Florida is facing a new influx of gruntled residents as they flee from blue states, including New York City following the Democratic candidates’ election success.
According to the reports, Residents who are fed up with spiraling crime and high taxes from several blue states are so disappointed at the winning of the Dems that they decided to move in from Democratic strongholds.
In the data released by The Post, “through August, a record 41,885 New Yorkers already swapped their licenses for the Florida version, a commonly used indicator of demographic trends.”
The report also revealed that the “figure was 21,277 for California, 16,970 for Pennsylvania and 16,846 for Illinois.”
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Moreover, after the Tuesday’s election showed
Democratic leaders being re-elected or voted in — coupled with Gov. Ron DeSantis’s landslide entrenchment, Sunshine State observers revealed that they expect the exodus to Florida will continue.
“People are leaving these states for a lot of different reasons. Crime, quality of life, taxes. I think with the elections going the way they did, the trend is going to continue. It’s good for us, for the state and its economy. It’s not so good for states that were already losing people,” Laura Gambino of One Sotheby’s International in Palm Beach, said in a statement.
In addition, Jean Hahn, a New York City parent activist also claimed that her Whatsapp group of several hundred moms and dads was ablaze last Wednesday morning following the winning of Gov. Kathy Hochul against her challenger Lee Zeldin.
“A lot of people are saying that they’re hopeless at this point. They’re already looking at listings, ways they can get out. There is just a lot of frustration.” Hahn said.
Another member of the group also told The Post in an exclusive interview that she’s planning to leave the state whenever a move becomes feasible.
“For a lot of parents, the line in the sand is a vaccine mandate to attend school. If that happens, there will be an exodus.”
“The crime, the mandates, the general insanity. I think people are just looking at their lives and thinking there has to be a better place to raise their children,” another participant, an Upper East side resident added who also claimed that the city is becoming “unlivable” for families and that “Hochul’s winning has set off frenzied searches on property website Zillow among her circle of friends,” the New York Post revealed.
