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mystery-ak:
Americans Explain Why They’re Flocking to Florida: Ron DeSantis ‘Is a Law-and-Order Governor’

Hannah Bleau 22 Dec 2021

New Florida residents are explaining why they flocked to the Sunshine State, praising the policies enacted by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).

Paula Miller, who lived 12 miles from downtown Chicago, told Fox News Digital that she always told herself she would never move to Florida, but that changed dramatically, and it “really didn’t have so much to do with the weather.”

“The taxes I was paying in Cook County … were getting really insane. My property tax went up $1,000 in one year. And I realized that that trend was going to continue,” she said, noting some of the policies that drove her out of her town of Evanston, Illinois. That included the fact that most of the city council voted last year to defund the police, and earlier this year, the city council “voted in favor of paying reparations to Black residents in March 2021, becoming the first U.S. town to do so,” according to Fox News.

“I just saw that as a trend that I couldn’t get behind. And as the election approached … no one was sure of the outcome, but … if Trump won again, I was really afraid of riots breaking out, and I did not feel safe,” she said, adding that she feels “truly safe” in Florida and praising DeSantis as a governor of “law-and-order.”

Similarly,  Lauren Callahan, a former Chicago resident who was robbed in the city two years ago, said she planned to move out of the city but escaped to Florida earlier than planned due to Chicago’s coronavirus restrictions.

“Our plan was to reassess in the summer of 2022 where we wanted to go, but with COVID and city life in general … we decided to come to Florida in November,” she said, explaining that the violence in the city was “creeping up into the North Side, which is where we lived.”

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https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/12/22/americans-explain-why-theyre-flocking-to-florida-ron-desantis-is-a-law-and-order-governor/

libertybele:
Hopefully they will remember that come election time.

cato potatoe:
If they are anything like myself, they preferred to live in an urbanized area with career prospects, but which is administered by competent officials.  You won't find that combination in most of the country.  The Florida GOP does risk being a victim of its own success, as many leftists will move here to bail themselves out.

IsailedawayfromFR:
And the police are paid real well

DefiantMassRINO:
My father (originally from Massachusetts) in Florida, a Reagan Democrat, loves DeSantis.

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