dcmdon
NES Member
It is all about tax angle, the 2A stuff is just extra cake.
There is no income tax here, ( or NH) so his wife is in the same position my wife is, although her company is based in MA, her post retirement gig will be working from "home" which this winter will be Florida, and then next spring she heads back to NH.
In our case it saves 6.25% which will help offset the self employment tax (what the employer FICA contribution would be we pay as self employed )
The tax angle requires you to spend 183 days (> 50%) in FL to claim florida residency for the purpose of taxes. Northeast states, particularly MA, CT, NY, and NJ are getting very aggressive about people who file in FL and don't spend at least 183 days there. They are pulling ezPass and cell phone records to figure out how much time you spent in each state.
But again, you could still spend 183 days in FL, not file a MA return and keep a MA DL and LTC.
Residency is not an all encompassing legal thing. You may be a resident based on firearms laws and not a resident based on voting laws and a resident based on local state university rules.
You could remain domiciled in MA and still spend 183 days in FL and file a FL income tax return. And if this isn't discussed on an open internet forum, nobody would notice, care or think to look at this.