Blake Anderson Facebook ad: “Is this why people are leaving Florida?”

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My best friend in Florida packed up and moved to Tennessee last month and I still haven't fully processed it... the reason was not what I thought I'll explain why because this isn't the story I thought I'd be telling, not everyone in Florida might even want to hear this. We met Dan and his wife Colleen 14 years ago when we both moved into the same cul-de-sac here outside of Orlando. Our kids grew up together. We had Thanksgiving at their house most years. Our wives walked every morning at 6am. He was the guy I'd call if my car broke down at midnight In August he sat me down on his back porch and told me they were leaving Not for a job. Not for family. Not for the schools. For insurance His homeowners had gone up 3 years in a row. His auto had nearly doubled since 2020. His kid's health plan through his work had jumped again. He ran the numbers and told me him and Colleen couldn't make Florida work anymore. They sold their house in October and moved to Knoxville The day the moving truck pulled out of our cul-de-sac I stood in my driveway and watched it leave and I went inside and told my wife "we need to look at our bills" We started with homeowners. There was nothing we could do about that one, it is what it is. We moved to health. Same. Limited options Then we got to auto We'd been paying $276 a month for both of our cars. A 2019 Accord and a 2018 Pilot. Clean records between us going back further than I can remember. We hadn't filed a claim in over a decade I called to ask if there was any way to bring it down. Got put on hold. Came back on the line "Sir, your current rate reflects the regional adjustments for your area. There aren't additional discounts available at this time." I sat there holding the phone and thought about Dan's moving truck I called three other companies that week. Got quotes of $294, $301, and $318. Every one of them HIGHER than what I was already paying. One of them actually said "yes Florida rates have been climbing, a lot of people are in your position" That line stuck with me the whole drive home. A lot of people are in your position I wasn't going to leave Florida. My wife's mother lives 20 minutes from us. Our kids are in school here. Our whole life is here. But I understood for the first time why Dan left, and it genuinely scared me About two weeks later I was at a community pool with my daughter and I got to talking to another dad who was watching his own kids. He asked how I was doing and I was honest, said my best friend just moved out of state and I was sitting with it. He asked why and I told him He said "the insurance thing?" I said yeah He said "has anyone showed you that one viral video?" I said no He started to tell me about this viral podcast video on Facebook about some developer talking about how he moved to Florida from California and after realizing how expensive it was here, built a comparison tool with local carriers to match safe drivers with what they actually should pay based on history. The guy at the pool said he tried and his rate went from $284 a month down to $91. He pulled his policy up on his phone and showed me. $91. Two cars. Full coverage. In Florida He texted me the link from the deck chair I filled it out that night at my kitchen table. Took about 90 seconds. It asked about our cars, our driving records, our mileage. Nothing invasive Quote came back at $87 a month I read it three times. Same coverage. Same liability limits. Same deductibles. Actually higher uninsured motorist coverage than what I had before I didn't switch right away. I wanted to verify it was real, especially after everything that had happened with Dan. I called the company directly the next morning and asked them to walk me through the coverage summary line by line compared to what I currently had. Everything matched. The rep was patient, answered every question I had We switched that weekend That was 2 months ago. The rate has pulled monthly at $87 every single time. No surprise charges. No creep We're saving close to $190 a month. That's not enough to fix the cost of living in Florida. But it's enough to keep us here another year, and another year, and that matters I told the guys at my Saturday morning breakfast group. Two of them checked their rates. Both switched within 2 weeks. One of them, a guy named Ray who's lived in Florida for 38 years, was paying $324 a month. Now he's at $102 But the one that really got me was the woman across the street from us. Born in Florida, 67 years old, lived on our block for 29 years. Has been with the same insurance company since her husband passed away 11 years ago. Was paying $311 a month for one car She checked her rate. Knocked on my door that evening. She said "I've been overpaying for 11 years and nobody ever told me" That one stuck with me. She wasn't a transplant. She wasn't new. She was part of the fabric of our block. She just trusted the number she was given and assumed it was the number I called Dan two weeks ago. Told him what I'd found. Told him about Ray. Told him about the woman across the street. He was quiet for a while and then he said "if I'd known about that even a year earlier, I don't think we would have left" I think about that sentence a lot So here's why I'm posting this If you're in Florida and your bills keep going up and you're starting to do the math on whether you can stay, please don't let car insurance be the thing that pushes you out before you've actually checked what you qualify for Most of us aren't being told the lowest number. We're being given a number and we pay it. And the number keeps climbing. And at some point a lot of us are going to run out of room Here's what you get when you check your rate through the comparison tool You see your actual monthly number. Not a range. Not an estimate. The real monthly rate for your specific cars and your specific driving record. Drivers using it are finding they can save up to $950 a year on average. Same coverage. Same liability limits. Same protection Takes about 90 seconds. You don't cancel anything first. You don't provide a credit card. You just see the number. If it's not lower than what you're already paying, you close the tab and nothing changes But if you're like me, like Ray, like the woman across the street, there's a good chance it'll be lower. A lot lower Are you a safe driver in Florida with a clean record? Click Learn More to check your rate right now. I'm not going to lose another friend to the math if I can help it If you're in Florida paying more than $150 a month on car insurance, there's a good chance you could be paying less for the exact same coverage. The free quote is as low as 90 seconds away Click Learn More to check your rate.

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Is this why people are leaving Florida?