Retirees flee Florida as climate change threatens their financial future
MSN Money,
by
Rebecca Mordechai
Original Article
Posted By: NorthernDog,
3/22/2019 5:26:34 PM
Florida, with its plentiful beaches, warm weather, and lack of a state income tax, is the most popular destination for older adults in the U.S. But some who have lived in the Sunshine State for years are moving in the opposite direction. As damaging storms and other effects of climate change have hit Florida particularly hard in the past few years, some older adults living there have become concerned about their safety and their ability to enjoy retirement. So they’re fleeing this otherwise balmy state. About 52,630 people ages 65 and over left Florida in 2017, versus 48,174 in
Reply 1 - Posted by:
hisself 3/22/2019 5:31:06 PM (No. 9554)
What utter crap!
I left Florida because of the prevalence of anti-2nd Amendment politicians, and the increasing lack of freedom!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/22/2019 5:32:16 PM (No. 9577)
My school friend who lived on Sanibel Island gave up on Florida after the last big hurricane (name forgotten) that ripped Sanibel to smithereens. She was also sick of nonstop tropical storm and hurricane warnings, many of which ended up being drills…
Lovely home in a lovely location on the water… Pfffft.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
wcgreen 3/22/2019 5:35:06 PM (No. 9566)
Everyone I know who moved from Florida either moved in with their children or into an assisted living center near their children. Old people tend to get older....
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Osprey21 3/22/2019 5:35:21 PM (No. 9544)
LOL... climate change. Good riddance, Yankees.
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Climate change----that is the most ridiculous reason I have ever heard for moving away from a home you care for and have lived in for years. This is either fake news or participants in the survey have lost too many brain cells from early-bird cocktails.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
lakerman1 3/22/2019 5:37:07 PM (No. 9570)
Fiction writing, at best.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jimincalif 3/22/2019 5:39:37 PM (No. 9584)
Right. Hurricanes never hit Florida before climate change.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MissGrits 3/22/2019 5:40:23 PM (No. 9551)
They moved to Florida when they retire. Buy a home. Enjoy the weather and lifestyle for a while. They get old, and then return to live in a place that’s close to their children. It’s that simple!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Northcross 3/22/2019 5:42:37 PM (No. 9582)
Classic example of fake news.
1) Retirees are not fleeing Florida
2) There is no evidence of "climate change" effecting unusual weather patterns.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Sandbar 3/22/2019 5:46:07 PM (No. 9557)
Horse Hockey!
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God´s Waiting Room... The writer is confusing fleeing with dying.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
cor-vet 3/22/2019 6:01:19 PM (No. 9550)
A couple of hundred hurricanes have hit the US mainland in the past 100 years, but only the last couple have been caused by climate change! Right!!!!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 3/22/2019 6:03:32 PM (No. 9567)
Wait for it - -
Wait for it - -
Wait for it - -
Here it comes - -
2018 Was The Hottest Year EVER!
Whew! Now we can relax - - - - - - -
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
His_Highness 3/22/2019 6:04:17 PM (No. 9573)
In the running for stupidest article ever written.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mc squared 3/22/2019 6:06:07 PM (No. 9574)
Leaving for Climate Change? Where they gonna´ go? It´s Global Warming with a different name.
Must be liberal Chicken Littles - good riddance.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bdog 3/22/2019 6:06:57 PM (No. 9541)
Wasn´t there a 12 year span with no hurricanes hitting the US mainland?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
spacer 3/22/2019 6:07:21 PM (No. 9585)
If anyone leaves Florida because they believe Al Gore, they are democrats. Bye.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
HPmatt 3/22/2019 6:09:28 PM (No. 9565)
To escape they can all take Flagler’s Florida East Coast Railroad north from Key West.... wait - that was obliterated in the 1935 hurricane.....
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Historybuff 3/22/2019 6:11:38 PM (No. 9575)
dumbest thing I´ve read all week. . . and her it is Friday!
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
NYbob 3/22/2019 6:13:44 PM (No. 9538)
These days literally anyone can write nonsense and if it is off the rails crazy some pathetic media outlet will buy it. I guess ´climate change´ is the reason record numbers of residents are leaving NY state, right Rebecca? Here is a headline. ZERO FL retirees will flee and return to NY, where many of them made the financial nestegg that allowed them to Flee to FL in the first place.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
KTWO 3/22/2019 6:18:21 PM (No. 9547)
Article does not support headline.
After a big dose of propaganda and couldas and mights they writer cites 3 examples.
The first is a same-sex couple who say they are afraid. Nothing has happened to them but it might.
The second example doesn´t live in Florida but has a rental property there. She doesn´t want to be an absentee landlord so she is selling the rental. Something bad and costly could happen if she didn´t.
The third example, a couple, won´t retire for 30 years but; By Golly when they do retire they will leave Florida.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
crimea river 3/22/2019 6:18:32 PM (No. 9561)
I know one family that left Florida. It was after the hurricane trashed their house.
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Maybe, they moved because younger people are looking to impose a state income tax, and other liberal ideas to support an ever growing government.
And, I´ll bet property taxes have been increasing a lot in recent years too, which is actually what will hurt retirees more since they are in fixed incomes.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
griddog1 3/22/2019 6:20:43 PM (No. 9581)
They should be glad they are leaving. You don´t want to be around unhinged people like that. The sky is falling mentality.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
chance_232 3/22/2019 6:28:03 PM (No. 9579)
I live in S. Georgia and work daily in Florida. Im calling Barbara Streisand on this one. Some may be relocating because of hurricanes but no one is leaving because of climate change. And for every senior leaving, six more are moving in. Florida cant build housing or complete new highway construction fast enough to keep up with population growth.
Floridas population increases by several hundred people every day.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Salt5792 3/22/2019 6:41:33 PM (No. 9548)
Human activity has no effect on global climate.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 3/22/2019 6:44:15 PM (No. 9540)
I´ll risk it! I´d relocate in a second if a good job presented itself.
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Whatever the reason, it is very apparent that real estate supply is up and pricing dropping like a rock between Ft. Lauderdale and Jupiter. My e-mailbox is filled daily with "alerts" of newly listed properties and price cuts, preponderantly in 55-older communities.
One thing evident is that HOA fees, and I suspect high special assessments related to repairs and needs related to the weather there, are hanging over heads that never anticipated these add-on expenses at the rates they now are. It´s not hard to find properties paying $1000 and more MONTHLY in addition to the mortgage.
Toss in the age-restricted nature of so many of these properties and it´s a buyer´s market down there. And watch those add-ons!
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
DVC 3/22/2019 6:47:18 PM (No. 9558)
Pure lies. There is NO increase in hurricanes in recent decades. In fact, hurricanes hittin gthe US mainland are way, way down in the last decade or so from the first part of the century.
More MMGW lies and propaganda. This lie is woven endlessly into all of the Enemedia´s propaganda output.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Nevadadad46 3/22/2019 6:56:21 PM (No. 9549)
"some..." have left. The article is devoid of true numbers of exactly how many seniors and retirees have pulled up stakes due to the totally not-above-average natural weather patterns affecting Fl. This is a BS article trying to bring back the ghost of Global climate bologna in the wake of this last devastatingly cold winter!
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna 3/22/2019 6:59:47 PM (No. 9543)
We need a ´Deniers Club´.
I, for one, deny ´Anthropomorphic Climate Change´, Sexual Disphoria, The Glories of Marxism, all you can eat Chinese Buffets,
golf in thunderstorms, Papal Infallibility,
rap ´music´ and anything by Adam Sandler.
There....I said it.
So....sue me.
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
judy 3/22/2019 7:14:38 PM (No. 9580)
Everywhere you go there is something...tornados, hurricanes, wildfires, flooding, snow storms, ice storms, open borders, sanctuary cities, homeless, drug users ..sorry MSN...that’s life! When you find the perfect place let me know!
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
FleetUSA 3/22/2019 7:17:57 PM (No. 9535)
We have a VA woman who is moving to FL this week.
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 3/22/2019 7:21:01 PM (No. 9564)
OMG what will they do?!!! 12 years and its all over financial future or not. It will be the federal deficit and $20+ Trillion dollar debt spending that threatens everyone´s financial future, not the weather.
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
jalo1951 3/22/2019 7:35:09 PM (No. 9539)
Wow, I moved to Florida and was shocked there here hurricanes. Wow, I moved to Colorado and was shocked they had blizzards. Wow, I moved to Texas and was shocked they have tornadoes.
Really, seriously? I am very tired of this BS climate change nonsense.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Newtsche 3/22/2019 7:35:56 PM (No. 9536)
"How to Stink Up Your News Reporting for Dummies"
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
berthabutt 3/22/2019 7:43:26 PM (No. 9545)
If they haven´t left because they´re afraid of illegal boosting the crime rates ~ give them another year or so to find out.
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
mort 3/22/2019 8:01:14 PM (No. 9555)
What absolute BS. Does this stupid woman even have a clue? Where the hell is she getting her statistics? 52630 people 65 and over left Florida? Yeah, idiot, they died! What a moron.
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BS
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Daisymay 3/22/2019 8:19:37 PM (No. 9578)
Hubby and I moved to FL 16 years ago. Our community was 70,000. Now it´s almost 120,000. Retires are flocking to this area because there are tons of things to do here and it´s great financially for us. We´re not sitting in a Rocking Chair. We have live Bands playing year around at three Squares (usually full of dancers). We have major restaurants, Boccie, Softball and much much more. NOBODY is worried about Climate Change. Miss Rebecca should come here to check things out before writing her articles! Yes, people die, or move at a point in their lives where they need to be by their Support System (family). But they are NOT leaving because of Climate Change. And, if you live by the WATER, you can expect to get hit by a Hurricane every now and then. It´s a risk many are willing to take. I´m not!
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
navybrat 3/22/2019 8:20:14 PM (No. 9568)
Good!
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Tet Vet 68 3/22/2019 9:30:36 PM (No. 9560)
As my German friends would say: Pferd Scheisse.
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Maybe 15 years ago, I had a chance to buy a not-on-the-beach three-bedroom house in Pompano for $159K. Still regret it, and I now do not live in Florida.
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
nina584 3/22/2019 9:52:25 PM (No. 9563)
1000 people move to Florida everyday.South Florida is so overcrowded that we really would like of these peopl to go back home.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
anonymous 3/22/2019 10:09:56 PM (No. 9572)
The decline of journalism is evident in this article. This would be a good time to purchase property in Florida as the clueless get caught up in the panic and flee.
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Reply 46 - Posted by:
rytwng 3/22/2019 11:33:57 PM (No. 9562)
The biggest hoax of all time continues. All the jerks that believe this lie. I wish we did have global warming, I´m tired of freezing my butt off every winter. Please bring it on.
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Fake news. For every one leaving, ten show up; mostly from the Caribbean and south of the border. I would have believed the story more if they were leaving because of illegals.
Every day I get offers to buy my house that has more than doubled in value.
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Reply 48 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 3/23/2019 9:16:58 AM (No. 9546)
If Karen thinks Florida is too scary, wait till she finds out that living in NC causes one to not marry someone of the same sex.
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Reply 49 - Posted by:
adguy47 3/23/2019 9:48:32 AM (No. 9552)
Been retired and living in Florida since 2011. Am on the board of a 3000 home planned development so I´m pretty familiar with most of our residents. I haven´t known of one to move back north because of climate change. When they leave, they either a) die or b) move into assisted living, usually up north so they can be near their families. Sounds like this "journalist" interviewed three people -- what a load of ca-ca.
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Reply 50 - Posted by:
SALady 3/23/2019 1:04:00 PM (No. 9576)
I guess for thousands of years, no hurricanes ever hit Florida because there wasn´t any "global warming"?!?!?!?
Oh wait, hurricanes have hit Florida for thousands of years. That is because it is sitting out in the Gulf of Mexico where all those pesky hurricanes tend to form every Summer into the Fall!!!!!
Wow, Rebecca Mrdechai is a special kind of stupid now, isn´t she?!?!?!?
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Reply 51 - Posted by:
NancyD 3/23/2019 2:33:55 PM (No. 9559)
Please, show me ONE beach in Florida, Alabama, Texas, California, etc...that has disappeared due to rising waters. Just one.
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Reply 52 - Posted by:
Sunhan65 3/24/2019 12:28:39 PM (No. 9533)
I´ve always had a soft spot for Florida, and Sanibel-Captiva has always appealed to me based on my visits. Twenty years ago, I looked at a property on Captiva Island called Pirate´s Cove. It was the kind of house I´ve always wanted: Beach front, two levels, roof deck, parking underneath. I think they wanted $500,000 for it back then, which was a bit rich for my blood.
Shortly thereafter, one of the hurricanes bisected Captiva Island and turned my almost house into a trench filled with water.
It´s Florida, folks. Swimming pools, movie stars, and the occasional hurricane.
I still love it.
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Reply 53 - Posted by:
Strike3 3/24/2019 12:42:30 PM (No. 9583)
Aw shucks, I was just about finished planning to buy a property down there, now they are saying that hurricanes have found Florida?
I guess I´ll wait until a few more of those retirees flee so I can find a cheaper place on the beach or maybe I will buy a few miles inland and wait for the beach to come to me.
You would get much bigger numbers, Rebecca, if you wrote about the hordes who are leaving the Left Coast due to stupid liberal politics. Thank you though for scaring them away from Florida.
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Example of fake news. There is absolutely no evidence presented showing significant numbers of people are moving elsewhere because they fear climate change - just a handful of global warming fanatics they managed to track down. It´s based on a Hypothesis!