We have been in Florida now for a year. And let me just tell you, it was a great move. There are certain moves that you make in your life and you consider them for a long time and then you finally do them and it turned out to be the wrong decision. And then there's moving from California to Florida. I have taken to Florida, like a New York Jew, to a retirement home. It is just spectacular. Florida is the best. I understand that there are some people who are very nervous about the weather in Florida during the summer. And yeah, it's really hot, but that's why

you have a pool. You know, we don't have a jacuzzi. Can you believe that? Can you believe we don't have a jacuzzi? And I know that there are some people who think that Florida is just for retirees, And it is absolutely not.

It's getting much, much younger because so many people are moving in.

It's also growing more red.

It's a diverse state with a lot of people of different faiths and different ethnic heritages and a common theme seems to be that they are here for the freedom. COVID drove a lot of people down here for the right reasons. Meanwhile, I went back to California recently and let me just tell you, it ain't great, Bob. I grew up in

L.A. So I'm L.A. boy born and bred. The people in L.A. are just not as nice as the people in Florida, period. And maybe that's because people in L.A. are kind of unhappy. Maybe it's because they're just scraping by because it's very stressful to live in L.A. If you want to afford an apartment, and it's going to cost you a fortune. If you want to have a job in California, you might be

scraping just above living standard. That is not the case in Florida where apartment, it's going to cost you a fortune. If you want to have a job in California, you might be

scraping just above living standard. That is not the case in Florida where people who were renting

apartments in L.A. can buy a house in many parts of Florida. That's not even getting to the economics

of the tax code. Okay, taxes in California are insane. The gas here is like one third less

expensive because we don't have a massive gas tax in the state of Florida.

The living expenses are significantly lower in virtually every major area.

The real estate is increasing in value.

It's still ain't at LA levels.

And then you get to the actual income tax here.

And let me just tell you, there's something really nice about having to pay my quarterly taxes and not send 13% of my money to the California

state government where they proceed to blow it on random crap. So just in terms of pure living

standard, there is no comparison. How good is Florida? Here's how good Florida is. When you're in

LA, you have to figure out what you want to do with your kids every single day. In Florida, it's just

called the outside. We live in a neighborhood where there is no crime.

We live in a neighborhood where there is no serious homeless problem. They're having the kind of childhood that I think many of us did experience back in the 1980s and early 1990s, but seems to have disappeared in major cities like Los Angeles. When my parents came out to L.A., they're not L.A. natives. My parents came out to L.A. in 1979.

And they came out there because they wanted to be part of Hollywood.

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