How many people has Andrew Cuomo driven out of New York? What states are they going to?

[Robert]

Will anybody stay in New York?

[Dale]

0

[Big PussyCat]

The Same state you're in. The State of Confusion.

[Smoking Joe]

A few pornographers.

[Think 1st]

Not many, he has a small car.

He has also proposed tax free zones now.

[picador]

Modern day liberals are so spineless they couldn't drive a feisty kitten out of their bedroom.

[ReasoningWithFacts]

New York feeding Florida growth

Rick Drury was an EMT in New York before he opened Precinct Pizza in Channelside Bay Plaza.

Taylor Wallace, left, and Saxon Baum founded WeVue, a photo sharing app, while living in New York City then moved their operations to Tampa last year.

Booke, executive casino host at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, moved from New York to Florida in 2009.

SUNSHINE STATE OF MIND :
We went looking on Facebook through TBO.com for New Yorkers in Florida. We got 130 responses in 24 hours. Here’s a sampling.

Michael Johnson I am from tampa and moved to new york. in a few years me and my wife will be moving back. not just because of the cold. it is the cost and the taxes and the danger of the areas we can afford to live in.

Eric Flaco Gonzalez I’m from NY and I’ll never go back !!!

Maria Elena Suti I’m from NY. Florida is like being on vacation every day. I have been living here for 23 years.

Gail Witonsky Brislin Moved here in July 2013 from Albany NY. Too expensive up there. We are not retirees and we LOVE IT HERE !

Lisa Ann Cummings-Schrenkeisen My husband & I bought a cute little place in Dade City FL and moved down in June 2013, I am 55 and drove a school bus in New York State in Averill Park, NY, I was able to collect a pension BC of my age & years of service, my husband is fully retired, he is 66, we are just so loving it here, love the weather, we hated the cold, snowy days, all the driving I did in the winter, hated the expense of heating, etc etc, this was a great move, loving our community, people here have been so welcoming &friendly, lots to do, a beautiful heated pool, nothing like swimming whenever you really want, we thought it was a hoot to be swimming in Nov & Dec and even now , I will be driving school bus for Pasco County School this February & I look forward to it, I love driving school bus & being part of the community, our dog Boddie is also loving it.

Eric Monson Moved to florida 2.5 years ago to get from going nowhere to headed in a direction. Brought my conservative values and family with me and we’ve never looked back. To this day we are better off than we ever were. Thank You God for watching over us in the change and thank you Florida for accepting us with open arms...

Rosarie Carlton Was born & raised in Eastchester New York, but have lived here since 1981. Hated the cold. I love Tampa & can’t imagine leaving. Bring on the rest of the New Yorkers. Welcome home.

TAMPA — It’s very likely you’re living in the third-largest state in the nation.

Late last month, the Census Bureau reported that Florida was poised to overtake New York after nipping at its heels for more than 20 years in the ranking of the country’s most populous states.

But the Census was reporting figures from July.
Assuming Florida’s growth held steady, the state probably has already surpassed New York, said Mark Mather, a demographer with the Population Reference Bureau, a nonprofit research group in Washington, D.C.

“It should be any day now,” Mather said last week.

And New York has only itself to blame, he said. It’s been sending hordes of its own people to Florida for decades.
“I think Florida would have overtaken New York much sooner had it not been for the financial crisis,” said Andrew Beveridge, a demographer at Queens College in New York.
“There’s a direct causal relationship there,” Mather said.

New Yorkers have been moving to Florida since the days a century ago when New Port Richey was a playground for silent film stars. Back then, Florida had barely 2 million people.

Today, it has more than 19.65 million people, if demographers like Mather are right.
Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter was one of the latest New Yorkers to make the switch when he declared his Davis Islands mansion to be his permanent residence last year.
He’s in good company.

Each year, New York sends more people to live in Florida than does any other state, according to tax statistics compiled by the Internal Revenue Service.
Florida and New York have long swapped citizens, with New York consistently getting the shorter end of the demographic stick. The most recent IRS figures show that as of 2010, New York sent more than 40,000 people to Florida and got less than 30,000 Floridians in exchange.
The lion’s share of those transplants did what New Yorkers have always done: They followed I-95 to South Florida and the Keys. About 10 percent came across the state to Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties.
As South Florida has become more crowded, the Gulf coast and center of the state look more inviting for migrating New Yorkers, who continue to shift the state’s politics toward the liberal end of the spectrum, said political science professor Susan MacManus of the University of South Florida.
Eli Brooke was one of those New Yorkers who skipped South Florida in favor of Tampa.

Brooke, 31, moved here in 2009 after spending his entire life in Brooklyn or upstate New York.
He and a buddy decided they would cast off the cold and high cost of living and make their fortune elsewhere. North Carolina wasn’t balmy enough. Hawaii was too expensive.
“Then I saw the Super Bowl was in Tampa,” Brooke said.
They packed their bags and headed south. “We had no plan,” Brooke said.

Today, he owns a condo in SoHo and is the executive casino host at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino and Hotel. “I have no plans to move any time soon,” he said last week. “I love it.”
Even the humid summers that last six months? “I still haven’t forgotten what winter is like in upstate New York,” he said.
Decades after St. Petersburg was dubbed “God’s Waiting Room” for its abundance of retirees, Florida still draws the Golden Years crowd in droves — a fact the developers of The Villages, the sprawling retirement community centered in Sumter County, know well.
But lately Florida has also captured the imagination of thousands of younger New Yorkers, who move here looking for jobs and opportunity — not just sunshine and early bird specials.

The Tampa area in particular has become a haven for financial services companies looking to shield themselves from catastrophe. DTCC, which processes trillions of dollars in stock trades each day, came to New Tampa in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

Marie Chinnici-Everett, DTCC’s chief marketing officer for Tampa, arrived last fall.
“I’m at the point in my career where I can work from anywhere,” said Chinnici-Everett, 48. “Years ago, when I first started my career, it would have been difficult to be effective working somewhere other than the mother ship.” Chinnici-Everett and her husband Tim, who works for JPMorganChase, live in a gated community in Odessa. “We do have a nice piece of property,” she said.
Her half-hour commute to New Tampa is a breeze compared to the nearly two-hour journey she made by car, train and foot every day into her old job.
Chinnici-Everett sees in the Tampa area all the benefits of life in a big city but on a smaller scale.
Stiil, moving to Tampa can be a shock for some people used to the pace of New York City life.
“People like to stop and chat,” Brooke said. “In New York, they don’t.”

Rick Drury, owner of the New York-themed Precinct Pizza in Channelside Bay Plaza, demonstrates his initial reaction when strangers greeted him after moving to Tampa in 2004: a startled head jerk filled with wide-eyed suspicion. “I wondered what they wanted,” he said,sitting in his pizza parlor.
Drury, 45, a former paramedic with a Queens-based ambulance crew, followed his parents to the Tampa area when they retired after 9/11.
My perception before I came down here was beaches and sand and old people,” Drury said. “It’s changed a lot since then.”
Drury sees plenty of New Yorkers still. They stop into his shop on their way to and from the nearby Tampa Port Authority cruise ship terminal. They’re a reminder of what he left behind in Queens.
“I don’t miss the potholes. I don’t miss driving the ambulances in the snow,” he said. “But I still don’t feel at home here. My youngest has never seen snow.”
Drury is excited by the growth he has seen taking hold in downtown and the Channel District, where apartment blocks continue to spring up within walking distance of his shop.
That’s where 24-year-old tech entrepreneur Taylor Wallace rents an apartment.
Wallace and his cousin, Saxon Baum, 22, moved to Tampa last year from New York at the encouragement of Wallace’s uncle.

The two run WeVue, a start-up company developing a photo-sharing app for mobile phones. They originally farmed the design work out to a Tampa company with plans to manage things from New York.

An extended visit to check on the product turned into a permanent move. Today, they employ six people and work out of space in downtown’s Rivergate Tower leased by Tampa Bay WAVE, an incubator for tech start-ups.
Tampa’s tech community is small but welcoming and less competitive than New York’s, Wallace said. It lacks deep pockets, however. That means he’ll be traveling back to New York to finance the next phase of his app project.
Mayor Bob Buckhorn has made it a priority to lure more people like Wallace, Drury and Chinnici-Everett to his city. He traveled to New York last year to court the nation’s biggest banks, reminding them that when they planned to expand Tampa was ready for their business.



He is pouring money into the Central Business District and neighboring areas to make Tampa’s urban core more inviting to creative, entrepreneurial types, like Wallace, who can live and work wherever they choose.
Wallace’s decision to move to Tampa wasn’t a tough one.
“I pay half the rent for triple the space, a pool and a gym,” he said. “In Brooklyn, I lived in a big apartment complex with zero amenities.”
He commutes 10 minutes by foot down Twiggs Street to work.
“I never really owned a car before I moved here,” Wallace said. “But now that I can walk to work I’m thinking about selling it.”