Throughout the month of August, multiple thousands of New Yorkers fled their democrat-led state for the much warmer and far more conservative state of Florida.
A total of 5,833 New Yorkers, a new monthly record, officially swapped their driver’s licenses to Florida this past month, as reported by an analysis posted by the New York Post of a data set released from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. That brought the total for the year to almost 41,000 citizens of the Empire State departing the solidly blue state for more southern climes.
“First it was the billionaires. Then it was the rich following behind them. Now you have the middle class,” claimed one fashion designer, Alvin Valley, that made the move out to Palm Beach due to the COVID pandemic.
“A lot of families just began to feel like New York was becoming unlivable,” stated Valley, read a report from the Post. “Especially for younger couples with kids in their thirties and forties. They don’t want to get on the subway. It’s a safety issue, it’s a schools issue.”
This mass exodus from New York state kicked off when people started to depart the extremely restricted state throughout the pandemic in order to live in the Republican-led Florida that had already removed the vast majority of its few COVID restrictions, however, the rapidly climbing crime rates in the New York has also played a major factor in the decision of its people to depart.
One retired NYPD Lieutenant, John Macari, stated to the Post that the COVID vaccine mandates along “with the rise in crime and zero competence from our elected officials and a lot of people just don’t see a future in New York City for themselves.”
Back in April, Eric Adams, the Mayor of New York City, tried to entice the people of Florida to move out into the city by buying up many digital billboards all across the state of Florida in order to display messages which incorrectly made reference to the recently passed “Parental Rights in Education” law as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.
“I am the mayor of New York City, but I have a message for Florida’s LGBTQ+ community — come to a city where you can say and be whoever you want,” expressed Adams at that time. “Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill is the latest shameful, extremist culture war targeting the LGBTQ+ community. Today, we say to the families living in fear of this state-sponsored discrimination that you will always have a home in New York City.”
The various billboards from Adams apparently did not work well at all as the people of his home state continued to flood out of the state to Florida at record-breaking rates, while the population of Florida was still growing. The current trend seems to suggest that the record set last year, which was 61,728 New Yorkers moving to Florida, could be quite possibly overshadowed this year.
