What's With All the Texas and Florida License Plates? (1 Viewer)

[LovesMusic7360]

For the last couple years I've been seeing a lot of license plates from Texas and Florida in my state. I see them everyday.

When it first started I didn't think much about it beyond the person was a long way from home. That was a couple years ago. Now, after all this time, I don't think these people are just traveling. If they were, they would be here in the summer. Not the winter. It's cold and rainy here in the winter.

Does anyone else see a lot of these license plates in their state these days?

I have an idea of why they are coming but what do those on this board think?

 

[Maxp]

Could be rental cars. Those are both big states that have more favorable insurance markets for vehicles.

 

[LovesMusic7360]

Could be rental cars. Those are both big states that have more favorable insurance markets for vehicles.

If you're saying that rental cars in my state are registered in Texas and Florida, no they aren't.

We passed a law years ago that prohibits companies in my state from registering their cars in different states.

All the rental cars here have license plates of this state.

If it was rental cars, this would have been going on for a long time but this just started a couple years ago. Plus if it was rental cars, the state right next door would get the registration, they have much lower fees than my state. Insurance companies and businesses used to register their fleets in that state next door but since we passed that law years ago, that stopped fast. All their cars are registered here.

 

[Maxp]

I don't know which state you live in, maybe I missed it. Texans invaded where I live Baldwin County, AL for vacation properties, wish they would have kept their places in Galveston.

 

[BullSheetBuddha]

I know my older brother, who lived in Maine, moved to Florida, which was his legal home, for 6 months of the year because they have no state individual income tax. When he was in Maine, which he considered his real home, he had a Florida plate on his car.

 

[bird]

If you're saying that rental cars in my state are registered in Texas and Florida, no they aren't.

We passed a law years ago that prohibits companies in my state from registering their cars in different states.

All the rental cars here have license plates of this state.

If it was rental cars, this would have been going on for a long time but this just started a couple years ago. Plus if it was rental cars, the state right next door would get the registration, they have much lower fees than my state. Insurance companies and businesses used to register their fleets in that state next door but since we passed that law years ago, that stopped fast. All their cars are registered here.

It is possible that rental cars end up being one way rentals. A car registered and rented in Florida ends up returned in some other state.

 

[CoolBrees]

I live in Portland, Oregon. i rent a shirt ton of cars from our airport to drive to Seattle. I use National because they let me pick the car. I just rented in a car at the airport that was Florida registered. I rent Texas ones only if the make me but they are there too. I know we have a law but I think it said they had to have a large % be from there, not every car. I could be wrong though.

That said, Oregon gained a seat during the last Census and we are still growing rapidly.

Per the census, we are popular from California, Texas and Arizona. So. Many. Arizona.

Frankly I am expecting a veritable refugee invasion if Trump wins. We will be one the of the few remaining places that isn't California or New York which will be livable. We are codifying everything. Limiting guns. We have a Super majority for the left - not Dems, mind you the Left- and it is about to be an even bigger bloodbath because 12 of their sitting member can't run because they missed work 10 times unexcused. A law we put on the books last election because they kept leaving so there was no quorum. So we fixed it for them and now they have lost at our SC and will be losing many of those seats. And that's just on the legislative side.

Low crime. Mild climate. High paying tech jobs. The best cannabis in the world. Mountains, rivers and the ocean in under an hour.

We are 2.5 - 3.5 hours, traffic depending, from Seattle and in a real pinch - we are 4 - 6 hours, depending, from Canada. Just in case Trump wins, and cancels elections.

So I totally get why people do what I did and move here.

 

[LovesMusic7360]

It is possible that rental cars end up being one way rentals. A car registered and rented in Florida ends up returned in some other state.

That's true. I've done that.

Except that doesn't explain why I keep seeing them everyday.

I drove about 100 miles south of where I live yesterday with a friend for the weekend.

On the way without even looking for it, we saw 3 Texas plates and 2 Florida ones.

We talked about it and both of us have been seeing both Texas and Florida plates much more than usual in the last couple years.

It's not normal for this area. So much that people actually are noticing it now.

 

[LovesMusic7360]

I live in Portland, Oregon. i rent a shirt ton of cars from our airport to drive to Seattle. I use National because they let me pick the car. I just rented in a car at the airport that was Florida registered. I rent Texas ones only if the make me but they are there too. I know we have a law but I think it said they had to have a large % be from there, not every car. I could be wrong though.

That said, Oregon gained a seat during the last Census and we are still growing rapidly.

Per the census, we are popular from California, Texas and Arizona. So. Many. Arizona.

Frankly I am expecting a veritable refugee invasion if Trump wins. We will be one the of the few remaining places that isn't California or New York which will be livable. We are codifying everything. Limiting guns. We have a Super majority for the left - not Dems, mind you the Left- and it is about to be an even bigger bloodbath because 12 of their sitting member can't run because they missed work 10 times unexcused. A law we put on the books last election because they kept leaving so there was no quorum. So we fixed it for them and now they have lost at our SC and will be losing many of those seats. And that's just on the legislative side.

Low crime. Mild climate. High paying tech jobs. The best cannabis in the world. Mountains, rivers and the ocean in under an hour.

We are 2.5 - 3.5 hours, traffic depending, from Seattle and in a real pinch - we are 4 - 6 hours, depending, from Canada. Just in case Trump wins, and cancels elections.

So I totally get why people do what I did and move here.

Hello neighbor. Our states neighbor one another.

I love Oregon. Especially the coast. You have the best coastline of the 3 west coast states. I'll be there with friends in June for the Sandcastle Festival at Canon beach.

My state had over a quarter of a million new residents move in last year alone. We also gained seats in congress because of increased population.

I think the reason why the west is so appealing is because it's cleaner than the east, it's cheaper than the east and with my state, no state income tax.

I drove about 100 miles south of my home yesterday with a friend. On the way, without purposely looking for it, we saw 3 Texas plates and 2 Florida ones. It's now very common to see those plates here. It started about 2 years or so ago.