Affordability and the high cost of living in Florida are issues that WPTV has covered for years. This week, we spoke with a local couple who decided to leave the Sunshine State.
About 700 miles from Palm Beach County, Rene Barajas and Sydney Buckley found their dream home in Greenville, South Carolina.”There was no single family, even starter home, that was within our budget,” Buckley said, referring to their brief South Florida home search before pivoting north.
Young renters leaving Florida in hopes of affording a home
Buckley outlined why they finally decided to make the move.
“We started looking seriously at homes in the Carolinas and seeing how much more affordable they were, even with state taxes and new things you have to pay for here, it still comes out to be much less money.”…