Mark's Weekend Bonus Segment — NOT HEARD ON THE RADIO!
The Mark Simone Show
iHeartRadio and Mark Simone
4.3 • 694 Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome to the bonus segment for all of our great podcast listeners out there. |
| 0:05.1 | Thanks for being with us every week and listening to the bonus segment. |
| 0:08.8 | You know, all you hear about is all these people move into Florida, especially older people. |
| 0:13.2 | They're moving to Florida. |
| 0:14.1 | Everybody's leaving New York. |
| 0:15.1 | Everybody's moving to Florida. |
| 0:16.7 | Well, if you look at the actual data, people are moving to New York like crazy. |
| 0:22.2 | There's a shortage of rental apartments right now. |
| 0:25.4 | And even when it comes to condos, co-ops, especially even the high end, there's just as many |
| 0:30.4 | closings and contracts being signed and apartments being sold as ever. |
| 0:34.8 | And the rental market, that rental markets, that's usually the new people come into town. |
| 0:39.3 | People move here. They'll rent for a year and then buy a place. But the rental market is through |
| 0:43.8 | the roof. You can't rent an apartment right now in New York. There's very little inventory left. |
| 0:49.0 | People are moving here. And look at this big article, New York Times. forget Florida. People are getting older and moving back to |
| 0:58.5 | New York from Florida. This is the New York Times here. A growing number of older transplants down in |
| 1:05.4 | Florida, older ones, are undeterred by the city's high costs and are coming back. |
| 1:12.4 | Now, there's a number of reasons. |
| 1:14.4 | In 2023, for instance, now listen to this, 15,000 people, age 65 and up, moved back to New York City, a 40% increase from a few years before. |
| 1:30.9 | Older New York transplants came back for a number of reasons. One, and this is a big reason, much better medical care in New York. That's one big |
| 1:37.8 | problem down there in Florida. The medical care, the doctors, aren't as good as New York. They're |
| 1:43.2 | okay, but nowhere near New York standards. |
| 1:46.1 | Now, they're trying to correct that, the big real estate developers, building all those skyscrapers and all that stuff, |
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