Statistics sometimes lie
I think you have to remember that a large percentage (I have no idea how large, but certainly not insignificant), of owners bought here before they were retired. I think that skews the numbers.
And even if using census bureau numbers (assuming that means only Florida residents, so at least here 6 mos per year and the vast majority retired), it is subject to how people fill out a census report. Some people probably include income from investments, etc., some their partial year pre-retirement income.
Lots of people probably live on pensions, social security and however much they need to draw from IRAs in any particular year. Or just draw out dividents, which vary year to year. And lots of us early retirees aren't even drawing social security yet, or maybe even all of our pensions.
And I disagree with whomever said you can't live like a king here on $100,000. If you have no mortgage or debt of any kind, you can live very well on far less. I think I'd be hard pressed to spend $100,000, unless we did an awful lot of traveling, or had a shopping problem or something.
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