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Originally Posted by eschaton
There's really no draw for out-of-state working-age folks with college degrees to move to Florida. The state has a really unimpressive set of public and private universities. There's a few notable "College towns" like Gainesville, but there's no chance of them taking off like somewhere like the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill triangle or Madison, WI. Unlike somewhere like TX or even SC there hasn't been an attempt to poach white-collar office jobs from the north as well. Really the economy is just tourism and catering to retirees.
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What about money laundering and real estate speculation?