Tired of Endless Winter Season, some New Yorkers are leaving the city .

They’re tired here!

 

Battered by a seemingly endless winter, many formerly diehard New Yorkers are making the life-altering decision to quit the city for more sympathetic climes.

 
“The cold just rips your skin and causes cracks and I’m tired of it,” said Joe Parisi, a 64-year-old interior designer who has lived in the city since 1976 but recently packed it all in to move to Palm Springs, Calif. “The lure of the sunshine and the mountains just finally got me this year and I said, ‘I’m ready to leave.’ ”

He’s doing it for himself — and his 7-year-old dog, Ajax.
“Getting around the city has been so difficult,” he said. “When I walk around, Ajax starts looking like a mop. He comes back looking as black as ebony. It’s really gotten on my nerves.”
 
Parisi’s Greenwich Village apartment was scooped up quickly, said his broker, Barry Silverman of Halstead Property.

You can’t blame Parisi for bailing out. New Yorkers endured the coldest February in more than 80 years, with an average temperature of just 24.1 degrees. And March came in like a lion with a storm Thursday that brought a fresh batch of sleet.

The slapping wind and snow have been mood-killers across the board.

“My wife just crawls into a little ball on the couch all winter long,” said Josh Goldworm, a Stuyvesant Town resident who’s planning on moving to Florida. “We thought we would want to be in New York forever, but these winters are just getting worse and worse.”

As soon as Goldworm’s wife, medical resident Avianne Hospedales, lines up a job in the Sunshine State, they’re hitting the road.

“They can't wait to get out of here,” said their broker, Joanne Gamel of Citi Habitats.
And they’re not the only ones.
 
Emigration from New York has long been a trend. And in the last year, celebs such as Beyoncé, Lena Dunham and Katie Holmes have bid the city goodbye.
Approximately 50,000 New Yorkers move to Florida every year, more than twice the number that move from Florida to New York.

It’s not just retirees, either. About 78% of those people are under 60.