As a Floridian, I'm pretty familiar with how locals feel about folks piling in from out-of-state. A lot of retired Northeastern and Midwesterners live in FL that moved over the past few decades, and it totally changed the makeup of the state. Locals get uneasy, but it's mostly a nervousness about how the transplants would change the area. In some cases, former rural areas were transformed into huge retirement communities and planned developments (PUDs).<p>While they certainly changed Florida, I also think that Florida changed them. Most of the snowbirds I met in central FL tended to vote Republican, though they might have been Democrats in their home states. The main reasons people move to FL are low taxes, good weather, and affordable housing. It's a very pro-business, pro-development state. I think it's hard to move to a state and not be influenced by its culture.