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- desantisthreatensusa@lemmy.world
Florida has seen a population boom in recent years, but many longtime residents and recent transplants say rising costs and divisive politics have them fleeing the Sunshine State.
One of the first signs Barb Carter’s move to Florida wasn’t the postcard life she’d envisioned was the armadillo infestation in her home that caused $9,000 in damages. Then came a hurricane, ever present feuding over politics, and an inability to find a doctor to remove a tumor from her liver.
After a year in the Sunshine State, Carter packed her car with whatever belongings she could fit and headed back to her home state of Kansas — selling her Florida home at a $40,000 loss and leaving behind the children and grandchildren she’d moved to be closer to.
“So many people ask, ‘Why would you move back to Kansas?’ I tell them all the same thing — you’ve got to take your vacation goggles off,” Carter said. “For me, it was very falsely promoted. Once living there, I thought, you know, this isn’t all you guys have cracked this up to be, at all.”
was it Boca Raton?
That’s where all the New Yorkers were always yearning for in The Nanny.
Come to think about it other sitcoms in the 90’s had that new yorkers retiring to florida schtick it was in Seinfeld as well
Deerfield Beach, but one of the Century Villages.
My grandfather, who was a bit of a joker, used to say, “no deer, no field and no beach.”
I remember they had a restaurant where you had to be 50 and older to get in after a certain time.