Boat show visitors come for yachts, but end up buying homes in this booming Florida city

With the fall sun shining, clear skies overhead and some of the world’s most impressive yachts bobbing gently on South Florida’s calm blue waters, the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show (FLIBS) doesn’t just attract people to buy boats — it tempts them to join a years-long migration of wealth and population.

“The great thing is that people sometimes who come here for the first time thinking they’re going to buy a boat, and they end up buying a condo, or they end up buying a home, because they realize the experience down here is so unmatched by any other place they’ve come to visit or even live in themselves,” Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis told Fox News Digital…

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