About fifteen years back I used to do a lot of business in New York State. I was noticing that every year 15 to 20 of my customers were picking-up and moving to North Carolina.
Work out the math on my small sampling, and North Carolina has to be totally overrun by New Yorkers by now.
The Upstate New Yorkers are welcome, most in my exposure here have been decent people, my best neighbors for 20 years came down from Syracuse. The closer to NYC you get, the more likely they’re not anybody you want to know, though, especially on the New Jersey side. Probably more New Jersey here than New York.