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Wife & I left LI 5 1/2 yrs ago and and moved to Traverse City. Beautiful place to live with snowy winters and perfect summers. We miss the food & family but nothing else
^^ true. Actually we came back to Rochester, NY after nearly 13 years in the Raleigh area because it was being taken over by long islanders moving down there looking for cheap paradise and whatever else. We didn't like where the area was gong. Plus we missed family and our hometown obviously.
Charlotte, NC seems to be where a lot of people are moving to.
It's bible belt. I don't care cheap it is. I do not want to live with uber-religious bible-worshippers.
It's not that bad and you are right about Charlotte being a hot spot for NYers from around the state. Same with Raleigh and the Tidewater/Hampton Roads area of Virginia. Upstate SC(Greenville, Spartanburg and Anderson) is another area where NYers are moving to.
Actually, the state's population has grown a bit over the last 10 years due to immigration and there are still some people from other states that still move to NY.
Wife & I left LI 5 1/2 yrs ago and and moved to Traverse City. Beautiful place to live with snowy winters and perfect summers. We miss the food & family but nothing else
You should have just moved Upstate to somewhere like Sackets Harbor, Plattsburgh, Alexandria Bay, etc.....
They're following the money.
New York's federal taxes (and NJ's, and most other Northeast states') flow out of the state and into the South, to places like the Carolinas, Alabama and Louisiana. Those places, in turn, use that extra money to give tax breaks to businesses that relocate there, attracted by the lower wage rates. Think the car plants in Alabama and Kentucky.
http://www.taxfoundation.org/files/fedspend_per_taxesbystate-20071009.pdf (broken link)
And with manufacturing jobs leaving places like Buffalo, NY State has raised property taxes, which makes the place less attractive.
Couple that with the warm winters in the south, and Northerners have lots of enticements to leave. Like a lot of things, it comes down to money, and how we allow our government to spend it.
I moved back to Long Island in 2007 after 23 years in the D.C./northern Virginia area. Lots of people from the Island are down there now.
Alas, I can't say I'm really enjoying being back here. A lot has changed, and not necessarily in a good way.
I wouldn't recommend Florida. My sister moved down there about two years ago. She hasn't been able to find a job (dental assistant -- apparently if you're a health care worker down there you're useless unless you speak Spanish), and she says not only are they behind in law (still legal to drive while holding a cell phone, etc.), the racial tension there is worse than on Long Island. Having lived in the D.C. area for so long and therefore noticing how bad the racial tension on Long Island is, I can't imagine what it's like in Florida if she says it's worse.
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