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New York/Florida Comparison: The Contrast Becomes Ever More Dramatic
Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 21 Jun, 2025 | Francis Menton

Posted on 06/22/2025 5:57:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber

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1 posted on 06/22/2025 5:57:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Thank you Governor DeSantis.


2 posted on 06/22/2025 5:58:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Florida is so damn crowded now. Takes forever to get anywhere. Lines around the block for anything. Couldn’t wait to get back to Northeast. We need a Florida #2, with same great policies but less crowded.


3 posted on 06/22/2025 6:00:36 AM PDT by montag813
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most of Florida is empty. The crowds are around the edges ... mostly yankee transplants ...


4 posted on 06/22/2025 6:05:51 AM PDT by bankwalker (Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
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To: montag813

I’ve notice quite an uptick in traffic in the Treasure Coast. It was fairly gradual up to COVID, at which point it jumped considerably.

Perhaps if we can send some of the illegals home it would help.


5 posted on 06/22/2025 6:12:26 AM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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***mostly yankee transplants***

I remember the 1980s when the anti-gun Brady Center had plans to turn Florida into an anti gun state due to all the New Yorkers moving there. They failed.


6 posted on 06/22/2025 6:13:24 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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To: montag813

“Florida is so damn crowded now.”

It is so crowded nobody goes there any more.


7 posted on 06/22/2025 6:13:55 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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bump


8 posted on 06/22/2025 6:29:24 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: bankwalker

Yankee transplants are fine. It’s the history of the South. AS LONG AS THEY DO NOT TRANSPLANT NUTCASE POLITICS!


9 posted on 06/22/2025 6:32:43 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Nothing inflames unrest in the delusional, and nothing inflames unrest in the evil, like TRUTH.)
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To: MtnClimber

“The two big categories in both states’ budgets are education and health care.”

IOW - Organized crime and embezzlement


10 posted on 06/22/2025 6:46:22 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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Especially as you get further North and West in the State, the majority of the population growth is from I-4 South and a few places in the North like north of Daytona including St. Augustine and St. Johns County, once you get 25-30 miles inland, it’s still mostly farmland.


11 posted on 06/22/2025 6:47:16 AM PDT by srmanuel
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I spent 35 years in Central Florida before moving back to my home state of TN during the COVID debacle. I miss the Florida of years past, but missing it is not going to bring it back. The move to a very rural (pop. 2k) TN town was definitely a net positive.


12 posted on 06/22/2025 6:54:30 AM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident.)
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The biggest difference is pubic employees.
Salaries and benefits for Public employees at all levels, including Cops, Firefighters, and Schools.
They all vote for the public spending in exchange for votes.
The few benefit, the many get screwed.

The model of High Tax-High Wage destroys everything
Eventually, you run out of other people’s money.


13 posted on 06/22/2025 6:57:01 AM PDT by Macoozie (Roll MAGA, roll!)
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To: StAntKnee; texas booster

Manhattan Contrarian ping


14 posted on 06/22/2025 7:04:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Enjoyed and Lived in north central Florida for 45 years before family moving to Colorado. (Political mistake).
Visited New York, daughter went to Colgate, would not live there for a New York minute.


15 posted on 06/22/2025 7:38:27 AM PDT by drSteve78 ( Older Je suis Deplorable. Even more so”)
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To: MtnClimber

THESE STATISTICS ALONE ARE ENOUGH TO SINK HOCHUL


16 posted on 06/22/2025 8:12:08 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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I was born in Florida. My company asked me to move to colorado and I lived there for 22 years. Now I am back in Florida.


17 posted on 06/22/2025 8:12:28 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

Oftentimes the name of the Manhattan Contrarian should be changed to the Manhattan Oracle.


18 posted on 06/22/2025 9:00:38 AM PDT by Wuli (uire)
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To: MtnClimber

Welcome home sir!


19 posted on 06/22/2025 9:20:34 AM PDT by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: MtnClimber

Fraud and graft.


20 posted on 06/22/2025 9:33:42 AM PDT by fruser1
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