I'm writing as someone who's mother has depended on her since she was a teenager. Stay in Florida. Send money back. At some point, you have to start YOUR life and do what's best for YOU. Otherwise, there will come a time where you resent your mother. That's how I feel now. I would love to quit my stressful, fulltime job so I could focus on school but I can't because my mother decided to assume that I would live with her forever and got a house that she cannot afford without a significant portion of MY income. It gets old quickly. Then when you add a husband and child in the mix, it gets worse, not better.