Thread: Why do so many keep living where the weather is so shitty almost year round?
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Old 02-14-2015, 08:01 AM  
crockett
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Florida: Florida locations by per capita income - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Connecticut: List of Connecticut locations by per capita income - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

There's your answer.

Money, job opportunities, demand, economy.

Edit: and I just wasted my 18,000th post on this.
This more than anything.. FL has very limited "good" jobs as almost everything is shitty service industry and low paying (a right to work state). This means either you become an engineer to work for a govt contractor @ NASA or one of the tech firms (which always layoff when budget cuts happen) or you have to run your own business.

Meanwhile in New England even a recent high scool graduate can be making $15 to 18 bucks an hour after a couple of years, with on the job training doing production work or something similar. In FL that same HS grad will be making $9 or $10 working for McDonnalds or Walmart.
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