In terms of Florida vs South Dakota: Florida is going to be a much better fit in almost any case for a number of reasons. Most importantly, if you are a W-2 employee (or may be one in the future), you will not be able to use your South Dakota address for payroll. The state will block you from participating in their unemployment system, which means you would need a different address for employment. Moreover, South Dakota let's you "live" at a mailbox address, but financial institutions do not allow that (as required by the Patriot Act). Given this, you would not be able to use your South Dakota address for banking, investments, payroll, voting, and many other important items. With SavvyNomad, we provide you with a true residential address (a place of abode that, importantly, is NOT a CMRA address), which can be used for all of those purposes.