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Posted on 02/17/2026 1:59:02 PM PST by Hojczyk
Who is moving to California or New York? Or Chicago. No one, pretty much.
The only rival to Florida is Texas. Austin is an enormous tech hub, while both Dallas and Houston are economic powerhouses. Dallas has become a financial center and now has its own stock exchange. Florida and Texas are poised to be the great rivals of the 21st century, as New York and California were in the 20th.
What do Florida and Texas have in common? No income tax, to begin with. That is obviously a huge factor. But it is more than that: both are competently run. Ron DeSantis may go down as the greatest governor in American history. Consider this fact: Florida has three million more people than New York, yet its state budget is less than half of New York’s; $116 billion, compared with New York’s $254 billion. And Florida’s budget for the 2025-26 fiscal year is actually down $3 billion from the year before, despite the state’s burgeoning population. How can a state like New York possibly compete?
And if DeSantis’s record is without peer, Texas’s Greg Abbott probably comes closer than anyone else.
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That is an amazing difference! Thanks for posting!
Moved here twenty years ago…Venice FL…could go to the beach anytime …not anymore… no place to park…
Butt Pirates should try Florida first. It has South Beach and Disney World. Texas can’t compete with that.
“Who is moving to California or New York? Or Chicago. No one, pretty much.”
Hmmm... Not so.
The entire 3rd world is moving to California. The rich and the poor from the 3rd world. They are the political class here.
They have been flooding in ever since the 1965 Hart Celler immigration act and the 1986 Reagan amnesty and it has never let up.
Welcome to California, where you can get your ballot in
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Texas has the liberal s**thole Austin and surrounding Travis County. My brother lives there. If there’s any woke crap happening in Texas it’s there. I don’t think FL has a Democratic stronghold that big and powerful.
Both California and New York have a Tammany Hall corruption machine that makes it all but impossible for the good guys to win.
What? No Klingon?
Isn’t TX the state approving settlements/developments for MUSLIMS only?
No-Texas is forbidding Muslim-only developments-the are a violation of civil rights in housing, and will not be allowed-several lawsuits against them are already in the court system. Same for the developers of those mojado settlements-developers are being sued for numerous violations of all kinds$$$$...
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I don’t think FL has a Democratic stronghold that big and powerful.
Don’t encourage them. It will just get added to the list along with Elvish and whatever Orcs speak.
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