Hundreds of thousands who bought the “utopia” of living in Florida leave the state. “I became disenchanted very soon”.

The high costs of housing and insurance, as well as the latent political polarization, scare away many who moved to the state in search of paying less and enjoying more. These are some of his stories. . By Shannon Pettypiece — NBC News One of the first signs that Barb Carter's move to Florida was not the perfect life she had imagined was the infestation of armadillos.