Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: Moving Consideration

Episode Date: May 17, 2024

Bill talks about the negatives of leaving New York. Originally only available in the New York City area, Bill’s Empire State O’Reilly commentary addresses local New York issues, but those issues have implications, impact the country, and mirror problems in other states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So a lot of my friends who live in New York State, not just in the city, are thinking about moving out. And some already have. Sean Hannity moved out. And a bunch of people I work with at Fox News moved out. Most of them went to Florida, some South Carolina, low country. Few North Carolina, mostly in the Smokies, in that area. Nobody I know has moved to Texas. I lived in Texas for two years, and I lived in Florida, taught high school there for two years.

I know what the environment is. So lots of people are asking me, are you going to move? And my point is, now I'm not, because I still have the urchins to consider. And there, my daughter is graduating in St. John's Law. She's going to be based in the city. And my son is still up in college in Rhode Island. So, I mean, I can't blast down to some other state at this point. And our business is so successful, bill o'Reilly.com and then it's been news and WABC

that it's much better for me to be here with the guys at WABC. Then, you know, I could do remote, but I'm not in the fray then. All right. Here on Long Island, where I'm broadcasting from right now, I'm in the front. I'm afraid. I was in a city last night. I'm in a city, you know, maybe a half dozen times a month. I try to stay out of there because the traffic is insane. I am actually taking a train. Train hasn't been bad. But I got to wear a little disguise on the train, whatever. But anyway, I'm not ready to pack it. And one of the reasons I'm not ready to pack it is when you move, a big move like that, there are downside to it. Oh, let me give you one. Today, in South Florida, the temperature in the afternoon was 93 degrees.

It's May 16th. And the real field temperature, as they say on the TV weather, is 101 with the humidity. It's only mid-May. Okay? It's not going to get any better. So from now until maybe Halloween, you better like that heat. Some people do. When I taught high school down there in Obolaca, north of Miami, which is a very poor neighborhood,

I walked in the first day, took chalk and tried to write on the blackboard, and I couldn't write on the blackboard. because the blackboard was full of humidity and the school didn't have air conditioning. Can you imagine this? And the kids who were raised there, yeah, it was a little uncomfortable, but they weren't, but the northern people? Oh, whoa, whoa. Now, I'm not a guy with the heat. I'm an Irish guy.

In Ireland, you know, if it's 80, people panic. Nobody is air conditioning in Ireland. Just the hotels because it's a cool climate. That's my DNA. So I'm going to go south. I'm going to have to deal. And it's not like New York where you get a heat wave, but then it breaks. And we've had a terrible weather springwise here, and it's awful.

Every day it's dreary and windy and, oh, my God. I have been one nice day out in eastern Long Island, the whole spring. So that's a deficit. I admit it. But when summer finally kicks in, where I am on eastern Long Island never goes over 80 degrees because I'm near the ocean. But in Florida, as I said, it's going to be an inferno. You handle it?

You handle it. There's no state tax. So that might cool you off a little bit. You're going to make more money down there. But the social problems down there, you know, they exist. It's just that in New York with so many. people, 16 million in the metro area, the traffic and everything else is just amplified up. And it's just a matter of what kind of life you want. So right now, I'm toughing it out here in

New York. If they pass a wealth tax, I'm gone. All right, and I'm not alone there. And the whole infrastructure will move out of New York if they would ever do that. But I don't think that's going to happen. Crime, I just don't know. All right, I feel terrible. for all of us, all of us living in the New York City area about what the far left is brought upon us.