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This lady is full of shit.

Connecticut and Florida have essentially the same white population, so it isn't any more or less diverse.

Connecticut and Florida are essentially tied for educational outcomes (both are really good), so the education system isn't any better. If her school library in Florida had entire shelves empty, I would be asking why their school had a "showing little boys how to blow dudes" section. DeSantis didn't ban cat in the hat.

The one thing that's true is Connecticut has a much lower violent crime rate than Florida. I doubt the sort of person sending their kids to private school and writing articles for Business Insider have to worry about it.

Strip away the slick editing and progressive buzzwords, and what this looks like to me is a very normal thing when people move -- trying to rationalize your move using every little thing you see that's different where you moved to compared to where you came from. Most people who move do this, but they don't get paid to publish it in an internationally read magazine. The big question isn't the day you move and you're happy with your choice, it's a year, two years, five years, ten years down the line when the reality of living in a place really sets in and the shiny new school library is just a school library.

I had a portion of my life where I moved around a lot, and for sure some places were objectively better or worse than others, but it doesn't look like this; it looks like finding out the deeper good and bad things that nobody tells you at first and them adding up into a new conclusion. I moved to a little rural city and discovered it had a shocking amount of gang violence and other crime. Another city I moved to looked much more industrial but it turned out it had big forest areas you could easily walk to and enjoy, as well as stuff like beaches you'd never expect to see. I visited a capital routinely at one point, but when I moved there the things I did were totally different.

Which also leads to one final thing: "Florida" and "Connecticut" are not actually two individual unified things. St. Augustine was an unusually white area of Florida. She likely moved to a rich but slightly more diverse section of Connecticut. If she moved within Florida I'm certain she could find her kid the only white kid in class, but she didn't do that, and I'm reasonably sure I have a good idea as to why.