General Discussion

a home here for summer season. They live in Florida enough months of the year to become residents so can register to vote. Everyone I know who has done this registered to vote as Democrats, as they were always Democrats. .They don’t change their politics. I’ve heard many try to justify moving to. Florida to make Florida more blue, but there just isn’t enough of them and they are concentrated in the two predominately D counties of Broward and Plam Beach. Very few go to the red parts of the state. Midwesterner are more likely to move to the Panhandle and west coast- which is much more heavily R.

My extended family has been doing this for years. My grandparents did it in the ‘40’s!

My parents have had a place in Florida since the 70’s. My mother was a snowbird and my dad flew back and forth from NY to FL every weekend. When he finally retired they were snowbirds for about 10 years until they finally sold their place up north and lived all year in Florida. My mom, who is 96, is still there. She can’t take the cold anymore at all, so we are go see her instead of her coming here for a month or so in the summer.

Many of my friends are now residents of Florida, but still come home to NY from about June-Oct/Nov. .