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Home Front: Politix
Young New Yorkers Voting with their Feet
2013-04-02
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

#19  Rantburgers are awfully slow learners.
Posted by trailing wife

Then there is failing retention, pre-mature balding, leaky pipes, and ED.
:-(
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-04-02 22:41  

#18  Sorry to be a bore. After this I will desist

I'm so sorry, Ebbang Uluque6305. I didn't mean to suggest that at all, just that on some subjects Rantburgers are awfully slow learners.
Posted by: trailing wife   2013-04-02 20:11  

#17  Not interested in fracking in terms of state budgets. As you point out, they'll spend twice whatever comes in. I am interested in fracking from the standpoint of abundant, affordable energy produced in the US. Hell, if I had to invade someplace for oil it wouldn't be Iraq. It would be the Golden State.
Posted by: Iblis   2013-04-02 18:01  

#16  Lack of water doesn't stop them in California. Just ask the avocado growers. Tried toilet to tap yet?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2013-04-02 17:53  

#15  your precious Colorado

Not precious to me. Just worrisome watching your neighbor's home burn. I'm a bit south where because the tax base is lower there's less to loot and because there's a shortage of 'water' developers have been stopped in their track having a requirement to show where they're going to get that commodity to support what they want to do.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-04-02 17:21  

#14  Sorry my china, in the end we lose. You've been there Bill, you've seen it.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-04-02 17:21  

#13  Instead of fracking, maybe a little FRAGGING would help solve the problem.

Not to advocate civil unrest but we are on the verge of some really ugly crap with critical mass approaching on favoritism for illegals, high unemployment, and a state government that wants all of your money. They would tax sex if they could find a way to keep score.
Posted by: Bill Clinton   2013-04-02 17:18  

#12  A little fracking late for fracking.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-04-02 17:06  

#11  I know people who think fracking is the answer to California's budget problems. I'm not necessarily opposed to fracking but I think they're dreaming. As long as the people of this state keep reelecting looney liberals to the state legislature it won't matter how much money fracking brings us. They'll spend it as fast as they can get it and then some.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2013-04-02 17:05  

#10  Ebbang Uluque6305:


Colorado crazy is not a perfect mimic of California crazy. California may actually be more receptive to fracking, for example.
Posted by: Iblis   2013-04-02 16:24  

#9  Or do they just like to get high in the Rockies?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2013-04-02 16:24  

#8  Sorry to be a bore. After this I will desist. But another interesting fact is that California voters recently defeated a proposition that would have legalized marijuana. So now the question is: do the people of Colorado blame their current state of affairs on imported Californians?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2013-04-02 16:22  

#7  have tried to tell you people several times that if you scratch some of these co-called Californians you will find a New Yorker.

Yes, you have, dear Ebbang Uluque6305. In a century or two we should have mastered the concept.
Posted by: trailing wife   2013-04-02 15:18  

#6  
Same with the Californistas [see - Colorado]. It literally follows the pathology of the plague.

I have tried to tell you people several times that if you scratch some of these co-called Californians you will find a New Yorker. Call it anecdotal evidence if you want but I've been a resident of California since, well, longer than I want to admit. I'm old, OK? The point is in the early 1970's there was a flood of people coming into this state from places like New York, New Jersey and, yes, even Texas and even Colorado too. In fact I happen to have known people who moved here from your precious Colorado and they were NOT Republicans. I've said this before too: There used to be a popular saying about California that the United States was tilted so that all the loose fruits and nuts rolled out here. So now some of you are getting your fruits and nuts back. I have no sympathy for you. Do your city councils and county admins take money from the developers who build vast new housing tracts for these migrants? Ours did too. It is very difficult to contend with all that money. I do have some sympathy for states like Florida catching the latest wave of migrants from New York. I think the New Yorkers stopped coming to California after their sheer numbers caused the cost of housing out here to skyrocket. Yeah, just try to compete with these people for housing.

It seems to me it would be easy to leave New York. It's crowded, dirty and the weather sucks. But where do you go after they've screwed up San Diego?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305   2013-04-02 15:07  

#5  Same is happening in London with the white middle class unable to afford living in London leaving the Rich and poor only.Rich in million pound houses and the poor mainly immigrants in social housing.No middle class left.They are the commuters who keep the economy going in the UK.

Posted by: Anginens Jating3463   2013-04-02 13:31  

#4  The only true democracy is the ability to vote with one's feet.
Posted by: Iblis   2013-04-02 11:56  

#3  This has been going on for decades. Buffalo, NY emptied out with a vengeance after the Bethlehem Steel plant closed in 1983, throwing its last 10,000 employees out of work. Pretty much the only jobs available are with government at various levels or the university.
Posted by: trailing wife   2013-04-02 10:50  

#2  They have invaded coastal villages of South Carolina with a vengeance.
Posted by: Besoeker   2013-04-02 10:08  

#1  The problem is that many of the people that infected New York are carrying the liberal contagion to Florida.

Same with the Californistas [see - Colorado]. It literally follows the pathology of the plague.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2013-04-02 09:57  

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