What the fuck are Canadians doing still going to Floridia?
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2026
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Listen, nobody loves paying property taxes, but you know what's worse? Your house burning down and nobody is there to put it out. There's a reason everyone pays taxes.
No you don't get it. If you don't pay taxes you can pay twice as much when you need emergency services. That way you'll be super free.
Boomers want everything on a coin op model.
Private sector fire departments.
This is the history of fire departments in the US.
Would this be a subscription model? Something similar to property taxes?
Basic - $9.99 a month, if your house is on fire they bring a garden hose and use your water well.
Medium - $19.99 a month, they bring a garden hose and a tank of water.
High - $29.99 a month, they bring more than one hose and person.
Extreme - $99.99 a month, they bring a truck.
If you miss a payment you need to resubscribe with a $1000 basic beginner fee.
"Fire has spread to the third floor, would you like to upgrade for $2,299 a month?"
The ad-free version is an extra $15.99 add on. Otherwise they stop every few minutes to tell you about Nord VPN.
Yeah and no ad blockers.
When capitalism wins you lose!
It's happened in the past. If you don't pay their exorbitant fees they let your house burn down.
But but but, you got to think of the insurance companies. If a house burns down how are the insurance companies to bend the home owner further over the barrel?
Capitalism you have to keep that in mind!
It will just be required to hold and when it burns all the way down they will write it off as a total loss, and you will be forced to continue paying
So the insursance companies will still be charging the displaced people who need to break into other places to feed themselves and/or children, they will then take things to sell so that they can pay for that insurance because employement will be hard to keep or get without a perminate address. Than those people will need to pay for the replacements of stolen items, insurance does not cover 100% of stuff and their insurance raits will go up!
Capitalism, you got to remember them rich people need to get richer!
Isn't it wonderful?
Get out of Florida, they hate Canadians there.
Canada hates the Canadians who go to Florida. They only live there long enough to not lose healthcare but they feed the Florida economy. Assholes.
"We're gonna fill the potholes and make Canada pay for it!" - hmm, sounds familiar..
Not really, no. This post is about how there are large areas of Canadians living in florida. Vast swaths of them. Maple Leaf flags down every street in some places.
It's pretty funny.
The problem for Floridian homeowners isn't the property taxes, it's the insurance. The property taxes are there for a reason - to fund schools, fire, police, etc, and everybody is cool with that, although some are so greedy, they'll STILL vote to abolish property taxes, even if it means there's nobody to vacuum up the tweakers and crackheads breaking into your taxless home.
The homeowners insurance problem is keeping people from buying houses, even if they could afford it. There is already a lot of excess inventory on the market in Florida, and there's expected to be a LOT more over the next year, so prices aren't going to be the problem, the thing that going to keep people from buying is the inability to find reasonably priced insurance.
David Jolly, Democratic candidate for governor has a plan, but the MAGA did their own study, in which they characterize his plan as a tax, and now they're running ads, claiming that a "recent study' (without calling their own) called it a tax, and so now they have the rationalization to claim that Jolly wants to raise your taxes. No he doesn't, he wants to figure out a solution to the serious homeowners insurance problem in Florida, something the MAGAs stubbornly refuse to even acknowledge, no less try to fix it. They just want to shit on the only plan that anyone is proposing.
This is the truth. When I moved out of FL a few years ago my home owners insurance had gone up over 900% in the thirteen years I had owned that home. It was ludicrous. I know many retired people that just don't have home owners insurance anymore as they could no longer afford it on a fixed income. Their homes are paid off so they aren't legally required to have it, so they are just YOLOing it. It seems insane to me considering all the flooding and hurricanes, but it's no longer my circus.