In Exodus chapter three, verse eight, this is a proverbial statement picturing agricultural abundance. The honey includes honey from grapes or dates from bees; the juice boils down to produce a thick syrup.
Milk and honey is the land abounded with other good things. Excellent fruits, such as corn, wine, and oil, and with figs, pomegranates, and palm trees, but this is a proverbial and hyperbolical expression, setting forth the great affluence of all sorts of good things in it, for the necessity and delight of human life.
Milk and honey is a term people use to assume when they hear of a nice place to live with the opportunities for a better life. They embrace the chance of going to experience the pleasure of living there. However, not all human beings receive the results they envision, nor the life activity lives up to their expectations. The misconception is people expect a Milk and honey setting to be like sitting or laying down on a hammock: Drinking a fruit drink and enjoying the sunshine all day.
The problem with the Milk and honey theory is that to achieve something of that nature requires a balanced effort of work and building up a plan to enjoy the fruits of our labor. Some people see an example of someone that seems to have that life altogether but do not understand how the person reached that point. Looking at someone relish in a paradise setting does not mean they made it doing nothing. They build themselves to get to a place where they can have those peaceful moments.
Milk and honey living happens through the blessing of God. He provides us with an opportunity to receive from Him. Believers must read His Word of God and trust Him to work on our behalf.