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    Default Escape From New York

    Many moved to Florida, land of sunshine and no state income tax. While New York ranks first in overall taxation, Florida is 47, and now has two million more residents than the Empire State.

    In spite of that, Florida will spend around $93 billion this year, while New York’s budget is an incredible $177 billion. So the question becomes do New Yorkers get more services than Floridians?

    No, they don’t.

    Do New York kids get a better education?

    No, they don’t.

    Do New York drivers have better roads?

    Nope.

    And then there is the Covid invasion which could seal New York’s fate, at least short term. A significant number of businesses and workers may flee, having experienced hell for months. That means tax revenue will plummet. So Governor Cuomo and his fun bunch of democrat legislators will have to raise taxes even higher or risk default. New York currently runs a six billion dollar yearly deficit despite bleeding it’s workers for every cent.

    After Covid, some folks will no longer use the squalid subway system so it will fall deeper into debt. Already the state has approved a new, punitive toll for driving into midtown. When does enough become enough? New York City is a tremendous cultural bastion but, for some, it has become painful to live and work there.

    With so many residents packing up, city real estate prices will collapse, especially high end apartments. Restaurants and stores will shutter, and the city could approach the brink as it did in the 1970’s.

    The incompetent totalitarian mayor of New York, Bill de Blasio, is already demanding a federal bailout. The mayor has a very weak case after allowing his wife to spend close to a billion tax dollars on “educational” programs which amounted to little.

    Governor Andrew Cuomo is trying to leverage the pandemic into a White House bid, but he has to know the desperate shape his state is in. Because he is liberal, Cuomo is rarely challenged by the corrupt media but the stats speak for themselves. Many New Yorkers are fed up, fully understanding the chaos staring them directly in the face.

    In the “Escape from New York” movie, a thug named Snake Plessken is sent to the decaying city to rescue a President who’s being held hostage there.

    The current President, Donald Trump, is a life long New Yorker or was. Realizing that Plessken or Batman or Green Lantern or anybody else cannot rescue Cuomo-land, Mr. Trump recently said adios and moved to Florida.

    Where he will have plenty of company going forward.
    https://www.realclearpolitics.com/ar...rk_143282.html

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    Gators, hurricanes, oppressive heat. No thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BartenderElite View Post
    Gators, hurricanes, oppressive heat. No thanks.
    Snow, freezing cold weather, a mayor thats totally nuts, crazy high taxation.... no thanks

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    trump is also a floridian now!
    is on twitter @realtsuke

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    Money for nothing..... and the bagels are better in Jersey.
    "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything." Joseph Stalin
    The USA has lost WWIV to China with no other weapons but China Virus and some cash to buy democrats.

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    New Yorkers keep moving here = no problem
    they bring their voting habits with them = big problem

    YANKEE GO HOME

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    First and foremost- POLITICS is not a factor on where I choose to live! I think anyone who does use politics as a factor is fucking stupid to say the least.

    I probably would live in the rural areas of either Florida or New York state- if I had to choose to live in either state.

    I love mountains and fly-fishing a little more than beaches or deep-sea or bubba fishing so New York gets the edge there.

    I like warmer winter weather so Florida gets the edge there. I never experienced a White Christmas, so I feel like I kinda missed something there.

    Both states tend to have higher than normal living expenses so both of those states suck in that department.

    I think my finale decision would be- NEITHER!

    Texas has Mountains and Beaches, normal cost of living expenses, warmer winters, and trout fishing just a few hours away.

    I'll probably just stick around here!
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    Some are moving to Utah's southwest and Nevada's southeast for the arid, dry weather and clear skies.

    Anti-coronavirus terrain.
    Russian trolls and their supporters go on Ignore, automatically: no second chance.


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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    New Yorkers keep moving here = no problem
    they bring their voting habits with them = big problem

    YANKEE GO HOME
    Most counties in New York voted Trump, NYC is like 10% White Christian, no wonder why they vote so much against Trump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WitoldPilecki View Post
    Most counties in New York voted Trump, NYC is like 10% White Christian, no wonder why they vote so much against Trump.
    ^ looks up from 'low cost living in Florida' "OK" *shrugs* - back to my weeding

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimmymccready View Post
    Some are moving to Utah's southwest and Nevada's southeast for the arid, dry weather and clear skies.

    Anti-coronavirus terrain.
    "Go West (not south) New Yorkers"

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    ^ looks up from 'low cost living in Florida' "OK" *shrugs* - back to my weeding
    I've been to Florida, and don't like it, a lot lower class of people down there, and a lot lower quality food, park land, and well just about everything is slow service.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    "Go West (not south) New Yorkers"
    Half of New York has been voting Republican before the South ever did.

    I happen to live in that part of New York.

    You Southerners have the kookiest ideas, you are still fighting the Civil War.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WitoldPilecki View Post
    I've been to Florida, and don't like it, a lot lower class of people down there, and a lot lower quality food, park land, and well just about everything is slow service.
    awesome.. stay the fuck away.= 1 less loud mouthed rude as hell New Yorker.. you will NOT be missed

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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    awesome.. stay the fuck away.= 1 less loud mouthed rude as hell New Yorker.. you will NOT be missed
    The South stinks, a bunch of Scottish blooded derelicts, drunks, and meth heads, no thanks.

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