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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