Moving To Florida (and Leaving Your Family Behind)

Thanks for sharing. I'm coming up on our move date and thisnis really helpful to hear stories about people that have lived it and how you're doing now. Thank you 🙏

We left Illinois and moved to the southeast June 2022 and thank God everyday!
We were mentally gone for years prior as well. We had trouble making true friends there. People seemed very depressed and sad in Illinois. The horrible weather, the barren landscape, the corruption, all contributed to that. Not one person we knew liked living there and it showed. We worked hard for years sending resume after resume, interview upon interview. It was all worth it.

I have the same exact story as Mikes except I’m from Michigan. I spent 7 years in south beach and 9 years in Fort Lauderdale. Then I moved back to Michigan 5 years ago. The only thing Florida has that’s positive is the heat, everything else is a negative.

Just left Illinois this morning to move to tampa, your video has put my small fears and worries in the dirt. I left for the same reasons and I need to keep reminding myself that and be extremely grateful towards my family for getting me to where I am today too thank you for this video it means more than you know.

I'm 30 years old and in a transition period from moving to California to hopefully Florida. I made a pit stop in Washington DC area living with my parents and I have brought up that I would like to move to Florida soon, but they just kind of brush it off and don't understand why, or they change the subject really quickly. They really like having me around so I think they are worried about losing me or thinking I may go down to Florida and fall flat on my face. I think you are right that you just have to go for it. I am an adult and I can make my own decisions. I love my parents and I am grateful they raised me right as a child, but it's time to do something I want to do as an adult. I am worried about disappointing them and my Grandmother who lives in the DC area, but again, I am an adult and can make my own decisions for what is best for me.

I moved 5000 km away from my mother (77) leaving her alone 4 months ago. It's warm and sunny here and I got a good job but the feeling of guilt is haunting me. I am having a good life here and my mother is having a cold 6 month winter with very little sunshine. And she gets angry now telling me to come back as she needs help. I don't want to go back, I just started my new life. It was very hard. Any advice?

Thank you!

Watching this for the 2nd time. I'm about to leave Illinois and my family here, and moving to St. Augustine. Been a dream for a long time now, but im sitting here wondering if I made the right decision. But I'll never know if I don't try.... and I think I'll be happy where I'm gonna be at. Just gonna miss my mom and dad so much. Thanks to face time I can always see them

Thank you for mentioning that your Family still is a priority in your life. Time with loved ones is often far too short!

I have family in okc but I really want to move somewhere outdoorsy but I’m scared to move far from family

I was born & raised in California but it's too expensive now to raise a family here. Houses in my area are at least 600,000, we can't afford that. So now my husband and I are heading to Texas where my in laws are, leaving everything we've ever known. I'm so afraid but I know my kids deserve a better environment. When they're a bit older we'll consider moving to Colorado, Oregon or Florida.

Hi Michael, I’m 15 and I recently moved from Belgium to Florida. I used to live with my mom in Belgium, but I realized that I wasn’t happy. The weather sucks and I couldn’t really do much do to the many COVID restrictions in Belgium. I eventually decided to move in with my dad, who had moved to the United States a few years prior. I wasn’t sure how my family and friends were going to react, and I was quite scared of doing it because I didn’t want to hurt them. Then I stumbled onto this video in my recommended, and your video inspired me to go through with it and move to Florida to live with my dad. Thanks to you I had the courage to live my life the way I wanted to, thank you so much for that!😄

Ps: Your channel is super underrated, you deserve millions of subscribers for the great advice you give to people that are struggling!

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You are a man Period .

I live in Michigan right now. I want to move for music and help on my depression . I just want to move would 8k do it?

I live in Illinois too and I’m moving to North Carolina next month with a roommate. For me, my parents love me to death and I love them, my dad is like my best friend and I have a great relationship with my mom and they’re my biggest supporters in my move. For me, this is making it super difficult emotionally and when the day actually comes I’m going to feel devastated. But this what I want deep inside. There is nothing else for me here. Everything else sucks in this town.

Excellent advise from someone who is living it. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Cant wait to move to florida next month and leave everybody behind no more headaches and people being miserable 24/7!around me. It’s so annoying lol

Michael Bordenaro- what do you think is prettier, florida or california

This is really my biggest concern. I'm planning on a move to St. Pete this fall and I have such a great friend group but am so over MN winters and need some new in my life. I tell myself that I can always return but don't want to regret not trying!

Thanks positive 🙏🙏

This video just helped me mentally so much. I’ve been watching all your videos because I relate to your story. I am pretty miserable living in Toronto weather where we don’t see any sun for 6 to 8 months. And like you said, I have no interest in the activities available.

So I’m just preparing myself mentally by trying to decide what I want in life. And just like you I just want to be outdoors.

Hello Michael I’ve just watched this old video and it’s one of the best reviews you’ve done. Excellent advice Sir

What if you didn't go to college? What type of jobs are in florida?

Ironically it was the opposite for me... I left a really dead part of north florida to chase a life in Chicago.

3 years later, half of my family now lives in Miami and I’m starting to get excited about the idea of living in South Beach and settling down near them. Life takes a lot of twists and turns, but I’ll never regret the leap I took of moving 1300 miles away from home. Best thing I ever did.

Thanks for making this video. I am planning on moving somewhere warm in 2021 but the thought of leaving family can be hard. I needed to see this video. Happy New Year!

I will move in Florida very soon. I had hard car incident in September and it was long way to recover. And I can't fall dawn now when it snowing o slippery. And I decided to move in Miami because I have one freand there.. Your videos are very inspirational 👏 for me!

Yes, mentally I’ve been gone for over a year. I’m 30m living in wisconsin working in commercial real estate. I plan to make the move in less than a year. I cannot wait.

Perfect timing!!! Just what I needed to hear today:)

I really love your videos. They are helping me more than i thought they would. Plus you are so honest about every topic you discuss.

Oh man this one resonates so much with me. I was 33 years old in Rochester New York, hating winter, hating my life, working two crap jobs in a town with a "you're born...you work... you die" mentality. The dream job of your typical Rochesterian was working in the factory at Delco or at Kodak on the assembly line. I did get a job at Kodak, I lasted a year and a half. Three revolving shifts with no life. When you live in Rochester and you quit Kodak, which doesn't happen, you might as well have a large Scarlet K emblazoned on your chest. I was helping support my sweet little sister and my mother in our crappy duplex in a shitty neighborhood across from a train trestle and a slaughterhouse. If you think that sounds depressing, you can times that by 10. My grandmother owned the duplex. She lived next door with her son , my uncle, who was in his 60s and a bitter miserable person. All I had to do is look next door to see what my future was going to be. I waited until my little sister got married to a great guy that she's still married to , I gave her away at her wedding, got my mother situated in a better situation, and took the hell off over 30 years ago and never looked back. it wasn't easy. My mother, God bless her, was a manipulative, very sad lady from a horrible childhood also, and when I said I was leaving , she told me she was going to commit suicide. Well, she didn't commit suicide, I made sure she was okay when I left but I left. Best thing that I ever did! I was a sad, lonely person with zero confidence and slowly but surely I reinvented myself. I'm still a loner in many ways and prefer alone time 80% of the time and there's nothing wrong with that. But, I blossomed in so many ways and discovered hidden talents that would have never come out back in Rochester, I'm sure of it. I highly encourage people, take the risk and don't settle. You'll regret it. I'm not suggesting anyone shirk responsibilities , but you could hopefully do what I did, get everyone situated and then create an opportunity where you can leave. I continued to help my mother financially once I moved, as I did my little sister. I go home to visit every few years even though my mother is now gone. But, if you're thinking you don't like your life and that moving will improve it, you're probably correct.

When I first left California I had absolutely no problem leaving family. However, I do understand that some people actually have good family's. Relocating is a mind trip, but everything gets better with time.

After two years in a given location, you'll experience all the phases of culture shock. Then you'll begin to assimilate into the very things you found repulsive lol. It's all about having a good time and enjoying the experience wherever you go.

I'm going to Florida in ten years when I retire. My kids will be spread out all over the USA so it doesn't matter where I live.. I wont see my kids more than a few times a year anyway!. So Im gonna do it.

I'm revenge moving to Florida in a few months. Something to do with a "friend" who ended up just being a dead-end friend/useless. I'm sick of deadbeat people who have bad social lives and scared of outdoors, have no friends, have no ambition, and have such massive predictability with them.

Just did the same thing from NYC to Boca Raton.

I totally feel you buddy. I moved 8000 miles to where I am and I can’t be happier.

You're awesome Brotha man. I feel like I'm being spoken to personally in this video haha But it'd be the same way with me, I'm from Arizona but living in Salt Lake and when I make that move im gonna be leaving all my family in AZ. Couldn't have came across your channel in more perfect timing though. Thank you Sir!! 🤝👍😁😁