Location, location, location. You get what you pay for, and the convenience of what's nearby. Some things that look cheap on paper, are anything but- once you realize where your at, and how far away it's from anything, and I mean anything with the exception of mosquitos and noseeums. If you have to spend hours to reach open water because you're so far up idles zone only canals and rivers to get out to open water BEFORE you can even turn left or right to go anywhere- and that "anywhere" is still hours away, then maybe you just wasted more money in fuel than if you had just paid to dock right near the nice places in the first place? Need a rental car to go to a grocery store, and the closest Rental car agency is 20 miles away? (Enterprise will pick you up).. you get what you pay for!
There's a reason cheap places are cheap, and expensive places are expensive. We've got some really bad neighborhoods in Florida just "right around the corner there" from the waterfront. You CAN get easily killed here. I've chased crazy people off my boat and OUT of my RV (in both Key West and Key Largo) before, and it took me whipping out a machine gun to do it!! Guess where the most people are at? Not at the cheap places. You only want to socialize with other cheapskates, I mean frugal folks or would you like to (as Jim Morrison used to say) "elevate your taste in trolls?" Maybe your neighbors at the nice places have premium brands to share, whereas at the cheap joint- YOU might be expected to pay, and have 'Coleman's' to deal with? You buy (or rent) quality you only cry once.
ANYBODY thinking about coming to Florida MUST read Tim Dorsey's Novels!!! They're more true than not. I may, or may not be Serge. :>), and even I who drives through Opa Locka (I like to think of it as a "bad part of the Caribbean") daily will NOT go into Miami Gardens!!! (oh, just one wrong turn off the Interstate) so do you feel lucky?