Texas Florida Arizona and New York are the states with the most Google searches for people looking
for a new state now the other side of that coin is the top four states people are researching
to leave that is Florida California Alaska and Arkansas and I'm sure you're wondering why did
Florida make both lists that's what we're looking at today in this video this isn't the first time a
state has been on both lists California has been on both for the last 4 years just falling off
the move to side last year now before you leave the comment Florida is one of the most moved to
States along with Texas both are still gaining but it looks like a lot of recent transplants
to Florida and longtime residents are looking to get out so why is this why are people wanting to
leave the Sunshine State in this video we are looking at the reasons given by new and old
Sunshine State residents that are looking to move out I'm sure a lot of you in Florida are going to
look at some of these reasons and go they're really not a factor but these are the things
people are worried about about and want to leave Florida because of got it get it good let's take a
look number 10 tourists tourists can be found everywhere in the Sunshine State one of the
most annoying things about living in Florida and among the main reasons people are leaving Florida
to move to places like South Carolina and Georgia is the tourism I grew up in a touristy town by
the beach in southern California and I can tell you when you're local during the tourist season
it's a little hard to get around and function and live your life normally at the same time you got
to understand that those tourists are paying a lot of your bills if you live in a touristy area
directly or indirectly on average about 50% of the town or city makes some kind of money from
the tourism now this has been a complaint by Floridian since forever I mean it's a touristy
State you got all the beautiful beaches you got Disney SeaWorld and Universal up near the
Orlando area Key West and all that that could be a nightmare all the keys they're not really tourists
but the snowbirds also during the summer they come down from Minnesota and New York and start
clogging up the beaches since the pandemic ended they had quite a surge in Florida it actually went
through the roof in 2022 they record-breaking year for tourism and things got a little crazy
now 2023 rolls around and people are kind of used to being back out and about it dipped a little bit
but that was expected but it was still higher than the numbers they had before the pandemic this can
really be seen in the cruise industry numbers they're up again through the roof and if you
don't know Florida has like three or four maybe even five Cruise ports Miami being the busiest
one in the world but it is kind of strange that something that makes so much money for the state
is actually driving a lot of the residents out or at least having them research other places to
live number nine animals this one is really a non-factor but people watch the news and they
get this image in their head of what's going on in Florida every single year being on the
west coast we see stor stories in the news about someone's dog getting snatched off a
path in Florida by an alligator you also get tons of news stories about you know people
seeing animals like black bear Bobcats they do have panthers but I don't ever think I've seen a
story on the news about someone having a problem with a panther we call them Mountain lines here
but Florida also has tons of different snakes that are venomous and basically the same stuff
you'd face living in almost any place on the face of the Earth but people built up an image
in their head and it freaks them out and they want to leave usually though it's older people
once they've had a dog or a friend of theirs have their dog snatched off a sidewalk by an
alligator that usually drives people out of the state one that's become a real problem is the
Cockroaches now I've seen stories about that all on the west coast about how Florida's got this
serious problem with bed bugs and cockroaches once people start hearing stories about how the
Cockroaches are getting worse along with the bed bugs and any other kind of insect there's
a certain portion of the population that is packing their bags but yeah like I said if
you live in Florida or you're a reasonable human being you know that this is really not a factor
not like you're walking down the street and getting grabbed by alligators and black bears
and Florida Panthers side note and I should mention this before someone freaks out in the
comment section there is a difference between mountain lions and Florida Panthers Florida
Panthers tend to be a little bit bigger their tails a little bit different and things like
that put it this way if you're wandering through the woods and you see one and you yell mountain
lion when it's actually a panther to your friends to warn them nobody's going to stop and correct
you number eight traffic now wallet Hub ranks the traffic in Florida the entire State they
rank them 27th of the nation so that's middle of the road but if you look at the cities Miami is
one of the worst of the nation they actually come in number four Tampa which used to be outside the
top 20 is now 14th and of course during the more touristy parts of the Year Orlando's a
mess as well this is driving a lot of people out and it's only going to get worse people are still
moving into Florida the state is still growing even though a lot of people are looking to check
out this of course means more people on the road traffic gets worse the cities and the state try
and combat this by more construction which of course creates more traffic in an attempt to
fix the traffic problem last time I was in Miami it was pretty brutal I didn't really notice it
when I was in Tampa Jacksonville which wasn't on the list of really bad ones I thought they
had pretty bad traffic but to be fair it's been a handful of years since I've been there so who
knows obviously this is a problem for people living in the big cities of Florida if you're
moving to Lake Butler don't worry about it number seven politics in recent years Florida has been
pushed to the front of the political culture War now this is a problem for a lot of people one the
people that don't see a lot of this Politics as just theater they get all worked up they're
angry and it has to do with politics this of course makes the people they know uncomfortable
and then those people that just don't care about politics they're tired of hearing about it which
is a majority of the country all the people that are all caught up in their politics think that
everyone feels their way or everyone cares who's a Democrat everyone cares who's Republican no most
people don't give a [ __ ] doesn't matter to them but the political atmosphere in Florida
has gotten rough over the last couple years and this is you know kind of wearing a lot of
people thin and they want out I don't know how many times I've seen comments or gotten emails
from people asking me where can I go where people don't care about politics I always tell them the
same thing head to the southern Atlantic Ocean and live in a town called Edinburgh of the Seven
Seas they don't care about politics there but yeah believe it or not a lot of people say the
politics are driving them out of Florida or at least driving the desire to move out of
Florida number six hurricanes yeah hurricanes can be a problem in Florida we've all seen the news
if you've lived in Florida long enough I'm sure you've lived through a few hurricanes Florida
only averages one hurricane a year and not every single one of them just tears the roof off places
some of them they're just like a really bad storm but occasionally some do come through
and just devastate whole communities and that's scary you know every state every city has some
kind of natural disaster like that California has earthquakes you know you go up to the New
York area New England they have blizzards ice storms got tornadoes in the middle of
the country everyone has some hurricanes are freaking scary because they could devastate
whole cities and I'm sure a lot of the people in Florida are going they're really not that big of
a deal cuz that's how I am with earthquakes but I know people that are from areas that don't
have earthquakes and it scares the hell out of them I've lived through seven good earthquakes
in my life and countless small ones only seven times have I actually stopped went whoa what is
going on here most of the Hurricanes you know you're like ordering food someplace and you
both feel it the cashier and you and you stop for a second look at each other cuz sometimes
they build when you realize it wasn't a big deal you continue ordering you might say you
feel that and then you say yeah and then you go about your life well a lot of hurricanes are the
same way you know it's coming it's not going to be that big of a deal you just I don't know get
your dog inside the house and just let it do its thing and then you get back to your normal life
but those ones that occasionally come through that just tear things up that scares a lot of
people especially if they're new to Florida there's actually a lot of retirees that let's
say spent two three years in Florida and then they end up moving to like Arizona and it's
because of hurricanes a lot of times there have been quite a few different Studies by
like the University of Florida and Florida State University on the hurricanes and their frequency
damage they do it's really interesting but as you read it you kind of realize they're not as
big a deal as the Press likes to make it seem I guess that's pretty much everything these days
number five population growth yeah Florida is growing like we said and that you know brings
a lot of problems with it like the traffic from earlier most popular states have seen a lot of
this you know comes and goes and waves New York has had surges they've always been popular but
they've had these surges that make things really rough California's been having a surge since the
1800s when an old man found a chunk of gold and only had his mule to celebrate with whoa mule in
just recent years there surge has finally ended Florida's turn Florida's always been popular
but they've been gaining steam in recent years even though I mean the whole point of this list
is why people want to move just so we're clear for every hundred that want to move to Florida
there's about 30 that want to get out population growth creates a lot of problems especially
infrastructure problems you got to build more roads you got to build more schools more hospitals
you got to hire more police you got to build more fire stations more Starbucks it's really strange
though population growth is what most cities want to see especially if you're a business
owner in a city but at the same time brings a lot of problems like I always say more people means
more problems a lot of people are starting to see these problems now in Florida they want to get
out number four the cost of living yes the cost of living in Florida is on the rise now when you hear
these numbers you're not going to think they're a big deal but one percentage point is a big deal
when you're talking about cost of living currently the cost of living in Florida is 1% above the
national average 6 years ago it was 5% lower than the national average that is a big jump utilities
currently are 2% above the national average and food is about 3% above the national average
healthc care is 4% lower than the national average which was great transportation is 2% higher than
the national average and goods and services are 2% lower than the national average 5 years ago
it was 4% lower than the national average so for a lot of longtime residents they're starting to see
the prices go up if if you're moving here from New York or Virginia or I don't know any place
else that's kind of expensive You' probably look at Florida and go oh they're still pretty cheap
where that's true they're also on the rise the people that really feel this are the longtime
residents now if you want to move to one of their major cities that's where it gets kind of rough
Cape Coral overall is 8% higher than the national average Fort Lauderdale is 21% higher Gainesville
is 3% higher Miami is 22% higher and Orlando is 4% higher oh one last one Sarasota is 6% higher there
is still some savings to be found Tallahassee and Pensacola are both 5% lower than the national
average but yeah that's one of the reasons people are searching to leave Florida the rising cost of
living number three safety Florida has a good amount of crime even though they've been saying
they're at a 50-year low it's actually they're using bad math the data they're going off of
when they say they're at a 50-year low is from 2021 it's actually report that
was published in 2022 using 2021 numbers here's the thing in 2021 the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement was making a change in how they collect crime data or data however you want
to say it they used something called the summary reporting system which basically
counted crimes each month and only recorded the most serious one in the incident so let's say a
guy freaks out an apartment building and assault somebody with a broom during the
process he broke a bunch of Windows maybe made some death threats and threw some lady's poodle
on the roof that would just be an assault with a broomstick so they were switching to the New
FBI standard the new system is called the national incident-based Reporting System
it's fancier because it includes more types of crimes and allows them to keep track of
multiple offenses that happen in one incident well not all the agencies in Florida switched
to the new system in 2021 and some didn't even get their information in by the deadline so they
were excluded from the report this of course leads to a very low crime rate I'm not saying
Florida is as dangerous as it was in the 1980s when it hit its peak they're just not as safe as
they want you to believe the locals know this that's why a lot of them are looking to get
out number two insurance premiums insurance premiums are pretty high in Florida car
insurance they're ranked sixth in the nation four years ago they were ranked eightth home
Motors Insurance isn't the highest but it's on the rise they're actually number 12 in the nation
right now you few years ago they were number 17 and in recent months major insurance companies
have pulled out of the Florida Market Farmers Insurance has left Bankers Insurance Lexington
Insurance is left with fewer options that means the prices are bound to go up in the coming months
and years besides the ones that have left in an article by USA Today they said 15 other insurance
companies have stopped writing new policies in the state you don't have to be a fortune teller
with a crystal ball to know that the prices for insurance are going to be going up and
Florida all right before we get to number one if you're thinking about leaving Florida or
you want to move to Florida there's a link for home and money in the description box below they
can get you in touch with a real estate agent anywhere in the country all right on to number
one and number one Rising real estate costs just like the cost of living the price of
homes and rent and everything else is going up in Florida Florida has seen a steady increase in
in population over the decades just like we've been talking about currently there's more than
22 million people that call the Sunshine State home and some days it seems like all of them live
in Miami Dade the population increase has created competition that has pushed housing prices higher
currently the average home value in Miami this is just one example is $568,000 that's up 6.2%
from last year year before that it jumped 5.8% this year it's looking like it'll be closer to
6% again again in 2020 the average home value in Miami was $370,000 at this rate it'll double the
2020 numbers sometime in late 2024 now two things that happen when this goes on a lot of people that
have owned homes in Florida forever they see the prices go up and they want to sell and leave the
state you also have people that let's say are renting or wanting to buy a bigger house and
they're seeing where the prices are going they're going to leave the state those are the people that
are searching for new places to live all right that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed it
hope you got some information out of it now go out have a great day and be nice to each other