Florida is a very low wage state ,,, people need a place to live and quite simply we paid what we had to to buy a home in 1998-2007 … Our prices were driven by foreign buyers , Northerners buying winter homes and a huge influx of Mexicans into permanent housing instead of living 6 to a bedroom in rentals or dilapidated mobile homes ,, that last one sucked up all the low priced housing and forced people up the ladder… “luckily” brokers and originators were more than willing to falsify almost any application to qualify you … Needless to say these buyers are long gone and selling the excess housing is impossible because the wages are even lower now and people have higher expenses .. THANKS! Obama. Love the Taxes , Love the Obamacare ….