I'm in beautiful downtown Sarasota and I decided to make this video today to talk to you about
five reasons why you should not move to Florida if you're thinking about moving to Florida it's
kind of a weird video to make because as a real estate agent we don't really want to make it sound
like Florida isn't a great place to live in but the truth is Florida isn't for everybody I want
to make sure that the people who are buying here are going to be buying for the right reasons and
so it's important that you also understand kind of the cons that come with Florida there's a lot of
pros and I love living here otherwise I wouldn't be in Sarasota Florida but there's a lot of people
who don't like Florida and are actually moving out of the state so I'm going to give you five reasons
five main reasons why you might not want to move to Florida it really depends on what type of
person you are and what your likes are and your dislikes also these are my spin on the cons so you
take it for what it's worth okay in the first one actually the first three really have to do with
the weather but let's start off with the humidity so that's number one it's really humid here
especially in the summertime the average humidity is about 79 and can creep up to 100 percent and so
if you're from from say Arizona where the humidity is really low it's very dry there you want to make
sure you can cope with humid weather because it's going to be humid for many months out of the year
coupled with high temperatures in the summer it can be really hard for people to manage number
two is it's very rainy here in the summertime it can rain pretty much every day for a few hours a
day if storms come in very fast and they can leave very fast and the rainy season here starts in June
and goes up until August September some people just don't like rain you know and it's drier here
in the winter time but but again just know it's extremely wet in the summer because it storms
almost every day here it's very tropical in that sense we have a lot of lightning and I'm actually
very scared to be outside when the weather turns and before I go outside I'm always looking to see
what the weather is going to be but you got to go under the assumption that it could within 15
minutes to 30 minutes it just turns very fast and as fast as it comes in it also goes out Florida
is actually known as the lightning center in all of the US very tropical here and that means you'll
be dealing with a lot of tropical weather so a lot of thunderstorms number four is critters
there's a lot of critters here by critters I mean we have a lot of mosquitoes especially come out in
the summer times they breed where it's wet where there's standing water because it's so rainy here
in the summertime that's typically when you'll see much more of the mosquitoes you'll feel them
and because of that a lot of our backyards our lanai areas covered with screens right along with
critters we have a lot of roaches especially in the summertime that's when they become dominant
they get to be about an inch an inch two and a half and they're known as palmetto roaches
I have an exterminator that comes every two to three months we have alligators in lakes
and you can usually assume that there's a lake there's at least one alligator of course if the
lake is bigger there's going to be more alligators I myself live really close to a lake but every now
and then I'll see an alligator lounging out on the grass so I'll just see them kind of
drifting in the water before moving to Florida where I would see alligators was essentially
you know on tv or at the zoo but you will see alligators in certain bodies of water including
lakes here in Florida and it's something you're going to have to get used to my fifth point is
about politics Florida is a swing state it could turn blue it can turn red depending
who the candidate is and it's extremely divided if you're somebody from California or New York you're
probably going to be used to there being kind of a dominant political side that's not so much the
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