I don't know of anywhere in Florida homes are built with basements. I had once lived in Pensacola about 100 yards from the airport, very near the left edge of this photo. Pensacola has very high cliffs along the bay and the airport even though it's just off the bay it has an elevation of 121' and no one had cellars, but we did have a pool with a diving board. For comparison the Ocala Airport elevation is 89'. I had even lived once about 40 miles north of Atlanta in Cumming, GA which has an elevation of over 1200' and no one had basements. Just guessing you would probably need to go to about Asheville, NC to find basements. Besides the problems with the soil, it's also just the way things have always been done. Like single story ranch homes, masonry block construction, basements not really.
