Musings: Don't bring your NY habits to Florida

I have noticed a trend that is alarming for people who move to Florida from Long Island, New York State and other blue states.

I lived on Long Island for 35 years and moved from Massapequa in 2015. You folks are leaving sky-high housing costs, high taxes, crime and endless traffic, which are just facts of life.

You decide to move to Florida, but it seems as if you keep your progressive ideas and voting patterns.

You disregard our traffic laws and quality-of-life issues like returning shopping carts to their proper place in parking lots. Throwing litter in the street seems to be the norm for Florida newbies.

You try to change the political values here to the ones that you had in your state. Like a plague spreading a disease, you bring silly big-government ideas and begin destroying communities with new tax-and-burn policies. I’m registered as an independent, by the way, and vote with my wallet.

Soon enough, a sanctuary-state policy likely will rear its ugly head with a need for more government control. So, taxes will soar while the number of those using social services and the number of homeless will rise.

As a result, jobs will be lost and businesses will start moving away from here, setting the stage for ruining the very place you thought would be your refuge.

Many of you people fleeing New York for low-tax states then elect the same type of government that caused the sky-high taxes in the first place.

You don’t seem to understand that the reason New York and other blue states have become unlivable is because those states and their cities have been under progressive control for years. That does not work. The government only wants to control your life.

If you come to Florida, don’t try to change it. Let Florida change you.

— Lou Walker, Cape Coral, Florida