It’s been a year since we left New York for Florida. Here’s what we learned

We’ve lived in Florida now for an entire year. It has been quite a contrast with our life in New York

by Karol Markowicz:

On New Year’s Day, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul was sworn in for her first full term. In the speech that followed she said “We must and will make our state safe … we have to make our state more affordable … And we must reverse the trend of people leaving our state in search of lower costs and opportunities elsewhere.” 

The governor of New York is choosing not to understand why people are fleeing her state. 

I know because I was one of them.

A year ago, my husband and three children got on an airplane, moved to Florida and never looked back. Our move had made the news. I’m a columnist at New York’s storied newspaper, the New York Post, but more than that I had long been New York’s greatest champion. 

I AM LEAVING NEW YORK CITY FOR FLORIDA. I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD

My family had arrived in Brooklyn in 1978 from the Soviet Union. Raised in Flatbush and then Bensonhurst, I returned to Brooklyn after college to live in Greenpoint. I made the big move to “the city” when my career started taking off and lived on the Upper East Side. 

I moved to the Upper West when I married my husband, also a lifelong New Yorker with a similar story about an immigrant family (from Israel) growing up in the boroughs (Queens.) 

We eventually moved back to my Brooklyn, to Park Slope, and planned to raise little New Yorkers in the dream home we built for ourselves. Ours was the classic story of the American dream and making it in America’s gateway, New York City. Read the rest at foxnews.com.