Not a very flattering article on fla

[gmarc]

Florida Exodus: Rising Taxes Drive Out Residents - Yahoo! News

 

[Miss Critter]

I just read the "article" online, and it reads more like an editorial. Doesn't the term exodus imply a mass departure? Hardly the case. A grand total of 58,000 people - half of them from the Miami/Palm Beach area - left. Out of 18,000,000. Admittedly, I'm no math genius, but my calculator tells me that's a whopping .3%. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.)

And I was unaware that we consider ourselves "the new California." (Once again, your corrections are welcome.) Not that the state doesn't have its share of problems related to the economic times, but we are hardly alone. And frankly, it was getting too crowded anyway.

Bottom line, it sounds like it was written by someone with an ax to grind. Or to fill space on deadline.

The region - Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties - lost 27,400 residents between 2008 and 2009, while Florida as a whole lost 58,000. That's not exactly a mass exodus for a state of 18 million; but it's the first net outflow in 63 years for a state that considers itself the new California

 

[SHELLY]

...doesn't account for all the old Florida folks who are dying and not being back-filled.

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