Florida No. 1 in new resident gain

The Miami Herald reports:

It will be a year on Saturday since Abena Osei, a Houston native, moved to South Florida. It was the 27-year-old's first major move.

She came here for a job as a program director at a Fort Lauderdale prep school. The weather was a big draw, too.

''I was at a point in my life where I didn't have any ties,'' she said. ''It was easy for me to pick up and move to a new city to try something different.''

For Osei and tens of thousands of others across the country, Florida remains a magnet for those relocating within the United States, according to the Census Bureau. A study released Thursday found that the Sunshine State led the nation in average yearly net gain of new residents from other states between 2000 and 2004.

Do you think if Florida had a state income tax they'd be getting as many people? New York really doesn't want its population to stay in the state,they'd rather have Florida overtake them in population.