Moving to Florida from NYC once I graduate.. (bachelors degree in busniess/marketing), smart move or no?

Well, sure, Florida is cheaper to live in. A cost of living website I just looked at says that to maintain the same standard of living you need twice as much income in New York as you do in Florida. The thing is, places with lower cost of living usually have lower salaries so it all kind of evens out. , So until you know how much you can make in each place, the relative cost of living doesn't mean much. You may pay more or less in one place for something than you do in another. For example, do you need a car in New York? You will in Florida, in most places. If you don't currently own and operate a car at least 5 days week, transportation may cost you a good deal more in Florida than it does in New York but your rent will be cheaper.

It may be a good move. It depends on you and what you end up doing with your degree.The cost of living is lower in 

Florida, but salaries are lower too. You can be successful in either place.

I was born and raised in Brooklyn and spent the first 30 years of my life there. The New York City that exists now is nothing like the New York City that existed when I was growing up. New York City was a very different place back in the seventies and eighties. Yes, it was a lot more gritty and dangerous back then, there was a lot more crime and visible poverty, but the place also had a lot more character. 

Like most major cities in the United States, New York City has always suffered from poor leadership and the people of New York City have had to deal with all of the problems that come with being governed by weak and inept leaders. Things finally started looking up in the nineties when New Yorkers elected a mayor that had some backbone. He wasn't afraid to say what we were all thinking and to give credence to arguments that we had been putting forth for years. The reason why the city had been plagued with drugs and crime for so long is that the police weren't doing enough to target quality of life crimes. It's true that those misdemeanors were pretty inconsequential in and of themselves, but the plain and simple truth was that if the police started prioritizing them, the bigger problems would start to shrink, and lo and behold, that's exactly what happened. 

The police started to pay attention to minor offenses like people jumping the turnstiles or drinking in public, arresting people for the possession of small amounts of marijuana, urinating in public, little things like that. And because many of the people being stopped already had existing warrants, they wound up being booked and going into the system. While they were cooling their heels in a jail cell waiting to see a judge, they were off the streets, meaning that there were fewer burglaries and robberies and car thefts and rapes and murders. And the police kept this up for years and kept arresting the small fish so that they wouldn't have the opportunity to become bigger fish. New York City went from one of the most dangerous cities in the country to becoming one of the safest. The crime rate dropped by four hundred percent in the blink of an eye. 

But over the course of the past few years, there's been a complete turnaround. New York City was never an easy place to live, but at least it used to be a fun place to live. It was an exciting place to live. Now I wouldn't describe it as anything other than being stressful, inconvenient, expensive, and unrewarding. 

Why? Well, because the heart and soul of the place is gone. The sense of community that existed in many New York City neighborhoods doesn't exist anymore. Where a place like Bay Ridge was once Irish pubs and Norwegian delicatessens, now its main drag, 5th Avenue, looks like Beirut - hookah shops and halal butchers. Where a place like Bensonhurst was once all pizzerias and Italian social clubs, today 18th Avenue is lined with Chinese businesses. Woodside went from being Irish to being Hispanic and Latino. Where places like Marine Park and Wakefield and Astoria used to nice areas where kids played in the street and everybody on the block knew one another, now all of that is gone. 

The people who had the money and the means to get out left a long time ago. They moved on to Staten Island and then on to New Jersey. The people who bought their homes knocked them down to put up prefabricated developments, so where one single family or two-family home stood, there was now a condominium complex with nine units. There was no parking, the neighborhoods started to go to pot. And what was the point? They were asking over half a million dollars for homes that had cost a fraction of that a generation before, now they're asking over a million dollars in most neighborhoods that are worth living in. 

A million dollars for what? To commute to a shitty job paying peanuts where you'll be taxed up the wazoo? To ride filthy buses and take awful trains and put up with the scum of the Earth for hours every day? To pay ludicrous taxes? Why? 

New York City isn't even a great place to visit anymore, never mind to actually live there. 

Florida isn't all that great by US standards. You'd be better off going elsewhere. The job market in Tampa is okay, but it's a city that is going to be facing some major problems in the coming years. If you want a fresh start, move to a place like Nashville. And if you're willing to go a bit farther you might consider Santa Fe or the Denver metro area. 

New York is ridiculously expensive and there's very little benefit to living there. 

You better prepare for a big culture shock, if that is what you do - move to Florida.  (I think you are making a big mistake.)  

There are several parts to why this is a bad idea.

Yes, costs and taxes are lower in Flori-Duh! So are wages. By a lot. Oops.

May to October in Florida is Face Melting Off Season.

More than half of the people in FL are also utter idiots.