The average low temperature in North Dakota in the month of February is 5.9 degrees. So what would it take for you to move there? What if it also meant leaving behind family, working grueling hours and living in a barren compound surrounded by strangers?

Well, thousands of Floridians are doing just that. First Coast News traveled to the western plains to meet these transplants, and find out what brought them there.

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