Florida isn't that much different. So will you be working? If not, you will NOT be getting those savings. So if you are retired, you better have a lot of money. Sounds like you do.
And I don't know the details of the WEALTH tax. How much money do you have to have to have to pay that tax? Remember if he's not paying that, you have to make up for it. One way or the other their pensions need to be funded. If Bezos isn't paying for it you are.
My Father was an Engineer. Cleveland was an Engineering town. He moved the family there while I was in the Amry so that's where I went after I was discharged.
Cleveland didn't fall apart, it was taken apart. No matter who and why, but it was The Usual Suspects.
I saw it coming in 1977 and I moved to Florida. Not because I had a 'Tahiti Complex'. No way. I had just spent 2 years in Viet Nam. Talk about Tropical Weather and beautiful beaches?
I moved to Florida because there were jobs here. Because it was a 'growth' area. Because it was sane.
Jimmy Carter and dimocrap FILTH came up with the Mandatory Minimum Age of 21 to buy alcohol and the 55 MPH Speed Limit (two of the dumbest fucking ideas in human history, but then again, they Were dimocraps) and I remember having to use old State roads because Carter had shut down Construction of I-75 to get Florida to succumb.
See, down here, you could drink and drive at the time. At 18. They had Drive Up Windows where you could order a drink while in your car and continue on.
dimocrap scum couldn't stand the fact that, even though we didn't even bother with DUI's our Highway Fatality rate was the lowest in the Country. Florida still told Carter and his IDIOT dimocrap pals to go fuck their pet airedale.
We lost eventually. I think we got a dimocrap scum gubner maybe. Dunno, don't care.
Anyway. People shouldn't move here for the weather, IMO. I didn't. In fact, I hate the heat. HATE it. Despise it. When I was younger, my Wife and I were/are both Certified Divers and we had a decent fishing boat that worked well for diving and we'd get out on the water, go 20-30 miles out and enjoy life. Or go to the Keys. Which, you can't even do that anymore except on the Key West Express out of FM Beach. The Vomit Express. Not that bad, really. 3-4 hours from here. You really don't want drive it
Buit we're older now and you can't get near a Boat Ramp. It's a pig fight. Muscle geeks, gym rats on their useless muscle boats, Yankees that never owned a boat, young couples without a clue, and, if they did, had no idea what they were doing on the Gulf of Mexico. They drag their big, fat, stupid Cabin or Sedans down here from New Yawk and discover that they were useless. They are.
Old FLorida is gone. Florida is now, just a Giant Suburb. It sucks, mostly.
But, if you're young(ish) there's still no better place to live and raise children. And the reason why is simple..... We don't put up with scum of the Earth dimocrap FILTH politicians. Not in the civilized parts of Florida. Lauderdale does NOT qualify. Not being a dikk but of all the places to live in Florida, Lauderdale is near the bottom of my list. Right behind Evergaldes City.