Why does almost everyone seem to assume that it's liberals who want to leave NY? See comment# 20.
(Why does almost everyone seem to assume that it’s liberals who want to leave NY?)....personal experience.
I’ve practiced real estate in LV for nearly a decade and I’ve seen a great cross section of the people who are looking to relocate. It’s still mostly people from NYC moving out of the state and not people from the less liberal rural areas who are fleeing. I wish it weren’t the case but even liberals want to the quality of life that us Red Staters have. And they love not having to pay income taxes. But they still vote for people who love abortion, hate guns, want to end talk radio and much of the other list of do-gooder policies.
And being in Las Vegas, I probably get an infinitely better pool of immigrants from NY than they do in FL where they are moving from one dark blue city to another (like Boca Raton, Miami, etc). They all love the no-income-tax benefits but then they vote for guys who lard up the government so that an income tax becomes inevitable. Sad. Unescapably sad.