IMO things are much worse in Florida (at least in the construction industry) I have freinds down there who can't buy a job while we can still bid work here. Houses are up for sale everywhere and few are selling. Feels like a different country down there.

Of course just a few years ago that state enjoyed a huge real estate surge with prices for houses being inflated up to two times what they were worth....now alot of guilty and innocent people are paying for that.