Beautiful!
I'm leaning towards relocating to FL. Wife is not on board with that
I spent 15 years of my life in Jacksonville, FL. October thru May is wonderful. The rest is hot, humid and full of bugs. Mowing your yard is a labor. I have jumped into the pool with glasses, hat, shorts, shoes et.al. just to keep from having heat stroke. Also we are not going to discuss the "can't see ums". They are really small terrorists that can drive anyone crazy trying to trim the shrubs.
Of course Sawnee Cat is going to protest, but what does a darned drill instructor know. He liked to inflect pain!
I love him, but he was a "drill instructor"! At the least he was smart enough to marry a good Kentucky girl.
But Florida, come winter, is good because you can go outside by the pool and enjoy thanksgiving dinner. Winter in Florida is wonderful. Summer in Florida is a labor.
I have lived in Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Texas, Maryland and I have visited 45 of the 50 states. In my book South Central Kentucky has the best climate in the U.S. and Canada. We get some cold, we get some hot and we get some bad weather; however, we get less bad shit than the other places that I have lived and visited. In my life (75 years) I have never lived through a forest fire in Kentucky. I have lived though them in other areas. I spent a year in Texas when I did not see a cloud. I spent two weeks in North Carolina when it was fog.
Bottom line: in 2000 I retired. I could have moved to anywhere in the U.S. I chose Kentucky? Why, other than it being my ancestral home? Taxes are low (total taxes are the 4th lowest in the U.S.). I just came back from a vacation in Tennessee and I was shocked at the 11% sales taxes and it applied on food and everything. Property taxes are low in Kentucky and higher than hell in Texas, Tennessee, Florida, California, et.al.. Kentucky state taxes are 6% but you get all the standard deductions from the federal taxes. In 21 years I have had to pay Kentucky taxes two years. Utilities are some of the lowest in the U.S.
Anyway, this is just my biased opinions, but my opinions are based on facts.