I'm a native Floridian, but have lived other places, and I still prefer living here in Florida. As to it being hurricane central, not true. We get hit with a fairly good one, on average of every 15 years. Most natives know to buy high, and dry property, and where it is, from experience. We know to clear any trees too close to the house, and to get the rest trimmed, and shaped by the end of August each year. Most of us natives know to stay prepared for a hurricane. Few of the transplants do any preparation until just prior to the event, which is why the gas stations, grocery stores, and hardware stores are emptied out, and too many people are unable to get what they need when it hits.
That being said, no matter where you live, sooner or later you will come face to face with a battle against nature, whether it's flood, drought, tornado, earthquake, ice storms, etc. Hurricanes here in Florida are not usually as bad as the media makes them out to be, and the politicians are only screaming for lots of disaster money, which most people never see.
