New Yorkers flee over taxes, housing prices: ‘The city literally spit us out’

[Kamaji]

New Yorkers flee over taxes, housing prices: ‘The city literally spit us out’

By Jeanette Settembre
April 12, 2023

They’re moving out.

A shocking 27% of New Yorkers are planning to leave the Empire State in the next five years, with 30% saying they wish they lived somewhere else, according to a poll from Siena College Research Institute released Wednesday.

Affordability, ease of retirement, politics and crime and safety were among New Yorkers’ biggest gripes, according to the poll. Among the most dissatisfied: Republicans, independents, black people and those earning under $50 thousand a year.

Here, New Yorkers share their reasons for fleeing New York.

Priced out of housing market
When Bonnie Grubbs, a teacher, and her husband, Alex, a musician and arborist, outgrew their 660-square-foot converted two-bedroom co-op in Clinton Hill in 2021, they found themselves priced out of bigger homes in their $700 thousand price range.

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Cash-strapped from taxes
Alexis Wilson and her fiancé Matt Andrews, both nurses, recently moved from New York to southwest Florida with the hopes of starting a family.

They needed to stretch their paychecks and wanted to move to a state without income taxes.

“When we moved we saw a drastic increase in our paychecks,” Wilson, 27, told The Post.

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[ScottinVA]

Problem is, so many bring the leftist mindset and voting habits with them.

[LMAO]

Problem is, so many bring the leftist mindset and voting habits with them.

In some cases that may be so

But it seems like recently certain states are becoming redder with these people fleeing their blue state gulags

[Smokin Joe]

Did the city spit them out?

Or did the voters there shoot themselves in the feet?

Hopefully, the refugees have learned something or two, but people tend to revert to type after all that penance and things start going well again.

[sneakypete]

Problem is, so many bring the leftist mindset and voting habits with them.

@ScottinVA


Exactly! The "it's so wonderful here!" phrase only lasts a couple of months,and then they miss all the rules they had "back home".

[Wingnut]

In some cases that may be so

But it seems like recently certain states are becoming redder with these people fleeing their blue state gulags

There is a law that says you can't cross the Mason Dixon line with your liberal baggage.