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Florida does pretty well for itself, even without Miami/South Florida metro area. Crazy to think the state would still have a pop. Of 14million, and would still have an NBA team, 2 NFL teams, an NHL team, an MLS team, and an MLB team.
You seem to intentionally be missing the point I'm making. If your theory is correct and people will move in larger numbers just for warmer weather, then every Southern state should be the US' most populated. Yet they are not. Could it be because states like Mississippi and Alabama have terrible economic conditions and low quality of life and that warm weather does not actually supersede those factors?
If you look at actual domestic migration trends, Southern states are receiving fewer and fewer transplants from the North. Rather, a lot of their growth, and indeed larger than migration, is natural (births vs. deaths).
Here's a nice heat map of growth rate by county. Of course, rates will be higher when less populated counties grow by the same numbers as larger counties, and geographically large counties (like in the West) will look really impressive despite the growth mainly occurring in a small area.
The reality is that most growth today is metropolitan. Very few people move to small rural places. That said, one really only has to look toward metro growth as an indicator of where people are heading. https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/v...57f13c7295893e
Its a strange comparison, outside of having a job possibility in both states and trying to decide. Kind of like comparing Indiana to North Carolina, there's not much similarity. I doubt anybody would consider both, outside of deciding between jobs.
I've been to Honeymoon Island State Park in Tampa and Cuyahoga National Park in Cleveland/Akron. Both were really interesting to visit, but Ohio natural settings seemed much more inviting and more interesting than Florida's. Florida is all about the water and it's so flat. The forests looked dangerous and way too thick to walk through. In Ohio, I had no pestilence to be scared of, no mosquitoes even, and it was so serine and revigorating.
When I was in the military of all the states that people were from Ohio was the state with the most people that hated the state, I couldn't believe how many people hated their home state.
Over the years, I have considered moving to either Ohio or Florida. The major determining factor was none other than JOBS!
Ohio wins, because it has a much stronger job market that's not reliant on service industry and tourism. No one moves to Florida for a lucrative white collar career, unless you're in healthcare or some unheard of hedge fund manager. Ohio has a far more robust economy with a more diverse job market. The cost of living and income ratio is very favorable. Florida wages are too low compared to the cost of living, which is considered low by national standards. Ohio has much less traffic congestion, less tourists, and less retirees. Healthcare and education is also substantially of higher quality in Ohio.
Florida's politicians are just plain...stupid. Rick Scott banned discussion of climate change and supports defunding Planned Parenthood, etc. Marco Rubio sucks, too.
Also, Cedar Point holds its own against anything in Florida. And the Columbus Zoo is ranked as the #1 zoo in the nation, defeating anything in Florida.
Ohio people are also not nearly as superficial as Florida people.
And more elderly deaths occur related to heat strokes than winter cold and snow.
The irony here is rich.
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