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I wonder if Florida's insurance premiums would be lower if less people lived right at the coast or even directly on the beach and more inland?
In other words if it were possible to return say 1/3 or even just 1/4th of Florida's developed coastline back into its natural state; mangroves, marshes, coral reefs, sand dunes etc and move the people inland --- would this reduce the overall insurance premiums for the majority of Florida residents?
Its puts perspective into Atlanta's current problems.People think Atlanta has finacial problems along with cronyism,but Miami seems to take the cake.State wide Georgia is doing much better.
Hrrmm I lived FL for 6 months recently and got out of there... saw what was goin on. Definitely not FL I mostly remember from the 80s and early 90s. Good luck.
No, unfortuantely not. In many areas of FL now, I dont know if I'm in NJ or another country. It's definitely changed.
Actually in our case, we've been seeing a rather sharp rise in population--100,000+ for each of the last 2 years of available data for the Bay Area CSA. Meanwhile boomtowns such as Sacramento and Stockton are seeing growth rates now LOWER than the Bay.
I'm still really at a loss to explain why?
I mean, our economy is very weak just like everywhere else.
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Its puts perspective into Atlanta's current problems.People think Atlanta has finacial problems along with cronyism,but Miami seems to take the cake.State wide Georgia is doing much better.
A lot of our population growth comes from FL; it's our #1 source of intra-US new residents, followed by NY.
It is all a cycle,the bad thing is the mass exodus usually involves the middle-class working people who get more bang for thair buck by moving to much cheaper areas such as in the Carolinas. One day down the road the Carolina's will be facing the same problem as South Florida then it will be mass exodus to other less expensive states.
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It is all a cycle,the bad thing is the mass exodus usually involves the middle-class working people who get more bang for thair buck by moving to much cheaper areas such as in the Carolinas. One day down the road the Carolina's will be facing the same problem as South Florida then it will be mass exodus to other less expensive states.
Interestingly, NC and TX are the two states in the US that have the highest retention rates of native-born residents...a very different situation than FL, which is easily one of the most transient states in the country (another reason I think it is relatively easy for people to make the decision to leave). I frankly don't see NC or SC ever getting into this situation, but who foresaw FL's fate in 1990?
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