So you are interested to move to Florida but you want to know what
the Pros and Cons are to living here in Florida. That's what this video is about.
My name is Katrin Pfitzenreiter and I am a real estate agent here in Sarasota Florida. I actually
moved down from NYC to Sarasota about 10 years ago. I think it's important that you understand
both the Pros and the Cons to living here because there is no such thing as a perfect place.
If there is you're gonna have to let me know where that is because at the very least I would like the
vacation there. So then what are the Pros and the Cons to living in Florida. Number 1 - The beaches
of course. If you're interested in Florida, more likely than not, you like going to the beach at
the very least you like seeing a nice beach. We have beautiful beaches here in Florida.
On the east side we have the Miami beaches, Fort Lauderdale, on the west side there's Clearwater,
St. Petersburg and where I live here in Sarasota Florida we have some of the nicest beaches
including Siesta Key Beach which, over the last few years, has been named the number one
beach in the US. Can you believe it? Number 2 - Year-round warm weather - In the summer time
it's about 90 to 95 degrees. In the winter time it is typically about 50 degrees in the lows.
Sometimes you can get into the 40s. The idea of having to shovel snow in Florida, no that doesn't
happen here. We just see it on TV and we like it, it's pretty, for like a minute. Number 3 - you
can do outdoor activities pretty much all year round. From golfing to playing tennis, kayaking,
paddle boarding. Did I mention tennis? I mentioned tennis - you name it you - can do it. Except
for skiing, for that you would have to go up north okay? Number 4 - No state income
tax here in Florida. So it would drive me crazy in NYC when I worked so hard and then I got my
paycheck and so much money went over to paying off state income tax. Well you're not going
to have to worry about that here in Florida. You get to keep much more of your money here.
You might ask yourself well how does the state make money? Through tourism. Number 5 -Relatively
speaking, Florida is an affordable place to live in. Certainly you want to check and see
how your cost of living changes from where you'd be moving to. I use a website called payscale.com
to see how the cost of living changes. If I were to move from NYC, so this says make-believe,
to Sarasota Florida, and in my analysis when I just did this the other day, the cost of living
will go down by about I think it was 70%. So use that website payscale.com. There's others as well
that you can use to see how things change for you. But relatively speaking Florida is an affordable
place to live in. Now those were the pros. You're asking yourself, okay okay, well give me the cons
already! Here are the cons. Number 1 - One of the first things that irked me about living in Florida
were the critters and all these animals that seem to be all around us here. From gators, to snakes,
to roaches. The roaches come out in droves in the summertime, just so you're aware. Well you're
gonna have to get used to all these critters and animals. I'm used to it now, but the first time I
saw a gator just lounging in my backyard, that was strange right, because I was only used to seeing
gators in movies and oh yeah the zoo. Number 2 - the summers are really hot and really wet.
When I say hot, I am talking about 95 degrees with a high humidity and it rains quite often.
Usually once a day for maybe an hour or so then it goes away. But it's very very rainy here in the
summertime and some people, especially those that don't like the rain or that don't like the heat,
95 degrees may be too much for them to handle. So keep that in mind. Number 3 - life here tends
to be much slower. I don't know if it has anything to do with the heat and the sun,
but it is much slower. People are much more relaxed around here. If you're somebody who's
fast-paced and you're always on the go and you like to feel the energy in a place that is
just buzzing, then moving to Florida might become a culture shock for you. 4 - Florida's very flat.
You can see so far down the horizon here. We don't really have mountains. We don't have valleys. If
you're somebody that lives in a mountain or maybe you're really close by to one and you enjoy it
or perhaps you live in a valley, say you're from State College Pennsylvania which is in a valley
and surrounded by mountains, you may not like living in a very flat area. Number 5 - Florida is
quite removed from the other states depending on where you live in Florida. It could take you about
six to seven, eight, nine hours to get to the next state. Look at this map over here and let's just
assume you live in Sarasota where I live. It would take you about five hours to get out of the state.
For some of you that may be an inconvenience and you may not like being so isolated from other
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