Do politics necessarily have anything to do with relocating to Florida?

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Anonymous wrote:Since things have gone downhill in the last five years, you couldn’t pay me enough to even travel to FL. I don’t even do a layover at FL airport. I’m surprised at people who still travel, live, or go to school in FL. I work in higher ed and it’s common knowledge that FL schools have different curriculum. I know it’s expensive to pick up and move, though, so I can see why some older people feel stuck.

You're surprised at 22 million plus something people who live, work, and go to school in Florida? Like, you're smarter than all of them? Please tell me where you are in ' higher education' so I can avoid that place!

A lot of people moved there from places with much higher COLA during the pandemic. Now they're stuck there. They have no where else to go. I don't think it's smart to live in Florida year round or to raise children there. Your children will have low paying jobs in the service sector or healthcare. You can't trust anyone you meet there because they all come from somewhere else. They move there to escape some problem in their current residence.

You realize this is racist and xenophobic, right?

I don't know about racist, but definitely parochial and snobbish. "You can't trust people from out of town" LoL.

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Anonymous wrote:Since things have gone downhill in the last five years, you couldn’t pay me enough to even travel to FL. I don’t even do a layover at FL airport. I’m surprised at people who still travel, live, or go to school in FL. I work in higher ed and it’s common knowledge that FL schools have different curriculum. I know it’s expensive to pick up and move, though, so I can see why some older people feel stuck.

You're surprised at 22 million plus something people who live, work, and go to school in Florida? Like, you're smarter than all of them? Please tell me where you are in ' higher education' so I can avoid that place!

A lot of people moved there from places with much higher COLA during the pandemic. Now they're stuck there. They have no where else to go. I don't think it's smart to live in Florida year round or to raise children there. Your children will have low paying jobs in the service sector or healthcare. You can't trust anyone you meet there because they all come from somewhere else. They move there to escape some problem in their current residence.

You realize this is racist and xenophobic, right?

Why? Donald Trump lives there. He's from somewhere else. I wouldn't want him as a neighbor.

Unless you live next to Mar-A-Lago, he won't be your neighbor. He's at least 8 hrs from me, and I've never been within 4 hours of where he lives.

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Anonymous wrote:Since things have gone downhill in the last five years, you couldn’t pay me enough to even travel to FL. I don’t even do a layover at FL airport. I’m surprised at people who still travel, live, or go to school in FL. I work in higher ed and it’s common knowledge that FL schools have different curriculum. I know it’s expensive to pick up and move, though, so I can see why some older people feel stuck.

You're surprised at 22 million plus something people who live, work, and go to school in Florida? Like, you're smarter than all of them? Please tell me where you are in ' higher education' so I can avoid that place!

A lot of people moved there from places with much higher COLA during the pandemic. Now they're stuck there. They have no where else to go. I don't think it's smart to live in Florida year round or to raise children there. Your children will have low paying jobs in the service sector or healthcare. You can't trust anyone you meet there because they all come from somewhere else. They move there to escape some problem in their current residence.

You realize this is racist and xenophobic, right?

Why? Donald Trump lives there. He's from somewhere else. I wouldn't want him as a neighbor.

I wouldn't want to live anywhere near your car jacking, gang shop lifting neighbors or neighborhoods

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Anonymous wrote:If you're a retiree, conservative or not, underfunding public schools means lower taxes

And yet: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think politics are a big part of why people move. I'd put a gun in my mouth before moving to Florida, and there's no politics that would change that either way.

Same here. Florida Man is a meme for a reason. The politics is the icing on the cake, though.

Also, the people who talk about Florida's "great weather" absolutely befuddle me.

Florida man is mostly because they have sunshine laws so everyone hears about crazy stuff and weather such that people prone to stupid behavior can be out there doing that stupid crap for 12 months out of the year. Crime goes way up in the summer in northern areas for exactly this reason.

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Anonymous wrote:I want to live in a state where cops have never been ordered to “stand down” during a riot.

+1

And where public schools were safely opened for most of the time after September 2020.

only a few thousand extra people died because of their carelessness

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt responses here will be very representative. But realistically, must be quite rare for someone to change states over an election. That's pretty intense ideology to do that.

It’s not “over an election.” It’s over a system of government. The DeSantis government has had police interview newly registered voters. The state has paid for an anti-abortion website, and state police have visited people who signed an pro choice petition. The state has said that schools must pretend that families with two same gender parents don’t exist, and the government is working hard to restrict the civil and human rights of people like me. Escaping active persecution is not “extreme.”

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Came here for a job. Politics did not matter to me.
I have friends of all political persuasions.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're a retiree, conservative or not, underfunding public schools means lower taxes

And yet: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education

I think PP meant k-12 when they said “public schools.” If you read the article you linked, that #1 ranking is based mostly on the fact that Florida colleges are cheap.

For k-12, Florida ranks just behind VA. Leaders are Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and New York.

Interestingly, the state BOE website says that Florida schools are great because of their “parents’ bill of rights” - also known as the “don’t say gay” bill. So no, as the parent of a gay son, I’d never move to a place that crows so much about oppressing people like my kid.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're a retiree, conservative or not, underfunding public schools means lower taxes

And yet: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education

I think PP meant k-12 when they said “public schools.” If you read the article you linked, that #1 ranking is based mostly on the fact that Florida colleges are cheap.

For k-12, Florida ranks just behind VA. Leaders are Massachusetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and New York.

Interestingly, the state BOE website says that Florida schools are great because of their “parents’ bill of rights” - also known as the “don’t say gay” bill. So no, as the parent of a gay son, I’d never move to a place that crows so much about oppressing people like my kid.

My kids are in a Florida public school and "don't say gay" is not a thing. There is an LGBTQ club. The gay community in any urban part of Florida is huge.

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Anonymous wrote:Since things have gone downhill in the last five years, you couldn’t pay me enough to even travel to FL. I don’t even do a layover at FL airport. I’m surprised at people who still travel, live, or go to school in FL. I work in higher ed and it’s common knowledge that FL schools have different curriculum. I know it’s expensive to pick up and move, though, so I can see why some older people feel stuck.

You're surprised at 22 million plus something people who live, work, and go to school in Florida? Like, you're smarter than all of them? Please tell me where you are in ' higher education' so I can avoid that place!

A lot of people moved there from places with much higher COLA during the pandemic. Now they're stuck there. They have no where else to go. I don't think it's smart to live in Florida year round or to raise children there. Your children will have low paying jobs in the service sector or healthcare. You can't trust anyone you meet there because they all come from somewhere else. They move there to escape some problem in their current residence.

You realize this is racist and xenophobic, right?

Why? Donald Trump lives there. He's from somewhere else. I wouldn't want him as a neighbor.

I wouldn't want to live anywhere near your car jacking, gang shop lifting neighbors or neighborhoods

#Smart

[Anonymous]

I grew up in Florida, my family is still there, and I would move back for reasons unrelated to politics, but there are absolutely many people moving there for political reasons. I know people who have done it, my parents have gained neighbors who have done it, and the state has undeniably changed. That doesn’t mean it’s everyone’s reason though—there’s other stuff to love about Florida.

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I have been hearing about a lot of people moving out of Florida for either the politics or the weather or both. The one exception is the very erudite older couple I met who moved out of Florida because “it’s all strip malls and lacking any charm or sophistication.” Duh.

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I have family members - either Cs or Ds — who are leaving and the reason is “all of it”. Politics, flooding, access to good healthcare. They are heading back north to a very blue state.

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Florida, my family is still there, and I would move back for reasons unrelated to politics, but there are absolutely many people moving there for political reasons. I know people who have done it, my parents have gained neighbors who have done it, and the state has undeniably changed. That doesn’t mean it’s everyone’s reason though—there’s other stuff to love about Florida.

A lot of families moved to FL from NY and CA looking for two things: safe streets and open schools.