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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Florida the Sunset State? | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

Otherwise, there's trouble in paradise. We're facing our worst real estate meltdown since the Depression. We've got a water crisis, insurance crisis, environmental crisis and budget crisis to go with our housing crisis. We're first in the nation in mortgage fraud, second in foreclosures, last in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Florida the Sunset State? | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

But now the financial and environmental bill for a century of runaway growth and exploitation is coming due. The housing bust has exposed a human pyramid scheme - an economy that relied on a thousand newcomers a day, too many of them construction workers, mortgage bankers, real estate agents and others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Florida the Sunset State? | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

In the Paradise Lost days, Hirschhorn worked the white-powder bar, representing Medellín cartel leaders and other cocaine cowboys. Then he wore a pinkie ring with a two-carat diamond; now he wears Brooks Brothers and defends fraud cases. "It's where the action is," he explains with a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Florida the Sunset State? | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

The problem is, even those lower-priced options aren't cheap. Florida's prices remain higher than the national average - especially when you count sky-high property taxes and insurance premiums that can be as burdensome as mortgage payments - while its wages are lower. Fitch Ratings warned that when a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is Florida the Sunset State? | 7/10/2008 | See Source »

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