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On New Year’s Day, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was sworn in for her first full term. In the speech that followed she said "We must and will make our state safe … we have to make our state more affordable … And we must reverse the trend of people leaving our state in search of lower costs and opportunities elsewhere."
The governor of New York is choosing not to understand why people are fleeing her state.
I know because I was one of them.
A year ago, my husband and three children got on an airplane, moved to Florida and never looked back. Our move had made the news. I’m a columnist at New York’s storied newspaper, the New York Post, but more than that I had long been New York’s greatest champion.
My family had arrived in Brooklyn in 1978 from the Soviet Union. Raised in Flatbush and then Bensonhurst, I returned to Brooklyn after college to live in Greenpoint. I made the big move to "the city" when my career started taking off and lived on the Upper East Side.
I moved to the Upper West when I married my husband, also a lifelong New Yorker with a similar story about an immigrant family (from Israel) growing up in the boroughs (Queens.)
We eventually moved back to my Brooklyn, to Park Slope, and planned to raise little New Yorkers in the dream home we built for ourselves. Ours was the classic story of the American dream and making it in America’s gateway, New York City.
Then COVID hit. We saw a lot of people flee in the early days but we never considered leaving. This was our home and fear of a virus would not push us out. We had survived 9/11, the blackout of 2003, Hurricane Sandy. New York would bounce back, we believed, of course it would.
It wasn’t the virus that killed our New York dream. It was the political reaction to that virus. The George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020 shook us but not nearly as much as the response from public health officials saying the protests were OK or the politicians covering for the destruction of cities across the country with woke platitudes. .....
....During that stay, I interviewed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for the first time. He said words my New York leaders would not say.
He talked about putting children first, how important it was for him personally that schools opened for Florida kids, and how he was ready to fight for these kids. Meanwhile, in New York, the politicians were also fighting…to give Teachers Unions whatever they wanted at the expense of kids. ........
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/been-year-since-left-new-york-florida-what-learned
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People are leaving New York because of bad political decisions . People are moving to Florida because of good political decisions. DeSantis is the best governor in the country. Our company needs politicians like DeSantis.
The governor of New York is choosing not to understand why people are fleeing her state.
I know because I was one of them.
A year ago, my husband and three children got on an airplane, moved to Florida and never looked back. Our move had made the news. I’m a columnist at New York’s storied newspaper, the New York Post, but more than that I had long been New York’s greatest champion.
My family had arrived in Brooklyn in 1978 from the Soviet Union. Raised in Flatbush and then Bensonhurst, I returned to Brooklyn after college to live in Greenpoint. I made the big move to "the city" when my career started taking off and lived on the Upper East Side.
I moved to the Upper West when I married my husband, also a lifelong New Yorker with a similar story about an immigrant family (from Israel) growing up in the boroughs (Queens.)
We eventually moved back to my Brooklyn, to Park Slope, and planned to raise little New Yorkers in the dream home we built for ourselves. Ours was the classic story of the American dream and making it in America’s gateway, New York City.
Then COVID hit. We saw a lot of people flee in the early days but we never considered leaving. This was our home and fear of a virus would not push us out. We had survived 9/11, the blackout of 2003, Hurricane Sandy. New York would bounce back, we believed, of course it would.
It wasn’t the virus that killed our New York dream. It was the political reaction to that virus. The George Floyd riots in the summer of 2020 shook us but not nearly as much as the response from public health officials saying the protests were OK or the politicians covering for the destruction of cities across the country with woke platitudes. .....
....During that stay, I interviewed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for the first time. He said words my New York leaders would not say.
He talked about putting children first, how important it was for him personally that schools opened for Florida kids, and how he was ready to fight for these kids. Meanwhile, in New York, the politicians were also fighting…to give Teachers Unions whatever they wanted at the expense of kids. ........
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/been-year-since-left-new-york-florida-what-learned
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People are leaving New York because of bad political decisions . People are moving to Florida because of good political decisions. DeSantis is the best governor in the country. Our company needs politicians like DeSantis.
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