The wonderful state of Florida

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While more people still move into the state than move out each year, the number of people leaving is a concern. Analysts point to the rising cost of living, politics, and high property insurance premiums as reasons behind the shift. "I am very concerned about affordability in Florida," - Representative Matt Gaetz, Nov 1, 2023

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Florida also received over 250,000 migrants from foreign countries, coming second to California (298,151 migrants) and placing above Texas (233,751 migrants).

However, it’s not clear what countries these international migrants stem from. The bureau doesn’t distinguish between legal status for foreign migrants, and these three states have historically been top destinations for undocumented migration.

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In contrast, as America's population continues to get older (the elderly)...the two most common states that the elderly are moving from so that they can reside in Florida...

California and New York so that they can maximize their retirement income in comparison to what they would get in California or New York. This is statistics from 2022.

With that said and soon after 2022...something changed in Florida.

According to the US Census Bureau state to state migration flows, an estimated 275,266 people left Florida in 2022. That means that nearly 754 people are choosing to leave Florida every day and nearly 23,000 people are leaving each month (as of 2022).

So where are people going?

The top five destinations for people who left Florida in 2022 were:

  • Georgia (46,884)
  • North Carolina (42,301)
  • Tennessee (36,200)
  • South Carolina (31,456)
  • Texas (29,975)
As you can see, most people who leave Florida are heading to nearby states or oddly enough—Texas.​

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So Florida had 365,202 new residents in 2023 and you are saying that 250,000 of them were immigrants -- many of them undocumented immigrants.
 
gwb-trading said:
So Florida had 365,202 new residents in 2023 and you are saying that 250,000 of them were immigrants -- many of them undocumented immigrants.
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Its copied facts from the immigration office statistics.

Also, I do remember Gaetz targeting sanctuary cities and refusing to answer a reporter's questions about undocumented immigrants who came to Florida in the past year.

I think the reporter asked him if Texas Governor Abbott had sent undocumented immigrants to Florida. He rolled his eyes to the reporter and didn't answer her question.

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In 2023, Hawaii (-4,261), Illinois (-32,826), Louisiana (-14,274), New York (-101,984), Oregon (-6,021), Pennsylvania (-10,408), and West Virginia (-3,964) also all saw their populations fall this year.

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As for Illinois, I know they've had population decline concerns for a few years now although maybe longer because I've been hearing about it more recently.

I think it's one of the reasons why my mom said she now sees more migrants (documented and undocumented) including Asians in Illinois to make up for the declines in the overall population.

More migrants in the suburbs...not Chicago because Chicago has been a temporary holding area for the migrants before they move to the suburbs...some as far away as the borders of Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, and Wisconsin.

Last summer, I met a few legal migrants in a rural town I stopped in for gas when I drove from Illinois to Iowa (my kids and I was heading to South Dakota to see my brother's family)...the migrants said they were new in the area after temporarily living in Chicago when they crossed the southern border and were bused to Chicago.

They now live in a rural town along the Illinois/Iowa border...they worked for farmers.

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The way to go is to issue a law to prohibit hurricanes. It is a great way to cut the insurance costs. It is obvious to any idiot like gwb-trading.
 
I've placed my winter home on the SW coast for sale with intentions of buying inland.

After Hurricane Ian, if you drove a few miles inland, it was like nothing happened.
My home was heavily damaged, and I had it rebuilt.

It's in Fort Myers Beach, I'm thinking North Central FL.
Not as hip, I know...
 
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The way to go is to issue a law to prohibit hurricanes. It is a great way to cut the insurance costs. It is obvious to any idiot like gwb-trading.
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Can you explain why all the other hurricane prone states such as Louisiana, North Carolina, etc. do not have Florida's insurance crisis.

I have provided numerous articles over time demonstrating that the property insurance crisis in Florida is strictly due to the state's government and its failure to provide proper oversight for the insurance market.

BTW -- do you still believe that Musk's Twitter doesn't suffer outages nearly every day.
 
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