Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:D - we moved here nine years ago before the politics got so insane.

We live in a city that's a little pocket of blue, but the state politics are so infuriating and frankly terrifying that if we were moving today we'd pick someplace else.

Now, we have a house, a community - it's harder to just pick up and go. We love a lot about our lives here, but the politics essentially feel like an assault. Woke comes to Florida to die, says the awful governor - and we feel like he's telling us we're not welcome here.

Gay people are leaving, teachers are leaving, trans people are leaving, professors are leaving, people who care about their kids' education are leaving - and I don't blame any of them.

Meanwhile DeSantis is importing the worst cops - the ones who make us feel unsafe, and we're not even the ones who are most at risk with these crazies holding guns and the power to use them.

Yeah, right now it's D.

We are also D.
Just to point out, we are not seeing the same thing. Rhonda Santis is now the #1 drag queen name (OK I made that up. I just wanted to say Rhonda Santis). We don’t see people leaving to the degree that you do. We live in a community with a lot of families, and we do see groups of like-minded people forming. We have a Banned Book Club group for kids. Synagogues and educated parents are forming groups to teach correct history. FL folks have been correctly labeled as ignorant and stupid but people from other parts of the country are moving here in huge numbers. So the dumb locals get louder. Jacksonville just voted in its first woman democratic mayor. Not huge, but a sign. Things are shifting. Stay tuned!

Anonymous wrote:If you're a normie (not a political junkie) who moved to Florida or are considering it, do you care at all about the politics, or is there a large constituency of people who just are completely unfazed by the politics either way?

Or, let me phrase this like a survey. If you moved to Florida, which describes you best?

A. The conservative, right-leaning politics are a major reason why I moved here and I wanted to escape left/liberal politics elsewhere.
B. The right-leaning politics somewhat has to do with it, for example I don't care about the culture wars so much as I love paying lower taxes.
C. I moved here for other reasons, like beautiful weather, but find the politics irritating and I try to ignore it.
D. I moved here in spite of the politics and I strongly oppose Florida's political climate.
E. Politics? What politics? I like beaches.

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Anonymous wrote:I moved to Florida pre-Trump and the area I was renting in was very pro-Trump. I did research and ended up buying in an area in Florida that voted for Clinton.

Having said that, I become more conservative every year- although I still hate Trump and would never vote for him. I hate the banning of ideas, books, businesses, etc from both extreme sides of the spectrum.

Anonymous wrote:It's not just politics. DeSantis and the Legislature are spamming RWNJ policy and law. They just authorized using PragerU right-wing propaganda as a civics curriculum for public schools.

DeSantis is just doing it to look good for Presidential primary, but as the Republican party has shown for the past 50 years, once you start acting crazy for personal gain, real crazy shows up and takes over.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

No self-respecting Ivy grad calls her husband “Hubby.”

Anonymous wrote:I have friends who are planning their exit after decades because of what’s happening politically.

They’ve just become empty nesters, but would have stayed put otherwise. They’re POC.

Anonymous wrote: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.