And if you can even find home insurance you can afford, good luck getting them to pay out for just about anything that could happen to your home. Their legislature will either completely ignore this problem (like now), or pass a law forbidding mortgage lenders from requiring homeowner insurance. If that happens, Florida borrowers can expect mortgage rates to resemble those of payday lenders.
I left Floriduhh 20 years ago, and have never looked back. Lived there for 35 years, and saw Pinellas County on the West Coast go from a nice, laid-back area with lots of open space, beautiful beaches and friendly people to an overbuilt, noisy, overpopulated, mass city with collapsing infrastructure, high prices, miserable traffic, and more.
School shootings. An inferior school curriculum. Increasing number of hurricanes. Hostile business environment. Coral reefs dying from the effects of climate change. Burmese pythons earing up everything in the Everglades. Come to Florida ….
Back when Native American genocide was practiced, Native people were driven to the then wastelands in the country. As Native Americans made the lands work for them the lands became desired and treaties were broken. President Jackson thought Florida to be what some of it looks like today, a weather ravaged wasteland. The same happened in tornado ravaged Oklahoma, inhospitable South Dakota and many other ‘wastelands’.
B 8671 9 months ago
huh???
cdward 9 months ago
In Fairness, Florida is becoming an increasingly bad bet. And what else is insurance if not gambling?
oldchas 9 months ago
I like the Don Martin floppy toes. And yes, Florida is a bad place to set up a homeowners insurance business.
akachman Premium Member 9 months ago
The insurance canary in the vulnerbale states. Danger, danger, Will Robinson. Climate change is real.
phritzg Premium Member 9 months ago
And if you can even find home insurance you can afford, good luck getting them to pay out for just about anything that could happen to your home. Their legislature will either completely ignore this problem (like now), or pass a law forbidding mortgage lenders from requiring homeowner insurance. If that happens, Florida borrowers can expect mortgage rates to resemble those of payday lenders.
Zebrastripes 9 months ago
Ronny ruined Florida! People are fleeing elsewhere to retire!
piper_gilbert 9 months ago
Basically, live in Florida at your own risk.
Masterskrain Premium Member 9 months ago
I left Floriduhh 20 years ago, and have never looked back. Lived there for 35 years, and saw Pinellas County on the West Coast go from a nice, laid-back area with lots of open space, beautiful beaches and friendly people to an overbuilt, noisy, overpopulated, mass city with collapsing infrastructure, high prices, miserable traffic, and more.
mourdac Premium Member 9 months ago
School shootings. An inferior school curriculum. Increasing number of hurricanes. Hostile business environment. Coral reefs dying from the effects of climate change. Burmese pythons earing up everything in the Everglades. Come to Florida ….
The Lone Panda & Tonto 9 months ago
Marty 2 Bulls must have read MAD magazine. He likes to draw the feet folded over, the way Don Martin did.
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Alberta Oil Premium Member 9 months ago
Can’t blame the insurance companies for bailing. Insuring folk who insist on building in/on a floodplain, is a suckers bet
ncorgbl 9 months ago
Back when Native American genocide was practiced, Native people were driven to the then wastelands in the country. As Native Americans made the lands work for them the lands became desired and treaties were broken. President Jackson thought Florida to be what some of it looks like today, a weather ravaged wasteland. The same happened in tornado ravaged Oklahoma, inhospitable South Dakota and many other ‘wastelands’.
Radish the wordsmith 9 months ago
Proof of global warming, you can’t get fire insurance for your house.
Free Radical 9 months ago
Florida, where straight, white, republican, christian, retirees go to die
jvscanlan Premium Member 9 months ago
Dumping their costs back on the taxpayers yet again