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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a few of my friends that moved to Florida, and  only one of them are Republicans, is this an outliers?   Are more Republican's moving to Florida than Dems?[/quote]

FL had a boom during the pandemic, take a guess why.  Take a guess why tax free red states like FL and TX had an influx of overtaxed citizens of NY and CA whose states had the strictest Covid restrictions and mandates and most radical social/equity justice reforms.  This isn't even about republicans migrating or those who used to be democrats switching their political leaning.  It's probably more about opportunism, finally saving on state taxes and RE prices (when you come from most expensive places in the USA)  started to make sense with remote work, and unfavorable changes to QOL brought on by their states local Covid policies and going a bit too far to the left in other aspects had pushed them to make that move for greener pastures. [/quote]

A huge factor was that FL had open schools during most of the pandemic. Florida man is smarter than often assumed :-)[/quote]
Yes, this definitely was a factor, anything that people hated in blue state and cities about Covid restrictions made FL a very attractive option if you don't want to live through this again.[/quote]

https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/09/09/child-covid-fatalities-nearly-double-in-florida-1390807

Child deaths more than doubled when the kids went back in 2021. Cold comfort for the parents of those kids who died.  I think return to school would've been fine if Desantis also tried to overrule school districts mask requirement. Even in R leaning districts, they wanted kids to wear masks.

So, while I wanted my kids in school, the non-masking in FL would've concerned me.[/quote]

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