Florida bragging about newcomers.. Truth is - they move out within 5 years because of hurricanes!

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75. The reason why I mentioned the north-south axis through Florida is

that hurricanes seldom impact that part of the state. How often do you see Orlando under a direct hurricane threat? Where I live is about the same, I live directly on the north-south axis, near a smaller Florida city. Although it is better than when I grew up, politics in the area is red. Unless educated young people are working for the city for state locally for low pay, they decamp to larger cities in state and out of state. The exception is healthcare, for obvious reasons, young people trained in that tend to stay local.

I don’t think attracting people like Musk is the answer, a Tech culture needs to be homegrown, like silicon valley started out in it’s early days. The problem is that Florida’s universities don’t spin off startups, the exceptions are UCF and to a smaller extent, FSU. The leaders at UF seem content with having Gainesville be a college town.