Posted on 03/28/2026 12:33:40 PM PDT by CFW
The article fails to mention how the banking industry has left and is leaving NY for south Florida...
Save you Confederate Money Boys — The South Will Rise Again!!
The Charlie Daniels Band - The South’s Gonna Do It Again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEKMED-_2QQ
Keep going to Tex and Fla. Avoid TN, it’s awful. 😉
My daughter’s gff is moving down to Denton from Kentucky with us next month, she’s got a number of financial employment opportunities that don’t seem to be anywhere else—until recently we lived in central FL, but the financial people are in SE FL, which is too crowded and too expensive (but has a good Japanese museum).
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Back in the day when markets were human animals in an open pit (open outcry), it was not easy to relocate.
Now with all trading done electronically all over the world, it’s no sweat to relocate to an area that welcomes the business.
I can’t think of a market anywhere that uses open outcry any more.
Note that GA is not in the graphic. That is because GA is not attracting the rich. GA is attracting the working class and middle class.
Their jobs up north disappeared. They do not understand why. Nobody in GA is educating them. The Republicans are too busy throwing dirt at each other.
I recently spoke to a high end realtor in N Palm Beach County to see if she/her firm are seeing an influx of bankers. She said no. We see the Bldgs Steven Ross is building in WPB but we aren’t seeing the people, at least not in numbers being reported.
Okay, I'll buy that.... but it doesn't explain the 4000-a-month 3 bedroom apartments springing up inside the Perimeter.
Culture gets destroyed via mass migration. Neo South is full of retirees, migrants and yuppies.
Equally telling is the fundamental change in academe. The thirst for education rather than indoctrination with the growth shift towards SEC universities being driven by young people fleeing northern university indoctrination in favor of an SEC education
“...Even more telling for the long-term cultural and economic trajectory: between 2014 and 2023, SEC universities saw a 91% surge in undergraduates from out of state, with many students seeking a campus culture that is the antithesis of Northeastern or West Coast woke progressivism.”
4,000 a month rent is both the husband and wife with middle income jobs. The 3 bedrooms are for “work-from-home” offices. DINK comes to GA?
Maybe I still think in old-school IL approach.
It’s air conditioning
Don’t gotta sleep on the screen porch no mo
And don’t gotta shovel sunshine
There’s an awful lot of those apartments, though. Too many, to my mind, to explain by husband/wife office arrangements.
And the ones I’m thinking of are pretty far from downtown Atlanta, and VERY hard travel to Alpharetta.
I’m paying way less than that for a mortgage for a very wonderful house.
I agree, nobody should move here (glad to see the population increase wasn’t that large)
Oklahoma is TERRIBLE. They wouldn’t like it here. Just sayin.’
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