Escape From New York? High-Taxing Empire State Loses 3.4 Million Residents in 10 Years

05-29-2012 • .

New York State accounted for the biggest migration exodus of any state in the nation between 2000 and 2010, with 3.4 million residents leaving over that period, according to the Tax Foundation.

Over that decade the state gained 2.1 million, so net migration amounted to 1.3 million, representing a loss of $45.6 billion in income.

1 Comments in Response to Escape From New York? High-Taxing Empire State Loses 3.4 Million Residents in 10 Years

Comment by John Doe

Entered on: 5/30/2012 4:14:30 PM

The great escape from New York is simply reason and economics. What I wanna know is why anyone would ever go there / stay there in the first place. Where I come from, the joke is - The bad news, a lot of people were killed when the towers went down, the good news ? they were nearly all New Yorkers. I've lived in many places in the usA, and can pick out the whiny, loud, forceful, obnoxious, pushy a-holes in that famous New York minute. Wouldn't live there with those irritating pompous as**s without a gun to my head. jd

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