[Corrie22]

Originally Posted by floridarebel

Florida grew 79 percent during the 1950s decade, like the growth rate at peak was at 10% or more, compared to 1-3% now. Florida is maturing in population, especially southeast Florida.

you can't compare the after war 50's, and land boom, with anything else in Florida's history...totally different circumstances

https://www.census.gov/content/dam/C...e-figure-1.jpg

[mwalker96]

Florida was always known for being an old person state, but I do think the big cites in Florida are younger than people give them credit for. Miami, Tampa, Orlando and Jacksonville do attract a lot of people under 40.

[HeartofFlorida]

Originally Posted by beach43ofus

I did the same. Graduated from Florida, & went North for job opps, then returned to FLA later. My SIL same.

My 3 best pals from college stayed in FLA, & all 3 did well in medical sales.

If grads remain in FLA, hospitality, medical, gov't, or starting your own business are your best bets, unless you have a very specific skill set.

Agreed! I tried to stick it out in Florida (Tallahassee) after graduation but once I obtained certain IT skillsets (professional certifications), there was no way I'd make the money I could elsewhere. Moved to Atlanta, more than tripled my salary and haven't looked back.

[beach43ofus]

I prefer to follow 1 component of population change...net domestic migration.

These are people who decide to move to Florida, or move out of Florida....personal choice.

Net domestic migration ignores: foreign immigration, births, & deaths.

I think net domestic migration best reflects a state's attractiveness, as viewed by U.S. citizens.

This link is 10 months old, but it still shows net domestic migration between the USA's 4 major regions, & some big mover counties/CSA's, 2 of the top CSA's were in Florida, & some national maps:

https://www.census.gov/library/stori...ties-2021.html

In the national maps, you can see how much of Florida is Blue indicating population inflows.

Here's a list of states' net domestic migration changes:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o..._net_migration

[OptimusPrime69]

Originally Posted by kyle19125

Doublespeak at its finest, losing population but gaining population via immigration. And Texas isn't?

Florida is gaining significant population via Puerto Rican, Cuban and Haitian immigration as well. Not to mention Nicaraguans are the primary population trying to cross the TX border, with many headed to family already here in South Florida.

Don't forget Venezuela emptying like half it's migrants on to Florida lol.

[apple92680]

Originally Posted by MOforthewin

Retired manager at the IRS and was getting about 97 thousand a year pension from the IRS! Likely more now due to Cola. and with his two classes he was teaching was over 100k a year. Mid 60s and just played golf all day and drove his corvette and his wife liked to shop.

I don't think many on City Data understand that a lot of the money brought here to Florida is because of lucrative pensions from the liberal states. Talk to these people and you'd be suprised how many have retired from public government jobs, and industries with very lucrative pensions such as the NYPD for example or calPERS is another big time pension.


You have people retiring with military, gov pensions on top of that, and their social security checks all easily pulling in over 100k a year being retired.

Even state of FL workers get in on it too. I have a cousin who retired after 20 years with one of the Sheriffs offices here as a Lt. Retired for 6 months, then got hired back on at the same dept after the 6 month waiting period and now gets a pension check and a regular paycheck on top of it for a investigators desk job to boot!

...Yep! Same people who vote Republican and bash the social safety net while taking advantage of it.

[MOforthewin]

Originally Posted by apple92680

...Yep! Same people who vote Republican and bash the social safety net while taking advantage of it.

A lot of federal employees actually vote democrap!

[germanoricua]

Originally Posted by kyle19125

Doublespeak at its finest, losing population but gaining population via immigration. And Texas isn't?

Florida is gaining significant population via Puerto Rican, Cuban and Haitian immigration as well. Not to mention Nicaraguans are the primary population trying to cross the TX border, with many headed to family already here in South Florida.

Puerto Ricans are NOT immigrants, they are US citizens by birth and can move around the 50 United States and the unincorporated US territories as they please, just like you and I.