Original comment is specifically talking about Miami, which is a city where young people are trying to live and work.
I specifically quoted the part talking about "million dollar+ mansions" in "intercoastal areas".
The comment about condos in Miami not having lights on at 7-9PM was a separate point, but I don't think it's really true that "half" the condos in Miami are empty for no good reason. People work late, people go on vacation, people go out on the town.
To sit in the dark for 6 hours while paying a whopping $1/kWh would save me 15 cents.
No, it's not. That could potentially be the cost of electricity in somewhere like the South Pole.
"The average electric rates in Sunnyvale, CA cost 31 ¢/kilowatt-hour (kWh)"
https://www.energysage.com/local-data/electricity-cost/ca/sa...
You'd have to provide some shockingly well sourced data to explain why electricity cost in one location is 100 times that of the rest of California, or how the average resident spends over $150,000 a year on electricity (the average per capita use in Santa Clara county is 6.2MW)
It's just really, really high compared to the rest of the country. Or even the next city over, which is what makes it really hurt.