There are many reasons to make a big move here in the United States, no doubt about it. For one thing, many people simply want a change in scenery, as is common once many reach the age of retirement. Looking for something a little bit different in life – or looking to escape cold and frigid winters that can seem to drag on forever and ever – can be a huge reason that people decide to make a big move. Of course, there are other reasons for moving as well, such as moving for work, moving to be closer to family, or even just moving to get situated in a better neighborhood with better school systems and opportunities for your children.
But no matter why you choose to move, it will be important to pick the right place – and the right type of home as well. For many people all throughout the country, the state of Florida is that place. In fact, there are very nearly seven and a half million vacant homes and apartments and condos and townhouses currently available all throughout the state, meaning that you’ll be likely to find the home of your dreams there with relative ease. And as only a scant percentage of these homes are exorbitantly expensive, costing more than $1 million, the affordability of even the larger scale and luxury homes is far better than it would be in other states in this country, where the cost of living has been found to be considerably higher.
And Florida has been growing quite rapidly in recent years. After all, more than 110 million people visit the state over the course of just one year (around 112 million in the year of 2016 alone), and some of these people find that they like it so much that they eventually make the decision to move there on a permanent basis. In addition to this, as many as 1,000 people officially move into Florida from other states – or even other parts of the world – every single day of the year, with the population already having increased by more than 200% since the 1970s, now about 50 years ago, nearly 60.
If you decide to move to Florida, you’ll have to make many of the same decisions that you’d make when looking for a home just about anywhere else in the country, however. For instance, choosing a neighborhood is key. A gated condominium community, for instance, has become a popular option. A gated condominium community allows now only for a greater sense of safety, but such a gated condominium community is likely to feel very much like a community, which is certainly ideal for those people who are looking to get to know their neighbors and maybe even make some real and life long friends.
A gated condominium community is likely to have very high quality luxury condos for sale as well, as it is required for all condos in the state of Florida to be inspected at least once every 40 years, if not even more frequently than that. For many people, this is helpful in reassuring them that their personal condo and their gated condominium community as a whole will stand firm in the face even of the most severe forms of natural disaster, such as the hurricanes that frequent the state during the hurricane season each and every year.
Of course, the average gated condominium community is only ideal if you’re looking to move into a condo, be it a luxury condo for sale or otherwise. If you’re looking for perhaps a little bit more space, Florida also has many new homes to offer the average home seeker. For many people, after all, new homes are far more appealing than ones that have been lived in before and this is likely the case for a number of reasons. For instance, new homes are far less likely to have any preexisting problems in need of immediate fixing, and such homes will also have newer and better appliances to boot. For many people, this makes them more than worth the additional money they might cost at the time of the actual purchase.
