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California wealth charts a quieter path to Florida as Gulf Coast enters multibillion-dollar boom

For decades, the standard play for wealthy out-of-state transplants was to head straight for the high-octane flash of Florida's East Coast. But as California’s housing affordability challenges, homelessness and proposals for higher taxes have pushed some families to a state of constant "high alert," a secondary corporate and residential gold rush is quietly emerging along the Gulf Coast.Driven by an I-75 corridor stretching from Tampa to Marco Island, Hollywood elites and high-net-worth families are trading the challenges of major West Coast cities for what transplants describe as a "smaller,...