Posted on 05/02/2015 9:20:58 PM PDT by 11th_VA
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Do you want out of the state of Maryland? A new poll shows nearly half of Marylanders say they are fed up and ready to pack up if only they could.
Meghan McCorkell explains what has so many thinking about leaving.
In a poll of all 50 states, Maryland ranks third for people who say they would rather move somewhere else.
We’ve got the beach, the mountains, the O’s and Natty Boh, but some say they’re ready to break up with Maryland.
According to a new Gallup poll, 47 percent of Marylanders say they would move out of the state if they could. Only 17 percent are likely to leave.
The top reasons people want out–work or business.
“I think there’s better opportunity elsewhere,” one man said.
Other reasons are family and friends, plus the weather, which is not surprising after last winter.
“I just wish summer would be here,” a man shoveling snow said.
And, of course, there are taxes.
“Everybody’s paying more fees, more taxes, and I think, at some point, people get tired of it,” said Rep. Andy Harris, (R) Maryland.
Pretty soon the other states will wise up and not let the stupid voters from Maryland (the libs not you conservatives) resettle in them to afflict their hypocritical liberal logic on them.
Move out? Hell, I can’t even stand driving through it on my way to somewhere else.
Reminds me of the liberals I’ve talked with over the years that fume over people leaving metropolitan areas...”they’re leaving and depleting tax revenue”...”they shouldn’t be allowed to pick up and leave on their own whim”...”they commute too much” for example...the first one, well yes, it does deplete revenue, but they blame the symptom and not the cause...they second one, they must think we need travel papers (from an overseer no doubt)...the third one, an attack on freedom.
They just cannot admit they’re wrong...just double down and expect different results from same old tired approaches...insanity indeed.
I notice the story didn’t break the poll down between blacks and whites, liberal and conservative, etc.
What say you?
It should be illegal for liberals to leave the hellholes they create.
I wish they would stay and leave Virginia alone. Northern VA has been so polluted by transplants in search of lower taxes and lower cost of living that it’s become more expensive and more regulated with an equally high cost of living.
The only thing keeping me here is family.
I have been here 50 years. I love Maryland and adore Annapolis
The politicians here have all but ruined the quality of life here buying votes with crazy taxes and selling out to developers ruining the landscape
Damn them all
Once upon a time I left MD for TX.
I have never regretted it.
We Upper Bay and Eastern Shore people are also persona non grata as far as Annapolis is concerned. Except for the tax revenue we bring.
Nearly half of Marylanders? Did’t Guv Romney provide the more precise number? 47%
“Freak State”, no doubt a variation on the official state moniker, “the Free State.”
I prefer “The Fee State,” though both seem apt.
Loving the wide open spaces of south Florida.
I knew an Air Force Colonel and his wife who were so excited to be assigned to Hawaii. Their children were grown or in college, so it was just the two of them.
They paid an exorbitant sum of money for a house that turned out to be poorly built and gave them tens of thousands of dollars in maintenance costs the first year. The local government was corrupt, as you say, and native Hawaiians treated them with contempt.
They loved many aspects of living there, but after 15 months his wife had had enough.
She moved back to the States, and told her husband that when his tour was up he was to join her then. He firmly agreed with the decision.
They had big plans to eventually retire there, but scuttled them all. They said that as big as the island was, after a few months they felt "trapped" and wanted to "get off."
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