We've all read the articles and heard the quotes from members of the community. Florida's status as the low cost-of-living leader has been diminished, and the moving companies say that for the first time in recent memory, they are making more trips out of the state than into it.
To us, the largest group of people leaving or threatening to leave the state are retirees. Their income stream, while oftentimes fixed, is portable. They can move to a lower-cost location without as many worries about finding a job or having schools for the kids. And many states in the southern US are adopting tax policies to encourage such moves.
Logic suggests that these openings in the population won't be filled entirely by more retirees, but by adults of working age (although with school enrollments falling, it appears that some of the vacancies aren't being filled at all). But with this trend over time, the ratio of employment-aged adults to retirement-aged adults in the state will tend to increase.
Our point is this: across the state, more of the population is going to be working to support themselves, and less of the population will be living on retirement plans and savings. That will require more jobs to be available.
Let's start planning for that.
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HOW FAMILIAR IS THIS? THE TRUTH IS FINALLY BEING SPOKEN.
A COUNTY COMMISSION CANDIDATE (TONY FERENTINOS) WAS RIDICULED BY COMMISSIONER SHIPLEY FOR MAKING THE SAME STATEMENTS IN THE OSCEOLA GAZETTE. HE SHIPLEY CLAIMED THAT FERENTINOS HAD NO VISION. LOOK IT UP UP EITHER AUG 11 OR 18 EDITION. SHIPLEY FLAT OUT DENIED THAT PEOPLE ARE LEAVING THIS STATE ESPECIALLY THE RETIREES IN THIS COUNTY. THEN MELVIN WELCH HIS LACKY CAME TO HIS DEFENSE. PEOPLE SAW THROUGH THAT LETTER WRITTEN BY WELCH. ALL SPIN AND FABRICATIONS TO COVER UP THE SCREW UPS OF THE PAST YEARS.
TIME FOR PEOPLE TO WAKE UP AND SEE WHAT OSCEOLA POLITICS ARE ALL ABOUT. I DON'T KNOW WHO I'M GOING TO VOTE FOR, BUT IT CERTAINLY ISN'T GOING TO BE ANY INCUMBENT OR A PREVIOUS ELECTED OFFICIAL!
AS SOMEONE THAT HAS ALREADY LEFT, I BELIEVE THAT MORE AND MORE OF US SOMEWHAT OLD TIMERS ARE SEEING WHAT OSCEOLA, INDEED ALL, POLITICS IS ABOUT. IN ANY GOVT, ONE WILL FIND THE INCUMBANTS, ENTRENCHED AND SEEKING MORE AND MORE POWER. I FIRMLY BELIEVE IN TERM LIMITS AND I THINK FERENTINOS, WITH HIS NO NONSENSE ATTITUDE, WILL BRING BACK TO OSCEOLA COUNTY WHAT IT HAS BEEN MISSING FOR A LONG, LONG, TIME.
AS SOMEONE THAT HAS ALREADY LEFT, I BELIEVE THAT MORE AND MORE OF US SOMEWHAT OLD TIMERS ARE SEEING WHAT OSCEOLA, INDEED ALL, POLITICS IS ABOUT. IN ANY GOVT, ONE WILL FIND THE INCUMBANTS, ENTRENCHED AND SEEKING MORE AND MORE POWER. I FIRMLY BELIEVE IN TERM LIMITS AND I THINK FERENTINOS, WITH HIS NO NONSENSE ATTITUDE, WILL BRING BACK TO OSCEOLA COUNTY WHAT IT HAS BEEN MISSING FOR A LONG, LONG, TIME.
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