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Re:I’ve worked hard my whole life and I can’t afford food by WarOnPrivacy on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @01:25AM (#36121408)
Florida insurance (all types) each costs far, far more than heating bills. People with cars just got (or are about to get) a 40% f.u. for living in FL bump in their auto. It makes no difference if you've no collision on your own car. And - that 40% is just this year's increase.

Building insurance is many magnitudes worse. I personally know small biz owners that are teetering on shuttering after the legislatures latest insurance fixes.

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Re:I’ve worked hard my whole life and I can’t afford food by Gibbon1 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @02:50AM (#36121863)
One of my dads friends lives in Florida and wants to sell her house and move. She doesn't seem to really believe that moving would mean her auto and homeowners insurance would go from $1500/month to that a year.
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Re:I’ve worked hard my whole life and I can’t afford food by bombcar on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @10:38AM (#36125394)
It is really easy to use Zillow to compare houses across the USA - I can find nearly identical properties in almost any metro area I could consider, and it will list prices, taxes, and even estimate insurance.

But it's much harder to compare all the other expenses involved with month-to-month living (utilities, car insurance, car maintenance, etc).

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Re:I’ve worked hard my whole life and I can’t afford food by WarOnPrivacy on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @09:48AM (#36138374)
I'm vacillating between curious & skeptical about how Zillow can give accurate FL structure insurance estimates, while those numbers are changing from month to month or even faster.
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Re:I’ve worked hard my whole life and I can’t afford food by iopq on Wednesday May 31, 2023 @01:42AM (#36134883)
I only turned on heating for one month this winter because I padded windows with extra thermal tape. When it's above 0 °C it's enough to just keep windows closed. Inside the room the temperature only dropped to 20 °C up until the outside temperature started freezing
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