Originally Posted by
CincoDeMayo
Bottom line, they can’t throw money at it to fix it, it isn’t working. When someone asked why we are the only ones having the staffing issues, he balked back that everyone was having these issues.
I don't have the data readily at hand, but I saw a graph showing the net migration to South Florida over the past two years. Broward county was flat and Miami-Dade had actually lost .7% since 2019. I know for a fact that there are throngs of wealthy folks moving here from out of state, so somebody has to be leaving for the net population growth to be nil. I think a lot of those on the lower end of the income spectrum working in the tourism/hospitality industry decided to GTFO when the stuff hit the fan last year.
Every single small business owner I know down here can't find people to work in the minimum wage to $15/hr range. A chunk of that demographic moved out of the area and has been replaced by the six figure "work from anywhere" crowd and now we can't find people to work at the local coffee shop. I think this is big part of why FLL is such a disaster on the labor front.