It's been a year since we left New York
for Florida. Here's what we learned
Fox News,
by
Karol Markowicz
Original Article
Posted By: JunkYardDog,
1/4/2023 12:58:05 PM
On New Year’s Day, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was sworn in for her first full term. In the speech that followed she said "We must and will make our state safe … we have to make our state more affordable … And we must reverse the trend of people leaving our state in search of lower costs and opportunities elsewhere."
The governor of New York is choosing not to understand why people are fleeing her state.
I know because I was one of them.
A year ago, my husband and three children got on an airplane, moved to Florida and never looked back.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
spacer 1/4/2023 1:03:19 PM (No. 1370715)
Yeah freedom has that effect on the oppressed.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/4/2023 1:15:08 PM (No. 1370726)
Have said this before. I flew down to Florida from New York in 9/2019 for the winter, COVID hit, and I never left. Finally went back in 5/2022 and had an agreement for the sale of my house in 3 hours and it was finalized in 3 days. All signs, for me, pointed to Florida.
One question I would have for the author. Has her health and the health of her family members improved since moving to Florida? It did for me. I certainly do not get sick as much.
Hochul telling people to leave New York was a big mistake. People do not go where they are not welcome.
She turned New York politics into a big club. If you aren't a member, leave. Lots of people do not want to be part of that big government club and left.
So many people are in government that clearly aren't suited for that role.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 1/4/2023 1:49:49 PM (No. 1370745)
I hope she left her totalitarian socialist ideology back in NYC but I doubt it. You cannot be a wealthy Brooklyn town house owner without being a full fledged totalitarian socialist. Unfortunately the conditions they created are driving them to contaminate once-Free portions of the US. It's the flip side of US mobility. You can try to escape, but then you find the liberals and the sociopaths are right behind you.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
raspberry 1/4/2023 1:58:47 PM (No. 1370749)
Alas, I left Florida for Northern Virginia in 1958 for college and work. Then my new wife wanted to stay and later our daughters made homes here. Florida still draws me back powerfully, but the population in 1958 was less than five million and today it is almost 25 million. All these newcomers will change the state and I am afraid.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 1/4/2023 2:09:18 PM (No. 1370757)
Obviously she is a transphobic, homophobic, lesphobic, racist, misogamist, white privilege, anti immigrant, Islamophobic cop loving, gun tooting knuckle dragging MAGA hat wearing subhuman.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/4/2023 2:25:47 PM (No. 1370776)
Let freedom ring. Great for you, OP. Good for you, sir/ma'am.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Trump'sCousin 1/4/2023 2:37:38 PM (No. 1370779)
Be sure to leave your socialist communist ideas in the cesspool you left.
Red State creatures have a tendency to defecate where they eat.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 1/4/2023 2:46:59 PM (No. 1370783)
When big companies leave California, Democrats in Sacramento clap and cheer. When millionaires leave and take their California state income taxes with them, the cheering is a little muted. I say "little" because Democrat super majorities in Sacramento know that raising taxes is easy; they do it all the time. I suspect things in Democrat New York are pretty much the same with attitudes of 'up with wokeism, soft on crime' common in both states...but not Florida and Texas.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 1/4/2023 3:13:17 PM (No. 1370803)
Since the 1950s New York has lost 20 electoral votes due to below-average population growth and/or population decline. You would think that would have set off alarm bells years ago.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 1/4/2023 3:19:10 PM (No. 1370810)
It sounds as if she still doesn't get it... It's the party philosophy that's the problem, not the specific individuals in power. Get rid of them all and they'll be replaced with others equally bad if they continue to vote Democrat.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
EJKrausJr 1/4/2023 5:41:42 PM (No. 1370890)
We notice the influx. The streets are becoming gridlocked with out of state motorists. Government is already 15 years behind the population in providing adequate infrastructure. Highway construction is a full time, big business. Orange groves are becoming housing complexes. Family Dollars and Dollar Generals have become the new Seven Elevens, popping up on every corner. Rush hour traffic is horrific. Living in Eden has its new down side. But it's still worth it. You can come, but don't bring your socialist ideas with you.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Strike3 1/4/2023 5:54:06 PM (No. 1370898)
Politicians often don't suffer the results of their poor leadership because the aftermath comes a year or two later, just like Joe will not realize the damage done by his administration until he is out of office or dead. Hochul and that pea-brained, greasy-haired mannequin in California are in for some hard times when the bills come due but let the next nincompoop handle it.
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Lifetime LA resident Adam Carolla announced the other day he’s leaving the state. He didn’t say where to but my guess is Nashville , he was very impressed with it a few months ago and he has some dealing with Daily Wire which moved there.
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Probably, they registered as Democrats in Florida anyway.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
chance_232 1/4/2023 10:18:27 PM (No. 1371066)
I left Pittsburgh PA in 1981 for the Navy. I haven't spent more than a week at a time in PA in the past 40 years. I settled in Los Angeles in 91 and moved out in 96. 4 and a half years of riots, fires, increasing crime, gang violence and increasing liberal insanity finally drove me out. I settled in Rochester NY in the summer of 96. I'll admit that I loved Upstate NY, but 9 months of winter annually, increasing taxes, increasing cost of living and no plans to improve the economy with all of the established businesses refusing to wake up and smell the coffee and join the 21st century. Yeah.....Im talking about you Xerox and Kodak. I moved to Atlanta in the spring of 2000 and made a final move to a small town in Georgia, just north of Jacksonville FL in 2004.
I have zero regrets................................. I don't even regret the moves to LA and NY. I got to witness firsthand what living in liberal land is like. No amount of reading articles or watching the news can fully convey the insanity that infects every little thing. Just like no amount of TV coverage can ever adequately convey the absolute destruction that a category 5 hurricane causes, Sure, you get to see glimpses of buildings and neighborhoods. Buy you never get the sheer scale of the destruction. Liberalism is the political equivalent of a CAT5 hurricane.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 1/5/2023 12:26:28 AM (No. 1371112)
Glad they moved, but I absolutely cannot fathom how people love NYC. Been there manybtimes, and always happy and relieved to be safely away.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 1/5/2023 11:11:23 AM (No. 1371395)
We moved out of New York years ago. Best move we ever made. We moved to North central Florida. No regrets at all. Love the mountains in NY and go for a visit quite frequently, however, if you gave me a house in NY for free I would not accept it. I will never live there again. I wish we had done it years before we did.
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