Young New Yorkers Voting with their Feet
New Yorkers have long retired to the warmth and ease of the Florida coast, but eyebrow-raising numbers show that in recent years, most of those moving from the Empire State to the Sunshine State have been going there to find work.
Florida remains the top destination for outbound New Yorkers, but the new migrants are a lot younger than you'd expect.
This means that an increasing number of New Yorkers either can't afford to remain in their home state or can't find work there -- and are thus moving to states with friendlier business climates to find it.
Of course, New Yorkers think about more than taxes and nanny state laws when deciding where to live, but when costs get too out of control, they tend to vote with their feet.
The problem is that many of the people that infected New York are carrying the liberal contagion to Florida.
As the Instapundit likes to say, the Florida communities need teams of welcome wagons to greet the newcomers and remind them why Florida isn't like, and doesn't want to be like, New York...
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2013-04-02 |