Go figure: Despite hurricanes, Florida has become
top destination for Americans moving
HotAir.com,
by
Andrew Malcolm
Original Article
Posted By: SurferLad,
9/3/2019 3:41:31 PM
Welcome to Florida. Prepare to evacuate.
The Category 2 Hurricane Dorian parked itself over the Bahamas off the Florida coast about 100 miles east of West Palm Beach. [Snip] It’s an unusual contradictory wrinkle compounded by weather coming days after news that Florida is now the most popular destination for Americans moving within the United States. The Census Bureau reports that in the last year more than 566,000 new residents have moved into Florida, primarily from
Reply 1 - Posted by:
justavoter 9/3/2019 3:47:25 PM (No. 170414)
This is all great and wonderful until the newcomers vote. Please leave your liberalism where you came from.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Clinger 9/3/2019 3:56:20 PM (No. 170423)
Sure why not, how much of the risk associated with hurricanes is spread to the rest of us?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 9/3/2019 4:13:09 PM (No. 170432)
Unfortunately, they bring their love for intrusive government with them. Which will in the long run require higher taxes (including an income tax) to pay for all of the government entitlements. My advice, stay home and fix your own state. Don't introduce your states' intrusiveness on us.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 9/3/2019 4:15:45 PM (No. 170434)
Those who live in the flat square states often love to figure out where we should live. There are no perfect states.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
SALady 9/3/2019 4:17:14 PM (No. 170435)
If you live somewhere where hurricanes are a yearly possibility, you build accordingly.
Even if a horrible hurricane hits, you rebuild quickly and get on with your life. That is because you are an adult, and that is what adults do.
We sure have become a society of whiners!!!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BocaLaura 9/3/2019 4:59:37 PM (No. 170460)
I've lived in states with blizzards, ice storms, monster tornedos, earthquakes and volcanos. I'll take Florida and its hurricanes any day over the others.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Avikingman 9/3/2019 5:18:34 PM (No. 170469)
I lived in northeast FL for 10 years (you have to stay inside during July and August - I opted for as far north as i could go) otherwise it's great. No taxes, courteous and friendly folks; that goes for customer svc. too. Now I'm stuck in CT. Stuffy, rude, dumb jackasses, the kind of people that throw paper out of their car windows, if you get my drift. Have to learn Spanish too. Caramba!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bad-hair 9/3/2019 5:29:56 PM (No. 170480)
I'm in Texas. Harvey's come and gone. We rebuild where necessary and get through it together. Get hit hard about every 15 years, unlike North Dakota winters that hit EVERY year for most of the year. Found a house where the hurricanes don't hit all that bad (Houston is 45 miles in-land) and I don't freeze my butt every year and I don't pay stupid politically driven state income taxes. Yep people are still moving to Florida and getting rained on. Cry me a river New Jersey.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
MSUDoc 9/3/2019 5:56:38 PM (No. 170503)
I left southeast Georgia after Hurricane Matthew destroyed about a third of my home’s value.
Moved north, and realized that if you can live through Jan-March, Michigan is a beautiful place to live — with no hurricanes.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Heraclitus 9/3/2019 7:27:42 PM (No. 170557)
My two sisters have been begging us to move to Florida for years. They both forsook New England for the steamy South, preferring the heat to the steel gray bitter cold.
I think i'm too much of a New Englander. I love the seasons, I love to see the miracle of daffodils emerge out of the frozen earth. #9 puts the notion well, I think. If you can make it through the bleak winter months, and you have a good generator, wood stove, fireplace... and you don't mind layers of sweaters, then the North is more hospitable. PLUS, we don't have snakes (except in the hills, rattlers) or alligators and only randomly a bear or coyote. Virtually any critter we have, the South has, and bigger and nastier. But I miss my sisters terribly.
Another thing thing to consider, however, is that northern parts of New England have not been hit by damaging hurricanes in a long time. We might be due for one. We do have the winter version, but nothing that blows the roofs off buildings. And we have nor'easters which come and go.
Michigan is starting to look tempting. Got a niece there...
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/3/2019 9:15:27 PM (No. 170633)
Overpopulation is one good reason to avoid the tourist areas but north of Orlando is still pretty good,
plus you have a choice of three different interstate highways if you need to bug out. Having the ocean lap at your back yard is a great selling point until one of these monster storms decides to visit so it's best to put a few miles of sand between your home and the beach. New England would not be an option for me, none of it.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 9/3/2019 10:22:15 PM (No. 170680)
Tennessee has many beautiful small towns and no state income tax. I live in a beautiful small town in Georgia. Georgia exempts the first $65,000 in retirement income which is a boon to retirees. Big cities anywhere can be problematic. Where I live in North Georgia we have nice falls with stunning colors just don’t bring your progressive krep with you.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Wendybird 9/3/2019 10:47:35 PM (No. 170687)
You fools. Central U.S., like West Virginia, has a nice combination of climate variability, nice honest people, few climate catastrophes, beautiful mountains (hills, really), and rivers (someday they will be really cleaned up). And natural resources. You may go someplace else on a whim, but there is no perfect place. Northeast Virginia would be nice, other than the liberal infestation.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
doublesharp 9/3/2019 11:43:48 PM (No. 170712)
Southern Indiana is about perfect long as your standards aren't too high. Suits me to a T.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Shells 9/3/2019 11:51:02 PM (No. 170714)
I think I can speak with some knowledge on this topic.
I was born and raised in the northeast. Spent the last 30 years in CT.
You can talk about weather and such until you’re blue in the face. But the thing that led my husband and I to move to FL last year was the barking, numbnut moonbat liberals that are EVERYWHERE in New England. They are, without question, the stupidest, most aggravating morons you will ever encounter. I simply could not stand hating just about every person I encountered on a daily basis. And I’m sorry if that sounds harsh.
But when people ask us why we moved south, my husband remarks on the better weather and lower taxes. True, of course. But inside I’m thinking we moved because here you can have a conversation and say the word ‘gun’ and not witness the listener having a foaming at the mouth seizure.
New England is dead. It is no longer truly part of the United States of America. And it’s heartbraking.
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Please note: Florida is full. Don't move here.
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