Kiss my Rebel Ass!

NO ONE : "Can't wait to retire, so I can move up North"

Florida is horrible, full of bad drivers, painful heat and humidity, threatened hurricanes and tornados, wildfires, fire ants, mosquitos and their tropical diseases, lightning capital of the nation, deadly wildlife like alligators in every pond, lurking to eat your pets or even grandma, sharks ready to eat you at the beach, red tide makes it hard to breathe near the beach, plus massive fish kills stink, the drinking water stinks, homeless bums begging on streetcorners, over half the people never lerned to speak English, the rest are rednecks with guns itching for a chance to shoot someone, the rent is too damn high, and over 22 million are trapped on a peninsula who can't escape any further south, or to the east, or to the west because three sides of water surround you. We are full, we can't accept any more carpetbaggers and we can't leave. I was brought here against my will when I was only 5, and now I'm 72 and I can't escape. The unrelenting sunshine attacks your car's uphostery and peels the paint from your house.
No matter who you are, you can find some groups in Florida will hate you. Stay away!

Because the South is generally economically depressed, distressed/repo'd/tax seizure per-acre prices are temptingly lower than the national average and, in many areas, building code enforcement is lax AF if what you're building is strictly for personal use.

Fly the American flag not the traitors flag.
Call yourself a patriot while spitting on their graves.

They just want to be with their own kind...take that any way you want...

Hundreds are moving South from the West Coast, North East, and the Midwest. What "kind" are they? They are refugees from crazy Leftist policies.

Cheaper housing.

Far more are actually moving to the interior West, states like Colorado, Arizona, Nevada...

People are also moving to Florida - SOUTHERN FLORIDA - because beaches and whatnot. They sure ain't moving to Tallahassee and other parts North & rural for reasons I need not explain. Bear in mind, most moves to Florida tend to be temporary, as what initially seems awesome starts getting a tad boring after a while and the values of homes tend to dip rather badly during recessions.
I have a saying since the late 1980s: "Everybody moves to Florida. For 2 years." Or at least somebody they know. I know quite a few, they've come back every time, or moved elsewhere.

The Carolinas & Georgia are pretty decent, but as for the rest of the South, unless you're including Texas (Fort Worth, San Antonio...), "Let's move there" said nobody ever.

People are also moving to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont... for the same reasons, it's cheaper.

In Wilmington, NC they can't build houses fast enough. They are political refugees escaping Leftist policies.

There is a crap ton of people from Cali who mived to Tennessee. I can already feel the heavier traffic from so many people who moved over in the past 2 years.

"The Carolinas & Georgia are pretty decent, but as for the rest of the South, unless you're including Texas (Fort Worth, San Antonio...), "Let's move there" said nobody ever."

Is Wilmington, NC in the vicinity of that?

"In Wilmington, NC they can't build houses fast enough."

But they sure do try, don't they?
What's with all the particle board and sheetrock? And why are houses already falling apart when the family moves in?
Hurricanes and tornadoes like it was confetti, and the Home Depot still doesn't carry bricks and cinder blocks.

Modda, you are just making stuff up. You don't know anything about the different building codes in every Southern state. "Home Depot still doesn't carry bricks and cinder blocks?" That is just a foolish thing to say. You are talking out your ass.

They have building codes? What, as to the grade of particle board they use?

What grade particle board do they use on the West Coast, NY, and Chicago to board up all the shops after looting?

Yeah, I'mma go canoeing in a flooded river valley.

I live in the Bronx. New York.

No extended backwoods families hiding behind trees with guns and a taste for......... pork around here.

Things tend to be a little bit more face to face and hand to hand round these parts,,,

If that's the first thing that comes to your mind, that's the first thing that comes to your mind,,,

OK. So you like the Bronx. Enjoy.

That's some keen observational skills you got there.