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In reply to the discussion: People leaving Florida. [View all]Warpy
(114,650 posts)but I don't know if his successor will be able to undo much of the damage. The fight against Disney will likely go away quietly and migrants might be kept long enough to harvest crops, also quietly, but no sweeping changes will be made.
Choice will not be back until it is back nationally.
This is really the time to sell, if people are considering it, because retirees up north are confronting another damned winter and Florida looks pretty good to those folks and maybe people who want to leave can unload the condo or tract house without losing their shirts. The retirees find out about the flying cockroaches, steambath weather, hurricanes, sinkholes, sky high electrical charges, and other nasty surprises later.
I can't blame anyone for leaving, you couldn't give me that state. I especially can't blame any woman under 50 for getting the hell away from there. I do know they're likely going to have enough of extremism and possibly choose more wisely next time. I don't think many things will change quickly.