Florida pay is much lower than other states. GN's start at 18.00 and you can pretty much add 50 cents to a dollar for each additional year of experience depending on type of exp etc. No state tax though so thats good. Housing used to be much less expensive but it has really gone up in the last two years. A home that costed 125,000 two years ago is easily 250,000 now. That sucks because I don't know anyone whose salary doubled.