But if the place doesn't deliver, they leave.

Florida can expect that research institutions will gladly take them up on their offer to take some state money. This is a great deal for them. I don't see them promising, aside from spending the money, that it'll turn into [a state profit].

Just as railroads and interstate highways shaped development in the past, the migration of knowledge workers will shape prosperity in the future. Cities that disregard this basic fact do so at their peril.