Where to live? Florida or California?

California is practically a different country.

More to the point, the cost of living in California is very high, and economic future very bleak; too much regulation / nanny state.

With that said, if you don't mind living out in a rural area / smaller city, there are likely places, especially northern part, in CA that may be fine.

Personally, the choice between California and Florida is a no brainer - go with Florida.

Ft Lauderdale area is good, but for a family, as others have suggested, look at Tampa / Clearwater area ... be very selective though (visit, ask around, check quality of the schools [even if no kids], etc), since some seemingly nice suburban areas around there are very sketchy.

In regards to Orlando - don't even think about it ... very high crime, very little to do. Bad news!

Miami has a lot to do, but go with South Miami Beach (it's not just physically separate from Miami, it's a seperate city) if living there ... or live a bit to the north, such as Ft Lauderdale - it's close to Miami, but not too close.

On a related topic, if you're planning to run a local business in Florida (likewise to some extent in southern CA), be aware the work ethic is lousy - no biggie, if your work is all on-line.

Ron

Good stuff ...... What's your take on the Ft. Myers and Cape Coral area? Houses there are so cheap right now. Thanks ....


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I'm in Riverview which is south of Tampa, FL.....and I love it!

move to Austin.. vacation on the coasts

I agree! If you can afford it and dont mind waiting for a few years to get property La Jolla is very nice.

If I had to choose between the two, I'd pick Florida.

Nothing good can come from blue state politics, and California is on its death bed.

Last I heard, 1,000 people were moving out of California each day. The kicker is.. an almost equal number of illegal immigrants enter each day.

I would love to live in Key West.

We very well could. Did you know any punks in the area?

Yeah, LOL

no no move to san jose /silicon valley so that WE could finally meet face 2 face!

Punks as in The Clash / Drop Kick Murphys - or - punks as in lil wanna be hoodlums??

If it's the former, yes, but we're talking waaaaaay back to my high school days (the 80's) of which I have very little recollection of anymore - except for one good buddy back then - Alan B. from Seminole (not sure if he's still in the area though - I thought I heard he was). Don't really know any current punkers tho. I may be too old!!

If it's the latter - then no... but I would like to catch the 'punks' the recently broke into a few cars in our neighborhood.



Ya know, with all of the folks in the Tampa Bay area, why aren't there more GFY meet-ups or biz networking opportunities?? (Then again, maybe there are and I just haven't been invited yet! )

San Jose should be very cool place!

I didn't know that you are in San Jose, I will hit you up the next days for a chat

Yea been here all my life... lmk if you have any q's about anything here.

Seems that Florida has a big crime rate or let's call it over average, hm.

Fort Lauderdale seems to be very interesting and could be a good city for some additional retail business because of the big number of tourists there.