EVERYBODY Is Leaving Florida For Michigan!
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- Опубліковано 10 лют 2025
- Why Are People Leaving Florida for Michigan? When you think of Florida, it’s easy to conjure up images of endless sunshine, sandy beaches, and retirees enjoying their golden years. Michigan, on the other hand, might bring to mind snowy winters, auto manufacturing and potholes. Yet, data reveals a trend that might surprise you: thousands of people are leaving the Sunshine State for the Great Lakes State. What’s going on? Why would anyone trade palm trees for pine trees? The answer is more complex than you might think.
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What are your thoughts on people leaving Florida? 🤔
Yep!❤
It was inevitable.
Why would they bother? At least Floridians have a good Governor. Gretchen Twitmer has been a disaster for MI.
I moved from Michigan to Florida about a year and a half ago. I wasn't sure how it would work out for me so I moved into an apartment. Hurricanes, Insurance cost, traffic, over crowded beaches and a horrible Governor are all huge red flags for me. Not sure if I will move back to Michigan but I'm definitely planning on moving out of Florida some time this year. Florida looks good on TV & in the movies but the so called paradise is not what it seems.
@@MrDhee-sm2swtrue. Whitless is the worst thing about the state. She has no clue. Just a WOKE goofball.
We have 4 true seasons, no hurricanes, and the majority of the planet's freshwater supply. We like it here.
Until everyone moves there!
@@SC-fj2zp -- fortunately, some people are such delicate flowers, that they can't stand the thought of a real winter. So far, that's kept our population at a very reasonable level here.
Yup born and raised and went to college in Florida, but I’ve been in Michigan since 2022 and I love it here
Born and raised in Orlando but I can’t afford to move back. Economically better to stay in NC.
Love Michigan from May to October. Winter is mostly gross, cloudy, depressing.
Winter can be beautiful here. It also increases appreciation of those warmer seasons. The last month of winter can be miserable. The majority of our climate is wonderful.
@@chrisl7839we move to lansing in 2 weeks. What should we expect in way of weather from Feb to summer?
Oh please.
@@jtbasic February is cold, sometimes snowy. March and April see temps climbing back above freezing, with occasional snow, esp in March. May is when the flowers and trees bloom, and it's so nice after months of winter! Summers are warm, but if it gets too warm, the Great Lakes beaches offer cool breezes. Cool water too.
I love Michigan from spring until New Years Day. Florida from New Years Day until about April Fool's Day would be wonderful.
I live in Michigan but visit southern Florida often to see family. Michigan winters are cold, and Florida summers are brutally hot. Which is worse? Take your pick. At least during the Michigan winter I can bundle up when I venture outside. I can't walk around naked in Florida from May through September... not without getting arrested, anyway.
After dealing with both, I'll take the FL summers. There's much more than temps at play. There's also something called A/C. Every car and every building has it.
Winters get milder year after year, and the cost of living is low . Michigan is a beautiful place.
Move to florida from michigan 8 years ago. It is so expensive here, I want to go back, i miss the seasons.
Please don't come here. I hear Ohio is nice... You'll fit right in.
Whitmer has ruined Michigan!
My best friend moved to Florida from Michigan over 20 years ago and she’s coming back- Hurricanes and waiting at traffic lights for up to 20 minutes are just the tip of the iceberg- I’m glad she’s coming back!🥰
Moved from Texas in September 24 after a brutal 115º summer which was a repeat of many prior summers - and the swimming pools run 90º for a nice bath. Native Texan now claiming Texi-gan status in a beautiful state that likely would be difficult to match in the south. However, the south has its own strengths so don't think I'm anti-southern. Wife and I now live on a beautiful Michigan private lake and we do enjoy the winter, spring, summer, and fall here in the Mitten State. BTW, both Texas and Michigan are two geographically mapped states that most school kids can readily identify...so there are similarities. PS our kids live up here so it was an easy decision. Enjoy your channel. Keep educating us foreigners.
That is why I left TX. Too 🔥
Moving from Houston to lansing in 2 week. We can from California to houston 1 year ago and the weather is horrible. Hurricanes, flooding, tornados, too many snakes and gators (we like to camp n play in the water with our dog).
Howd you like your first winter? Any tips?
@jtbasic I'm from Michigan. I don't live there now but for many years, you will really appreciate the weather!
@jtbasic
If I may add to what Jill told you. There are many things to do and see in Michigan. Winters aren't bad in the southern lower peninsula. Fun fact you are never more than 2 hours away from the Great Lakes anywhere in Michigan. Enjoy Lansing its a nice place to live.
My heart goes out to you Michigan.
Wherever you are, glad you're there, not here.
To the best of my knowledge, Michigan does not have hundreds of Burmese Pythons looking for their next meal.
Let's not forget something we do have. Wineries and vineyards!
And Iguanas. Lots and lots of Iguanas. They are as common in south Florida as Squirrels are here.
I was a lifelong Michigander who regularly visited Florida and eventually moved there and lived for over 15 years.
I like the water and coastlines of both.
Now that I'm older and retired, I live in Vilcabamba, Ecuador.😊
At first, I assumed Floridians had a second home in Michigan. Their license plates are EVERYWHERE!!!
6 months + a day in Florida and summer in Michigan...save 4.25% of your income with no state taxes.
those are people who are from michigan and moved to florida.
@@forestforthetrees1111you know not what you say. car insurance is not cheaper in florida. and if you are a michigan resident and have florida plates you will get a ticket for having out of state plates. then the question would be if you have florida plates where is your florida drivers license. their 2nd home is in michigan. they have made florida their home state but are from michigan.
I live in Michigan and you could not pay me enough money to live in Florida... good place to visit or go on vacation but I'll stay here in Michigan😂
No don't come here
@@robjones1328 my thoughts exactly, stay away
We don't need that BS in Mi. Our coastline would become closed off like theirs
Thank you.
😂😂😂
You won't like it here move to Ohio 😂
I did it!-2022 :) I am from Michigan, but we were in Florida for decades--ugh too hot--Love Michigan the weather is way better here 9 months out of the year perfection--Florida is outrageously hot and costly (Tampa Bay was awesome now it is not--but still heat is awful everywhere in FL) Love my MI!
I was born in Michigan in 1948 And raised here. Move to New York for 2 years in the late sixties then came back to Michigan. Lived in Florida for 2 years in the late seventies and came back to Michigan. So I have tried other places but there is no place like home
Dammit, stop encouraging people....I don't have my northern lower MI dream house yet! The following would be more helpful:
1. MI gets exactly 2 sunny days per year, and because it is so far north, the state is in perpetual darkness, 24/7, for 6 months straight.
2. MI has the most snow & cold in America, averaging out to 96 inches deep throughout the year. 20F is "warm" for July in MI.
3. The only jobs are corn farming and assembling automobiles. MI has no white collar work. Average wages are $5/hr. Unemployment is 30%.
4. Every town has lead-poisoned tap water that obviously comes from the omnipresent lead-filled lakes and rivers.
5. MI pays the highest taxes in the nation.
6. Houses & condos are roughly as expensive as California or NY. Apartments too.
7. Tornadoes occur at least once per day, all over MI.
8. There is nothing going in MI. Ever. That's part of why we are the emptiest state in America.
All true!
...And if you visit any city in MI with a population of more than 20,000 chances are you won't survive.
The Libturd Utopia of MichiNorkia is getting there very quickly for Real.
All Michigan needs is a governor who fix the awful auto insurance.
It needs a whole lot more than that!
You got that rite. ( Danila co. Here ).@@TomH-nl5uw
She did along with shipping our jobs overseas. She's a Communist socialist Democrat. So all you need to know about this Liberal liar.
Ignorant much. Go to Florida and it will probably be double or triple. Ridiculous.
@@seriejohnson698 I'm there. Nope. It's pretty much the same cost. It's the high concentration of old folks that drive the cost up.
You forgot to mention that Michigan is a major golf destination with several highly rated courses from the UP to SE Michigan. Michigan houses some of the oldest course in the country including Les Cheneaux and Wawashkamo Golf Clubs both established in 1898.
Anything you nice like to say or recommend about my hometown - Lansing? Have a wonderful weekend everyone!😊
Michigan's agriculture is a strong point. 2nd most agriculturally diverse state. Yes cold ask Michigan grows more types of crops then all but California. Number 10 in country for food production by weight. Michigan produces staple crops not high end foods like California so revenue is lower off ag. Michigan has a masonry aggregate and forestry industries too.
i think you meant michigan gets up to 300 inches of snow in some areas
Twelve years in Florida...I'm back to my roots. Not crazy for winter but love the other three. There is something about the four seasons however and that is they invigorate!
Born and Raised Michigander" I love our State so Much for some of the Reasons he Mentioned...like No Natural Disasters and We get All 4 Seasons....and have No plans on leaving the State anytime soon...
I think Michigan is amazing and because of our amazing Great Lakes it is basically like a northern version of Florida almost any direction you go you can go to the Great Lakes and go to the beach in summer.
Moving from Houston to lansing in 2 weeks for all the reasons you listed for Florida
I will trade someone, I am sick of the cold and lack of snow.
Michigan is definitely not a dream either.
Love living in Michigan 😊 a great place for many reasons, including its low cost of living, affordable health care…kind people, the roads are not bad . we experience all four seasons winter, spring, summer, and fall. the bitter cold winters, the hot warm summers absolutely love the seasons. We live differently depending on the season.
Lol...Wait til they start paying car insurance here!
Funny I'm in Grand Rapids Michigan
And everyone I
Know has moved to Florida
Thinking of going myself
It's a trap!
Michigan spring, summer, and fall weather is great.
A great sports place from college to pro.
Michigan needs a lot of things lol
If you want the leave Florida, fine. But dont go to Michigan. I lived there for 49 years (minus a 4 year military bit) its full of lousy weather, clouds all the time, grouchy people, high taxes, shitty roads, nothing to do, Michigan had 3 of the top 10 most violent cities (Flint, Detroit and Saginaw) and the list goes on. You know why it's windy in Chicago? Because Michigan sucks.
Im in Arizona now, and i rarely go back to Michigan. I tell family to come visit me so i dont have to go there.
Sure the D is the home of Motown, but that same culture doesn't exist there any more. It's like an aura, but that's it. If you are looking for a cheap place to live where the weather isn't so shitty all the time then Tennessee is a great option.
Stay out of the UP too. Bears and wolves will eat you. Stay in Florida!
We lived in Fl. for 13 years after growing up in Mi. Due to the tax and home ins situation we left Fl. and moved to NC. Lived in NC for 17 years and I thought we were done moving. Then the wife starts with "we need to be closer to our people" crap. I finally relented and moved back to Mi. What a huge mistake, the crappy house market and the bidding wars about drove me nuts . About went broke moving from one lousy air B&B to another . Gave up on buying a single family house and settled for a duplex style condo way the heck up in Linden. Then the wife gets the cancer and we are stuck for a while. When we get that straightened out I am outa here like a herd of turtles in a cloud of peanut butter dust. By the way, I hit the same pot hole that was there back in the mid 60's . With taxes so freeking high up here you would think Mi. could figure out how to build a road.
Michigan is beautiful ❤ Many really nice towns. Every place has it's drawback. Florida is not what people think it is.
Amusement Parks, Beaches and swamps. A lot of seniors that cant drive and insurance companies leaving in droves. Think long and hard before you move to FL. My sister is planning to leave after 30 yrs. Its out of control costs will make you run for the hills.
Nope, I'm done. Going south.
I been to Florida twice and i didn't like it neither time. Michigan needs to utilize its coastline better for summer and winter activities and also improve infrastructure. If they do that no state could touch it. Michigan has the perfect location surrounded by so many cities only a few hours away and Canada.
Southern Michigan baby !! Go Blue 💛💙
I’ve always lived in Michigan, Florida for winter doesn’t sound bad though.
My daughter works for Google in Ann Arbor where she got her undergraduate and graduate degrees at UofM and she loves it there. We live in downtown Birmimgham and it’s an amazing place to live. Very walkable. Up north in the summers are amazing, especially Charlevoix. Florida is fine for winter break but that’s it.
Tourism. Last winter U.P. was hit hard with no snow for snowmobilers. Even in winter we still get Tourist. Go to U.P. in summer and notice all the campers. What the politician and economic growth companies say are different than what makes this state. Agriculture, Tourism, and manufacturing in that order by profits is what the state has. 3 counties in Michigan can grow enough cherries for the whole nation. They need a railroad. We actually lack rail lines here. None of the big 5 rails operate in Michigan. CN runs rails in U.P. Mainly because we ship things to other lake ports.
I'm not a fan of Michigan summers lately.. They are getting more and more warmer. High temps and maxed humidity. 2024 was again the hottest on record for Michigan. I like the fall and spring and maybe a month of winter with a bit of snow.
We have 9 months of Winter, followed by 6 weeks of tolerable weather!
@@Richardcolberg-xp5cx 9 Months 😂
What are you taling about?! We got 6 weeks of winter this year, 2 weeks last year in OaklandCounty unless you're in the UP in which case maybe
We are leaving Fla for Michigan. No place is perfect and there are good and bad things about living in either state. But the homeowner's insurance crisis in Florida is really bad and getting worse. My HO ins has increased 30-35% PER YEAR for the last several years. None of the major ins companies will write policies in the state. I pay over 10k a year for HO insurance! I love the west coast of florida, I just don't want to own anything here. We'll come down to Florida for vacation to get out of the worst of winter in Michigan. The rest of the year, we'll enjoy the seasons in Michigan.
Homeowners And Auto insurance in Michigan are the highest in the nation!
@@DawnNLN-ee2kh Sorry Dawn but you are not correct about homeowner's insurance. Florida and California are highest in Nation (by far). I own similar size homes in both Fla and Mich and I pay 4x more in Fla. Now property taxes in Mich are very high compared to Fla, but not the homeowner's ins.
$4000 in homeowner's insurance beats a $9000 state income tax bill.
The thing that got me to leave Michigan was the months on top of months of not seeing the sun especially during the work week when you could walk into work in the dark and walk out to go home in the dark. Much of what you mentioned were one off things far away from one another. Yeah, Painted Rocks is nice to see and you can get produce at Eastern Market but I will take having 1000 square miles of wilderness around me in Orange County, California with the ability to surf in the morning and ski at Big Bear after lunch. And housing? Housing prices are a direct indicator of how desirable the area is. It might be "hard" to get started but my daughter got a house for $700k right before the lockdowns and it has appreciated by about 50% or about the average housing cost in Michigan. Increase in equity like that takes how long in my home state?
Bought a nice small ranch home (I live alone) on an oversized lot in ‘19 for 100K, now valued at 178K. Not quite 50% but not bad. My second home which I rent out has increased by the same amount. So there ya’ go.
You mentioned it: no gators.
Just moved back to Michigan after living in Florida for 20 years. When I first moved to Florida people would apologize to me when they couldn’t speak English. Now they get angry at me because I don’t speak Spanish.
I’ll take there place, Michigan is freezing, we get like 70 nice sunny clear sky days
Left Michigan for Florida 3 years ago...and couldn't be happier!
Michigan can use more hunters. We should change laws to attract more hunters maybe lower license fees. With less hunters the fees go up on licenses. Southern Mi has too many deer. U.P. not enough. There's also great fishing.
Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids are nice for cities. For smaller places Alpena and Traverse City. I love the food in Mexicantown. Detroit by the water is awesome. We need to do more with boating in Michigan. Maybe manufacture them besides pontoons. The solar electric pontoon boats are nice and work well. Michigan is home. Found a great community in the U.P. in a small Thorp.
You want Gretchen Whitmer ???
Ron DeSantis is far worse, and not just because he is anti science and education and everything else. It's his botched policies that have FL cost of living so high.
Please don’t make videos like this. Let’s keep non midwesterners out. We need to maintain the mindset that Michigan weather is brutally cold year round and 10ft snow drifts all over.
I know you're a real estate agent, thus have something to sell but let me shed some light. I lived in Mi (Detroit, Farmington Hills, Livonia, Fenton) for48 years. I moved to SW Florida a few years ago. I'm going to answer your first question from my own experience. Most people that I have talked to that are leaving FL for the frozen north are doing it because they have parents that don't want to move down here. They move up there until mom and/or dad dies, then come back.
You mention Hurricanes. Yes, they do come, yes there were three that impacted FL last year. They aren’t that big a deal. Helene and Milton Land falls were about 300 miles apart. I’m saying this even after taking a direct hit from Ian, which made Helen and Milton look like a breezy summer day. Our houses are built of block and are built to a standard that is unlike anything in MI. Don’t buy in a flood zone. I’m 4 miles from the beach and we didn’t experience flooding in any hurricane. Anyone that “lives in constant fear of the next hurricane” would also live in constant fear of covid or the next ice storm. Stop thinking you know what it’s like down here.
Now I’ll just do a Pro’s and Con’s list from my experience, not that of a salesman that resorts to hyperbole in the video title to get clicks.
Florida Pros:
Sunshine. This cannot be stressed enough. I was so sick of the flat, depressing grey sky that covers MI for nearly 300 days a year. The rates of depression, Multiple Sclerosis, and vitamin D deficiency are all higher in the grey state. The great lakes are a hotspot for MS.
Florida averages 255 days of sunshine per year.
Roads. If you’ve ever driven in MI you know they suck. Florida rods are as smooth as glass. The traffic down here is only high during snowbird season. I’ve NEVER seen traffic down here like that in Novi, Brighton, Farmington Hills, etc.
Active lifestyle. Beaches 10 months out of the year, 12 months until you become used to the temps and 67 feels chilly lol. Hiking, biking, boating, kayaking, parks etc. etc. year-round.
75-degree days all winter. Sunshine all year, quick but amazing thunderstorms in the evenings during summer. Awesome
Beaches.
Year-round growing season (if you like that)
Florida Cons:
Year-round growing season (if you don’t like that)
Hot summers. Not much hotter or more humid than MI, but it’s consistent for about 5 months. And it’s not as hot as you say. I’ve seen 95, yes, but that’s unusual. It’s usually 5 degrees warmer than southern MI.
The scenery is boring (except for the beaches). The state is flat.
Insurance costs. Auto insurance is about the same as MI, but homeowners in a lot higher.
The New Yorkers that infest the state during snowbird season.
Michigan Pros:
4 seasons.
Cider mills.
Slightly lower cost of living
The 14-day autumn
The 14-day spring
I’m going to include Motown (the music) as a pro, even though the oldies station in Detroit doesn’t even play Motown. Totally abandoned that amazing music genre.
Michigan Cons:
Lack of sunshine. This is NOT just the winter. It’s all year. If you track them, you’ll notice the fully sunny days are the coldest or the hottest days of the year. Michigan averages just 70 days of sunshine per year. 70 our of 365.
Winter. It is the suck. It snows, then partially thaws, then freezes giving you ice everywhere. Then it snows on top of the ice. Then the salt turns everything into a grey nasty slush.
Cars showing visible rust in less than 5 years. As a former Auto tech I can assure you they start rusting that first salty winter
Two of the 4 seasons are way too short. Fall is about 2 weeks of nice weather, unless it rains that whole time. Spring you want to go for a hike, but it’s a mud bog.
Gotta pass through Ohio if you’re going somewhere lol.
Getting in that freezing car, touching that freezing steering wheel and sitting on those freezing seats until the car heats up. If you live close to work, it never heats up. If you have a long drive, you have to deal with the morons on 75 or 23.
Scraping windshields and shoveling snow.
Detroit. You say is “a corner stone of Michigan’s identity” Yes, it is. It’s not a pretty corner stone. The large Heidelberg junkyard sums up Detroit very well. A bunch of garbage painted to look nice, but fails.
Edit: I forgot a con of Florida. The bugs. There are lots of them. Everyone down here has a "bug guy". Now, if your bug guy is worth anything you won't have bugs in your house, but there are bugs.
That being said, mosquitos down here are no worse than MI.
Born in Michigan and divorced in Florida to a nurse from Pompano Bch. High School...came back home after divorce..
"Paid for by Pure Michigan, and the MI Chamber of Commerce"... Floridians put on the heavy coats when it drops below 60F, let alone 15F like it was today.
Moved from Michigan to California in 98’. State was great when I moved here. Now… it sucks. The weather is the main reason. Got family out here too. But wouldn’t mind moving out to like Tennessee. Just not Michigan again.
It’s lefty-land !
Also people always talking about how cold Michigan is...only in the winter dam. We do have summer, spring and fall. It only really start getting cold around mid November like all the other cities. So December, January and February, then we start getting ready for spring. Then it becomes the best state; its like people coming out of their cocoon. Everything is brand new instead of one hot year round season, boring.
No they aren't
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Michigan ìs a beautiful place to live with a horrible horrible governor
Snyder was a gem...right?
@@chriss5165 Not a gem but way better than Big Wretch but most are.
@@MikeRyu2at least she’s not poisoning an entire giant city/area of our state.
Love Big Gretch
@@Frannieville Lol neither did he, that was Dem city leaders for years. Snyder did try to cover it up though. I didn't like him either but Wretch is the worst. She is actually poisoning the state with deals with China. You should educate yourself. PS. I'm not D vs R, I am the people vs politicians selling us out.
Quick build the border wall!!!!!!!!!!
Wait, what 2022!
Damn too late!😮💨
I left Michigan in the late 90s early 2000s because the job market was terrible. I’ve tried to move back several times and it’s the same issue, the job market is not diverse and is located mostly in the SE side of the state. Industry is recovering in west Michigan around Grand Rapids but the housing costs are way too high due to the nature of the tourism/escapist housing market in the north west lower peninsula.
Insurance premiums aren't lower here. 😅 We are second to highest.
I see the opposite. Snow birds selling lake houses to stay in Florida. I stopped to ask customer about new boat lift where he wanted it when I pulled dock for winter. Well I meet the new owner. If I go anywhere to live it will be Maine. The north woods is like the U.P. The weather keeps most away. Which to me means more like minded people. Going for the best apple at the top of the tree. People that like nature and low populations.
EVERYBODY?? Holly crap! Where tf are we gonna put them?
Everybody. Is a lie.
Please come to New Buffalo MI to enjoy a legendary cheeseburger from Redamak’s! Celebrating 50 years of business this year 😁🍔🙏
Wow EVERYBODY! Hyperbole is the refuge of a liar...
Michigan lost 20,000 residents due to out-state net migration in 2023, more than double the 9,900 in 2022. That's areal problem!
Michigan..??😂😂😂😂
Y’all come to Michigan cause I’m trying to escape Michigan
Michigan is like Florida in the summer - hot, humid, infested with insects and tourists. Parts of spring and fall are tolerable, but instead of hurricanes, we have tornadoes, high winds, hail, etc. It's cheaper for a reason.
Go to Florida, please.
@chrisl7839 nope, not fond of either one.
@@phoschnizzle826 Then just go somewhere else! Stay away from Michigan. We don't want you.
Michigan is amazing. Please don’t tell me they are sending Florida men.😂
15/HR JOBS 450K HOUSES ! IT SUCKS !
Peninsula to peninsula
Unemployment is growing and around around 5%, why post old info? Michigan is also at or near the bottom of most of the important categories like education, cost of living, cost of insurance, cost of energy. This post is basically fake news. I love my state, it's an outdoorsman's playground and beautiful but lets be honest about it.
NEVER😀
Auto industry is dead if you think you’re gonna find work been laying off folks on a regular basis ever since those historic UAW strikes few years back wages went up but now positions are being cut and some people are being overworked or layed off
Florida is a fantastic state. Michigan is the armpit of the world! I have lived in Michigan over 50 years. Please don't come here!
“Everybody’s doin’ “The Michigan Rag”….”
This is random but ginkgo trees are native to China and occur in a few very small tiny wild populations this makes them an endangered species in the wild. Ginkgo trees are not invasive when grown in other places in the world. Ginkgo trees can grow in temperate and sub tropical climates. Ginkgo trees can live up to 3,000 years! Ginkgo trees have been around for roughly 270 million years and barely changed! Ginkgo trees have existed during the dinosaurs! Ginkgo trees are the last and only living member of their genus, family, order, class, division! This means they have no living relatives! Ginkgo trees unfortunately are commonly grown as male cultivars these cultivars don’t make seeds and have low genetic diversity because they are all clones of the same tree. An example of low genetic diversity was the gros michel banana these banana plants were all grown from clones of the same plant when one could get a disease all of the clones were equally susceptible and it nearly got wiped out. This could happen to the ginkgo tree while no serious disease infects them now diseases mutate and evolve quickly and often so it’s better to be safe then sorry. A way to grow ginkgos with high genetic diversity is to grow them from seeds. Seeds have higher genetic diversity because of genetic recombination and genetic crossing and increased chances for mutations. A ginkgo tree grown from seeds may die of a disease while another may have resistance. Ginkgo seeds or trees grown from seeds can be bought online on websites like Etsy or eBay for a few dollars. You can also find ginkgo seeds under a female tree in fall. Ginkgo trees grown from seeds have a 50% chance of being male or female. Male ginkgo trees make pollen while female ginkgo trees need this pollen to make seeds. Many say to only plant male ginkgo trees because the seeds smell bad I say both are equally important. Female ginkgo trees are actually a good thing because they absorb male ginkgo pollen in spring reducing allergies. Female ginkgo trees also make seeds which many people eat and these seeds are great for growing genetically diverse healthy trees. Some animals seem to eat these seeds as well such as squirrels. Male ginkgo trees are important because they make pollen and without them female ginkgo trees won’t make seeds.
Staying in your home more than half a year because it isn’t good to walk and slip, breaking something … makes you unhealthy, also your windows in your car may not roll down in the winter so no drive throughs, stay
in the sunshine and live longer. And you people in California you stay there too … please
I think Florida is an awesome state to visit especially in winter but it has many issues and climate change will destroy it it’s better to visit Florida then live there.
In other words come to Michigan and buy a home from me I sell houses
Yup, That's what he is all about!
A lot of older people moving back to Michigan to be near their families in their latter years. This is a major driver of that decision. Nor does Florida meet the value balance that they once did, that was 10 years ago! But neither does Michigan our home ownership costs have soared. Michigan is an old state with a poor demographics. I’m not sure what turns this around.
How bout voting out our current gov?
No surprise people are leaving Florida. Florida's education system is in the toilet - the numbers this week were terrible. Add to that, too many retirees are moving to Florida overloading the healthcare system plus doctor's are leaving. Apparently, doctors believe in science and they don't favor right-wing crazy politics.
Sadly, as much as I love Michigan, I would not move anywhere right now inside the United States due to the ongoing implosion of the federal government. We're leaving the country completely. It's heartbreaking, as we have to sell our vacation cottage up north too that we bought during covid. We have a daughter though, and this country is no longer safe.
Edit: Op asked why we were leaving Michigan, so I answered. Childish replies from snowflake Christo-fascist right wingers certainly don't bother me. My wife and I are lucky enough to have the means to ensure our kids will no longer be at risk of gun violence, will never be subject to the pending national abortion ban, and they'll have amazing healthcare their whole lives. As for you, enjoy your massive tax hikes (I.e. tariffs) that kick in tomorrow, double and triple food prices, and the bankrupt government! 😁
Bye!
See ya
Umm….just stay to the metro areas here in the mitten, specifically the ‘burbs around them. The entire rest of the state is like Florida in all the regards that make you want to leave that state.
Kudos to you for putting your money where your mouth is. All of the well known celebrities who pledged to leave if Trump was elected, it seems, are staying put.
Where abouts are you headed that will immediately extend you amazing health benefits, low taxes, and a stable system of laws that will never change with public opinions or demands?
@bondpit8750 Denmark. Initially we were set on Japan, but felt the culture shock of moving would be rough enough on the kids without going that far. We are lucky that my employer is willing to transfer my position to most countries on the planet, and my skill set is such that it qualifies for priority immigration status almost everywhere. My wife's side of the family we won't miss, they're all MAGAts. I expect my sister's family will decide to leave as well in the coming weeks. I'm still trying to convince my parents to leave. US healthcare is going to implode with the repeal of the ACA and destruction of Medicaid. It won't be safe for them to stay here either. Both oh the northern Michigan hospitals near them will close when that happens. Brain-worm JFK Junior was talking about replacing rural hospitals with AI telemedicine yesterday - it's going to be a clown show.
Not big on Mi it's just to cold most of the yr
Don't spread the word! Too many people has made FL ugly & crowded. I have no interest in seeing more people move to MI (despite Gov. Whitmer's corporate welfare strategy of giving huge tax breaks trying to make that happen). We have it all: fresh water, great beaches, reasonable housing prices, diverse population, outdoor recreation, great universities, the arts, etc. Winters are getting wimpier, but our snow still 'keeps out the riff-raff'!!! If you don't like snow, don't come here!
Floribama was nice. ( Gulf shores )
Yes I lived in Orange Beach. Las Cruces now. Michigan lol.
You're not telling the whole story. In that same year that you say 17,000 people moved from Florida to Michigan, 23,781 people moved from Michigan to Florida. So, Michigan experienced a net loss of 5,000 people to Florida. Ooops, someone researched to truth!
I currently live in Florida and will soon be moving back to Michigan. Florida sucks.
As a Floridian who moved north almost 20 years ago, if you look at Florida politics it's not friendly for young families or many professionals.
Florida has plenty of diversity, too.
What politics aren’t family or professional friendly?
Not for libtards maybe..... But nothing is friendly, safe or fits their mental capacity......
@ There's reasons we call him DeSatan, and the rest are no better.
lol😂grew up in Michigan. Never go back!
Michigan needs a Publix.
We have a lot of great grocery stores
publix is expensive.
@@bradbradshaw-i4nKroger is more expensive than Publix