03-21-2019, 12:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Lee Stewart
Retirees flee Florida as climate change threatens their financial future
About 52,630 people ages 65 and over left Florida in 2017, versus 48,174 in 2016 and 43,356 in 2012, according to Jon Rork, professor of Economics at Reed College in Portland, Oregan, who studies retirement migration. “Many of these people have left Florida for states like Georgia and North Carolina,” Rork says. “There’s a hypothesis that those who have left Florida for Georgia and North Carolina have done so to avoid hurricanes and big insurance premium jumps.” |
That is almost the dumbest thing ever, give me a break. There are several reasons: fear of hurricanes, younger "old" people with more active lifestyles, the retirees still want 4 seasons and the Carolina's and GA offer that much more than FL. Just stupid unsubstantiated reasoning.
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