Will the final New Yorker leaving for Florida prove the lights?
As The Submit reported, a report 61,728 New York State residents fled to the Sunshine State final yr, a quantity prone to rise in 2022. Decrease taxes! Faculties with out masks! No shoebox-size residences that price extra to hire than it took to construct Hudson Yards!
You’ll all be sorry. As Jason Mudrick, head of Madison Avenue-based Mudrick Capital Administration, put it, “The primary drawback with transferring to Florida is that you must dwell in Florida.”
Monetary information web site Danger Market Information, citing a number of hedge funds’ plans to arrange a “Wall Road South,” warns that these firms are nuts to set foot in a state “more and more beset by tropical cyclones and flooding.”
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The Yale College of the Atmosphere, in a 2020 article, acknowledged the “inescapable reality about life in South Florida: This low-lying area is ready to be swallowed by the ocean.”
From out-of-control insurance coverage premiums to terrifying animals in your yard, we will assume of some good the reason why Florida is a nasty transfer.For a lot of densely populated coastal communities in Florida, the query of rising sea ranges will not be about if, however when.REUTERS
A profitable Miami Seaside actual property dealer and advisor, Michael Bordenaro, divulged that almost half of his purchasers who moved to Florida gave up on their place within the solar inside 5 years. One purpose: astronomically priced wind and flood insurance coverage, amongst different surprises that may rapidly wipe out any tax advantages you assume you’re about to get pleasure from.
(Concentrate when a man who makes his dwelling promoting houses in Florida warns on his YouTube channel towards shopping for houses in that state.)
Chattering-class media slobs gush over South Florida after booze-fueled junkets to overhyped meals and artwork festivals or after scoring free meals at whichever fashionable Manhattan restaurant was the most recent to open a satellite tv for pc there.
However actual life within the land of palm bushes, manatees and badly blended mojitos is a special story.
An American alligator estimated to be round 12 to 13 toes lengthy walks onto the sting of the placing inexperienced the Myakka Pines Golf Membership in Englewood, Florida on this handout picture courtesy of Invoice Susie. REUTERSWatch out for media sorts raving about Miami’s cultural scene — likelihood is, they didn’t pay a cent for that journey to Artwork Basel.EPA
In contrast with New Yorkers’ frenetic tempo, folks transfer slowly, if in any respect — even in supposedly dynamic Miami Seaside.
A male mannequin was busted in March after he masturbated for all to see at a Starbucks on Collins Avenue and twenty ninth Road. I’ve been to that Starbucks. The perp possible was simply attempting to move the time ready for bored baristas, who as soon as took 20 minutes to make my latte, to finish his order.
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Massive Apple condo dwellers fear {that a} new constructing will block their river or park views. In South Florida, a brand new high-rise can wipe out all the ocean. It occurred to a buddy of mine who believed the vista he loved from the tip of South Seaside was protected — till a monstrous skyscraper one way or the other rose on a “protected” sliver of land.
As for supposedly ubiquitous sunshine — my associates spend a lot of their time plotting escapes from wet summers when it’s “like dwelling inside a moist sock” and from the six months yearly underneath hurricane watch.
The trade-off for milder winters is months on finish of hurricane watches, warnings, and a few years, damaging storms.Matthew McDermott
New York has Lincoln Heart, Carnegie Corridor and the best assortment of museums anyplace, inside strolling distance of one another. Florida’s scattered, B-list cultural sources embody the New World Symphony and the Palm Seaside Opera, no threats to our Philharmonic or Met.
Florida’s true cultural icon is Mickey Mouse. The state let Disney rule a valuable chunk of Orlando within the method of an imperial conqueror for a half-century. Gov. Ron DeSantis lastly yanked the Mouse’s “particular tax district” when Disney whined over a regulation forbidding “transgender schooling” for kindergarten-to-third-grade pupils.
However courtroom challenges are deliberate. Disney may nonetheless win. That is Florida, in any case — the Bizarre-However-True capital of America.
Solely in Florida should you go north to go south. For the Blue State crowd downstate, the place nary a southern accent is to be heard, life’s an Higher West Facet or brownstone Brooklyn wine-and-cheese occasion. “Arrest Trump” is on many a tongue. Within the state’s swampy, Crimson State midsection and panhandle, they’d fortunately tune-in to a Confederacy Community if one had been to spring up.
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Massive Apple condo dwellers fear {that a} new constructing will block their river or park views. In South Florida, a brand new high-rise can wipe out all the ocean. AP
And, in all places, the wild kingdom guidelines.
A Palm Coast lady claimed she noticed a child dinosaur in her yard final yr and posted a video to “show” it. A current genius customer to the Jacksonville Zoo had his wrist bloodied when he caught his arm into the jaguar cage. A resident of central-state Odessa was confronted by an 8-foot-long alligator on his doorstep a number of weeks in the past.
The state’s 1.3 million gators, it ought to be famous, are solely formally thought of a “nuisance” in the event that they’re a minimum of 4-feet lengthy. In the event you transfer to Florida, convey a tape measure — and examine your mind on the airport.
It’s been a good couple weeks for Florida Gators head coach Billy Napier. He’s picked up two long-awaited SEC wins. One is his first win over LSU and another is his first top-10 win since the Gators beat No. 7 Utah in his first game as their head coach.
ESPN’s Adam Rittenberg made sure to give him some love in their college football Week 13 takeaways.
He considers Napier, along with Oklahoma’s Brent Venables and Auburn’s Hugh Freeze to have further redeemed themselves with big wins on Saturday.
“But Napier, Venables and Freeze all strengthened their profiles and elevated hope for the future by leading their teams to signature wins in Week 13.”
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Rittenberg was impressed by Florida’s continuing to bend but not break on defense and the performance of true freshman quarterback DJ Lagway. This all culminated in what could have spoiled Ole Miss’ playoff ambitions.
“Napier, whose Florida team had outclassed LSU the week before in The Swamp, likely eliminated Ole Miss from CFP contention with an excellent second half. A Gators defense that struggled early allowed only three points in the final 39 minutes and intercepted Jaxson Dart twice in the closing minutes, and Florida got impressive play from its own young quarterback, DJ Lagway.”
Napier was also given credit for having shown “real signs of promise before Week 13.”
Florida took No. 8 Tennessee to overtime, losing 23-17. But more impressively took Georgia down to the wire despite Lagway being carted off with a hamstring injury. While the final score was 34-20, those who watched know that it was a one-score game until about four minutes to go. That gave Florida props, but now he’s beaten ranked opponents.
Now, Florida has a shot to finish with its first winning record since 2020 and win its first bowl game since 2019.
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Rittenberg concluded his takes by saying Napier, along with Vernables and Freeze, has given “tangible evidence to cite that better days might be ahead.”
Western Carolina Catamounts (2-2) at Florida State Seminoles (6-1)
Tallahassee, Florida; Tuesday, 7 p.m. EST
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BOTTOM LINE: Western Carolina plays Florida State after Cord Stansberry scored 20 points in Western Carolina’s 82-69 loss to the Wake Forest Demon Deacons.
The Seminoles are 3-1 on their home court. Florida State is 5-1 when it wins the turnover battle and averages 12.4 turnovers per game.
Western Carolina finished 11-8 in SoCon action and 10-6 on the road a season ago. The Catamounts averaged 11.3 assists per game on 28.2 made field goals last season.
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
It’s been a good couple weeks for the Florida Gators.
First, they take down No. 22 LSU, 27-16, with a bend but don’t break approach. Then, they follow that up by upsetting No. 9 Ole Miss, 24-17. With that latter win, heads really began to turn. It was one thing to put up fights against Tennessee and Georgia, but now, they’re beginning to take down these formidable opponents.
The analysts are starting to talk them up. ESPN’s College Gameday analyst Kirk Herbstreit is ready to hand head coach Billy Napier the award for coach of the year. He made sure to include that he thinks quarterback DJ Lagway is going to be something special.
“Can a guy with a team that will finish 7-5 win the coach of the year award? He should!!” Herbstreit said in a tweet. “Billy Napier and [the Florida Gators, after being 4-5 and losing two straight, have beaten LSU and Ole Miss. So impressive to see this fight from the Gators and their fans after having a tough year. And, oh yeah, DJ Lagway is the REAL DEAL!”
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Big Cat from Barstool Sports jumped on X (formerly Twitter) and said, “The Florida Gators may need a playoff berth.”
Now, that can be written off as two guys getting excited, but key writers are noticing too. Florida received votes in the latest AP Poll.
Brian Brian Fonesca of the NJ.com/Star-Ledger and Ian Kress of WLNS-TV (a CBS affiliate in Lansing, Michigan) ranked them No. 25. David Paschall of the Chattanooga Times Free Press ranked them No. 24. It’s only four points, but they’re the only five-loss team to receive votes.
Unofficially, they’re ranked No. 33 in the country. If they had beaten Tennessee or Georgia to have that slightly better 7-4 record, could very well be in the top 25 right now. It’s hard to vote for a 6-5 team, that’s totally fair, but the willingness to do so by a handful of writers is a good starting point. If they win out, including a quality bowl win, to finish 8-5, finishing ranked is realistic.
Those who are signing on now are seeing what could be on the horizon in 2025. This is how they are playing now. This team might have won eight or nine games had this been yearlong. Wait until they play the portal some more this summer to bring in more talent, Napier gets that offensive coordinator and Lagway comes in with nearly a year of play under his belt.
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The Florida Gators have put the country on notice. They gave Napier the time to rebuild after Dan Mullen’s collapse, and that time is beginning to pay off.
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