Despite experiencing a pandemic population boom, nearly 500,000 Florida transplants decided to leave the state and move back north.
the Sunshine State one of the more expensive states to buy homes due to the rise in prices by 60%.Louis Rotkowitz, a transplant from New York, who bought a house in the West Palm Beach area in 2022 but found his commute with erratic drivers, rising homeowner costs, and the prevalence of guns as not ideal. He picked up and moved to North Carolina.
Another transplant from Connecticut cited the lower salary and rising insurance costs as “hidden costs” and moved back north. Oklahoma native Donna Smith told NBC that rising costs and politics drove her out of Florida to Pennsylvania. “I don’t feel it is as oppressive. People don’t wear it on their sleeve like they did in Florida,” she said of her preference for Pennsylvania over Florida. “When you walk in a room, you don’t overhear a conversation all the time where people are saying, ‘Trump is the best.’”“I thought it would be warmer. I didn’t expect it to be literally 100 degrees at night,” Jodi Cummings, a transplant from Connecticut, said.
I continue to think the main reason you get transplants to Florida transplanting themselves back out is they’d never been to Florida in August before they moved there.“So, are you telling me people did not know Florida is hot in the summer and they get hurricanes?” a social media user
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