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Zonuss · 46-50, M
@Reason10 Sorry you bumped your head. But Charlotte North Carolina now has over 900,000 people. It will soon be part of the 1 million population cities here in the US. It took Jacksonville Florida almost 25 years just to get from 800 thousand to a million. So yes both those states can compete with Florida.
Check the stats.They are doing very well, while Florida is becoming an oversaturated sesspool of real estate fraud and of course illegal immigration.
Don't forget high crime.
Check the stats.They are doing very well, while Florida is becoming an oversaturated sesspool of real estate fraud and of course illegal immigration.
Don't forget high crime.
BrandNewMan · M
NY is likely gonna see another large exodus of libs w money and ability to flee the tax increases that are coming if/when Madmani Mamdani is elected
I want to retire where those folk and the ones fleeing CA are NOT going .. CO is ruined already. MT, TX, FL and TN etc are under liberal assault ..
Hope UT avoids an influx
I want to retire where those folk and the ones fleeing CA are NOT going .. CO is ruined already. MT, TX, FL and TN etc are under liberal assault ..
Hope UT avoids an influx
DogMan · 61-69, M
Yes, please keep the left OUT of red states. Utah especially, that is where I'm retiring.
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DogMan · 61-69, M
@Reason10 I have been lucky so far. My neighborhood in southern Utah has people from California and Las Vegas, along with
other states, and we are all Conservative so far. Great neighborhood, we all look out for each other. I don't live
there permanent yet. But they watch the house. and check on my trees.
other states, and we are all Conservative so far. Great neighborhood, we all look out for each other. I don't live
there permanent yet. But they watch the house. and check on my trees.
@Reason10 Sadly welfare is sometimes needed- we may all at one point need a safety net.
Non disabled welfare recipients should have their job applications monitored closely and have a few hours one day a week doing work to benefit the community, the environment, etc.
Non disabled welfare recipients should have their job applications monitored closely and have a few hours one day a week doing work to benefit the community, the environment, etc.
ElwoodBlues · M
NOPE. Florida schools are mediocre. The best indicator of schools in the NAEP, and here's how all the states rank.
In addition, teacher shortages are an indicator that a state school system is declining.
In addition, teacher shortages are an indicator that a state school system is declining.
DogMan · 61-69, M
@ElwoodBlues Education
The quality of a community’s schools can be central to a family’s aspirations. And though public education has largely been a local matter for school boards and states that allocate most of schools’ funding, the federal government has played a large role for the past several decades. The No Child Left Behind Act, for example, put in place annual testing requirements for states, while the Every Student Succeeds Act enshrined the annual testing requirement but rolled back the federal government’s involvement in K-12 education. Its role may be scaled back further in the near future.
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#2 in Education
#6 in Best States Overall
Florida attained statehood in 1845, yet not until a pair of railroad barons built lines down the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in the late 1800s and early 1900s did the state take off, spurring the phenomenal growth of what’s now the third-most populous state.
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Henry Flagler arrived aboard the first train to Key West, the southernmost point of the U.S., in 1912, marking completion of his Florida East Coast Railway linking the East Coast from north to south. In his path, he left grand hotels – the Hotel Ponce de Leon in St. Augustine, and the Breakers and Royal Poinciana in what became known as Palm Beach. Another Henry – businessman and steamship owner Henry Plant – pushed rail lines down Florida’s West Coast.
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With millions of visitors each year to its beaches, major amusement parks centered around Orlando and cruise ships departing from ports on both coasts, tourism is a major contributor to Florida's gross domestic product. The state’s agriculture industry is also robust, with Florida groves producing many of the country’s oranges and a winter vegetable industry that makes agriculture a year-round enterprise.
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Tourism, which pays a sizable share of the state’s sales tax, also has enabled Florida to remain among the states without a personal income tax – adding to the allure of the nation’s leading retirement haven.
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The state has 1,350 miles of coastline and a land mass of 53,630 square miles. It’s 792 miles by land from Pensacola in the far northwestern Panhandle to Key West at the end of the archipelago that stretches south of Miami, and along the way there is no natural elevation higher than 345 feet – on a ridge of the Panhandle. No state has a lower peak.
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With several large cities, the state also has a sizable system of state universities and community colleges. The University of Florida in Gainesville and Florida State University in Tallahassee have been rivaled in enrollment by the University of South Florida in Tampa, University of Central Florida in Orlando, and Florida International University in Miami. Among the best known private institutions is University of Miami.
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The quality of a community’s schools can be central to a family’s aspirations. And though public education has largely been a local matter for school boards and states that allocate most of schools’ funding, the federal government has played a large role for the past several decades. The No Child Left Behind Act, for example, put in place annual testing requirements for states, while the Every Student Succeeds Act enshrined the annual testing requirement but rolled back the federal government’s involvement in K-12 education. Its role may be scaled back further in the near future.
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Rankings: Education
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Florida
#2 in Education
#6 in Best States Overall
Florida attained statehood in 1845, yet not until a pair of railroad barons built lines down the Atlantic and Gulf coasts in the late 1800s and early 1900s did the state take off, spurring the phenomenal growth of what’s now the third-most populous state.
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Henry Flagler arrived aboard the first train to Key West, the southernmost point of the U.S., in 1912, marking completion of his Florida East Coast Railway linking the East Coast from north to south. In his path, he left grand hotels – the Hotel Ponce de Leon in St. Augustine, and the Breakers and Royal Poinciana in what became known as Palm Beach. Another Henry – businessman and steamship owner Henry Plant – pushed rail lines down Florida’s West Coast.
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With millions of visitors each year to its beaches, major amusement parks centered around Orlando and cruise ships departing from ports on both coasts, tourism is a major contributor to Florida's gross domestic product. The state’s agriculture industry is also robust, with Florida groves producing many of the country’s oranges and a winter vegetable industry that makes agriculture a year-round enterprise.
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Tourism, which pays a sizable share of the state’s sales tax, also has enabled Florida to remain among the states without a personal income tax – adding to the allure of the nation’s leading retirement haven.
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The state has 1,350 miles of coastline and a land mass of 53,630 square miles. It’s 792 miles by land from Pensacola in the far northwestern Panhandle to Key West at the end of the archipelago that stretches south of Miami, and along the way there is no natural elevation higher than 345 feet – on a ridge of the Panhandle. No state has a lower peak.
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With several large cities, the state also has a sizable system of state universities and community colleges. The University of Florida in Gainesville and Florida State University in Tallahassee have been rivaled in enrollment by the University of South Florida in Tampa, University of Central Florida in Orlando, and Florida International University in Miami. Among the best known private institutions is University of Miami.
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DogMan · 61-69, M
@ElwoodBlues https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education
ElwoodBlues · M
@DogMan That study gave credit for high graduation rates and low costs; NOT for earning power after graduation. It basically says Florida has lots of diploma mills.
Colleges with the highest earning power for graduates include the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Caltech, Stanford, Princeton University, and the University of Pennsylvania, which have graduates with high mid-career salaries. Other institutions with strong earning outcomes for graduates include Carnegie Mellon, Harvard, Yale, and Georgia Tech.
See https://www.niche.com/colleges/search/highest-paid-graduates/
DogMan · 61-69, M
Florida
#2 in Education
#22 Pre-K-12
#1 Higher Education
#2 in Education
#22 Pre-K-12
#1 Higher Education