Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: New York in Trouble

Episode Date: September 25, 2024

Bill talks about the future of New York state and city. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You know, there were a spate of articles about people leaving New York City, State. And I'm going to give you this status in a moment. They're enormous. There's no question the city and the state are in trouble. Hokel's approval rating, the governor, is in the mid-30s, and Eric Adams, I think, is lower than that. And I said yesterday, I don't think Adams is going to be re-elected. Hokel, I don't know, you can always make a comeback. But people living in New York are fed up. They're fed up with the high taxes.

They're fed up with the unbelievable traffic in the New York metro area. They're fed up with crime. If you live in the Bronx and Brooklyn and Queens, I mean, it's out of control. There's a lot of quality of life problems here. Now, where I live in Nassau and Suffolk counties, it's not nearly as bad, but I'm paying an enormous amount of money to live here. My mother, before she died, looked in Levitown, the house I grew up with. She would have been tossed out of her house unless I paid her tax bill.

She couldn't afford those taxes in Levitown, property taxes. So we got a lot of problems here. Now, a lot of people are saying, hey, I'm going to leave. So Amaris College poll last April, found it 37% of New York. those throughout the state say they are going to leave New York within the next five years. 58% cited economic reasons for leaving, 42% cited non-economics, that's quality of life. Okay? Now, 800,000 New Yorkers have left the state in four years.

800,000. And of course, we've lost congressional representation because of the exodus. Many of those people are affluent people. And they're going to a variety of places. Number one is Florida. Actually, number one is New Jersey, but I don't really count that because there's a lot of logistical stuff. You know, people living, you can live in New Jersey for less, particularly if you go south. in New Jersey. But it's a brutal commute. The roads in New Jersey, Garden State, oh my God.

So people go to Jersey, then they go to Florida, then they're going to the Carolinas. There's some people going to Connecticut, but Connecticut is ridiculous with the taxes. Pennsylvania a little bit better, but that's far away. You can't work in the city. so the migration is primarily south now let's run it down i was in florida over the weekend it's too hot for this irish guy six months of heat and humidity without a break see in new york when it gets hot you know it's going to cool off when it gets cold you know that's not going to last in florida once may first rolls around you got it until late October. Every blanken day.

Some people like the heat. Okay, then there's no problem. But you got giant bugs in Florida too. I mean, really big bugs that are watching you. I like Florida in a winter. A lot of activity. It's primarily if you like golf, you know, that kind of thing. I'm not a golfer.

I don't play pickleball. I'm embarrassed, even say the word pickleball. Okay, the Carolinas are Florida light. The winters are not that warm in North and South Carolina, but they're not freezing, very rarely snows. I have friends who move down to the low country in South Carolina, they like it, but it's hot and humid, not as long as Florida, but it's hot.

North Carolina, a little bit more moderate, but in this summer, you've got to live to the mountains, Asheville. Texas. I've lived in Texas for two years. Talk about hot. My God. And New York and Texas is not really compatible. Florida is a lot of New Yorkers, you know, a lot of sports teams down there, and you get some cultural back and forth with New York. So here's my advice. If you're thinking about moving, go to the place you have targeted and stay there for three weeks. Get the rhythm of the place. very very careful okay you don't want to make a move and say oh why did i did this