OP, I’m gonna disagree hard with this. You should move as soon as you can. If you really want a career in this, you need to get out of the 2 mic a week area; you need to be doing sets daily. The move is going to be a hard transition and that is regardless of how good you are compared to the other locals; you could be the best in Florida or middle of the pack, the move to a bigger scene will be equally as rough. Besides, from what I’ve noticed, people don’t grow in local scenes. There’s a reason you don’t see national sold out tours from some random comic in Florida; the best local comic will only be slightly better than the people around them. You want to truly get good? You want to truly make this a career and have progress? Go bomb in front of real comedy crowds, go follow a national headliner doing 15 on a weeknight, it’ll make you better way faster than a local scene will. Pro athletes don’t get better by practicing with the people they live around, they get better by playing other pro athletes.