PALM BEACH, Fla. — Fox News host Sean Hannity officially announced that he has permanently left New York to live full time in Florida.
“Like so many Americans, I left New York for good and I’m now in the state with – let's see – warmer weather, law and order, better education, more freedom, better quality of life and guess what? No state income tax," Hannity said on his iHeartRadio show.
According to the Palm Beach Daily News, Hannity bought an oceanfront townhouse on the South End of Palm Beach in 2021 for $5.3 million. The city has had several right-wing media pundits among its residents, including Rush Limbaugh, Roger Ailes and Ann Coulter. Hannity's townhome is about 3 miles away from former president Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.
"And finally, for the first time that I can think of in my adult life, I actually have representatives in the state that I’m living in that share my values," Hannity said, touting Governor Ron DeSantis and Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott.
"And I’m not going to go through the whys, the how comes, because it’s obvious this migration out of the blue states with high taxes, burdensome regulation, high crime, horrible school districts is real," he added.
The "migration" Hannity referred to is a common talking point among conservatives, including DeSantis, who say that people are leaving blue states like New York and California because of high taxes and liberal policies and moving to red states, especially Florida.
According to fact-checkers, California's population has been declining since 2020, however when the numbers are measured per capita, residents of Florida and California have been leaving one state for the other at an almost equal rate.
