Survey of Puerto Ricans in Florida finds many plan to stay, language barrier a top challenge

[rangerrebew]

 Survey of Puerto Ricans in Florida finds many plan to stay, language barrier a top challenge

By Saturday, all 610 Puerto Rican families currently housed under the TSA program in the state of Florida will be forced to move on from their informal hotel communities, where they have been united by a sense of loss, and where many of them have set unexpected roots.
 

Nearly half of Puerto Ricans surveyed in Florida said they are not returning to the island, while most listed not knowing English as their number one challenge in adjusting to life on the mainland, a new survey shows.

In one of the first surveys of this population after Hurricane Maria, conducted by Florida International University and commissioned by the Puerto Rican Alliance of Florida, 1,000 Puerto Ricans were asked about their lives in the state, including their reasons for leaving the island, level of education and current employment in Florida.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-puerto-ricans-florida-study-fiu-20180705-story.html

[dfwgator]

Since when is not knowing English a challenge in South Florida?

It's not knowing Spanish that's the challenge there.

[Fishrrman]

When we finally kick California out of The Union, the next step will be to draw a horizontal line somewhere down below the Sarasota region and kick them out, too.  ;)

[RoosGirl]

When we finally kick California out of The Union, the next step will be to draw a horizontal line somewhere down below the Sarasota region and kick them out, too.  ;)

I-4 is probably a pretty good line to use.