{"id":1494845,"date":"2022-05-27T14:29:40","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494845"},"modified":"2022-05-27T14:29:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:29:43","slug":"exodus-from-new-york-to-florida-ramped-up-even-after-covid-lockdowns-ended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exodus-from-new-york-to-florida-ramped-up-even-after-covid-lockdowns-ended\/","title":{"rendered":"Exodus From New York To Florida Ramped Up Even After COVID Lockdowns Ended"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexodus-from-new-york-to-florida-ramped-up-even-after-covid-lockdowns-ended%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494845&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>New York enacted some of the most restrictive COVID-19 lockdowns in the entire nation. As a result, citizens began jumping ship for Florida \u2014 and the exodus is by no means slowing down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA total of 21,546 New Yorkers swapped their driver\u2019s licenses for the Sunshine State version during the first four months of this year \u2014 a 12% increase from the same period in 2021,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/24\/flight-to-florida-is-still-accelerating-despite-ny-covid-19-reopening-push\/\">The New York Post<\/a>. \u201cThe 2022 totals are 55% higher than the first four months of the last pre-pandemic year of 2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In contrast to New York\u2019s COVID-19 policies, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) kept his state\u2019s economy open for business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis approach works,\u201d former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush wrote in a description of DeSantis upon his selection for Time\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/florida-governor-ron-desantis-named-to-times-100-most-influential-people-list\">100 Most Influential People<\/a> list. \u201cIt\u2019s one that has allowed Florida to emerge from the pandemic as a national model of personal freedom, economic growth, environmental protection, and education excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the issues facing New York \u2014 especially New York City \u2014 are manifold.<\/p>\n<p>For one, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/goldman-sachs-ceo-says-declining-new-york-city-may-lose-status-as-global-financial-hub\">tax burden<\/a> in the Big Apple is among the largest in the nation. New York City imposes a 3.9% tax on top income-earners, in addition to New York state\u2019s 10.9% rate and the federal government\u2019s 37% rate. As a result, many investment bankers are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bankers-are-begging-their-employers-for-transfers-from-new-york-to-florida\">flooding<\/a> recruiters\u2019 offices with requests for transfers to Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe JP Morgan recruiter from Florida just told me he\u2019s getting so much demand from employees in the northeast to move to Florida they\u2019re not even considering external candidates for those jobs,\u201d one financial services executive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/money\/wall-street-workers-want-florida-transfers-as-job-waiting-lists-grow\">told<\/a> Fox Business.<\/p>\n<p>Undoubtedly noticing the trend, Goldman Sachs chief executive David Solomon warned at a conference last year that New York City may cease to be a global financial hub if it does not end the policies causing its decline. \u201cNew York has to be aware that there are good choices, and it\u2019s got to keep itself attractive,\u201d Solomon said \u2014 especially with relation to \u201ctaxes\u201d and \u201ccost of living.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With respect to crime, monthly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/bank-of-america-warns-employees-to-dress-down-avoid-rise-in-new-york-city-assaults\">felony assaults<\/a> in the city had risen year-over-year by 15% at the end of 2021, while murder had increased by 42% over a two-year period. Bank of America told their New York City employees to \u201cdress down\u201d during their commutes to diminish the risk of assault.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat, admitted earlier this year that he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nyc-mayor-says-he-doesnt-feel-safe-on-subway-system\">does not feel safe<\/a> taking the subway. \u201cOn day one, I took the subway system, I felt unsafe. I saw homeless everywhere,\u201d he recounted. \u201cPeople were yelling on the trains. There was a feeling of disorder. So as we deal with the crime problem, we also have to deal with the fact people feel unsafe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last month, a suspect shot and injured 23 people on a subway train \u2014 prompting New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/suspect-still-at-large-in-ny-mass-shooting-officials-say\">call for an end<\/a> to the \u201csurge in crime.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe say no more. No more mass shootings. No more disrupting lives. No more creating heartbreak for people just trying to live their lives as normal New Yorkers,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd we are sick and tired of reading headlines about crime, whether they\u2019re mass shootings, or the loss of a teenage girl, or a 13-year-old. It has to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York enacted some of the most restrictive COVID-19 lockdowns in the entire nation. As a result, citizens began jumping ship for Florida \u2014 and the exodus is by no means slowing down. \u201cA total of 21,546 New Yorkers swapped their driver\u2019s licenses for the Sunshine State version during the first four months of this &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1433916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1433916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}