- Nearly 65,000 New Yorkers traded in their state driver’s licenses for a Sunshine State equivalent in 2022, according to data from Florida’s Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.
- The number of New York arrivals, first reported by the New York Post, breaks a record set the previous year, when roughly 62,000 New Yorkers took the trip down I-95.
- New York has joined a host of predominantly blue states, including California, New Jersey, and Illinois, that have lost tens of thousands of residents to Florida since the start of the pandemic in March 2020.