Florida is pretty good on both counts, with the exception of no OC. But it is shall-issue for CCW, and it is against state law to create a registry of gun owners. You can keep weapons in your home and your car without a CCW.
There are over 1000 homeschooling families in my county, and dozens of very active homeschooling groups for field trips, park days, P.E. and sports, socializing, and group co-op classes. The local Books-A-Million has a homeschool kids' book club that meets twice a month. The skating rink and the bowling alley have homeschool days every month. Homeschoolers who want to take college courses before they have graduated HS get free dual enrollment at the community colleges (they have to pay for textbooks, but that is all.)
The legal requirements to homeschool are pretty easy to abide by. You have to notify the district that you are homeschooling, so they don't think your kid is a truant. You have to keep a brief log of instruction and a portfolio of work samples, and you have to have the child evaluated once a year (generally on a standardized test, by a psychologist, or by a Florida certified teacher) to ensure that he or she is making progress commensurate with his or her ability. There are scads of homeschool-friendly Florida certified teachers who are willing to do your evaluation for about $35 a year, and if you don't want to mess with that, there are also numerous "umbrella schools" who will take a small fee, collect attendance records, and free you from even that minimal level of supervision - but they are considered private schools, and you lose out on some of the benefits of being a homeschooler, such as the free dual enrollment, if you take that option.
And foreclosed houses are REALLY cheap and REALLY plentiful right now.
And the whole state is like a limerock and sand piece of swiss cheese covered in swamp, floating on underground rivers with oceans all around, impacted by tropical weather systems on a regular basis. Hydrologists and stormwater engineers are in high demand.