Sean Hannity Moves to Palm Beach

It doesn’t take long after deplaning from up north to realize that Palm Beach has changed. It is wealthier and younger and even more crowded. 

In decades past, vacationing New Yorkers went to Miami. They were drawn by the nightlife. Palm Beach was dismissed as a giant nursing home. 

The change didn’t happen overnight. It was incremental. Every year, more high rises went up, more mansions were renovated, more Bentleys pulled up and more nightclubs opened. Restaurant prices are suddenly higher than Manhattan's. 

Sean Hannity and former President Donald Trump
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Sean Hannity just moved here from New York. Among the billionaires around town are Ken Griffin, Leonard Lauder, and the widowed Julia Koch. And the list would be incomplete without mentioning former President Donald Trump, still ensconced at Mar-a-Lago. Many came from high-tax states up north and out west to enjoy Florida’s lack of a state (and Estate) income tax, even if they won’t admit that finances had an impact on their move. Seems they just "like the weather." 

But whatever their reasons, they are here now, each one changing the landscape — and much for the better.