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Originally Posted by rsmurano
Why do people think this place is so expensive and things are going to dry up? 99.9999% of the people moving here, this is not their 1st home, and I’ll bet most of these same people will be selling a house that costs much more than what they will be spending here in TV.
On top of that, a lot of people pay cash so they will be benefiting from any soft sales in TV that might occur.
All of Florida is benefiting from a huge influx of people coming from other states and I don’t see this ending anytime soon, and actually, we might be getting more people move here than in these last few years. How many new homes do you see go unsold?
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SO true.
Just seeing the situation in my state of origin, Minnesota, is proof of that. Minnesota's population has remained relatively stable over the last decade or so, but the NUMBERS of people don't begin to tell the tale. The people moving there are largely persons who come to take advantage of Minnesota's largesse: third-worlders, mainly Somalis, routed there by the Federal government because of Minnesota's liberal (calling it what it is) welfare policies. Migrants who work, when work is available, in Minnesota's agricultural industry and who subsist on the taxpayer's dime during the rest of the time. Folks who once a month crowd Amtrak and the bus lines to come to Minnesota to claim welfare benefits while using the local address of a friend or family member. And etc. etc. etc.
The other side of that coin are the folks who are fleeing Minnesota like deranged lemmings because of the vapid government policies, ruinous taxes and lack of effective law enforcement. But those deranged lemmings are the folks with money; not only retirees but skilled workers and professionals who have tired of what Minnesota has become. All these people take not only their money, their bank accounts, their toys and their purchasing power to the states they move to, thus enriching that state, but they're also taking with them all the potential taxes they WOULD have paid, had Minnesota not have tried to wring every possible dime out of them while they were there.
So...in Minnesota the NUMBERS have remained more-or-less stable, but the people moving out with the money and the careers are being replaced largely by people whose idea of a "career" is slurping at the public trough.
The politicians realize this. Not all that many years ago the then-Governor of Florida joked publicly that he was thinking of sending the Governor of Minnesota a thank-you card, for all the Minnesotans with money flooding into his state.