Being a homeowner and having a house in the suburbs used to equal financial security for the middle class in America. But that’s no longer the case for some people in Miami-Dade County.
For at least one family — and, if the statistics tell us anything, many others — the cost of living and sky-high property insurance premiums are driving them to make the difficult decision to give up on Florida.
That’s the situation Jorge Garcia and his family find themselves facing. The cost of homeowners insurance and everything, from taxes to food, are the catalysts for the family’s plan to put the West Kendall house where they’ve lived for 20 years on the market in March. They plan to move to Concord, a suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina, by summertime…