Plenty of these in Florida and they don't have frame rot.
2004 Land Rover Discovery - cars & trucks - by owner - vehicle... (craigslist.org)

 

I need to move South, everything up here in New England is a rust bucket. Looks clean and if the interior is decent and the engine runs that’s not a bad deal.

 

Prices are sky rocketing out west, hard to find anything half decent for under 4-5K these days in CO

 

They are $3000 or lower in Florida. Super cheap!

 

Mmmm.I wasn’t looking for another but........:-).

 

I have a search agent on Craigslist. A new one shows up every week. These things are a dime a dozen around my neck of the woods.

 

If that runs decent and front end is not banged up...a good cleaning, wheeling and wax...and l bet you could flip it for a couple grand more...if not more. That's pretty low mileage nowadays, most l'm running across lately are 170/180 mark. Kind of a unique color, blue doesn't pop up often around here either.

 

Happy to go take a peek at it for anybody who is interested. It is just down the road for me.

 

I know Florida would be better than some areas but I wouldn't write-off rust as a possibility. Humidity is a major contributor to the rust cocktail. I have heard but can't confirm proximity to ocean air maybe being salty can add up as well. My D2 spent most of its life in Colorado which is high and dry. At 175k the worst rust could be wiped off by hand or a wire brush. Here in Missouri rust can be pretty bad. We don't get the winters like the NE so salt season is only a month or so at worst in total days but humidity goes 365 days a year.

 

I'm thinking I may be able to start a business buying up D2's in Florida and driving them up to replace frame rot in the north!