Florida isn’t just for retirees anymore

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Why pay more than $3,000 a month for a one-bedroom apartment in New York City, where the taxes are high and the coronavirus restrictions are strict, when you can pay the same amount to live near the beach in a state with fewer rules and no income tax? That’s what many New Yorkers asked themselves this past year, and the answer was so obvious that tens of thousands of Big Apple residents packed their bags and left for Florida.

Now, New Yorkers have been packing their bags for Boca Raton since the Army Corps of Engineers filled in the swamp, but the recent emigration has been bonkers.

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