. It has obviously changed dramatically and we left in 2019. I’m sure there are still places that have the old Florida charm but most of that has been paved over with strip malls and McMansions. I remember it getting cold during the winter, even down to the 20’s and a couple of times we got snow but lately the winter is just a less warm version of summer.

[@nightowl5475]

I live in Florida and I know, we lost our winters. Back in the 80’s, it got cold in October. Now, it never gets cold in October. We may get pockets of cool weather when it gets down to 55 degrees at night but within a day or two, it’s back to being hot and humid. Last year, we had just a few nights here and there of 55 degree overnights. It was nice in the day with a high of 72. But it don’t last long in South Florida.

[@flyrobin2544]

You are so right about the weather, it's hotter every year and we are lucky to get a few weeks relief from the heat.

[@frost8077]

I remember South Florida getting cold in the 90s and even seeing frost on our car one morning. As the urban sprawl spread over more fields and lakes, it changed the local weather. If you go camping in the Everglades during the winter, you can still wake up to some chilly mornings.

[@johnchester7476]

I'm 69,I never had any children or grandchildren,can't blame me for overpopulation !! Your welcome 😂

[@droldsw31]

Me too. I'm 63 but I'm still trying!

[@kaurmal8791]

Me too.

[@gphilipc2031]

Darwin Award

[@TeachinTV]

"You're smarter than the average bear." -- Yogi

[@psfca]

Many thanks 😊

[@CaptainXanax]

I came from Texas to the Tampa area last November for a new job and a substantial raise in salary. After 9 months, the cushion I felt with the increased salary is almost already gone. I work for a Fortune 100 company. Almost everyone I work with has gotten to the point where they say if they have to suffer one more increase in living (insurance, for example, regularly increases by 20% and it's projected to increase by 30% next year), they will officially be upside down on their bills every month. I personally won't be able to make it another 6 months without at least a 15% raise. But, more than likely, I'll be one of the many middle class who will just get priced out of the market and will need to move to somewhere cheaper to make ends meet again. Kinda sucks.

[@Hadrian77]

lol texas is so much better at least when it comes to cost of living. i'd never move from texas to fl

[@johndoe-ek6vl]

update? my home is paid off and it's cheaper to not carry insurance and just repair damage as it occurs.

[@rodcoulter997]

TampaBay is just TERRIBLE now…first moved here 40 years ago, it was a great place. No more. Whole WestCoast is so bad.

[@starwarfan8342]

I've lived in Florida for as long as I can remember. Grew up here. I've watched as more and more of our natural beauty got destroyed by ugly and cheap low quality plazas and complexes that start falling apart within 5 years. I saw a patch of hundred+ year old forest destroyed for a cheap, crammed together houses that cost an arm and a leg. Why can't people fix fheir own states instead of moving here and ruining ours?

[@utahcornelius9704]

Sounds like you're doing a good job ruining it yourselves by making growth first, second, third, and last, and no tax revenue to deal with the predictably ever-increasing infrastructure needs.

[@mikesmoth-v4w]

What are you talking about? Where inlive all these recent immigrants are from latin america. I cant stand them

[@mic1240]

Miami, like many US cities, is loosing population for first time. One of biggest areas of growth in Orlando area has been from Puerto Rico.

[@EmmanuelMelendez]

Yes, many Puerto Ricans from the working class moving to Orlando area in the recent years looking for more and highing paying jobs in areas of high demand such as health, education and even more in the service industry. The majority of Puerto Rican professionals and business owners are still here in Puerto Rico. We have been loosing population here in PR mainly because of Florida.

[@AssBlasster]

Oh yeah tons of Puerto Ricans in Kissimmee, but this isn't a new trend. It's one of the areas that Puerto Ricans have always moved to

[@darrtrubb]

@@EmmanuelMelendez I hoped for many years to see a reversal 🙏🏼

[@bcats1309]

I remember Florida in the 1950s before Cuba. I miss old Florida before Disney! Looking back, it was too good to last.

[@savinghistory642]

You can thank Jimmy Carter for bringing in the worst of the worst and a few good people from Cuba. That is when the decline of FL started.

[@MrAnimason]

Florida didn't even have a million people before 1950 if I recall. The state was basically empty swamp land. So good for you I guess? Just seems more lively now to me.

[@marymccluer1630]

Your memory is pretty deep! My dad grew up in a small town near Vero Beach in the 40s that had a vibrant community life. Everyone knew everyone. His family was one of the few that had a car. How times change!

[@jameshazen2907]

@@MrAnimasonit was never an empty swamp. Lots of life.

[@marknewton6984]

Me too But Florida always comes back. Just wait! Hang in there... The Beachcomber

[@Adam-wt5id]

Ive never lived anywhere but Florida. My dad was born and raised in Florida as well. The past 10 years have been the biggest change ive ever seen. I’ll always love my state, but things are really getting bad now.

[@johndoe-ek6vl]

Nothing left to love. They've turned it into california. Soon everything will be illegal except marijuana will be legal. Clown world.

[@marknewton6984]

Wait it out Florida comes back... It always does. Sunshine! The Beachcomber

[@unusualfire]

Lower income tax, but much higher property insurance, property taxes and higher HOA fees.

[@The1ByTheSea]

The Florida government :those running Florida have to do something URGENTLY,and I mean URGENTLY to protect the environment:fresh water :drinking water, contamination:what is the future for Florida .

[@roguebossa]

This governor turned down 100 million for wastewater management so he could act the conservative tough guy. He's a real idiot.

[@TeachinTV]

Interesting use of stock video. Born and raised in the place that used to be called "Miam-uh" until the 1980s. By then, most of the original Miamians had died or moved away. What's really bothering me is the way things are disappearing. Among them: wildlife in the Everglades due to invasive species; local suburban wildlife due to iguanas; mom-and-pop restaurants; classroom teachers; obstetricians; people willing to do manual labor on farms, construction sites, in restaurants and hotels; car parking; public swimming pools; polite drivers--HELL, ANY polite people.

[@kennixox262]

These type of KZbin channels are nothing but stock footage. Many use European stock footage which is usually out of context.

[@thedirtybubble9613]

Yup!

[@eric2500]

Soon to disappear are also anyone supporting higher education in any way, insurance companies offering anything to average folks, and maybe even Disney Corp, taking the last of the creative people who get paid anything to be creative.

[@magellan305]

I live in Orlando. I'm 23 i work two Jobs 60 hour work weeks at least. I live with my fiancé she also has to work two jobs. We barley scrape by living paycheck to paycheck.... I've lived here my whole life, but now, as an adult trying to live independently, florida is on impossible difficulty.

[@BonejanglesTV]

I'm 21 years old born and raised in Florida. Over the course of my life I have seen the state completely change from what I knew it to be as a child. Today, the traffic is god-forsaken, jobs are incredibly hard to find (despite everyone claiming "nobody wants to work anymore boohoo"), and education is being constantly stunted by conspiracy-theorist level nonsense from the highest positions of our state government. For the love of God, if you are looking into moving to Florida, please don't. Even if you have the means to survive here, the people who have lived here our entire lives are being squeezed out and face economic devastation.

[@chrisdodt]

pushing pornography and psychopathic trans-gender BS by elitist academics in FL schools is a conspiracy theory? okay. . . I live in CA; most sane parents want out of CA's toxic woke culture and would love to live in a free state like FL.

[@johndoe-ek6vl]

uh the perverted books aren't a conspiracy theory get a clue

[@BonejanglesTV]

@@johndoe-ek6vl As someone who not too long ago exited the public school system (3 years ago), it absolutely is. During my entire time in public schools in Florida, from Kindergarten to senior year of high school, the kind of books that Republicans say are corrupting our kids in schools simply were not there. It absolutely is a conspiracy theory to slander our teachers and destroy our curriculum.

[@GoatOuTkast]

Yeah people problem is a understatement. Live here almost all 24 years of my life and watching the growth and overpopulation in the Jacksonville/ orange park area has been something else. Traffic is worse than it’s ever been and it’s way too crowded now. I moved to south eastern Georgia about a year ago and it’s so life changing just to be able to really drive my vehicle and be able to go somewhere without feeling like I want to road rage some idiot and the stores aren’t too crowded. Love Florida but all the New Yorkers and immigrants make life hell for us locals.

[@TheMichaelBeck]

Tampa, born and raised! I moved away when I joined the Army and never looked back. No worries. In a century or two it will be under a 95° ocean. "Go, Humans!" 🤦‍♂️ Edit: It was on the news today, 101° water temperature off the coast of Florida. We're doomed. I weep for the children and the billions of species of animals we're going to take with us. God, please forgive us.

[@PatriotMike-sb9oj]

That temp was taken in stagnant water in the Southern Everglades. The Climate Change scam is going full steam ahead.

[@ccoodd26]

The science isn't clear on this

[@AlexM-vh2pu]

According to Al Gore Miami was supposed underwater 20 years ago. LOL

[@darrtrubb]

☝🏼 This is what’s wrong with FL 🙄

[@ziff_1]

l lived in central FL from 1981 to 2022. I watched it go from close to paradise to an overcrowded hellscape in that time. Getting out of there 2 years ago felt like escaping from prison. I'll never go back, not even to visit.

[@zayyyNYC]

fellow “florida” resident here. i moved to orlando from nyc in april of 21 and i am now catching myself moving back to ny because of a better job opportunity. while the traffic sucks in florida, it’s still an amazing place to live! i do see myself moving to tampa in the near future if i decide to stay in the us as tampa is the best city in florida. you get the food and attractions of orlando, the beaches and nightlife of miami, the sports teams of them all except the sports teams in tampa are all semi competitive yearly and downtown is so beautiful and clean it makes me jealous being from ny. florida had its flaws and isn’t for everyone but for me, i really do love it ❤️🤍

[@floridaarmyvet3613]

New York will be anarchy soon. Goodluck

[@darrtrubb]

I just ran away from Tampa Bay after 27 years there. It ain’t what you think it is. Housing, insurance, salaries and the impending Big One (Category 4 or 5 hurricane) are why got the heck out.

[@apalmer7388]

Native Floridian here. Florida is "a hell of a drug" to some, a buck to be made to others...and a sad memory to those of us who have watched it decay.

[@quininde]

I moved to Miami Beach in 2005. Not that long ago and even then things were starting to change, but it was like a paradise compared to today in SOBE. I finally left 2 years ago. It is the worst of both worlds: everything much more expensive but feels so much more “cheap”.

[@debrarouselle9761]

After living near St Augustine over 20 years we sold when the inane building began. We loved our small city/country community but greed took over and it hasn’t been pretty.

[@Shane46587]

I’ve lived in Florida for 40 years and have seen it completely change. Peninsular Florida is basically becoming Southern California, one big huge suburb that is pretty much contiguous except some rural patches in the central part of the state north and south of Orlando and even that is changing now.

[@ratofnihm]

Yeah, except Florida attracts zero education, zero skill, zero sanity losers who can't hack it in their home towns, so they move to Florida, where they can keep being ghetto trash losers, except near the beach. FL has become and absolute sh*thole of racists, fascists, bigots and thieves. No decent people move here anymore, just wingnut scum who are no longer welcome in their hometowns.

[@tesseg]

Endless sprawl. It's gross.

[@cpr1200r]

We are two, certainly 3 hurricane Evacuations in one year away from leaving Florida. 45 year residents and live in Tampa Bay area.

[@elkabong5547]

Yogi had it right, "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded"!

[@SA-hz1rs]

nyc and california are crowded. florida, eh...

[@GIUL7301]

Kind of gives you a heads up on why hurricane damages have gone up over the years. 100 years ago nobody wanted to live on a coast line. Same with So, California. In 1970 Huntington Beach city was still mostly open fields. I got out 13 years ago. I live on 5 acres of thick forest in a county that only has 110,000 people. The serenity saves me every day.

[@BloonChip]

I have lived in Saint Cloud for the past 12 years, it was a small town, and now they took down a building, and a small forest, to make a ramp to the highway. Their turning this small town into a city

[@mikesmoth-v4w]

all the hispanics flooding in, they destryed Polk county

[@Poke_Man7]

I moved to florida is 2020. Moved back out of Florida is 2023. It wasn’t what I thought it was going to be. I thought florida had nice people but too many of them were just rude. And the traffic was horrible. Got into my first accident south of Clearwater and the other person ran away 😢 I’m much happier being out of florida and back in my home in the mountains

[@StarsMarsRadio]

I live in the tampa area for most my life. Was financially squeezed out of the state last year when rent rose 40%. It's completely different to what I grew up in. California traffic and prices, NY attitude. No idea what anyone in the service industry is doing to survive. Goodluck people.

[@RageForm]

It’s because no one wants to live in New York no more. People are tired of the restrictions

[@cameron9119]

Florida is becoming expensive however it is still my favourite state.

[@chrisschaeffer9661]

A great place for the Wealthy to Live amd Locals who cant afford it, become the Homeless!!! Touching Story Geebs

[@MB031]

In Naples ,FL average rent for one bedroom is now $2500 a mo, used to be $450 in 2001.. And wages are still the same low as 30 years ago , you get paid $10-15 per hour !!!! miserable.

[@georgelavelle2097]

Horse sh**t ! I own a home in naples. My mortgage is less than that.For $2500, you can rent a condo or apartment. A room is $ 800/$1000 . Depending on location.

[@SueBishop-r9h]

I googled average rent in Naples and this is what came up- Over the past month, the average rent for a studio apartment in Naples decreased by -3% to $1,850. The average rent for a 1-bedroom apartment decreased by -17% to $2,475, and the average rent for a 2-bedroom apartment decreased by -6% to $3,750. What MB031 wrote is 100% true- I read on this board of someone's rent nearly doubling- prices in Naples are OUT OF CONTROL both for homes and apartments- and the folks who work in Publix or at NCH or Physicians Regional or police and fire personnel cannot afford it! I know of nurses at Physicians Regional on Pine Ridge- yes I lived in Naples so I am quite familiar with the area- who were offered a pitifully low increase in pay and they moved out of Naples. I know of someone with a 4 year accounting degree with 3 years experience who was offered $16 an hour to start. He could not afford an apartment for that pay and wound up leaving Florida altogether where he works for $56K a year and has an apartment he can afford. Cost of living is VERY HIGH in Naples and SWFL and wages are VERY LOW! The company Arthrex based in Naples with a location in Ave Maria was considering relocating out of Naples a few years ago as they could not pay applicants for engineering and technical jobs enough to attract them to move to the area. Not sure where you can find apartments for that low a rent in Naples- having lived there for 8 years I never saw apartments that cheap. perhaps a room in a shed in Golden Gate or East Naples! LOL

[@holicanoli123]

This is what happens to a state when boomers vote to gut public education to the bone. We are a “full” state, yet every job/company that requires more than a GED is understaffed and has to import talent from the midwest. Trying to get a doctor or therapist without booking months in advance is not possible anymore, and teachers are fleeing the state. The recent grads working in fintech that I’ve met in Tampa moved here bc it’s the only good job offer they got fresh out of school. Meanwhile we have a desperately underpaid surplus of bartenders, handymen, realtors and other side-hustles people are forced to turn into their full time jobs. Realize that people with families don’t just move their lives for no reason, they were brought in to fill the gaps that our failed school system has left us with…

[@4Frmcfff]

I’m tired of Florida born and Raised there everyone is literally moving to Florida it’s crazy wats so good about Florida I’m glad I left that state

[@Calikid331]

I always notice how spaced out American cities are and it's clear that its contributing to this housing crisis. Half our cities are dedicated to parking lots that never reach full capacity, if we could re use some of this excess space to build more apartments and duplexes it could make housing more affordable. We waste a lot of space building so spread out like this, you shouldn't need a car to get around, this is just bad design.

[@NursissisticOfficial]

Born and raised... This population boom has ruined our home.

[@isaiah5654]

You’ll never catch me in DeathSantis state

[@mikebritcom3171]

good because we have enough LGBQT already

[@isaiah5654]

@@mikebritcom3171 it’s also going to be underwater within 50-70 years. Trash state with a trash governor

[@michaelhurley545]

Good

[@Cat-bg2ge]

My bushes are all scorched. My door was red hot. I was burnt on my bare side, my hands etc. Just opening the door burnt me. My door is metal and the sun seem's to only beat on my door.

[@normahernandez5100]

FLORIDA has a serious people over load problem…..No JOBS!!!! No affordable Housing!!!!! 😢

[@mikeforte7585]

U hit the nail on the head but 3000 people a week move into central Florida....traffic is utter hell and getting worse....people move here with money and over bid on houses leaving the first time buyers out of luck ....

[@PatricKlein86]

The problem with Florida is that it’s full of New Yorkers

[@vincentperratore4395]

I like that! WE ALL HAVE A PEOPLE PROBLEM!

[@comeconcon569]

It's the 3rd most populous state in the nation behind CA and TX. the state is mostly flat with just a few rolling hills in the north close to the Georgia state line that separates the two states. the further south you go the flatter it gets. the state is also infested with bugs like cockroaches,mosquitoes, spiders, and it's as hot as an oven. Florida is just not for everybody. I moved out of there long ago.

[@Damon-qt3fw]

Clermont has a lot of rolling hills and vineyards. You're not lying about the heat June-September.

[@Dallas_K]

​@@Damon-qt3fwClermont: the mountains of Florida!

[@jasonknight5863]

I live on a hillside in Clermont Florida and I love the area. It reminds me of San Francisco actually but with much better winter weather and super friendly people.

[@karlnordinger5968]

hotter than an oven

[@healingsoul13]

Saint Petersburg is becoming a nightmare. They are cramming in so many IDENTICAL people the nature of the city has changed. Traffic is already bad and they are not even halfway done building.

[@AS898-h3u]

As a native Floridian, I never managed with the heat and humidity and the terrible urban planning in south Florida. I had to move away…

[@MENSA.lady2]

The whole world is overpopulated. Florida is modest compared to say Mexico City or Jakarta.

[@sidstovell2177]

Mexico City. Really depends what Colonia you live in. I've friends in both good and crap areas. The latter lives in a old house that now has a private, very busy, airfield, next door. Hell.

[@jerryrichardson2799]

That low wage base is in spite of the fact that Florida's minimum wage will be $15.00/hour in another year or two. You can find a job easily in Florida, a job that pays a living wage, not so much. Florida is rapidly ageing out. Parts of Texas, where I live, are going down the same path. I have relatives in Florida, but I doubt I'll ever visit.

[@lephilosopheinconnu3952]

I would like to start a small business in the US. What can you recommend me, sir ? I would prefer the south of the country but I'm willing to go anywhere. The south american investor

[@bonnielovely]

@@lephilosopheinconnu3952 north carolina, virginia, georgia are all good states for tech, agriculture, and business florida is good, but it depends on the business. if you know people here already, you're much better off

[@ilonafrissina5617]

Florida needs to stop bringing in all these developers. The roads are becoming dangerous to be on. Digusting.😂

[@trvth1s]

I bought a condo in st pete right before rent skyrocketed. A mortgage and everything with it [insurance, taxes] is usually the same that rent charges for the same property. I bought it paying $1k a month [includes 10y mortgage, association fee, taxes and insurance], 2 years later the rent is twice what i pay in this place.

[@adahaydeeliriano4279]

I grow up here, since 1999 and it’s crazy now. I lived in central Florida, and I want to moved so bad…it’s so expensive, lots of traffics, and the crime is bad. I want to move up north Florida or leave Florida all together….

[@houliemon1315]

I know a young woman that works three jobs to afford a single bed room apartment ! $1,500 a month ! I told her you should try and find a small house ! That's a mortgage payment your making every month ! She spends so much time working ! She is hardly there !

[@denisefuentes7905]

Earth has a people problem.

[@benjiii751]

I was born in Florida and it’s sad to see animals homes getting destroyed. I know that Florida is a cool place for Spanish ppl but we also need to care about our state and wildlife. Another problem is about the freedom decreasing by Governor Desantis. My father is trying to get the best for me and I’m still enjoying social media.

[@mikesmoth-v4w]

hispanic people have destoryed florida

[@saucyb3585]

Shocking. People want to move to a free state surrounded by water and great weather.

[@strassenbahnfilmguy9306]

Senior here.. resident in subsidized apt .. now 990.00 per month and my social security is 1245.00 😢😢😢

[@SueBishop-r9h]

Over the past month, the average rent for a studio apartment in Naples decreased by -3% to $1,850. The average rent for a 1-bedroom apartment decreased by -17% to $2,475, and the average rent for a 2-bedroom apartment decreased by -6% to $3,750. Wow! Rents went down but how are service workers, Publix employees, people who do repairs to afford that? They need to move to towns far away perhaps Lehigh Acres to live as they cannot afford the high rents!

[@Synoopy2]

Florida always have a lot of weird stuff that happens. Crazy gun laws, strange criminal activity, (Florida man) , and a crazy state government. I have a cruise out of Tampa next year and I just want to get on the ship as fast as I can without touching the soil too much. I am not a Democrat and hate politics, but Fla is a typical Republican state - screw the middle class and the poor in favor of big business and the rich, while telling the poor that those "others" are trying to get your jobs and ruin your culture as they screw them over.

[@doctordetroit4339]

vote blue and stay in your zoo. Better yet move to Detroit, you would love it.

[@michaelhurley545]

You sound very Democrat' to me..

[@Scorpio1060-]

The people problem lives in the governors mansion, but you people put him there.

[@RJTy-v1k]

everyone born and raised in florida wants to leave.

[@Surfmus]

The State that mde me rich. Love you Florida!

[@The1ByTheSea]

The coasts are too expensive for the blue collar, working class to afford ;but there is lots of land and affordable places by Lake Okeechobee and in the NorthCentral part of Florida...,well maybe not for long...if word gets around .

[@Magik1369]

Florida has an uninhabitability problem, massive ecological disasters at its doorstep, and is quickly going extinct.

[@dustinhughes1125]

Lol drama queen over here.

[@cjjorge6636]

i live in FL for 19 years i moved out in 2015 i'm happy now!

[@cjjorge6636]

@@Pandemicjoe AZ

[@letitgrow1846]

As a born and raised Floridian, it's been heartbreaking to see the rate at which greenspace is being destroyed for endless development. The natural beauty of the state is quickly being replaced by cookie-cutter subdivisions and chain stores.

[@JBRN7891]

Yup, it’s terrible 😭

[@ZUCCCC333]

I do enjoy nature too but at the same time as someone who literally escaped california to move to Florida I didn’t know where else to move I needed to be safe and have a normal price house

[@ZUCCCC333]

@@carollyntRepublican governors care much more about the planet then democrats do I lived in California and Florida and california has trash everywhere homless everywhere needles and drugs on the streets not to mention the racist anti white blm terriost

[@skoop651]

people never vote in the right people

[@skoop651]

people never vote in the right people

[@pilotrserra]

Here is an example of the craziness. I purchased my house in 1988 for $98k. Now it is worth $900k and none of my children can purchase a reasonable house. Young couples are in debt up to their eyeballs. It is nuts and the traffic is unbelievable

[@rasmokey4]

Its like that everywhere! Makes me wonder who is getting Rich off of this fiasco!

[@nickmattio3397]

It’s fine, baby boomers had it wayyyy easier in relation to home prices(adjusted for 2023 inflation $) vs. adjusted incomes even at much higher interest rates. In most in demand areas, If you don’t come from family wealth and inherit property, very high percentage younger people never will no matter how much harder they work, higher education etc vs. incomes and debts

[@marymccluer1630]

It is becoming like Hawaii. Young people growing up in Hawaii can't afford to live on the own for many years. Even young married couples live with their parents while they save to buy a home. It can take one to two decades to raise the funds. Meanwhile many condos sit empty, because they are just vacation homes of people who might only spend one or two weeks there.

[@nickmattio3397]

@@marymccluer1630 where do I sign up? How about the new normal is now taking about 3 decades of saving n living with your parents, so you’re late 40’s now easily still not even close to being able to buy like in San Jose, Manhattan LA San Diego Seattle Miami etc let alone anywhere in Hawaii now

[@shadowdragon851]

Also Canada in a nutshell

[@megatruth2546]

The Villages is constantly growing and is a sprawling monstrocity with many of the homes situated on postage stamp size lots with houses nearly touching one another. It's heartbreaking to see central Florida turned into one massive housing development.

[@Art-is-craft]

Florida has lots of empty spaces.

[@alejandrohazera7895]

I agree with you. The homes not only touch one another, but they all look the same. The Villages is a center of mediocrity and conformity, disguised as unique.

[@gabrielgonzalez6456]

There’s a housing crisis, real estate prices are through the roof… but yet most people don’t want to build around them. I don’t get it. We need more places to live, Florida can easily hold 40-50 million people. Just need to learn how build and not make things car centric

[@burnout_2017]

Its a glorified trailer park

[@burnout_2017]

​@@Art-is-craftso does the moon....move there and leave this formally beautiful state alone

[@piper_lori-williams-tudhope]

I’m a 3rd Generation South Florida Native. My entire family left. We are now scattered across the states. It’s so sad what Florida has become. We lived on the ocean and the developers just kept squeezing us all out. I miss the old Florida so bad 😢

[@davidelmore1668]

Amen!

[@thedirtybubble9613]

The old Miami from the 70s-90s was the best version of that city IMO. Now? It's completely ruined and cannot be undone unless a major hurricane washes it away and they have to start over.

[@Random-vr8cq]

​​@@thedirtybubble9613yall sound dumb it is the same you just get scared seeing black people with guns when in reality they just want fun like white people did in the older days Florida ain't the problem we're the fhking problem government laws society all Dat bs if it's so bad then go in dept and rock on money ain't real anyway but nhaaaa yall rather keep yo kids stressed and worry about where tf you wanna live while living

[@WanderingWolf365]

The real Natives miss it more - WW

[@pilotrserra]

Yup, in the 1970s, we would go do to the old fishermen trailers on the beach or intracoastal and buy a pound of rock shrimp for $2 a pound. Now it is $12 a pound and the old fish camps location have high rise condos…politicians and developers destroyed a beautiful southern culture. I’m so glad I experienced old Florida as a kid and teenager.

[@emory4356]

As a young person born and raised in Florida, it is tragic to see so much of what made Florida special get wiped out. Aside from the mosquitos, there was something so special about this state, and as an urban planning graduate, I wanted to do my part to save the Florida I know. Now, I feel like the things I loved are getting wiped out, and all I'm getting in return are reasons to leave.

[@SagaciousNJ]

If Urban planning was your goal then I can't imagine how any part of This state failed to set your hair on fire. I almost regret developing a hobbyist interest in land use and urban development because that little bit of knowledge filled me with bitterness at the backwardness of the intensely car focused development patterns here Florida, city and state government seems to go out of their way to waste one of the nicest climates in US behind Hawaii.

[@antoniahamilton3201]

@MamaPapaBears The truth is painful. It's hard to let go of the golden past. Maybe you can focus your energies on helping Florida's growing homeless population. . Your state needs a Mother Teresa.

[@SagaciousNJ]

@MamaPapaBears It's disappointing to see that you're a full grown adult proudly promoting a child-like, immature, way of thinking. You won't be able to function in the real world or grow as a person if criticism of what is wrong with this state sounds to you like "betrayal of the state". What you said is simple-minded and inherently authoritarian. Loyalty is something that a healthy minded person reserves for their loved ones. Fellow human beings can reciprocate loyalty, love and care. Places and institutions are merely tools and resources, no more deserving of loyalty than a hammer or a computer. Attempting to promote loyalty to the state, inevitably produces worship of the government (or whatever person you think represents it). Florida has done a very bad job of making use of its land and resources to improve the lives of its residents. This is a fact. If facts hurt your feelings then go find someone to lie to you.

[@Regional-Automotive]

​@MamaPapaBearsI do appreciate what I have, but it is being ruined by the countless people who move here

[@edwardrichardson7076]

But at least the Burmese Pythons are thriving there.

[@Stateless7]

My hometown in Florida went from having fruit fields to multi story apartment complexes in 15 years. I can only imagine how different it will look like in another 15.

[@scriminamp]

Subtropical Detroit

[@Jaylade]

lool detroit is actually affordable

[@levismith7444]

It’s going to look like Coruscant from Star Wars

[@turkishman4202]

@@levismith7444 thats sad but ur right :(

[@The1ByTheSea]

where is this Sebring,Florida ? It is happening everywhere: Gainsville,Ocala,Plant City ,Cape Coral, Leigh Acres.Even the old-time retirees cannot afford it .

[@rdt8]

I'm a 5th-generation Orlando native (and probably more because my great-grandmother was Native-American) and I had to get the hell out of there after college in 2009. It just hurt too much to see what used to be beautiful lakes filled with algae bloom and pretty forests replaced with yet another CVS / Walgreens on opposite corners.

[@franciscoeukalyptus6537]

What's CVS?

[@flyrobin2544]

What about all the disappearing orange groves? How said is that. 😞

[@TomSpeaks-vw1zp]

Sadly the entire country has changed. It’s inevitable. Nothing stays the same, like it or not.

[@austinbannister6595]

@@TomSpeaks-vw1zp yeah but being against change isn’t what we’re talking about it’s preservationism vs maximumalistic people who want to burn down every forest excuse me the woods as you would probably call it?

[@austinbannister6595]

@@flyrobin2544 supposedly disease wiped out a lot of out orange groves a while back just a matter of time before we discover that wasn’t natural I mean it did literally kill of pretty much every single one somehow and every orange grove isn’t another type of farm or something any more it’s literally a damn amazon factory or cookie cutter neighborhood or modern apartments that cost your life savings in a month. You’re telling me oranges grew here naturally, for probably who knows how long then all the sudden, every single orange grove dies?

[@09Emilymarie]

I grew up here. From the time I graduated high school in 2012 up until now, they’ve clear out all the fields, cattle, trees, and put up so many houses, gas stations, car washes, sooo many storage units ect. What used to be a 15 min drive, easily turned into a 30-40+ min drive. Plus, it’s incredibly difficult to afford a life here now. The pay doesn’t match the cost of living. Floridians are getting priced out.

[@pyog_6536]

couldnt agree with you more. I remember all the cattle ranches we had in lakeland as a child and passing by them everyday on the school bus. Allot of these ranches are gone and filed with those cookie cutter homes and all you just mentined. My home was worth 120,00 about 15 years ago and now its worth a whole hell of allot more than it actually is. Whats hilarious is im doing exactly what some people are mentioning, living with parents and saving up from my full time job to hopefully buy a home someday. Even if I could outright buy a home, the cost of living has me priced out and id lose it anyway.

[@Floridamexi]

Lets see whos gonna cut these entitled rich folks and upper class moving into florida by the thousands. Whos gona do the farming plumbing electricity hard labor and a big one is , hospitality jobs. Gona have to contract out and bring people from other states. Resorts and hotels probably will end up foreign workers on work visas and house them somewhere to make up for loss of local employees 😢

[@jasonsierchio1167]

Where in FL you at?

[@scubaguy5389]

Just imagine how it is changed since i moved here in 1970.

[@candacesturtevant7139]

😊😊😊xx😊

[@cristianMoon24]

It was eye opening to me to see how many people work two jobs to be able to afford to live in Florida when I moved here.

[@JerEditz]

frankly, this can vary state to state, but it's an American issue at large (I can go as far to say it's an earthly issue)

[@edwardmiessner6502]

It's like people move there to enjoy the climes but they end up working so much they don't have the time. It's crazy!

[@JerEditz]

@@edwardmiessner6502 but we can make time if we put our will to ut

[@lizzieb6311]

Thank Joe Biden for that…it hasn’t always been this way. The new Floridians flooding here from Democrat states with outrageous taxation has CREATED this problem.

[@narcissistinjurygiver2932]

@@lizzieb6311 also what the gov is doing to its people in ca are causing them to flee to us here.

[@axepagode33626]

The thing about the chain restaurants popping up all over Florida is that Florida is the headquarters for many of those restaurants. Outback Steakhouse, Hooters, Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Bonefish Grill, Burger King, Sonny's BBQ and many others all started in Florida. Many of them were vacation restaurants that turned into franchises.

[@carlfalt174]

Tony Romas too

[@williambrandon9660]

I learned about burger king and Jacksonville this week, the first one is in riverside on kings street. there's a lot of history in Florida, I hope those who grew up here make some money moves so they can move with the city.

[@bobdouglass8010]

Bonefish Grill is good!

[@kevinkenna]

Wawa and Rita's Water Ice from the Philadelphia suburbs

[@AssBlasster]

​@@kevinkennawell they seemingly have more locations in Florida than NJ/Philly now. They were a nice upgrade from Racetrak

[@joeuser2360]

Florida is a product of it's own choices. I started visiting my retired grandparents in the early '70s and have seen the changes since then. Floridians have always bragged that it's such a great place that everyone wants to move there. I had an opportunity to move there in the early '90s and passed with no regrets. Now we're looking for places to retire and have visited different parts of Florida. The nice weather and well manicured towns can't make up for the overcrowded and socially toxic place it has become. We could retire there very comfortably, but have no interest in it. We don't even visit family there unless it's absolutely necessary.

[@ashdav9980]

That’s great, stay where you are…..

[@joeuser2360]

@@ashdav9980 Thanks. You do the same.

[@billfrehe6620]

@@ashdav9980 This is the typical response I'd expect from someone in Florida, unnecessary anger and cruelty. It exemplifies what the state has become, an unlivable shithole full of anger and hatred.

[@mikemclaughlin1268]

excellent news stay out were closed

[@GOBlueGA]

Well said! And two key points... 1) FL is a product of its own choices (be aware of who you vote for). 2) SOCIALLY TOXIC! I know this bec I grew up there. Moved to ATL 20 years ago. Would never go back. Ya'll can keep your fiscal and social inequity amongst yourselves.

[@Pinecone6442]

I was born in Florida and Im still in Florida, I can agree this place is way too hard to live in.

[@ImJidionDaddy]

Lol try Calgary Alberta

[@stevewalther2293]

@@ImJidionDaddy I would rather live in Calgary than Florida...

[@naturelover2292]

It was fine u til northerners started flocking here in groves.

[@musicandpoetry_8]

I came here with my parents as they retired while I was still in school..I’m trying to leave but I’ve never been so mistreated by people in my life than when I was here, I’m originally from Connecticut..I really hate it here

[@diodelvino3048]

Honestly im looking towards Tampa, maybe Lakeland or Jacksonville since im changing careers. but if i cant get there im leaving this state. the amount of people coming in is insane and the pay for alot of jobs doesnt compensate enough.

[@ljmcobra0520]

What's upsetting is that a large majority of homes are held by overseas investors. This is keeping that already high rent money out of Florida's economy just further exacerbating the issue.

[@javierruiz9774]

That's so true.... and they don't even live in the houses.

[@bobdouglass8010]

I thought DeSantis fixed that

[@Jetski270]

Booom !!!

[@juliusspartacus5437]

*exacerbating

[@BonejanglesTV]

@@bobdouglass8010 Well, the rent hasn't really gone down, so I'd imagine that no, he didn't do much about it.

[@BikerBoy1209]

As someone who has lived in Florida for almost their whole life the amount of overpopulation in Florida has been increasing so much over the past years to the point that every woods near a city is being cut down to build new residential buildings.

[@HeetXS]

Jews

[@truthhurts79]

It's because everyone is fleeing radical democrat states... Especially California

[@foxsden12]

@@HeetXS Buddy go outside the antisemitism thing is so old 😂

[@foxsden12]

i know i’ve been here since 2010, the area i live in was so green and full of trees, now it’s fucking 1300 gas stations or fast food restaurants

[@BikerBoy1209]

@@foxsden12 exactly just buildings on buildings I see a new plot being plowed weekly

[@pilotrserra]

To all my old Floridians, I wish you all a happy life and thank you all for being a part of my life in the 1960-1970s. It was the best time in my life. Florida’s old, polite southern charm is gone. Developers and politicians have destroyed our culture…I’m trying to move away from all this craziness

[@greggfisher7365]

Theres nowhere to go everywhere sucks

[@FloridaPreppers-mh7vl]

I'm a old fashion guy, I was holding the door for a woman, she was about 10 feet from me said I can hold my old Damn Door, so I waited until she got 4 feet from me and slammed it in her face and said open it then.

[@whatever3773]

politicians? why be coy? everybody knows deplorables have been in charge for decades.

[@r0meoh0t3l6]

It’s heartbreaking. Florida is overrun now and won’t ever be what it was.

[@greggfisher7365]

@FloridaPreppers-mh7vl really im up in bama. It seems like everyone holds the door for people here. Ladies, hold it for me. I hold it for them. It just makes sense if u are closest, I guess. I dont know why it's like a culture war issue.

[@CatieChapman]

I’m glad this video mentions on many occasions the wealth disparities and median income vs. cost of living crisis. As a person who was born and grew up here, it wasn’t even before I graduated high school that I realized I’d never be able to afford to buy my own home. Even renting makes no sense, when even if I were paid upwards of $25 an hour (much higher than most hourly wages offered in my area) I’d only be able to afford the most run down apartments. Don’t even get me started on even corporate landlord owned properties… and I’m in one of the big 4 cities. It sucks out here

[@judyw4701]

I wish you all the best. I hate reading all the comments about how Florida has changed for the worse. I lived there many years ago. Even then, I could see the writing on the wall. I'm so sorry that Florida is losing its beauty and uniqueness.

[@xixingpooh]

This video is spot on. I love being a Florida resident, but us locals are being priced out at every turn. Most young folks I know require multiple room mates for a crummy apartment. My commute to work in the Tampa area is an hour and ten minutes despite only being 18 miles from work. I definitely don’t see staying here long term as viable anymore.

[@randymillhouse791]

Wherever you go will eventually become just as bad. Covid-19 did not eliminate enough humans from this Planet.

[@denyspash]

Very interesting. I commute daily too, my 35mi commute to work one way takes no longer than 45min.

[@xixingpooh]

@@denyspash Wow, consider me envious! Where do you live? I live in northern Pinellas County and my job is in St. Petersburg.

[@denyspash]

@@xixingpooh I live in Old Seminole Height and go down on 275 all the way to St.Pete Beach.

[@mrs.seaturtle66allen78]

This is happening in our state because of out of staters moving in.

[@goedelite]

An unmentioned condition of life for many young people is the scarcity of good jobs. Very many are employed at more than one job, because employers do not want full time employees to whom they must offer job benefits, sick and vacation leave, paid holidays, health insurance, retirement benefits. Federal law allows employers to escape these responsibilities. The effect on our young workers is devastating. They have no upward mobility. They see no future for themselves. It is a disgraceful condition of life and can only lead to national decline.

[@pbassassinz8097]

I think the main cause of that is overpopulation and just so much competition because of it. Employers can replace people so easily for less pay these days.

[@glassheartsx]

@MamaPapaBears I disagree with your disagreement on the assessment.... this truly is the reality for most FL youth. You really can't turn a blind eye to it. This should not be the way for 99% of us. Listen, people have no problem working. I know plenty of genuine, hard workers who go above and beyond. The problem is you need to actually get something in return, you can't work for no opportunity, otherwise there comes a point where, well... there is NO point Have you visited any of these major cities? Can you name one? Have you seen it for yourself? I think this is too much hysteria from Fox News. You guys say "major cities" and you parrot everything from Fox News and you cannot ever name a single example You share an anecdote where you assume if no one can do what your daughter did, they just aren't killing themselves enough. And I'm sorry, but the world should not work this way. We can all work, we all have a part to play. But this cutthroat "hustle" attitude being shoved down our throats, that, I have a serious problem with that.

[@mikesmoth-v4w]

@DrSharonFairyour opinion doesnt matter boomer

[@beastmode3600]

As a Florida native been here my whole life, traffic is getting crazy. Also seeing so many different state plates

[@faithsfarmlife1424]

Remember some are rental cars I rented a car with Missouri plates last week

[@NomadinBroward]

The plates doesn't mean anything there are millions of transplants with a FL plate.

[@invaderjoshua6280]

It’s unbearable here in Tampa. None of the infrastructure is built for its current population. We are leaving this month for Texas because of it. You get an apartment with roaches and water damage with old appliances for $1200-$1400 in Tampa’s outskirts. While in Austin’s outskirts you get an apartment with brand new appliances and a backyard for the same price.

[@Patrick-yh5yd]

Because of illegals. So many renting.

[@ddurlon]

Idk why people always seem to ignore the fact that Floridas urban fabric is literally 2nd worst to only Nevada lol

[@spaniardsrmoors6817]

lol, Austin property values are crashing, I believe it's #1, don't buy a home if you're thinking about it.

[@DW5918]

If you are looking to move to Tampa area. I would check out Pinellas County

[@jasonknight5863]

You are right in the whole state the Tampa / St.Pete area is the area I hate driving to. It’s almost as bad as Chicago with gridlock in traffic. Plus too many dumpy run down areas. Still 1,200 people everyday moving to florida you will leave lots of home appreciation on the table if you move..provided you own a home. If you rent. Then it’s a different story. Texas probably is a better cheaper choice for you if you haven’t got on the home ownership train yet.

[@izodman]

I grew up in Florida but moved away a long while ago. The state has changed a lot now, looking more metropolitan with more money-image conscious people everywhere, more impolite people who seem to be from out of state vs the locals who are more down to earth and friendly. I remember when you could rent cheap efficiencies near the water, no hassle free beach parking, no wait at restaurants, immediate parking at the grocery store to name a few. Whenever I go back to visit family, it’s congestion and crowd everywhere. Its lost the charm that I grew up around and appreciated. I do accept times have changed and its only a memory now of the good old days.

[@SarahSmith-vt3oc]

I visited so FL since 1955. When I returned in late '80's was shocked how it had changed and by the 90's I felt I needed a passport to visit FL it was a foreign Carribean country in Ft. Laud and Miami., I loved El Pollo Tropical fast food, though.

[@ncapone87]

@@SarahSmith-vt3oc cringe

[@jessklay8594]

Omg the worst thing about the transplants are their complete lack of manners!!! They are so rude

[@ncapone87]

@@jessklay8594 I've never gotten into more verbal arguments than I have in the past 3 years with what I assume are transplants. I've lived in FL for 33 of my 36 years

[@antoniahamilton3201]

@@ncapone87 No. Floridians are really stressed out with your governor and how he's running your state into the ground. It's sad. Florida is becoming a national joke.