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- desantisthreatensusa@lemmy.world
Florida has seen a population boom in recent years, but many longtime residents and recent transplants say rising costs and divisive politics have them fleeing the Sunshine State.
One of the first signs Barb Carter’s move to Florida wasn’t the postcard life she’d envisioned was the armadillo infestation in her home that caused $9,000 in damages. Then came a hurricane, ever present feuding over politics, and an inability to find a doctor to remove a tumor from her liver.
After a year in the Sunshine State, Carter packed her car with whatever belongings she could fit and headed back to her home state of Kansas — selling her Florida home at a $40,000 loss and leaving behind the children and grandchildren she’d moved to be closer to.
“So many people ask, ‘Why would you move back to Kansas?’ I tell them all the same thing — you’ve got to take your vacation goggles off,” Carter said. “For me, it was very falsely promoted. Once living there, I thought, you know, this isn’t all you guys have cracked this up to be, at all.”
Absolutely no one is “fleeing” we are on pace for 30 million population in the next few years. Just like any place with that many people there will be expensive areas for rich people.
I mean, the article interviews, and quotes, four people who said they were fleeing.
More are moving in than leaving, but there are definitely people leaving because . . well, you know.
The first one was a chef who moved to palm beach and surprised it was expensive around there. Yeah that’s a very expensive part of the state. Average household income is almost 200k with 39 billionaires living there. Surprised Pikachu face! The second one was someone who moved into a trailer and the roof blew away in a hurricane. That’s par for the course in living in trailers in Florida. Google would have saved both of these people making smarter decisions
There are flows in both directions. The net result may be growth of the state’s population, but having that many people leave is a sign that not everyone is happy there.
You mean birth rates + immigration > people leaving the state? I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you.
Seriously though, there does need to be an asterisk after “fleeing” that says “if they can afford it” which, let’s be honest, excludes most people who want to leave the state.
Speak for yourself. I fled that shithole 15 years ago, and I’ve used that verbage to describe the experience the whole time. FL fucking sucks, and you can’t even imagine how badly until you’ve lived almost anywhere else.