Why Is EVERYONE Leaving South Florida!? (500,000 People Left)

It seems many people are viewing this video as if there is a mass exodus happening in South Florida. That is not the case AT ALL! In this video, I mention that Florida has been either number 1 or number 2 for net migration in the last 2 years. This video simply addresses the fact that half a million people left in one year and I talk about the reasons why they are leaving while so many people still want to move in! If you recently moved out of South Florida, we'd love to hear your reason for leaving if it wasn't mentioned in this video. Let us know below this comment!

The increased cost of homeowners, wind, flood, auto insurance more than cancels out having no income tax

I left Ft.Lauderdale two years ago and it was the best thing I ever did. I had a 2 bedroom 1 bath condo, I got it for $180k at that time the monthly fees were $450 which was really cheap. I left there mostly because everything was getting too expencive and the people were so rude it got to the point I wanted to slap the day lights out of them ( WHICH I NEVER DID ). I came home one night and my street had about a dozen or so police cars blocking it, I was asked by 5 or 6 different cops what was I doing here. I told them I live on this street and even had to prove it. I pulled into my parking spot the had my unit number on it, low and behold a cop was parked there. I told him to move the car since this is private property, he said he would write me a ticket if I didn't leave, I told him to kiss my azz and move the damn car now. Another cop told him to move it as well. Next morning I put my condo on the market, less than 3 weeks later it sold for over $550K. I now live in another state and with what I sold my condo for I bought a 3 bdrm 2 full bath more than twice the size of my condo. I still have money left over from that.

South Florida is a victim of its own success. Twenty years ago when I was there it was getting crowded. Traffic was horrible. We all cant live on the "beach" as my friend would say.

Left Ft. Lauderdale. Traffic, entitled rich people, poorly built housing, nothing old to see, crime, bad areas, snow birds, tourists, drunk college kids, etc.

People come on vacation and then figure they will move Here and be on a constant vacation. Then, I realized it's work to make a living in Florida and not a fantasy vacation all the time. Their quality of life goes out the window

1. Florida is an overdeveloped mess. There is no park near where I live--just stroads of boring and cheap strip malls. 2. No one keeps their word. People are rude. 3. Home Insurance is expensive. 4. Medical care ranks near the bottom of all 50 states. 5. DeSantis is a bully. He doesn't care about Floridians at all. 6. Traffic is a nightmare even in small towns. 7. Too many people moving here and they are the rude upstate people we don't need. 8. The weather is getting hotter and hotter. 9. Wages are a joke. 10. There is no culture. Unless you count overdevelopment as a cuture.

It's like rush hour everyday from 10am-8pm now

According to my own investigation People who are partially homeless in the United States and live in cars are the product of a complicated web of interrelated factors. This problem is fueled by high housing expenses in relation to income, stagnating earnings, and income inequality. A lack of affordable housing, medical costs, evictions, job loss, a lack of social support system, and structural issues and insufficient policies all contribute to the phenomena.

I moved to Florida in 2021. The only Con that makes me consider leaving is that it is gard to make a living. Pay is very low. I made more as a Nurse in 2019 up North than I do here in 2024. Cost of living has far outpaced my wages. Even if my kids go to College I dont know where they would find jobs here. The skilled labor jobs that require a 2 year degree only pay $15/ hr. Its mostly low wage service jobs I see here.

We left Florida after living there 8 years. We left 3 years ago before Home Owners and Auto insurance skyrocketed- so those were not reasons per se- The reasons were the oppressive HOA with great ideas to spend money on useless projects and hit everyone with higher fees and special assessments, hurricanes, lived thru Irma in 2017 and did not want to repeat it, hot as heck in the summer, stuck up better than everyone else golfers who looked down on anyone who did not golf, traffic and over development, The beauty of the area was destroyed by building on every square inch. A trip to P:ublix which should have been 10 minutes turned into 30 with all the traffic and shopping in season with all the snow birds was horrendous. The winters were the nicest time of year BUT snowbirds ruined it with their influx and making everything overcrowded. Made a nice profit on our home and moved.

Top 3 reasons why why people leave FL in no particular order: 1. Normal job or education related transfers, 2. Some people moved to FL during/after COVID because they thought they could work remotely, but companies are rescinding that policy and they have to move back, 3. Cost of HOA fees and homeowner insurance has skyrocketed, for reasons we all know about (like collapse of the Condo in Miami).

I'm 61 and currently live in Tennessee. I've been thinking for years that when I retire I would move to the Florida panhandle. But I'm seeing a barage videos like this one. Friends my son (who is 34) went to school with, moved to the Tampa area after college. They just moved back to TN and they said the reason was because housing costs simple because impossible for them to afford living there anymore and that in just 4 years their rent more than doubled. The problem isn't the population growth. The problem is that wealthy people are the ones moving to Florida. They come in, buy older properties, bulldoze the existing home or building and put up a vastly more high end/expensive home/building, thus driving up the value of all the surrounding properties. The tax assessment of properties go up as a result, regardless of the fact that those surrounding properties haven't recieved the updates of the new properties. As a result, to be able to pay the increased taxes, the price of rental properties, as well as everything else (to a degree) goes up. Next thing you know, service workers, who don't make that much money compared to the wealthy people coming into the state, suddenly see their rent, or home prices going up beyond the level they can afford like my son's old school mates. It's not the wealthy people who are leaving, it's the service workers and other lower income job holders who are leaving because they can't afford the cost of living anymore. Some will say this isn't a sustainable situation. However, look at places like the ski resort areas of Colorado and Utah. The same thing happened there many many decades ago. People kept saying the property values going up to such extreme levels was a "bubble" that would eventually burst, that there would HAVE to be an economic adjustment that would level things back out. Well that adjustment never came. What DID happen, is small trailer park communities popped up here and there and that's where the service workers live, and have lived in those ski resort areas for decades. Some will say that this will only happen in the coastal areas of Florida, but eventually, the entire state will be occupied primarily by wealthy people, and all that will be left is high end areas, with spots where the laborers who serve the wealthy will be forced to live (because they won't be able to afford to live anywhere else), just like the ski resort areas of the west. If you are thinking the inflated home prices in Florida is a bubble that is doomed to burst, think again. Florida is headed for becoming the first state where the residents will literally be either the wealthy, or the servants of the wealthy, and no one else will live there.

Lot of challenges in Florida. It is not one just a one factor but many other issues why people typically do not stay in Florida more than few years. Lot of crooks , con artists and greedy people

New construction is unabated in SW FL. It's the green space that's declining.

You said it so well ..... Florida is different. I moved out of FL after 26years in Tampa! My wife lived there her whole life. Most of the people moving to FL are so mad about leaving their previous location so they cam to FL and started acting like A--holes!

the home insurance crisis is by far the number one deterrent .

I'm in NY state right now but I will be the first to admit that Florida is the greatest state in the USA right now. Politics is the number 1 reason why people are moving there from my conversations.

Alternate title: why is everyone leaving Florida period? Answer: because everything is too expensive. Florida is just a resort for rich people.

Miami Florida excluding the public transportations is more expensive than Brooklyn NewYork.