Valuetainment - Why I Moved to Florida

00:00:00.120 It is true.

00:00:01.120 As of 11 weeks ago, I decided to move myself, my family, my two dogs, as well as Valuetainment

00:00:05.880 off to Florida, specifically South Florida.

00:00:09.080 And today I'm going to answer to you why, out of all the places I could have gone to,

00:00:13.680 I could have gone to North Dakota, I could have gone to Wyoming, I could have gone to

00:00:17.680 the great state of Montana.

00:00:19.520 Why Florida?

00:00:20.520 We're going to talk about it today.

00:00:26.160 So I've got to give you the back story before I tell you why I moved to Florida.

00:00:28.680 So I'm like a gypsy.

00:00:30.440 My dad calls me a gypsy because in Armenian they say , meaning you can't

00:00:35.500 sit still in one place.

00:00:36.940 I lived 10 years in Iran.

00:00:38.620 I lived 18 months in Germany at a refugee camp.

00:00:41.740 I lived six years in Glendale, California.

00:00:44.240 Then I lived nine months in South Carolina, Columbia.

00:00:47.120 Then I lived in Kentucky, Tennessee for a couple of years, back to LA for 21 years, Dallas

00:00:51.940 for five years, and now South Florida for the last 11 weeks.

00:00:55.320 So why did I go from specifically California to Texas to Florida?

00:01:00.780 So let's talk about the move from California to Texas.

00:01:03.640 When I left California, I wrote a love letter to California.

00:01:06.720 It looked like this.

00:01:07.720 If you want to read the whole thing, you can read it all the way at the bottom.

00:01:09.820 I'll leave the link for you to read it.

00:01:12.120 I wrote why I'm leaving California.

00:01:14.080 I also wrote what I think California needs to do.

00:01:16.660 This letter was written probably in 2016, February 1st, give or take.

00:01:22.640 But I explained why I was moving to Texas.

00:01:25.120 And these were my reasons on moving to Texas when I wrote this five years ago.

00:01:29.620 So my number one reason was entrepreneurship.

00:01:31.760 And there was an article at the time that came out in 2016 that said it was by CNBC ranking

00:01:36.280 California 50th for business friendliness.

00:01:38.980 I wanted to go to a little bit more of a friendly place for entrepreneurs.

00:01:42.560 That was Texas.

00:01:43.560 Four Seasons, my kids enjoy Christmas, we wanted to move there for the Four Seasons.

00:01:48.000 Southern hospitality, the service in Texas is fantastic.

00:01:51.040 The people are so friendly.

00:01:52.880 Cowboys and the Texas Rangers, I've always been a big Texas Rangers fan.

00:01:55.920 Then you got cost of gas, it was $1.58 at the time in Texas versus $2.58 at the time in

00:02:02.060 California.

00:02:03.060 Then taxes.

00:02:04.060 California is a lot of taxes.

00:02:05.060 Let's face it, it's the worst in America in Texas.

00:02:07.920 And Texas was the seventh best state at the time in Texas.

00:02:11.560 It wasn't easy to travel anywhere in the country due to its airports.

00:02:14.300 Cost of living was great.

00:02:16.000 Traffic was different than California.

00:02:17.840 And obviously a great place to make contact for business in the state of Texas.

00:02:22.380 So that's my reason why I moved to Texas.

00:02:23.860 So now the question, because Pat, if you love Texas so much, why Florida?

00:02:27.760 Why would you go from Texas to Florida?

00:02:29.440 And I'm going to answer that to you.

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00:02:37.660 So let me get right into it.

00:02:38.800 Why did I move to Florida from Texas?

00:02:41.000 It's kind of confusing, right?

00:02:42.000 Let me explain it to you.

00:02:43.240 About a year and a half ago, we're sitting there saying, long term, what do we want to

00:02:46.800 raise our kids, right?

00:02:48.600 All my friends are in California, and I'm a big friend, relationship, friendship.

00:02:52.200 I love my community, LA.

00:02:53.660 I grew up in Glendale, Granada Hills, Northridge, you know, Chats Ward, Woodland Hills.

00:02:59.240 That's my area.

00:03:00.240 That's my stomping ground.

00:03:01.240 I know the people there have a lot of contacts.

00:03:03.020 I want to go back there, right?

00:03:04.080 I went to Glendale High School, but my wife and I were sitting there saying, long term,

00:03:08.060 if we could live anywhere for the rest of our lives, because we've moved 11 times in

00:03:11.460 the last 11 years, where would it be?

00:03:14.260 So we put Newport Beach at the top.

00:03:16.200 We're going to go live in Newport Beach.

00:03:17.940 Love Newport Beach.

00:03:18.940 It was a house I always had my eyes on.

00:03:20.980 It was on a market.

00:03:21.980 It's a beautiful home.

00:03:22.980 It was a former home of a guy that used to mentor me 20 years ago when I was 21 years old.

00:03:27.880 I wanted to buy that house.

00:03:29.080 It had some sentiment to me, and I wanted to buy that house, and I said, how about Greenwich?

00:03:33.360 Because if we're going to run a media company, it'd be great if we're in New York.

00:03:36.320 So I looked at these two homes in Greenwich.

00:03:37.840 I said, I'd like to go to Greenwich.

00:03:40.080 Finance meets media meets investments.

00:03:42.620 There's so many different things you can do in New York.

00:03:44.720 Then I looked briefly at Nashville, Tennessee.

00:03:46.320 I used to live there.

00:03:47.320 I love living in Nashville, Tennessee.

00:03:48.880 Maybe we stay in Texas.

00:03:50.320 Those were our options.

00:03:51.320 Then the pandemic hit.

00:03:52.320 The moment the pandemic hit, we were kind of sitting around saying, now what do we do?

00:03:55.720 We've never experienced states shutting down.

00:03:58.440 You've got to put a mask on.

00:03:59.440 I was like, what are you talking about?

00:04:01.000 This has never happened to me before.

00:04:02.860 And then we watched all the governors and states on how they handled it.

00:04:06.360 The way California handled it, it was an atrocity.

00:04:10.340 Homelessness went to the roof in the state of California.

00:04:12.780 I went back to visit LA, where my dad used to live in Granada Hills.

00:04:17.020 I could not believe how many homeless people were around that petted park.

00:04:21.340 There was no homeless folks at Petted Park.

00:04:23.860 And then my sister would send me videos of streets.

00:04:25.840 I'm like, there's no way this is true.

00:04:26.960 When I went to a party one time in LA, during that time, during COVID, by the way.

00:04:31.340 And I went and drove for two, three hours, just looking at what's going on in Venice

00:04:35.780 and LA, in Beverly Hills, bridges, freeways.

00:04:38.960 I'm like, I've never seen this before.

00:04:40.520 Then stats came out about the state of California.

00:04:42.800 Did you know, according to HUD, in America we have a total of 580,000 homeless people.

00:04:47.760 Give or take, add another 50,000 to 100,000 in the last 12 months, but around 580.

00:04:51.960 Did you know out of the 580,000 homeless people in America, 160 of them live in California.

00:04:56.340 Did you know out of the 160 that live in California, 60 plus live in LA.

00:05:00.720 In the last 12 months, that 60,000 in LA has gone up 20,000 of homelessness in California.

00:05:06.940 And they don't protect the small business owners.

00:05:08.520 They don't protect the guy that's running a shop.

00:05:10.780 They don't care if you can lay out on the front and customers don't want to go there

00:05:13.720 because they're afraid.

00:05:14.720 They're taking care of the homeless folks who are veterans that don't have a place to

00:05:17.620 stay at.

00:05:18.620 No investment back into that.

00:05:19.940 And I'm sitting there saying, I don't know if it's going to be California.

00:05:23.040 So California went off the list, simply because of homelessness.

00:05:27.480 And we looked at Greenwich.

00:05:28.600 We've lived in cold different places.

00:05:29.960 It was actually a very basic decision.

00:05:31.820 Then we saw how Cuomo was making a decision in the state of New York.

00:05:35.660 I watched how much wealth New York lost, nearly $350 billion of wealth that left New York

00:05:41.140 to other places.

00:05:43.600 And then we saw the increase of population going in a couple different states.

00:05:48.740 Texas was growing, Florida was growing, and we saw how Texas and Florida handled the entire

00:05:52.360 pandemic.

00:05:53.360 Texas, they played a little bit more protecting their small business owners.

00:05:56.520 California said, no, you cannot.

00:05:57.840 They're giving fines, snitch on people if people are partying outside and they're outside.

00:06:01.800 So California's breeding a snitching environment. 0.98

00:06:04.180 And New York was, no, restaurants close, restaurants close, restaurants close.

00:06:07.400 New York is all about restaurants.

00:06:08.760 A bunch of beautiful restaurants that we used to go to shut down.

00:06:11.740 And then I'm noticing Disneyland closes in California, but Disney World stays open in Florida.

00:06:15.880 I said, hey, we've got Florida to the option.

00:06:17.880 We looked at Tampa, and then we looked at the other side with Fort Lauderdale, Boca area,

00:06:21.980 Miami area, and we made our decision.

00:06:23.920 So that's the whole process.

00:06:24.920 And now let me give you my specific reasons why we chose the state of Florida.

00:06:29.080 So taxes.

00:06:30.080 I like states with no taxes.

00:06:30.880 And that only leaves me with a few of them.

00:06:31.880 I think it's only seven of them, Nevada being one of them, Washington being another one,

00:06:36.020 Tennessee being another one, then you've got Texas, you've got Florida, and you've got

00:06:41.080 a couple others out there, right?

00:06:42.340 So amongst those seven states that are no taxes, I wanted to know which one offers the

00:06:47.260 best lifestyle.

00:06:48.960 Florida became the place where I wanted to be, to not have any kind of state taxes where

00:06:52.940 you can go out there and create commerce, create business, and you don't have to pay the

00:06:56.080 state taxes.

00:06:57.080 The payroll's already going up, corporate taxes are already going up, I don't want to

00:07:00.700 also have state taxes on top of wealth tax, corporate tax, capital gains tax, income tax.

00:07:08.200 At least let me have one of them, and that's state tax.

00:07:10.920 So Florida, you don't have any state taxes.

00:07:13.520 That's point number one.

00:07:14.520 Second thing about Florida was lifestyle.

00:07:16.040 I kind of wanted to have the lifestyle type of an opportunity, which means if I want to

00:07:18.960 get a boat, if I want to get a yacht, if I want to take my kids fishing, if I want

00:07:22.800 to, middle of the day, take my kids to the beach and come back and we swim for two hours

00:07:26.380 and come back to the office.

00:07:27.860 It's literally a quarter of a mile this way.

00:07:30.000 I go, I get on, I'm good, I come back to the office.

00:07:32.100 I want to be able to do that.

00:07:33.380 I want to be able to say, hey, let's go have dinner.

00:07:35.920 Last week, dinner on a yacht with a person in Palm Beach, you've got a 132-foot yacht,

00:07:40.780 we have nice food, I like nice caviar, enjoyed it, went back to the house, it was good to

00:07:44.260 go.

00:07:45.260 So I wanted the lifestyle part, all sports.

00:07:47.380 I got Disney World two hours away, Universal Studios a couple hours away.

00:07:51.340 If I want to go to Naples, 128 miles away, if I want to go, and all this stuff lifestyle-wise

00:07:57.700 was a beautiful place to be, food, restaurants, yacht, ocean, beach, all of that stuff were

00:08:04.820 lifestyle.

00:08:05.820 Florida offered that Texas didn't offer.

00:08:08.380 So we chose number two as lifestyle.

00:08:10.500 Next one was economy.

00:08:11.500 I want a state that's got a very strong economy.

00:08:13.380 Obviously, if we look at data, at the top of economy in states is California's number one,

00:08:18.820 then you've got Texas, then you've got New York, then you've got Florida.

00:08:22.340 I've lived in three out of those four states, the only one I haven't lived in is New York.

00:08:25.500 I've lived in California, Texas, and Florida now.

00:08:28.580 So I wanted to be in a place that's economically doing better.

00:08:31.940 Why?

00:08:32.940 Because the pool of talent of who I can recruit is higher.

00:08:36.160 Out of those four, lifestyle-wise, California and Florida are probably best, then I would

00:08:40.820 say New York, then Texas.

00:08:42.780 Then between California and Florida, I chose Florida when it comes down to economy.

00:08:47.620 Because I can recruit talent to Florida.

00:08:50.200 If I tell somebody from New York, hey, I'm growing a business in the state of Florida,

00:08:53.500 I can recruit folks from New York to Florida.

00:08:55.800 I can recruit folks from Chicago to Florida.

00:08:58.000 I can recruit folks from Detroit to Florida.

00:09:00.800 It's going to be a little bit of a different place if I'm telling people to move to different

00:09:03.420 places.

00:09:04.420 But I know I could recruit talent to the state of Florida due to its economy.

00:09:10.040 Next thing was about finding a place where I can also recruit my friends and family.

00:09:13.180 Because I'm not moving to Florida to just be by myself.

00:09:16.360 I want to go out there and recruit my favorite people in the world, talent, friends, family,

00:09:22.920 the people I enjoy their company the most.

00:09:26.000 I'm coming for you.

00:09:27.080 I'm going to come recruit you.

00:09:28.440 I want you in the state of Florida, right?

00:09:31.360 Like Uncle Sam says, but I want my friends and family to be in this great state of Florida,

00:09:35.400 to enjoy it with me.

00:09:36.940 So whether some of my friends who are extremely wealthy and they want to get a $10 million

00:09:40.500 house or a $20 million house underwater, yacht parked in the back, gated community, country

00:09:45.220 club on the side, and you can go in with your boat and go have dinner somewhere and come

00:09:49.660 back.

00:09:50.660 You have that here.

00:09:51.660 But also, affordability when it comes down to housing, you also have that here.

00:09:56.500 Did you know when it comes down to price of homes in the state of Florida where it ranks

00:09:59.940 amongst other states?

00:10:00.580 Let me give you some states that are more expensive to buy a house in than the state

00:10:05.380 of Florida.

00:10:06.380 Connecticut, Arizona, Virginia, Nevada, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Oregon, Colorado, Washington,

00:10:14.540 Massachusetts, and Hawaii cost more to buy a home there than the great state of Florida.

00:10:21.900 And yes, California is the highest if you take Hawaii out.

00:10:25.640 They are the most expensive place in America to own real estate.

00:10:30.700 And since 1990, California has lost 3.5 million people that have left California.

00:10:34.900 On top of that, during the pandemic, San Francisco took the biggest hit of people leaving San Francisco.

00:10:40.960 In Texas, they show registration of how many people change their IDs, because when you go

00:10:44.540 to Texas, you show your ID of whatever state you left, and they kind of book it to see where

00:10:48.760 you're coming from.

00:10:49.880 San Francisco grew some 50% from San Fran to Texas.

00:10:57.420 The number is between 32% to 50% of growth from there, as well as Florida.

00:11:02.060 People are leaving these places.

00:11:03.720 So I wanted a place where affordability, if you're living in a half a million dollar home

00:11:07.040 in Texas, you buy a half a million dollar home in Florida, it's going to be a nicer

00:11:10.660 home than you have in the state of California versus Florida.

00:11:14.060 So affordability, cost of living, what you need to do out there is still affordable in the

00:11:18.980 state of Florida.

00:11:19.980 Do you remember when I said I'm living in a place where I want to recruit my friends

00:11:22.520 and family over?

00:11:23.520 I also want to recruit some of the older family, because sometimes when you're recruiting friends

00:11:26.460 and family, first thing they say is, what do I do with my father?

00:11:30.680 He's 78.

00:11:32.160 What do I do with my mother?

00:11:33.220 She helps me with the kids.

00:11:34.720 She's 75.

00:11:36.100 What can I do to have her leave the state of California, or New York, or Chicago, or somewhere 0.77

00:11:40.100 else?

00:11:41.100 Well, here's a basic stat for you.

00:11:43.060 Do you know what's the number one state in America for retirees, where people go to retire?

00:11:48.200 It's the state of Florida.

00:11:49.300 You know why?

00:11:50.420 Because it's beautiful for them to take a walk outside amongst other people.

00:11:54.440 They make friends.

00:11:56.260 So many boomers here.

00:11:57.440 So many people to have friends and make friends with.

00:12:00.040 So yes, it's also a wonderful place, not only for you if you're in your 20s, 30s, not only

00:12:04.020 for those of you that are 40s, 50s in a hunt.

00:12:06.200 It's also great for those in their 60s, 70s, and 80s to live in the state of Florida.

00:12:10.900 Next one is weather.

00:12:11.900 I like the fact that I can go outside.

00:12:13.580 It'll rain for 30 minutes.

00:12:14.580 30 minutes later, it's 82 degrees.

00:12:16.200 It's beautiful.

00:12:17.200 You're enjoying it.

00:12:18.200 Now don't get me wrong.

00:12:19.200 I've been here during the summer.

00:12:20.200 It gets very humid.

00:12:21.200 And I'm talking really, really humid.

00:12:23.100 But I'm from Iran.

00:12:24.020 I'm kind of used to the heat.

00:12:25.380 And I kind of like the heat.

00:12:26.540 And I lived in California.

00:12:27.700 Not only in California, I lived in Chatsworth.

00:12:29.780 Have you been to Chatsworth during the summer?

00:12:31.600 Have you seen what happens in Chatsworth during the summer when it gets to 110 degrees during

00:12:36.140 the summer in Chatsworth?

00:12:38.140 Yes.

00:12:39.140 I was able to make it through that so the heat doesn't bother me.

00:12:41.580 Going to negative 20 is what bothers me.

00:12:43.940 At 110 degrees, I can tolerate it, although it doesn't get to 110 here.

00:12:47.020 I don't even think it cracks 100.

00:12:48.780 It's 92, 95, any of that.

00:12:50.600 That's the weather.

00:12:51.600 Now, some people come back and say, Pat, how about hurricanes?

00:12:54.600 You're right.

00:12:55.600 How about hurricanes?

00:12:56.680 But in any state I live in, I've got a natural disaster.

00:13:00.080 In California, I've got earthquakes.

00:13:01.320 I've been through the 94 Northridge earthquake for 45 seconds when I was in Van Nuys, living

00:13:07.320 in that apartment with my dad on Bay Sit.

00:13:10.340 And the building was going like this for 45 seconds, freeways dropping.

00:13:15.980 And the one thing about earthquakes, they don't give you a warning.

00:13:18.480 They just say, poof, we're here, shaking your house, right?

00:13:22.600 Then people say, what about hurricanes, though?

00:13:24.660 What about tornadoes?

00:13:25.660 Texas.

00:13:26.660 I've been through tornadoes multiple times before in my lifetime, and they just come.

00:13:30.580 You go this way, it comes this way.

00:13:32.120 You go the way it goes, you can't get on a plane because it's going to the airport.

00:13:36.380 Tornadoes are funny, and like this, they get started with no warning.

00:13:39.320 The warning you've got is maybe a couple hours, right?

00:13:41.900 I've been through a war in Iran.

00:13:43.720 We've been bombed on.

00:13:45.080 Cold weather is pretty much nonstop.

00:13:46.840 If you live through Chicago weather, it's pretty bad to live through it.

00:13:50.200 And then you have hurricanes.

00:13:51.200 You know what's the good thing about hurricanes and the bad thing about hurricanes?

00:13:53.340 When it comes, it's pretty ugly.

00:13:54.340 And if you look at what happened to Homestead years ago, it ain't pretty.

00:13:57.400 A lot of damage.

00:13:58.780 The numbers are terrible.

00:13:59.780 It was an atrocity when it took place.

00:14:02.360 So developers have learned how to develop stronger buildings here.

00:14:06.560 The homes built in California would never make it here in Florida, just so you know that.

00:14:10.140 They don't build homes here on wood.

00:14:11.580 Maybe the older homes, older ones, but the newer ones are stronger.

00:14:14.540 But the thing about hurricanes is, you have two to five days' warning to choose to leave.

00:14:20.300 You can go to a different place.

00:14:21.620 You don't have to stay here.

00:14:22.900 So it at least gives you a warning and say, hey, a crisis is coming your way, move if you

00:14:28.820 want your chances to be lower, you're being hit.

00:14:30.840 And then you move.

00:14:31.660 You have that ability.

00:14:33.040 But the reality of it is natural crisis doesn't go away no matter where you and I live.

00:14:38.120 Some people would even call the homelessness in the state of California as a natural crisis,

00:14:42.580 because it affects the economy in the state of California.

00:14:45.540 But it is what it is.

00:14:46.540 So that's the part with weather as far as Florida goes.

00:14:48.920 Next one is politics.

00:14:49.960 What do I mean by politics?

00:14:50.960 Florida is as purple as it gets.

00:14:52.880 Which means what?

00:14:53.880 You've got Democrats, you've got Republicans.

00:14:54.880 I live in a community where one yacht comes by, massive flag of Trump today, and then the

00:15:01.120 next flag comes by and they've got a flag of Obama or Biden.

00:15:05.980 Mostly Biden, you'll see, right?

00:15:07.880 Trump-Biden.

00:15:08.880 Community.

00:15:09.880 One's got a Biden flag, one's got a Trump flag.

00:15:12.980 Trump flags are everywhere, you'll see Biden's flag here and there.

00:15:15.680 People have debates, some are Democrats, some are Republicans, it's purple.

00:15:19.600 The discussion is there.

00:15:20.860 They're willing to have that conversation.

00:15:22.800 If you in the state of California, if they find out you vote Republican, they want to tell

00:15:28.740 everybody.

00:15:29.740 If you in the state of New York, it's also the same.

00:15:33.220 Here it's welcoming.

00:15:34.480 You're a Democrat?

00:15:35.480 Great.

00:15:36.480 You're a Republican?

00:15:37.480 Great.

00:15:38.480 You're an Independent?

00:15:39.480 Great.

00:15:40.480 You're a Libertarian?

00:15:41.480 Great.

00:15:42.480 It's Florida.

00:15:43.480 Next one is regulation.

00:15:44.720 If you're a business owner, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

00:15:46.920 State of California, regulation's a little rough.

00:15:48.600 New York, rough.

00:15:49.600 Some of the parts, Illinois, Michigan, rough.

00:15:52.300 Florida regulation benefits to creators.

00:15:54.200 So if you're a creator, state of Florida is very attractive for creators.

00:15:58.080 Mayor Suarez sent a tweet the other day talking about how he can help in Miami, how he can help

00:16:02.800 to bring more of Silicon Valley to Miami.

00:16:05.880 He is working with Elon Musk to want to bring more traffic here.

00:16:09.220 Let's build.

00:16:10.220 He is wanting to be innovative.

00:16:11.920 He was saying a couple nights ago at an event we were at at Soho House, he says, I'm about

00:16:16.040 having to pay the least amount of taxes for you guys, the job creators.

00:16:19.540 I want to create an environment where you guys can grow and develop new business.

00:16:22.960 And he went through the whole thing with tech, crypto, creative.

00:16:25.520 He wants to bring Silicon Valley here.

00:16:27.400 It's a type of an environment where a business owner can excel and grow.

00:16:31.760 This is why so many of the major financial firms in New York City are moving to Florida,

00:16:39.040 because they're realizing this could be the potential future hub of the financial industry,

00:16:44.000 the way it's going.

00:16:45.000 Regulation, a very big part of my decision to come to Florida.

00:16:47.660 Cultural. 0.79

00:16:48.660 Culture to me is very big.

00:16:49.660 And what I mean by culture is I like every ethnicity.

00:16:52.340 I don't care if you're white, black, Mexican, Salvadorian, Guatemalan, Honduras, you know, Bolivian,

00:16:59.280 Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Asian, Filipino, Armenian, Assyrian, Russian, I'm going to miss 0.98

00:17:06.240 a lot of them.

00:17:07.240 I don't care what you're, I want my kids to go to a place where they meet everybody.

00:17:11.960 Because my kids are a mutt, because their dad is half Armenian, half Assyrian, born and 1.00

00:17:16.960 raised in Iran.

00:17:18.260 They look a little bit different.

00:17:19.500 They don't look like a white boy. 0.95

00:17:20.700 They don't look like a Middle Eastern. 0.99

00:17:21.700 So it's kind of like, I kind of don't know what nationality you are, my kids, right?

00:17:26.180 And I like culture.

00:17:27.280 I like culture from all walks of life.

00:17:28.880 So I wanted to raise my kids in a place where they get a flavor of culture.

00:17:32.540 This place has got a lot of culture.

00:17:34.360 The other thing is travel.

00:17:35.360 If I live in the state of California, if I want to travel California to west, I've got

00:17:38.940 five and a half hours to go to Hawaii, right?

00:17:40.860 So that's still a five and a half hour flight, right?

00:17:43.720 But if I live in Florida, if I want to go to Cuba, 45 minutes away, one hour away.

00:17:48.020 If I want to go to Bimini in a yacht, a couple hours away, in a yacht, right?

00:17:53.000 If I want to go to London, eight hours away.

00:17:55.400 If I want to go to, you know, Paris is right.

00:17:57.940 If I want to go to New York, two and a half hours.

00:17:59.820 If I want to go to Toronto, three hours.

00:18:01.820 If I want to go to DC, a couple hours.

00:18:03.380 If I want to go to, it's everywhere, right, where I want to go.

00:18:06.740 If I want to go to the Caribbean, if I want to go to Mexico, if I want to go to Belize,

00:18:10.880 if I want to go to a bunch of these different places, it's right here to travel.

00:18:16.220 It's not far.

00:18:17.220 East gives me more options than West does when I live in the state of California.

00:18:23.820 The next one is kind of tricky, and let me explain to you what I mean by this.

00:18:27.160 So think about if you're most people, oh, from Europe, they want to go vacation to where?

00:18:31.760 Miami.

00:18:33.240 People from California, oh, I really want to go party in Miami.

00:18:35.760 You know, I really want to go to Panama City in Florida for whatever, summer, for Fourth

00:18:42.000 of July.

00:18:43.000 Memorial.

00:18:44.000 Okay, great.

00:18:45.000 You know, I really want to go to Naples.

00:18:46.120 I really want to go to Orlando for Disney.

00:18:49.260 Tourists come here nonstop.

00:18:50.260 It's a big number.

00:18:51.260 It's 130, 140 million people that come here, pre-COVID.

00:18:54.380 Tourism is high.

00:18:55.380 Which means what?

00:18:56.380 There's always an excuse to get people to come and visit you.

00:18:59.760 Friends and family would be willing to come and visit you because you're in a vacation place.

00:19:03.620 You're living in a vacation state, if that makes any sense.

00:19:07.680 That's also California.

00:19:08.680 That's also New York.

00:19:09.680 Those are two benefits they also have as well.

00:19:11.480 But so is Miami.

00:19:12.740 It's a vacation hub.

00:19:14.020 So it's very easy to know that.

00:19:16.100 Imagine waking up every morning and you live in a vacation hub.

00:19:20.680 So you're on a vacation, yet you're working.

00:19:22.680 It's kind of confusing, right?

00:19:23.860 Like you're working in a place where people go to vacate.

00:19:26.940 It's an interesting dynamic.

00:19:28.860 I don't know if it makes sense to you, but it's a beautiful place to live while the rest of

00:19:32.380 the world comes here for vacation.

00:19:33.940 So I'm going to think about it.

00:19:35.100 So those are my reasons why I chose to move to Florida.

00:19:37.020 I'm not telling you it's an end all be all.

00:19:38.260 I'm just telling you it's why I chose to move to Florida.

00:19:41.700 Some people may be saying, I want to go to Texas.

00:19:43.440 Remember, the whole thing about life is sequencing.

00:19:46.180 This chest piece that's sitting behind me, it's about what moves you make in what order.

00:19:49.600 I lived in Texas for five years.

00:19:51.880 Best thing I did, Texas treated me royally because I was three hours from California, three 0.79

00:19:55.780 hours from Washington.

00:19:56.780 I could go to Chicago like this, New York in three hours, Miami in three hours.

00:20:00.640 It was a perfect place for me for that five years that I was there.

00:20:03.880 Some of you, Florida may not work for you because if you've got a business in California, that's

00:20:06.960 a 12 hour travel time going back and forth.

00:20:10.240 Some of you may need to stay in California right now at this phase of your life because

00:20:12.820 you're in Hollywood.

00:20:13.820 Entertainment, your job is paying you well.

00:20:15.760 No one's going to pay you a better job, even though you ain't paying taxes in another

00:20:18.940 state.

00:20:19.940 You're making $400,000.

00:20:20.940 You're in another state that may pay you $280,000, but you're not paying state.

00:20:23.880 It may make sense for you to stay where you're staying at.

00:20:25.880 So I'm not sitting here telling you it's end all, be all.

00:20:29.120 I'm just telling you for me, it was a phenomenal place to move today at this phase of my life.

00:20:35.660 And if you're watching the same path, you know you got me thinking about potentially moving

00:20:39.380 to another state.

00:20:40.380 I did a video about ten months ago titled, Ten Reasons Why You Ought to Consider Moving to

00:20:45.160 Another State.

00:20:46.160 If you've never watched this, click over here to watch the video.

00:20:49.580 And on top of that, if you want to read that love letter that I wrote to California five

00:20:54.200 years ago, click over here to read that love letter.

00:20:57.600 Take care everybody.

00:20:58.600 Bye bye.

Valuetainment - April 15, 2021

Why I Moved to Florida

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