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We can drink on the beach but no glass containers. Terraced pubs and restaurants are eveywhere. It's the usual mistake people make when talking about the USA, looking at it like a single country. If we'd followed the European model we'd be a bunch of smaller nations; I often think we should consider Balkanizing. What's legal in one jurisdiction is illegal in another, it can be confusing. On the plus side, you can pick and choose which set of laws you want to live under. Weed and abortion are only two examples, it goes much deeper than that. I wouldn't own rental propery in many states, because the rights of tenants are far greater than the rights of the landlord. The age you can get a full driver's license varies from 16 to 18. Gun laws, boating regulations, vehicle inspection and licensing, all completely different from one state to another. Taxes are a big difference. You've got Federal income taxes everybody pays, and then state income taxes that range from 0 to a high of over 13% (California is the worst).

Florida is the best compromise for me. Weed's not legal (yet) but no state income tax and good property and guns laws.