{"id":3403,"date":"2015-11-22T09:41:29","date_gmt":"2015-11-22T16:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=3403"},"modified":"2015-11-22T09:41:29","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T16:41:29","slug":"regional-roundup-9-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hijenx.us\/?p=3403","title":{"rendered":"Regional Roundup 9: Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida<\/a>\u00a0is its own region due to being huge. It was amazing and easily one of our favorite states and regions. It has many options for places to live, a fairly low cost of living for what you get and a reasonable service culture. In many ways, with the exception of the Miami<\/a> area and the Panhandle<\/a>, it felt like the Midwest by the beach. We enjoyed this. The rain was quite torrential when it happened, but the lovely beaches and year round warmer weather are big positives for Florida. It also looked like there might be work related to tech and tourism. A downside is, of course, the hurricanes and that all that lovely beach front property is very pricey and the more affordable properties are more inland, which rather than being a lovely beach, is\u00a0increasingly swamp-like the further in you go.<\/p>\n

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Our favorite city<\/strong> was\u00a0Jacksonville<\/a>. It was friendly and affordable, without being quite as touristy as the rest of Florida. It also apparently is less prone to hurricanes than the rest of the state. If anyone has more Jacksonville info, we’d love to hear it. We didn’t spend as much time there as we wish we had compared to the amount of time we spent in Phoenix, for example. It did seem like the most viable city though.<\/p>\n

Here’s the video:<\/p>\n