Posted on 09/21/2022 5:34:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
The COVID-driven rush of New Yorkers into Florida has turned into a stampede — with no end in sight.
A record-breaking number of Empire State residents switched their driver’s licenses to the Sunshine State version last month, according to a Post analysis of Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles data.
A total of 5,838 New Yorkers made the switch in August — the highest recorded number for a single month in history, the numbers show.
Year to date, 41,885 New Yorkers have handed over their licenses after moving south, a torrid pace that’s pointing to a new annual record.
Some observers had speculated that the outbound flow would ease with COVID receding and cities opening back up.
But the latest figures suggest otherwise.
Renowned fashion designer Alvin Valley moved his primary residence to Palm Beach during the pandemic and said the ongoing influx has been staggering.
“First it was the billionaires,” he said. “Then it was the rich following behind them. Now you have the middle class.”
Valley, who has already opened one Palm Beach boutique and has another in the works, said the Florida flight has been driven largely by quality of life concerns.
“A lot of families just began to feel like New York was becoming unlivable,” Valley said. “Especially for younger couples with kids in their thirties and forties. They don’t want to get on the subway. It’s a safety issue, it’s a schools issue.”
A retired NYPD Lieutenant who moved with his family to Jacksonville last year told the Post that New Yorkers still have a buffet of reasons to bid farewell.
John Macari blamed COVID-19 mandates, rising crime and unappealing schools for the continued departures.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Making a red state redder and a blue state bluer....................
That is 41k additional Democrat voters coming to turn Florida into NY. Just because they left the little DDR of NY behind doesn’t mean they’ve completely reversed their mindsets and now won’t vote Democrat. Democrat voters are unable or unwilling to face the fact that their voting patterns are what caused them to flee NY in the first place. Anectodal evidence: I was reading a post in that Nextdoor app by some woman in Palm Beach Shores about how she saw kids with a rifle shooting iguanas and called the police (It was doubtless an air gun and shooting iguanas is not only legal it’s encouraged) I don’t know if she was a New Yorker, but her attitude certainly reflected New York values
And then turning America into Venezuela
Trump barely won Florida in 2016 but dominated Biden in 2020”That domination was the result of Cubans for Trump.
It's also what caused Fox News to panic and make the early call of Arizona for Biden. That call was made to demoralize Trump voters waiting in lines to vote.
New Yorkers (R) or (D) will bring their New York liberalism with them.
Be careful what you wish for.
Quote: “Be careful what you wish for.”
To be clear, I am not wishing for any NYer to move to Florida. They made the mess, they should stay and clean it up.
Yes, Kathy pretty much told them to leave.
A friend of mine in Tarpon Springs says all of the new arrivals he has met there the past couple of months are conservatives.
Very true l.
Yankee Dems rarely convert .
These people just might keep the real estate market from crashing in Florida. The run-up in prices seems to be unsustainable, but the future is so hard to predict anymore.
New homes here are going for more than the asking price................
That was true in 2007 as well. It was stunning.
And then .... it fell apart really fast.
I meant Floridians in general expecting an influx of Republicans.
Bookmark for later.
It looks to me like FL has gone “redder” since the days of Bush/Gore and hanging chads. Trump won FL by 3.5
Billy Joel called it, way back in 1975:
Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out On Broadway)
Seen the lights go out on Broadway
I saw the Empire State laid low
And life went on beyond the palisades
They all bought Cadillacs
And left there long ago
They held a concert out in Brooklyn
To watch the island bridges blow
They turned our power down
And drove us underground
But we went right on with the show
I’ve seen the lights go out on Broadway
I saw the ruins at my feet
You know we almost didn’t notice it
We’d seen it all the time on Forty-second Street
They burned the churches up in Harlem
Like in the Spanish civil war
The flames were everywhere
But no one really cared
It always burned up there before
I’ve seen the lights go out on Broadway
I’ve watched the mighty skyline fall
The boats were waiting at the battery
The union went on strike
They never sailed at all
They sent a carrier out from Norfolk
And picked the Yankees up for free
They said that Queens could stay
They blew the Bronx away
And sank Manhattan out at sea
You know those lights were bright on Broadway
That was so many years ago
Before we all lived here in Florida
Before the Mafia took over Mexico
There are not many who remember
They say a handful still survive
To tell the world about
The way the lights went out
And keep the memory alive
Update from NYS with a look at what Albany is doing to rectify the problem...
https://www.news10.com/news/dmv-seeks-to-simplify-process-to-get-a-non-driver-id/
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