‘I’m not wanted’: Florida universities hit by brain drain as academics flee

Idiocracy was a documentary it seems.

I live outside of Boston, and when we did some home renovations about 10 years ago we had an electrician who had a good sized company with about a dozen electricians who worked for him. He said that he was regularly sending a truck with half a dozen electricians to Cape Cod to work there. The cost of living combined with NIMBYism on the Cape has gotten so bad that fewer and fewer trades people etc. can afford to live there. More recently I’ve heard that a high end restaurant on Martha’s Vineyard is chartering flights from the mainland to bring in employees.

I can only imagine Florida is going to end up in a similar situation but for very different reasons. They’re proving more and more successful at pushing hard working qualified people out of that state. Sooner or later they’ll be forced to start cutting corners on all manner of infrastructure since they won’t have quality carpenters, electricians, plumbers, etc. It’s already happening with farmers in that state losing their laborers as well as long haul truck drivers, etc.

republiQans are pleased with this. Then, there is a sub-set of republicans who are confused as to why good academics would be leaving. They will continue to vote republiQan, of course.