Miamians don’t need studies, polls or reports to tell them the obvious: That, faced with the high cost of owning or renting a home, they — or somebody they know — have at least considered moving somewhere else.
Now we have some numbers to put that into perspective: In a poll released Monday by Miami-based firm Bendixen & Amandi, 56% of respondents said they have “actively considered” relocating from Miami-Dade County because of the cost of living or “affordability issues.” The survey of 600 registered voters has margin of error of 4 percentage points.
It’s hard to tell how many of those people will actually move out of South Florida, but the Herald Editorial Board has followed the experience of one former Miami-Dade resident who made that difficult choice. When we first wrote about Jorge Garcia, a 60-year-old financial advisor, last July, he was considering selling his home of 20 years in West Kendall to move out of state because of his cost of living, mainly property insurance…