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.

We're A, considering a move from NoVa. It's just so political all the time here inside the Beltway, so in your face, we barely know anyone besides fellow trad Catholics who go to church, and the kids at the best schools seem obsessed with identity and weighted GPAs and are just generally unhappy. We're looking to west coast Florida, maybe a classical charter or classical Catholic school, or homeschooling - I'm just looking for a respite from politics and identity-indoctrination. My grandparents used to live in Florida and I loved visiting them, so I definitely have some rosy memories inspiring me, but also the cost of living, the weather, the supportive homeschool laws and generous school choice funding are appealing. Hubby and I are both Ivy grads but don't want our kids to obsess over college admissions so much they miss out on fun in their teenage years.

C

I was a "C".

I never thought the SC would overturn Roe. "Settled Law" My @ss.

Now I am debating what to do; I have teen daughters. It's very concerning.

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Anonymous wrote:I know three retirees who have moved away from Florida. They thought they were there for good but decided to move back North. All had various reasons for doing so, but politics played a part.

False -- I know many who have moved, but it's because of booming real estate prices. That's why they move to Georgia or SC, not DC or NYC or CA or Il...

Actually, they moved to Cleveland, Bethesda and Boston.

Some kind of joke I assume?

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Anonymous wrote:I know three retirees who have moved away from Florida. They thought they were there for good but decided to move back North. All had various reasons for doing so, but politics played a part.

False -- I know many who have moved, but it's because of booming real estate prices. That's why they move to Georgia or SC, not DC or NYC or CA or Il...

Actually, they moved to Cleveland, Bethesda and Boston.

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Anonymous wrote:I know three retirees who have moved away from Florida. They thought they were there for good but decided to move back North. All had various reasons for doing so, but politics played a part.

False -- I know many who have moved, but it's because of booming real estate prices. That's why they move to Georgia or SC, not DC or NYC or CA or Il...

and this is what happened in CA... more people coming in leads to higher housing costs.

Be careful what you wish for.

More people are moving out of hcol like CA and NY and moving to cheaper places like FL. To Californians, FL is cheap. To long time Floridians, it's now too expensive.


https://homebay.com/moving-trends/

If money was no object, more people would live in LA than Miami. Most people don't care that much about politics. They care more about great weather and interesting places.

Apparently a lot of people in the DC area care a lot about politics in Florida to the point where they are only willing to vacation there but think nobody in their right mind should live there. In fact they have a whole lot of misinformed opinions about living in Florida.

Certainly many people everywhere care about politics but if they were as outraged by what goes on in politics as they say they would be making firm plans to move to another country instead of whining about politics in individual states. Despite the results of various elections that might make you believe otherwise, here are the facts from Gallup:

Overall in 2021, an average of 29% of Americans identified as Democrats, 27% as Republicans and 42% as independents. Roughly equal proportions of independents leaned to the Democratic Party (17%) and to the Republican Party (16%).Jan 17, 2022

Also, in Florida:

Nearly evenly divided between registered Democrats and Republicans (37 percent and 35 percent, respectively); the gap between the two major parties is the narrowest in the state’s history. Democrats have always outnumbered Republicans but now neither is a majority of the state’s 12.9 million active registered voters.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know three retirees who have moved away from Florida. They thought they were there for good but decided to move back North. All had various reasons for doing so, but politics played a part.

False -- I know many who have moved, but it's because of booming real estate prices. That's why they move to Georgia or SC, not DC or NYC or CA or Il...

and this is what happened in CA... more people coming in leads to higher housing costs.

Be careful what you wish for.

More people are moving out of hcol like CA and NY and moving to cheaper places like FL. To Californians, FL is cheap. To long time Floridians, it's now too expensive.


https://homebay.com/moving-trends/

If money was no object, more people would live in LA than Miami. Most people don't care that much about politics. They care more about great weather and interesting places.

I doubt it for many reasons but that's the beauty of humanity and freedom -- so many options.

Why would you doubt it? CA is amazing if you have money. I lived there for 40 years, only had to move out because I could no longer afford a 3 br in the good school districts (which aren't many). But, if we had been childless, we would've stayed there.

Our close friends moved there recently and are a combination of C/D, depends on the issue.

Our other friends who were offered a job there passed, primarily because of politics.

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Anonymous wrote:I know three retirees who have moved away from Florida. They thought they were there for good but decided to move back North. All had various reasons for doing so, but politics played a part.

False -- I know many who have moved, but it's because of booming real estate prices. That's why they move to Georgia or SC, not DC or NYC or CA or Il...

and this is what happened in CA... more people coming in leads to higher housing costs.

Be careful what you wish for.

More people are moving out of hcol like CA and NY and moving to cheaper places like FL. To Californians, FL is cheap. To long time Floridians, it's now too expensive.


https://homebay.com/moving-trends/

If money was no object, more people would live in LA than Miami. Most people don't care that much about politics. They care more about great weather and interesting places.

I doubt it for many reasons but that's the beauty of humanity and freedom -- so many options.

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

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Anonymous wrote:I know three retirees who have moved away from Florida. They thought they were there for good but decided to move back North. All had various reasons for doing so, but politics played a part.

False -- I know many who have moved, but it's because of booming real estate prices. That's why they move to Georgia or SC, not DC or NYC or CA or Il...

and this is what happened in CA... more people coming in leads to higher housing costs.

Be careful what you wish for.

More people are moving out of hcol like CA and NY and moving to cheaper places like FL. To Californians, FL is cheap. To long time Floridians, it's now too expensive.


https://homebay.com/moving-trends/

If money was no object, more people would live in LA than Miami. Most people don't care that much about politics. They care more about great weather and interesting places.

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Anonymous wrote:I know three retirees who have moved away from Florida. They thought they were there for good but decided to move back North. All had various reasons for doing so, but politics played a part.

False -- I know many who have moved, but it's because of booming real estate prices. That's why they move to Georgia or SC, not DC or NYC or CA or Il...

False to your false. There are several reasons why people are moving out of FL, col is one but weather and politics are other reasons.

https://sfbwmag.com/business-insider-why-people-move-to-florida-and-then-move-out/

Weather
Cost of living
tourists
politics

We only know hard As and we know a lot of them last couple years and we may join ourselves as another hard A family.

Anonymous wrote:I know three retirees who have moved away from Florida. They thought they were there for good but decided to move back North. All had various reasons for doing so, but politics played a part.

False -- I know many who have moved, but it's because of booming real estate prices. That's why they move to Georgia or SC, not DC or NYC or CA or Il...