If you're considering Florida as a place to retire and age in place, I would encourage you to think again.

This state has been owned and operated by the Republican Party for more than a generation. Gerrymandering has ensured that Republicans retain a grip on power, and so any "competitive" races are Republicans running against Republicans in closed primaries. And that's a competition about who's most "Republican," which means "like Trump." So we have a legislature with a lot of bullies and bigots.

Mostly the party just hand-picks the candidates, gives them a lot of money and there is no real opposition because... Money. But the money comes from their PACs and that comes from corporations and billionaires, so you wind up with a group of legislators beholden not to their constituents, but their party patrons. The legislature serves the party, not the people.

The state is corrupt, and mean and cruel and incompetent. There are two Floridas, one for the privileged and the other is just ignored. With the insurance debacle, even the privileged are beginning to suffer from the incompetence and corruption.

But the weather is mostly nice (summers are getting hotter), and there's no state income tax. We prefer to fleece the suckers. Er, I mean, tourists.