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‘UNPRECEDENTED’: Wave of NYC businesses heading to Florida
Fox29WFLX ^ | 7 Nov, 2025 | Kate Hussey

Posted on 11/14/2025 6:22:33 AM PST by MtnClimber

Following WFLX’s reporting on the so-called “Mamdani Migration”— New York City businesses leaving the city after the mayoral election — new data we obtained shows several companies filing to relocate to Florida.

Mamdani, who was elected as New York City mayor Tuesday, has pledged to increase taxes for corporations and individuals making more than $1 million, a move that sent shock waves through the business community.

The morning after Mamdani’s election victory, Florida business relocation attorney, Chad Cummings, told WPTV he received five to 10 times his usual number of calls from New York companies seeking to move to Florida.

“My phone, and I’m not exaggerating, has literally been ringing off the hook. I have not been able to leave my desk since about 7:30 this morning,” Cummings said. “What we are seeing is really unprecedented.”

Cummings said Wednesday alone, he spoke with nine companies targeting Palm Beach County and three others eyeing Port St. Lucie.

“They are very candid, for the most part, that this is a decision that is driven by the election results in Manhattan and a desire to escape what they perceive to be an oppressive regulatory and tax regime,” Cummings said.

WFLX dug through Florida’s corporate filings and found that in just the past few days, at least 27 New York companies filed to expand operations in Florida, while nine more filed to relocate entirely.

(Excerpt) Read more at wflx.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

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1 posted on 11/14/2025 6:22:33 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

It really is “Escape from New York”.


2 posted on 11/14/2025 6:23:01 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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3 posted on 11/14/2025 6:26:05 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: MtnClimber

NYSE needs to move out of NY and that will be the final nail in the coffin


4 posted on 11/14/2025 6:26:33 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009
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To: MtnClimber

Interesting. Will the wave give way to a TOTALITARIAN tsunami from Mamdani?


5 posted on 11/14/2025 6:27:00 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: MtnClimber

Next Babylon Bee News

New York Crime Families move to Florida!


6 posted on 11/14/2025 6:27:20 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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To: MtnClimber

I really do think this is a scheme by the communists so they can buy up New York through depressing the prices of property.


7 posted on 11/14/2025 6:29:48 AM PST by Jonty30 (I've been diagnosed as being polemic and there is no cure. )
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To: TexasFreeper2009

Many financial companies seem to be relocating to Dallas.


8 posted on 11/14/2025 6:30:07 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Jonty30
I really do think this is a scheme by the communists so they can buy up New York through depressing the prices of property.

They will buy it with other people's money, taxpayer funds.

9 posted on 11/14/2025 6:31:42 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Jonty30
Wagamama moving US headquarters to Tampa from NYC

Since opening its flagship restaurant in 1992, the British restaurant chain has already expanded to more than 22 countries, according to its website. Only seven of those locations are in the U.S., though, with Florida's sole Wagamama location opening its doors on downtown Tampa's Water Street in 2023.

10 posted on 11/14/2025 6:35:44 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Many of those fleeing NY would have been voters for Elise Stefanik next year.


11 posted on 11/14/2025 6:41:01 AM PST by Dan in Wichita
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Not just businesses - New York City's tax base - "the rich" that Madman Mamdani thinks should not exist - are fleeing as well:

The top 1 percent of earners in New York pay around half the city’s income taxes.

We are seeing interest from New York City intensify because of the election,’

Most of the calls are from buyers, many Wall Street execs, looking in the $20 million to $30 million range. Specifically for waterfront houses or oceanfront condos.’"

What's a Communie supposed to do when his money source has fled?

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12 posted on 11/14/2025 6:42:49 AM PST by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

An alternative exchange is opening in Dallas.

No woke mandates allowed under Texas law.

No mandatory black female trans-dwarf furries on the boards.

It will just outcompete the leftist exchanges


13 posted on 11/14/2025 6:43:10 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Jonty30

Just last night I watched a compilation of Seinfeld episodes all about DelBoca Vista, FL. When Jerry’s parents moved to Florida. Then George’s parents were also thinking about moving there.


14 posted on 11/14/2025 6:48:55 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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Get ‘em up! Move ‘em out! Make the muzzie terrorists make their own pizza.


15 posted on 11/14/2025 6:51:31 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Duwaji Mandumi. America's first muzzie terrorist "first lady". ROTFL!!! Way to go 'merica!)
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They will move there and start voting for democrats. They can’t help themselves. Liberal Yankees need to stay up north. Like I say to all refugees: fight for your home. Fix things where you live. Hold a few people to account and they start to get the message. Flee and they just gain more power.


16 posted on 11/14/2025 6:52:54 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: MtnClimber

Snowbird businesses?


17 posted on 11/14/2025 6:53:51 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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To: tired&retired
New York Crime Families move to Florida!

The mafia thrived under Mussolini. Nothing is more favorable to organized crime than corrupt government. Nothing is more conducive to goverment corruption than socialism. If you deny that last statement, you are delusional.

18 posted on 11/14/2025 6:54:11 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets ( )
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To: 1Old Pro
"They will buy it with other people's money, taxpayer funds."

Yup. And then they'll build their "15-minute" city, with all sorts of Soviet style "subsidized" public housing, which will be inhabited by the human detritus that remains after everyone who can, gets the hell out of NYC.

19 posted on 11/14/2025 6:54:55 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: MtnClimber

Could go the way of SanFrancisco.


20 posted on 11/14/2025 6:55:16 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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